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Myth-Folklore Book: Russian Fairy Tales

This book is part of the Russian Folktales unit.

Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by W. R. S. Ralston (1887).

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(Church on the Volga river)

Myth-Folklore Book: The Fables of La Fontaine

This book is part of the La Fontaine unit.

The Fables of La Fontaine translated by Elizur Wright (1882).

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You can also find La Fontaine's French poems easily accessible at the French Wikipedia (Wikisource) website, with a listing of the fables by book or by title.

Myth-Folklore Book: Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria

This book is part of the Nigerian unit.

Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria by Elphinstone Dayrell (1910).

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(Mambila statue, Nigeria)

Myth-Folklore Book: Violet Fairy Book

This book is part of the Tales from Africa unit and the Japanese Fairy Tales unit.

The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford (1901).

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Myth-Folklore Book: Crimson Fairy Book

This book is part of the Tales from Africa unit and the Japanese Fairy Tales unit.

The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford (1903).

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Table of Contents

Lovely Ilonka

Lucky Luck

The Hairy Man

To Your Good Health!

The Story of the Seven Simons

The Language of Beasts

The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret

The Prince And The Dragon

Little Wildrose

Tiidu The Piper

Paperarelloo

The Gifts Of The Magician

The Strong Prince

The Treasure Seeker

The Cottager And His Cat

The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality

The Stone-Cutter

The Gold-Bearded Man

Tritill, Litill, And The Birds

The Three Robes

The Six Hungry Beasts

How The Beggar Boy Turned Into Count Piro

The Rogue And The Herdsman

Eisenkopf

The Death Of Abu Nowas And Of His Wife

Motiratika

Niels And The Giants

Shepherd Paul

How The Wicked Tanuki Was Punished

The Crab And The Monkey

The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder

The Story Of The Sham Prince, Or The Ambitious Tailor

The Colony Of Cats

How To Find Out A True Friend

Clever Maria

The Magic Kettle

Myth-Folklore Book: The Pink Fairy Book

This book is part of the Japanese Fairy Tales unit.

The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford (1897).

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Table of Contents

The Cat's Elopement

How the Dragon Was Tricked

The Goblin and the Grocer

The House in the Wood

Uraschimataro and the Turtle

The Slaying of the Tanuki

The Flying Trunk

The Snow-man

The Shirt-collar

The Princess in the Chest

The Three Brothers

The Snow-queen

The Fir-tree

Hans, the Mermaid's Son

Peter Bull

The Bird 'Grip'

Snowflake

I Know What I Have Learned

The Cunning Shoemaker

The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife

Catherine and Her Destiny

How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter

The Water of Life

The Wounded Lion

The Man Without a Heart

The Two Brothers

Master and Pupil

The Golden Lion

The Sprig of Rosemary

The White Dove

The Troll's Daughter

Esben and the Witch

Princess Minon-minette

Maiden Bright-eye

The Merry Wives

King Lindorm

The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther

The Little Hare

The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue

The Story of Ciccu

Don Giovanni De La Fortuna

Myth-Folklore Book: The Nursery Rhyme Book

This book is part of the English Nursery Rhyme unit.

The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897).

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(the rhymes are arranged in these thematic categories)

I. Historical

II. Literal and Scholastic

III. Tales

IV. Proverbs

V. Songs

VI. Riddles and Paradoxes

VII. Charms and Lullabies

VIII. Gaffers and Gammers

IX. Games

X. Jingles

XI. Love and Matrimony

XII. Natural History

XIII. Accumulative Stories

XIV. Relics

Myth-Folklore Book: Arabian Nights

This book is part of the Arabian Nights unit and the Sindbad unit.

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).

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Myth-Folklore Book: Jewish Fairy Tales

This book is part of the Jewish Fairy Tales unit.

Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa (1919).

I have not been able to find the name of the illustrator; it may be Sol Aronson (?), but I am not sure.

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Myth-Folklore: More Celtic Fairy Tales (Jacobs)

This book is part of the Celtic Fairy Tales II unit.

More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, with illustrations by John D. Batten (1895).

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Table of Contents

The Fate of the Children of Lir

Jack the Cunning Thief

Powel, Prince of Dyfed

Paddy O'Kelly and the Weasel

The Black Horse

The Vision of MacConglinney

Dream of Owen O'Mulready

Morraha

The Story of the McAndrew Family

The Farmer of Liddesdale

The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener

The Russet Dog

Smallhead and the King's Sons

The Legend of Knockgrafton

Elidore

The Leeching of Kayn's Leg

How Fin Went to the Kingdom of the Big Men

How Cormac Mac Art Went to Faery

The Ridere of Riddles

The Tail

Myth-Folklore: Celtic Fairy Tales (Jacobs)

This book is part of the Celtic Fairy Tales I unit.

Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892).

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Myth-Folklore: California and the Old Southwest (Judson)

This book is part of the Southwestern and California Legends unit.

Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912).

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Books about California History and Culture

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Myth-Folklore: Eskimo Folk-Tales (Rasmussen)

This book is part of the Eskimo Folk Tales unit.

Eskimo Folk-Tales by Knud Rasmussen with illustrations by native Eskimo artists (1921).

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Myth-Folklore: More English Fairy Tales (Jacobs)

This book is part of the English Fairy Tales II unit.

More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, illustrations by John D. Batten (1894).

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Table of Contents:

The Pied Piper
Hereafterthis
The Golden Ball
My Own Self
Black Bull of Norroway
Yallery Brown
Three Feathers
Sir Gammer Vans
Tom Hickathrift
The Hedley Kow
Gobborn Seer
Lawkamercyme
Tattercoats
The Wee Bannock
Johnny Gloke
Coat o' Clay
The Three Cows
The Blinded Giant
Scrapefoot
The Pedlar of Swaffham
The Old Witch
The Three Wishes
The Buried Moon
A Son of Adam
The Children in the Wood
The Hobyahs
A Pottle o' Brains
The King of England and his Three Sons
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
Rushen Coatie
The King o' the Cats
Tamlane
The Stars in the Sky
News!
Puddock, Mousie and Ratton
The Little Bull-Calf
The Wee, Wee Mannie
Habetrot and Scantlie Mab
Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle
Catskin
Stupid's Cries
The Lambton Worm
The Wise Men of Gotham
Princess of Canterbury

Myth-Folklore Book: Kalevala

This book is part of the Kalevala unit.

Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes (Volume One) by Elias Lönnrot, translated by W. F. Kirby (1907). The translation is in two volumes; the first volume contains runos 1-25.

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There are other English translations, too. For example, you can read John Martin Crawford's translation at Sacred Texts Archive.

Table of Contents

Runo I. After a preamble by the bard, he proceeds to relate how the Virgin of the Air descended into the sea, was tossed about by the winds and waves, modelled the earth, and brought forth the culture-hero Väinämöinen, who swims to shore.
Runo II. Väinämöinen clears and plants the country, and sows barley.
Runo III. The Laplander Joukahainen presumes to contend with Väinämöinen in singing, but is plunged by him into a [Pg. xi]swamp, till he pledges to him his sister Aino; after which he is released, and returns home discomfited. But Aino is much distressed at the idea of being obliged to marry an old man.
Runo IV. Väinämöinen makes love to Aino in the forest; but she returns home in grief and anger, and finally wanders away again, and is drowned while trying to swim out to some water-nymphs in a lake. Her mother weeps for her incessantly.
Runo V. Väinämöinen fishes up Aino in the form of a salmon; but she escapes him, and his mother advises him to seek a bride in Pohjola, the North Country, sometimes identified with Lapland, but apparently still further north.
Runo VI. While Väinämöinen is riding over the water on his magic steed, Joukahainen shoots the horse under him. Väinämöinen falls into the water, and is driven onwards by a tempest, while Joukahainen returns to his mother, who upbraids him for shooting at the minstrel.
Runo VII. Väinämöinen is carried by an eagle to the neighbourhood of the Castle of Pohjola, where the chatelaine, Louhi, receives him hospitably, and offers him her beautiful daughter if he will forge for her the talisman called the Sampo. He replies that he cannot do so himself, but will send his brother Ilmarinen, so Louhi gives him a sledge in which to return home.
Runo VIII. Väinämöinen, on his journey, finds the daughter of Louhi sitting on a rainbow weaving, and makes love to her. In trying to accomplish the tasks she sets him, he wounds himself severely, and drives away till he finds an old man who promises to stanch the blood.
Runo IX. The old man heals Väinämöinen by relating the origin of Iron, and by salving his wounds.
Runo X. Väinämöinen returns home, and as Ilmarinen declines to go to Pohjola to forge the Sampo, he causes a whirlwind to carry him to the castle. Ilmarinen forges the Sampo, but the maiden declines to marry him at present, and he returns home disconsolate.
Runos XI.-XV. These Runos relate the early adventures of Lemminkainen. He carries off and marries the beautiful Kyllikki, but quarrels with her, and starts off to Pohjola to woo the daughter of Louhi. Louhi sets him various tasks, and at [Pg. xii]length he is slain, cast into the river of Tuoni, the death-god, and is hewed to pieces; but is rescued and resuscitated by his mother.
Runos XVI.-XVII. Väinämöinen regrets having renounced the daughter of Louhi in favour of Ilmarinen, and begins to build a boat, but cannot complete it without three magic words, which he seeks for in vain in Tuonela, the death-kingdom, but afterwards jumps down the throat of the dead giant, Antero Vipunen, and compels him to sing to him all his wisdom.
Runos XVIII.-XIX. Väinämöinen and Ilmarinen travel to Pohjola, one by water and the other by land, and agree that the maiden shall make her choice between them. She prefers Ilmarinen, who is aided by his bride to perform all the tasks set him by Louhi.
Runos XX.-XXV. The wedding is celebrated at Pohjola, an immense ox being slaughtered for the feast; after which ale is brewed by Osmotar, "Kaleva's most beauteous daughter." Every one is invited, except Lemminkainen, who is passed over as too quarrelsome and ill-mannered. Before the bride and bridegroom leave, they have to listen to long lectures about their future conduct.

Runos XXVI.-XXX. Lemminkainen is enraged at not being invited to the wedding, forces his way into the Castle of Pohjola through the magical obstacles in his path, and slays the lord of the castle in a duel. He flies home, and his mother sends him to hide in a distant island where all the warriors are absent, and where he lives with the women till the return of the men, when he is again obliged to fly. He returns home, and finds the whole country laid waste, and only his mother in hiding. Against her advice, he persuades his old comrade Tiera to join him in another expedition against Pohjola, but Louhi sends the Frost against them, and they are driven back in great distress.
Runos XXXI.-XXXVI. A chief named Untamo lays waste the territory of his brother Kalervo, and carries off his wife. She gives birth to Kullervo, who vows vengeance against Untamo in his cradle. Untamo brings Kullervo up as a slave, but as he spoils everything he touches, sells him to Ilmarinen. Ilmarinen's wife ill-treats him, and he revenges himself by giving her over to be devoured by wolves and bears, and escapes to the forests, where he rejoins his family. One of his sisters has been lost, and meeting her accidentally and without knowing her, he carries her off. She throws herself into a torrent, and he returns home. His mother advises him to go into hiding, but first he makes war on Untamo, destroys him and his clan, and again returns home. Here he finds all his people dead, and everything desolate; so he wanders off into the forest, and falls on his own sword.
Runos XXXVII.-XLIX. Ilmarinen forges himself a new wife of gold and silver, but cannot give her life or warmth, so he carries off another daughter of Louhi; but she angers him so much that he changes her into a seagull. Ilmarinen and Väinämöinen, who are afterwards joined by Lemminkainen, now undertake another expedition to Pohjola to carry off the Sampo. On the way, Väinämöinen constructs a kantele or harp of pikebone, and lulls Louhi and her people to sleep; but she pursues the robbers, and first the kantele is lost overboard, and then the Sampo is broken to pieces and lost in the sea. Väinämöinen saves enough to secure the prosperity of Kalevala, but Louhi only carries home a small and almost useless fragment. Väinämöinen then makes a new kantele of birchwood. Louhi brings pestilence on Kalevala, then sends a bear against the country, and lastly, steals away the sun and moon, hiding them in the stone mountain of Pohjola. Väinämöinen drives away the plagues, kills the bear, and renews fire from a conflagration caused by a spark sent down from heaven by the god Ukko. Ilmarinen then prepares chains for Louhi, and terrifies her into restoring the sun and moon to their original places.
Runo L. The virgin Marjatta swallows a cranberry, and brings forth a son, who is proclaimed King of Carelia. Väinämöinen in great anger quits the country in his boat, but leaves the kantele and his songs behind him for the pleasure of the people.

Myth-Folklore Book: The Decameron by Boccaccio

This book is part of the Decameron unit.

The Decameron by Boccaccio, translated by J. M. Rigg (1903).

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There is also an excellent presentation of this text at Brown University's Decameron Web.

Myth-Folklore Book: Italian Popular Tales

This book is part of the Italian Popular Tales unit.

Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane (1885).

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Table of Contents

The King of Love

Zelinda and the Monster

King Bean

The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird

The Fair Angiola

The Cloud

The Cistern

The Griffin

Cinderella

Fair Maria Wood

The Curse of the Seven Children

Oraggio and Bianchinetta

The Fair Fiorita

Bierde

Snow-White-Fire-Red

How the Devil Married Three Sisters

In Love with a Statue

Thirteenth

The Cobbler

Sir Fiorante, Magician

The Crystal Casket

The Stepmother

Water and Salt

The Love of the Three Oranges

The King Who Wanted a Beautiful Wife

The Bucket

The Two Humpbacks

The Story of Catherine and Her Fate

The Crumb in the Beard

The Fairy Orlanda

The Shepherd Who Made the King's Daughter Laugh

The Ass That Lays Money

Don Joseph Pear

Puss In Boots

Fair Brow

Lionbruno

The Peasant and the Master

The Ingrates

The Treasure

The Shepherd

The Three Admonitions

Vineyard I Was and Vineyard I Am

The Language of the Animals

The Mason and His Son

The Parrot: First Version

The Parrot: Second Version

The Parrot Which Tells Three Stories: Third Version

Truthful Joseph

The Man, the Serpent, and the Fox

The Lord, St. Peter, and the Apostles

The Lord, St. Peter, and the Blacksmith

In This World One Weeps and Another Laughs

The Ass

St. Peter and His Sisters

Pilate

The Story of Judas

Desperate Malchus

Malchus at the Column

The Story of Buttadeu

The Story of Crivoliu

The Story of St. James of Galicia

The Baker's Apprentice

Occasion

Brother Giovannone

Godfather Misery

Beppo Pipetta

The Just Man

Of a Godfather and a Godmother of

St. John Who Made Love

The Groomsman

The Parrish Priest of San Marcuola

The Gentleman Who Kicked a Skull

The Gossips of St. John

Saddaedda

Mr. Attentive

The Story of the Barber

Don Firriulieddu

Little Chick-Pea

Pitidda

The Sexton's Nose

The Cock and the Mouse

Godmother Fox

The Cat and the Mouse

A Feast Day

The Three Brothers

Buchettino

The Three Goslings

The Cock

The Cock and That Wished to Become Pope

The Goat and the Fox

The Ant and the Mouse

The Cook

The Thoughtless Abbot

Bastianelo

Christmas

The Wager

Scissors They Were

The Doctor's Apprentice

Firrazzanu's Wife and the Queen

Giufa and the Plaster Statue

Giufa and the Judge

The Little Omelet

Eat, My Clothes!

Giufa's Exploits

The Fool

Uncle Capriano

Peter Fullone and the Egg

The Clever Peasant

The Clever Girl

Crab

Pepper-Corn

Myth-Folklore Book: The Red Fairy Book

This book is part of Lang's European Fairy Tales I unit.

The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford (1890).

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Table of Contents

THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES

THE PRINCESS MAYBLOSSOM

SORIA MORIA CASTLE

THE DEATH OF KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS

THE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN.

THE MASTER THIEF

BROTHER AND SISTER

PRINCESS ROSETTE

THE NORKA

THE WONDERFUL BIRCH

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

THE LITTLE GOOD MOUSE

GRACIOSA AND PERCINET

THE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELAND

THE VOICE OF DEATH

THE SIX SILLIES

KARI WOODENGOWN

DRAKESTAIL

THE RATCATCHER

THE TRUE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOLDEN HOOD

THE GOLDEN BRANCH

THE THREE DWARFS

DAPPLEGRIM

THE ENCHANTED CANARY

THE TWELVE BROTHERS

RAPUNZEL

THE NETTLE SPINNER

FARMER WEATHERBEARD

MOTHER HOLLE

MINNIKIN

BUSHY BRIDE

SNOWDROP

THE GOLDEN GOOSE

THE SEVEN FOALS

THE MARVELLOUS MUSICIAN

THE STORY OF SIGURD

Myth-Folklore Book: The Yellow Fairy Book

This book is part of the Lang's European Fairy Tales I and European Fairy Tales II units.

The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford (1894).

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Table of Contents

THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP

THE SIX SWANS

THE DRAGON OF THE NORTH

STORY OF THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

THE GOLDEN CRAB

THE IRON STOVE

THE DRAGON AND HIS GRANDMOTHER

HOW SIX MEN TRAVELLED THROUGH THE WIDE WORLD

THE GLASS MOUNTAIN

THE DEAD WIFE

IN THE LAND OF SOULS

THE WHITE DUCK

THE WITCH AND HER SERVANTS

THE MAGIC RING

THE FLOWER QUEEN'S DAUGHTER

THE FLYING SHIP

THE SNOW-DAUGHTER AND THE FIRE-SON

THE STORY OF KING FROST

THE DEATH OF THE SUN-HERO

THE WITCH

THE HAZEL-NUT CHILD

THE STORY OF BIG KLAUS AND LITTLE KLAUS

PRINCE RING

THE SWINEHERD

HOW TO TELL A TRUE PRINCESS

THE BLUE MOUNTAINS

THE TINDER-BOX

THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT

THUMBELINA

THE NIGHTINGALE

HERMOD AND HADVOR

THE STEADFAST TIN-SOLDIER

BLOCKHEAD-HANS

A STORY ABOUT A DARNING-NEEDLE

Myth-Folklore Book: The Brown Fairy Book

This book is part of Lang's European Fairy Tales I unit.

The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford (1904).

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