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The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

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2,535 myth & legend

Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II—Konkan

A. M. T. Jackson · myth

Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa

Elphinstone Dayrell · myth

Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

Hamilton Wright Mabie · myth

Folk Tales from the Russian

Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal · myth

Folk tales from Tibet

William Frederick Travers Sir O'Connor · myth

Folk Tales of Breffny

Bampton Hunt · myth

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat

C. A. Kincaid · myth

Folk-Lore and Legends: English

Charles John Tibbitts · myth

Folk-lore and Legends: German

The story in one page

Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian

A collection of 32 stories where animals talk, lightning strikes, and the world is always being freshly made.

Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental

Charles John Tibbitts · myth

Folk-Lore and Legends: Russian and Polish

Charles John Tibbitts · myth

Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian

Charles John Tibbitts · myth

Folk-Lore and Legends: Scotland

Folk-lore in Borneo

William Henry Furness · myth

Folk-lore of Shakespeare

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer · play

Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales

Jonathan Ceredig Davies · myth

Folk-Tales of Bengal

Lal Behari Day · myth

Folk-Tales of Napoleon

Aleksandr Amfiteatrov · short story

Folk-Tales of the Khasis

Mrs. Rafy · myth

Folklore as an Historical Science

George Laurence Gomme · myth

Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs

James M. -1916 Mackinlay · myth

Folklore of the Santal Parganas

Cecil Henry Bompas · myth

Folklore of Wells: Being a Study of Water-Worship in East and West

Rustom Pestonji Masani · myth

Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall

Robert Stephen Hawker · myth

Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3)

Abraham Fornander · myth

Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

Abraham Fornander · myth

Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 3 (of 3)

Abraham Fornander · collection

Four and Twenty Fairy Tales

J. R. Planché · myth

The story in one page

Four Arthurian Romances

Knights errant, runaway sparrow-hawks, and swords for bridges: the standard operating procedure for Arthur's table.

de Troyes active 12th century Chrétien · collection

Four Plays of Aeschylus

Aeschylus · play

Fragments of Ancient Poetry

James Macpherson · poetry

French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

de France active 12th century Marie · myth

Frey and His Wife

Maurice Hewlett · myth

Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance

Esaias Tegnér · poetry

Friendly Fairies

Johnny Gruelle · short story

From a Terrace in Prague

B. Granville Baker · myth

From Ritual to Romance

Jessie L. Weston · myth

From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan

H. P. Blavatsky · myth

From the Heart of Israel: Jewish Tales and Types

Bernard Drachman · myth

Games and songs of American children

William Wells Newell · myth

Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairy Tale

Charlton M. Lewis · novel

Gay gods and merry mortals: some excursions in verse

Robert J. Shores · poetry

Gebir, and Count Julian

Walter Savage Landor · poetry

Georgian Folk Tales

Marjory Scott Wardrop · myth

German wit and humor

Minna Sophie Marie Baumann Downes · myth

Ghostly Phenomena

Elliott O'Donnell · myth

Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas

Catherine Crowe · myth