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Indian Why Stories: Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-Fire - Frank Bird LINDERMAN
Indian Why Stories: Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-Fire - Frank Bird LINDERMAN
- Author: Frank Bird LINDERMAN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction
Delightful fables, collected by a devotee of Indian lore, recounts many of the legends told to him by tribal members, among them intriguing explanations of "Why the Chipmunk's Back is Striped," "How the Otter Skin Became Great Medicine," "How the...
Psyche - Molière
Psyche - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Plays
This is a very different Moliere, not the usual satire of everyday life. It is instead a classical tale based on the ancient story of Psyche and Cupid, and was performed for Louis XIV with ballet interludes to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (which we...
The Day Boy and the Night Girl - George MacDonald
The Day Boy and the Night Girl - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A boy named Photogen, who has never seen the moon, meets a girl named Nycteris, who has never seen the sun. The two of them must escape from the witch Watho. As usual with George MacDonald, this fairy tale has layers of meaning that go deeper than...
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India - Edgar THURSTON
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India - Edgar THURSTON
- Author: Edgar THURSTON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin.(Summary by Edgar Thurston)...
The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers - Catherine CROWE
The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers - Catherine CROWE
- Author: Catherine CROWE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of the after-life. Crowe's vivid tales, written with great energy and imagination, are classic examples of...
Tanglewood Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tanglewood Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite! Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection features some very popular characters like our beloved Jason, Ulysses, King Pluto and Theseus (and of course, our...
The Jungle Girl - Gordon CASSERLY
The Jungle Girl - Gordon CASSERLY
- Author: Gordon CASSERLY
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Mrs Norton is the wife of the Political Officer and confident of Mr. Wargrave who as an officer ends up at her husbands Border Outpost, Ranga Duar in British India after meeting Violet on a different Border Outpost. This is the story of Mr....
Lore of Proserpine - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
Lore of Proserpine - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Author: Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it, is how the Greeks saw...
Old Greek Stories - James Baldwin
Old Greek Stories - James Baldwin
- Author: James Baldwin
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures. Tales include those of Prometheus, Io, Perseus and Theseus. (Introduction by Iris McLeod)...
Cocoa Break Collection, Vol. 01 - Various
Cocoa Break Collection, Vol. 01 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Following in the vein of my Coffee-Break collections, this is a collection of short (all under 15 minutes) stories for kids. Focus is on fables and fairy tales published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Fisherman and his Soul - Oscar Wilde
The Fisherman and his Soul - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherman who nets and falls in love with a mermaid. But to be with her he must shed his soul, which goes off to...
The Snow Queen and Other Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
The Snow Queen and Other Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
This project features four longer stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to...
Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - A. A. MILNE
Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
This version of the book is done as a Dramatic Reading with various people speaking each characters part. When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle...
The Pig Brother and Other Fables and Stories - Laura E. Howe Richards
The Pig Brother and Other Fables and Stories - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Here are some really amusing stories and fables told with delightful wit. Some poke fun at human foibles and some are there for the simple joy of silliness. all read for you by the amazing LibriVox volunteers.- Summary by Phil chenevert...
The Strange Story Book - Leonora Blanche LANG
The Strange Story Book - Leonora Blanche LANG
- Author: Leonora Blanche LANG
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final installment of his series of fairy stories and includes some of those stories he had not included in other...
The Pink Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Pink Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book....
Aino Folk-Tales - Basil Hall CHAMBERLAIN
Aino Folk-Tales - Basil Hall CHAMBERLAIN
- Author: Basil Hall CHAMBERLAIN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of whom still live in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Ranging over all of the usual themes of...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 021 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 021 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Family / Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 021: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. - Summary by Elli...
The Fir-Tree Fairy Book - Clifton JOHNSON
The Fir-Tree Fairy Book - Clifton JOHNSON
- Author: Clifton JOHNSON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
In this volume, Clifton Johnson has compiled his favourite fairy tales. We hear a lot of animals, because fairy tales with animals in them are Mr. Johnson's favourite stories, but we also hear of fairies, of wizards, and princesses. The stories are...
Puck of Pook's Hill (version 2) - Rudyard Kipling
Puck of Pook's Hill (version 2) - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
'Puck of Pook's Hill' is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past...
Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales...
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07 - Anonymous
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded - Lewis Carroll
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded continues the adventures of the many characters in the previous volume Sylvie and Bruno. The fairy-children Sylvie and Bruno are charming whenever they appear, their fairy companions such as the Professor delight in taking...
Policeman Bluejay - L. Frank Baum
Policeman Bluejay - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is another "TWINKLE TALE" from Mr. Baum (written under the pen name Laura Bancroft) and celebrates the further adventures of Twinkle and Chubbins as they magically become child-larks and live the exciting, and often dangerous, life of birds in...
Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading) - Frances BROWNE
Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading) - Frances BROWNE
- Author: Frances BROWNE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book of fairy stories and has been translated into many languages. This work, read as a child by Frances Hodgson...
From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse - Various
From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Family
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fifth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller,...
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People - L. Frank Baum
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
The Magical Monarch of Mo is a set of stories about the titular king, his queen, and his royal children. The stories are uproariously funny, dealing with topics as absurd as a man losing his temper who then tries to find it, an evil midget who...
The Princess and Curdie (Version 2) - George MacDonald
The Princess and Curdie (Version 2) - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A year has passed since Curdie's adventures with young Princess Irene and the hostile goblins deep in the mountain. As Curdie grows up, his faith in the elusive royal Great-Great-Grandmother is fading. When a thoughtless act plunges him into that...
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
- Author: Joseph Jacobs
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of folk and fairy tales from the Emerald Isle. There is an earlier version of this book - Celtic Fairy Tales, but this recording was done from a different book in Project Gutenberg. Same book, new readers! (Summary by Ann Boulais)...
Under the Sunset - Bram Stoker
Under the Sunset - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
“Under the Sunset” is a collection of eight amazing fantasy tales from the mind and imagination of the legendary Bram Stoker (Dracula.) Originally conceived of by the author to be a collection of “Children’s stories,” these tales lean towards the...
Tik-Tok of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
Tik-Tok of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
In this really exciting and well written story of Oz, the Shaggy Man is on a quest to find his long lost brother. But all does not go smoothly. Oh no. Because his brother is being held prisoner deep underground by the evil, grumpy and not very nice...
Four and Twenty Fairy Tales - Various
Four and Twenty Fairy Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of French fairy tales by different famous authors. Included in this collection are such famous tales as Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, but also tales which are now not as well-known but closely connected and certainly of...
The Age of Chivalry - Thomas BULFINCH
The Age of Chivalry - Thomas BULFINCH
- Author: Thomas BULFINCH
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Thomas Bulfinch explains the his work is "an attempt to tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient authorities, so that when the reader...
The Meadow Sprite, and Other Tales of Modern Germany - Richard von VOLKMANN
The Meadow Sprite, and Other Tales of Modern Germany - Richard von VOLKMANN
- Author: Richard von VOLKMANN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Gertrude Schottenfels has collected and arranged eleven original tales from Germany in this volume. Ms Schottenfels alternates between stories written by Richard von Volkmann and Rudolf Baumbach, two authors active in the middle of the 19th century....
The Iliad of Homer - Homer
The Iliad of Homer - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium, by a coalition of Greek States, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King...
The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud - Frances Jenkins Olcott
The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud - Frances Jenkins Olcott
- Author: Frances Jenkins Olcott
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Lots of stories and poems about elves, faeries and other wonderful wee folk. All read for you by LibriVox people who love them so what more could you ask for? If you want a break from the harsh 'real' world, come relax for awhile in fairyland where...
Rinkitink in Oz (version 3) - L. Frank Baum
Rinkitink in Oz (version 3) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink and their companions have adventures that lead to the land of the Nomes and, eventually, Oz. In this story you meet the surly talking goat BilBil and some evil people who conquer the peaceful island of...
A Knyght Ther Was - Robert F. YOUNG
A Knyght Ther Was - Robert F. YOUNG
- Author: Robert F. YOUNG
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Science Fiction
"But the Knyght was a little less than perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his 'castle' was much more mobile - timewise! - than it had any business being!" In 2178, once time travel had become a simple task, it had also been...
Life and Death, and Other Stories and Legends - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
Life and Death, and Other Stories and Legends - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Author: Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Henryk Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905, but as he wrote in Polish many English-speakers are unfamiliar with his work. This short story collection is a sampler of five myths and legends which he collected. The "Life and Death"...
Folk-lore and legends: English - Charles John Tibbits
Folk-lore and legends: English - Charles John Tibbits
- Author: Charles John Tibbits
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is being lost, more rapidly in England, perhaps, than in any other part of the world. Our folk are giving up the...
