Folklore & Legends

Myths, sagas and stories handed down by word of mouth before anyone wrote them in a book. From Norse gods to Japanese spirits and Croatian heroes, these collections keep the voices of storytellers from all over the world, set down by the travellers and scholars who listened to them.

10 books, free to read online or download.

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The legends of the Panjâb

Sir Richard Carnac Temple

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Birds in legend, fable and folklore

Ernest Ingersoll

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A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history, and literature

John Dowson

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Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion

Jane Ellen Harrison

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The adventures of Odysseus

Francis Sydney Marvin

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Ras-Mala vol-2

A.K Forber

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The Kathá sarit ságara; or, Ocean of the streams of story

Somadeva Bhatta

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Primitive culture: researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom

Sir Edward Burnett Tylor

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Indian myth and legend

Donald Alexander Mackenzie

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Guernsey folk lore: a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island

Sir Edgar MacCulloch