Found 3,703 results for "Folklore and mythology"
The Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.
Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
THE GREEKS did not believe that the gods created the universe.
The golden bough
by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster
I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences
The lost language of symbolism
by Harold Bayley, Bayley
THIS book, though not written specially with that end, substantiates the tentative conclusions formulated three years ag...
Indian Fairy Tales
by Joseph Jacobs, John D Batten
THE Bodhissatta was at one time born in the region of Himavanta as a white crane ; now Brahmadatta was at that time reig...
Master and Commander
by Patrick O'Brian
The music-room in the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant...
Custom and myth
by Andrew Lang
AFTER the heavy rain of a thunderstorm has washed the soil, it sometimes happens that a child, or a rustic, finds a wedg...