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A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore
Fay-Cooper Cole
A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore Fay-Cooper Cole   A STUDY IN TINGUIAN FOLK-LORE By FAY-COOPER COLE Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University Chicago 1915 A STUDY IN TINGUIAN FOLK-LORE This paper is based on a collection of Philippine folk-tales recently published by the Field Museum of Natural History...
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American Indian Myth Poems
Hartley Alexander
American Indian Myth Poems Hartley Alexander   Note: THE poetic spirit of the American Indian is a thing to be retrieved fragmentarily, partly through the echoes of old songs, partly through the dim rememberings of ancient beliefs. The native expression is seldom articulate after the manner of white men; it is too simply a communion with nature to need formal articulation. But it falls easily into the cadences of unaffected speech, interpreted but not misportrayed...
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Amleth, Prince of Denmark
Trans by Oliver Elton
Amleth, Prince of DenmarkFrom the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus translated by Oliver Elton Horwendil, King of Denmark, married Gurutha, the daughter of Rorik, and she bore him a son, whom they named Amleth. Horwendil’s good fortune stung his brother Feng with jealousy, so that the latter resolved treacherously to waylay his brother, thus showing that goodness is not safe even from those of a man’s own house...
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Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
Edited by Robert Bell
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England Edited by Robert Bell Taken down from oral recitation and transcribed from private manuscripts, rare broadsides and scarce publications. INTRODUCTION. IN 1846, the Percy Society issued to its members a volume entitled ANCIENT POEMS, BALLADS, AND SONGS OF THE PEASANTRY OF ENGLAND, edited by Mr...
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Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
Charles G. Leland
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches Charles G. Leland PREFACE If the reader has ever met with the works of the learned folk-lorist G. Pitré, or the articles contributed by "Lady Vere De Vere" to the Italian Rivista, or that of J...
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Charles G. Leland
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Australian Legendary Tales
Collected By Mrs. K. Langloh Parker
Australian Legendary Tales Collected By Mrs. K...
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British Goblins: Welsh folk-lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions
Wirt Sikes
British Goblins: Welsh folk-lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions Wirt Sikes Fairy Tales and the Ancient Mythology                                               I. WITH regard to other divisions of the field of folk-lore, the views of scholars differ, but in the realm of faerie these differences are reconciled; it is agreed that fairy tales are relics of the ancient mythology; and the philosophers stroll hand in hand harmoniously...
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Celtic Fairy Tales
Joseph Jacobs
Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs                         Preface to Celtic Fairy Tales Last year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection...
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Cuchulain of Muirtheme
Lady Gregory
Cuchulain of Muirtheme Lady Gregory   Dedication of the Irish Edition to the People of Kiltartan My Dear Friends, When I began to gather these stories together, it is of you I was thinking, that you would like to have them and to be reading them...
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Egyptian Myth And Legend
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Donald Mackenzie
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