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The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
The library
2,535 myth & legend
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Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850
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Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
periodical
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Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850
periodical
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Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851
periodical
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Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851
periodical
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Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851
George Bell · periodical
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Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851
George Bell · periodical
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Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851
George Bell · periodical
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Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851
periodical
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Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851
periodical
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Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851
George Bell · periodical
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Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851
George Bell · periodical
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 102, October 11, 1851
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 113, December 27, 1851
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 92, August 2, 1851
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 116, January 17, 1852
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 117, January 24, 1852
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 120, February 14, 1852
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 121, February 21, 1852
George Bell · periodical
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 122, February 28, 1852
George Bell · periodical
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 123, March 6, 1852
George Bell · periodical
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 124, March 13, 1852
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 129, April 17, 1852
George Bell · periodical
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852
George Bell · periodical
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 132, May 8, 1852
George Bell · periodical
In the library
Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys
James Farrer · myth
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Oberon and Puck
Helen Gray Cone · poetry
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Occoneechee, the Maid of the Mystic Lake
Robert Frank Jarrett · poetry
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Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca
Homer · myth
The story in one page
Oedipus King of Thebes
Thebes is dying of plague, and King Oedipus hunts the murderer to end it.
Sophocles · play
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Ojibwa myths and tales
Geo. E. Laidlaw · myth
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Old Ballads
poetry
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Old Celtic Romances
P. W. Joyce · myth
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Old Celtic tales
E. M. Wilmot-Buxton · myth
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Old Deccan Days; or, Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India
Mary Frere · myth
In the library
Old French Fairy Tales
Sophie comtesse de Ségur · myth
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Old French Romances, Done into English
William Morris · myth
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Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
Josephine Preston Peabody · myth
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Old Greek Stories
James Baldwin · myth
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Old Hendrik's Tales
Arthur Owen Vaughan · myth
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Old Indian Legends
Zitkala-Sa · myth
In the library
Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings
W. P. Strickland · myth
In the library
Old Ninety-Nine's Cave
Elizabeth H. Gray · novel