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2,535 myth & legend

Stories of Heroic Deeds for Boys and Girls

James Johonnot · short story

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights

Thomas Sir -1471 Malory · myth

Stories of King Arthur's Knights, Told to the Children

Mary Macgregor · myth

Stories of London

E. L. Hoskyn · myth

Stories of Old Greece and Rome

Emilie K. Baker · myth

Stories of Red Hanrahan

W. B. Yeats · short story

Stories of Robin Hood

Bertha E. Bush · myth

Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children

Mary Macgregor · myth

Stories of Starland

Mary Proctor · myth

Stories of the Bible, Volume 1: The People of the Chosen Land

Myles Endicott · myth

Stories of the Border Marches

John Lang · novel

Stories of the Days of King Arthur

Charles Henry Hanson · novel

Stories of the Nibelungen for Young People

Gertrude R. Schottenfels · myth

Stories of the Old World

Alfred John Church · myth

Stories of the Olden Time

James Johonnot · myth

Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)

Isaac Landman · myth

Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light

Vera C. Barclay · novel

Stories of the Scottish Border

William Platt · myth

Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children

Mabel Powers · myth

Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore

Laure Claire Foucher · collection

Stories told by the miller

Violet Jacob · collection

Story Hour Readers — Book Three

Ida Coe · myth

Story of Aeneas

Michael Clarke · myth

Story-Telling Ballads

Frances Jenkins Olcott · poetry

Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore

Benjamin Taylor · myth

Strange Pages from Family Papers

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer · myth

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2)

Songling Pu · short story

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Songling Pu · short story

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Songling Pu · short story

Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures

Songling Pu · short story

Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man

S. Baring-Gould · myth

Stranger Than Fiction: Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore

Mary L. Lewes · novel

Stray leaves from strange literature; and, Fantastics and other fancies

Lafcadio Hearn · myth

Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry

Alfred M. Williams · history

Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History

James George Frazer · myth

Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2)

John Addington Symonds · myth

Studies of Travel: Greece

Edward A. Freeman · myth

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3

W. E. Gladstone · history

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3

W. E. Gladstone · myth

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3

W. E. Gladstone · myth

Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail

Alfred Trübner Nutt · myth

Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum

Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh · myth

Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms

Stephen Langdon · myth

Catharine Shaw · myth

Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland

John Gregorson Campbell · myth

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of 6)

Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6)

Richard Francis Sir Burton · novel