Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation

Author: Joel Chandler Harris

Language: English

Published: 1883

Author: Daniel G. Brinton

Language: English

Published: 1894

Language: English

Published: 1910

It may be that to some people the heroes I have chosen do not seem heroic, but there is no doubt that to the age and generation which wrote or sang of them they appeared real heroes, worthy of remembrance and celebration, and it has been my object to come as close as possible to the mediæval mind, with its elementary conceptions of honour, loyalty, devotion, and duty. I have therefore altered the tales as little as I could, and have tried to put them as fairly as possible before modern readers, bearing in mind the altered conditions of things and of intellects to-day.

Being Legends of the Alaska Klingats

Author: James Frederic Thorne

Language: English

Published: 1909

Being the first volume of a series of Legends of the tribe of Alaskan Indians known as the Chilkats--of the Klingats. As told by Zachook the "Bear" to Kitchakahaech the "Raven"

Language: English

Published: 1917

Author: Alfred Köppen

Language: German

Published: 1895

Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls

Author: Various Authors

Language: English

Published: 1914

The myths and legends here gathered together have appealed and will continue to appeal to every age. Nowhere in the realm of fiction are there stories to compare with those which took form centuries ago when the race was in its childhood--stories so intimately connected with the life and history and religion of the great peoples of antiquity that they have become an integral part of our own civilization, a heritage of wealth to every child that is born into the world.

Language: English

Published: 1916

From time to time since the American occupation of the Islands, Philippine folk-tales have appeared in scientific publications, but never, so far as the writer is aware, has there been an attempt to offer to the general public a comprehensive popular collection of this material. It is my earnest hope that this collection of tales will give those who are interested opportunity to learn something of the magic, superstitions, and weird customs of the Filipinos, and to feel the charm of their wonder-world as it is pictured by these dark-skinned inhabitants of our Island possessions.

Language: English

Published: 1874

Translated into English Verse by Ralph T. H. Griffith, M.A.

The Book of Northern Myths

Author: Padraic Colum

Language: English

Published: 1920

A retelling of the Norse sagas about Odin, Freya, Thor, Loki and the other gods and goddesses who lived in Asgard before the dawn of history.

Language: English

Published: 1899

Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland

Language: English

Published: 1891

The chief object of this volume is to exhibit, in a manner acceptable to readers who are not specialists, the application of the principles and methods which guide investigations into popular traditions to a few of the most remarkable stories embodying the Fairy superstitions of the Celtic and Teutonic peoples.

Language: English

Published: 1875

Translated From The Icelandic By Eirikr Magnusson And William Morris

Language: English

Published: 1875

Translated From The Icelandic By Eirikr Magnusson And William Morris

Language: English

Published: 1901

The following article originally appeared in one of the Christmas editions of the San Francisco Chronicle and is now reprinted by permission from that journal.

Language: English

Author: Nelly Montijn-de Fouw

Language: Dutch

Language: English

Published: 1912

Author: Jean Lang

Language: English

Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavour to know their God. And because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not unfrequently endowed these gods with as many of the vices as of the virtues of their worshippers. As we read the myths of the East and the West we find ever the same story.

Author: Florence Holbrook

Language: English

Published: 1902

The subject-matter is of permanent value, culled from the folk-lore of the primitive races; the vocabulary, based upon that of the Hiawatha Primer, is increased gradually, and the new words and phrases will add to the child's power of expression. The naïve explanations of the phenomena of nature given by the primitive races appeal to the child's wonder about the same phenomena, and he is pleased and interested. These myths will gratify the child's desire for complete stories, and their intrinsic merit makes them valuable for oral reproduction.

Language: English

Language: English

Author: Unknown

Language: English

Published: 1913

Selected and Edited by Katharine Berry Judson. The authorities used in this compilation are those found in the annual reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Publications of the United States Geographical and Geological Survey: contributions to North American Ethnology. Of the various ethnologists whose work has been used, those of especial importance are Alice C. Fletcher, whose wonderful work among the Omaha and Pawnee Indians is deserving of the most careful study, J. Owen Dorsey, James Mooney, and S. R. Riggs.

Language: English

Published: 1890

It might have been expected that the Indians of North America would have many Folklore tales to tell, and in this volume I have endeavoured to present such of them as seemed to me to best illustrate the primitive character and beliefs of the people. The belief, and the language in which it is clothed, are often very beautiful. Fantastic imagination, magnanimity, moral sentiment, tender feeling, and humour are discovered in a degree which may astonish many who have been apt to imagine that advanced civilisation has much to do with the possession of such qualities. I know of nothing that throws so much light upon Indian character as their Folk-tales.

Language: English

Published: 1919

Language: English

Published: 1897

Author: Maude L. Radford

Language: English

Published: 1903

Author: Publius Ovidius Naso

Language: English

The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, so ingeniously framed, as to embrace a large amount of information upon almost every subject connected with the learning, traditions, manners, and customs of antiquity, and have afforded a fertile field of investigation to the learned of the civilized world. To present to the public a faithful translation of a work, universally esteemed, not only for its varied information, but as being the masterpiece of one of the greatest Poets of ancient Rome, is the object of the present volume.

Language: English

Published: 1856

Author: J.W. Powell

Language: English

Published: 1881

Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56