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Myths That Still Shape Movies
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
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Philippine Folk Tales
Sky gods teach farming, monkeys lose their tails, and a hunter gets snatched by a giant bird in sixty-one island tales.
Mabel Cook Cole · collection
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Philippine Folk-Tales
Clara Kern Bayliss · myth
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Philippine Folklore Stories
John Maurice Miller · myth
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Philoktetes
Sophocles · play
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Pictures of Hellas: Five Tales of Ancient Greece
Peder Mariager · short story
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Pictures of Sweden
H. C. Andersen · myth
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Pilgrim Sorrow: A Cycle of Tales
Carmen Sylva · short story
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Pixies' Plot
Eden Phillpotts · poetry
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Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics
Richard Folkard · collection
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Plays of Gods and Men
Lord Dunsany · play
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Plays of Near & Far
Lord Dunsany · play
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Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans
Plutarch pairs legendary Greeks with famous Romans to see who was braver, wiser, or just better at building an empire.
Plutarch · collection
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Plutarch's Romane Questions
Plutarch · myth
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Poems
Cushag · poetry
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Poems and Tales from Romania
Simona Sumanaru · short story
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Poems from Eastern Sources: The Steadfast Prince; and Other Poems
Richard Chenevix Trench · poetry
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Polish Fairy Tales
A. J. Gliński · myth
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Pomo Bear Doctors
S. A. Barrett · myth
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Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 (of 4)
R. Brimley Johnson · poetry
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Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 (of 4)
R. Brimley Johnson · poetry
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Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 4 (of 4)
R. Brimley Johnson · poetry
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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales
J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps · myth
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Popular Romances of the West of England, Second Series
Robert Hunt · myth
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Popular Tales from the Norse
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen · myth
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Poseidon's paradise: the romance of Atlantis
Elizabeth G. Birkmaier · novel
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Prairie Smoke, a Collection of Lore of the Prairies
Melvin R. Gilmore · myth
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Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts
F. Victor Dickins · poetry
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Primitive culture, vol. 1 (of 2)
Edward B. Tylor · myth
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Primitive culture, vol. 2 (of 2)
Edward B. Tylor · myth
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Primitive Manners and Customs
James Anson Farrer · myth
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Prince Hagen
Upton Sinclair · play
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Prince Ragnal, and other holiday verses
Eleanor C. Donnelly · poetry
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Princess Badoura: A tale from the Arabian Nights
Laurence Housman · novel
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Princess Belle-Etoile
Madame d' Aulnoy · novel
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Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion
Jane Ellen Harrison · myth
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Prophecies of Robert Nixon, Mother Shipton, and Martha, the Gypsy
myth
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Proserpine and Midas
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · play
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Proud Signild, and Other Ballads
George Borrow · poetry
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Psyche
Molière · play
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Psyche
Louis Couperus · novel
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Psychology of the Unconscious
A Zurich psychiatrist traces the hidden history of the human mind through a young woman's dreams and ancient fire-stealing myths.
C. G. Jung · ideas
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Puck of Pook's Hill
Two children meet a fairy in their garden and he invites historical ghosts to tea.
Rudyard Kipling · novel
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Purgatory: Doctrinal, Historical, and Poetical
J. Mrs. Sadlier · poetry
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Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse
David Cory · novel
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Putois
Anatole France · myth
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Pygmalion and the Image
William Morris · poetry
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Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and Other Ballads
George Borrow · poetry
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Queen Moo's Talisman: The Fall of the Maya Empire
Alice D. Le Plongeon · poetry