Myths
The Dried-up Fountain
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Robert Leighton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Dried-up Fountain by Robert Leighton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Decembe…
A Tale Of Cader Idris
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Our narrator, Bob, knows George Bowring from school days. Their lives, dreams and misfortunes are parallel until George marries the woman Bo…
Christmas Tales Of Flanders
Read by David Wales
Andre De Ridder
“The Christmas Tales Of Flanders presented in this volume are popular fables and legends current in Flanders and Brabant, which have for cen…
Little Miss Joy-Sing
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John Luther Long
A pleasant kind of fantasy set in Japan concerning a woman and a prince. - Summary by KevinS
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin
In this volume Shahrazad relates several Arabic folk tales to her sister and is one of the many translated by Richard F. Burton. These tales…
Uncle Wiggily's Airship
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Howard R. Garis
"Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old gentleman rabbit, sat in his burrow-house reading the morning paper. It was after breakfast, on a nice…
Libussa
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Johann Karl August Musäus
This is the Tale of Libussa, the mythical founder of the city of Prague. It chronicles the story of her parents and her birth, her elevation…
The Rainbow Book
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Mabel Henrietta Spielmann
"Tales of Fun & Fancy" is the subtitle of this story book and it well describes the contents which are written with a great de…
Doctor Rabbit and Tom Wildcat
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Thomas Clark Hinkle
All Doctor Rabbit and his friends want is peace in the Big Green Woods. But peace alludes them as long as Tom Wildcat is around because T. W…
The Lance of Kanana
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Harry W. French
A gripping, coming-of-age tale with youthful heroism, wisdom and fortitude on the Arabian Peninsula, somewhat in the style of One Thousand A…
Animal Fables from the Dark Continent
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Alphonso Orenzo Stafford
A. O. Stafford, an African American educator and folklorist, wrote this collection of African and African Diaspora folktales for students in…
Myths and Legends of the Sioux
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Marie L. Mclaughlin
This collection of Sioux legends, with nearly 40 tales, provides a rich window into the cultural beliefs and values of the Sioux people. Thr…
Tales of Giants From Brazil
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Elsie Spicer Eells
Brazil is the land of the giant among all the rivers of the world. It is the land of giant fruits and giant flowers. Of course it is the lan…
Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country
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William Charles Griggs
The following stories have been taken from the great mass of unwritten lore that is to the black-eyed, brown-skinned boys and girls of the S…
A Medley of Weather Lore
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M. E. S. Wright
A Medley of Weatherlore is a compilation of poems, sayings, and bits of folklore for each month of the year. - Summary by A. Gramour
The Voyagers
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Pádraic Colum
In this 1926 Newbery Honor Book, Pádraic Colum gathers several little-known folk lore tales of exploration on the Atlantic Ocean and …
Greek Myths and Hero Tales
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Fanny Amanda Comstock
This is a collection of 25 short plays, each covering a different Greek myth or tale. From the famous epics such as Theseus' journey to slay…
Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air
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Thomas Campion
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes in the Air by Thomas Campion. This was the Weekly Poetry projec…
Celtic Tales, Told to the Children
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Louey Chisholm
In olden days, when many Kings reigned throughout the Green Island of Erin, none was greater than the great Concobar. So fair was his realm …
The Pot of Gold
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Celebrated prolific 19th century author of dozens of short stories and novels brings us a wistful and whimsical collection of delightful chi…