Folklore Books

Legends of Charlemagne

Thomas Bulfinch

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which..

Turkish fairy tales and folk tales

Levetus

The almost unique collection of Dr. Ignatius Kunos may therefore be regarded as a brand snatched from the burning; in any case it is an important “find,” as well for the scientific folk-lorist as for ..

Little Mexican & Other Stories

Aldous Huxley

My holidays had no variety. From the time when I first went to my preparatory school to the time when my parents came back for good from India—I was sixteen or seventeen then, I suppose—they were all ..

The Lost Giant, and Other American Indian Tales Retold

Violet Moore Higgins

Once upon a time, far back in the days when the elk, the moose, and the buffalo roamed over the hills and plains of North America, and little Indian children could call all the animals by name, there ..

Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion - A Study in Survivals

This book is the outcome of work undertaken in Greece during my two years’ tenure of the Craven Studentship from 1898 to 1900. It is therefore my first duty gratefully to commemorate John, Lord Craven..

At the Emperor's Wish - A Tale of the New Japan

Oscar K. Davis

  Money is not yet everything in Japan, however rapidly its power may be advancing. But it is something to the Commoner and it was little better than nothing to the Eta. Kutami was proud of himse..

Stories and Story-telling

Angela M. Keyes

All the stories in this book have been tested with children. Favorites easily available in other collections have been omitted. The writer hopes that by providing the busy teacher with “tellable” stor..

Hawaiian Historical Legends

W. D. Westervelt

From mist to sunshine—from fabled gods to a constitution and legislature as a Territory of the United States—this is the outline of the stories told in the present volume. This outline is thoroughly H..