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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

The Brown Owl: A Fairy Story

Ford Madox Ford · novel

The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales (Vol. 1 of 2)

James Hogg · novel

The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales (Vol. 2 of 2)

James Hogg · short story

The Bunsby Papers (second series): Irish Echoes

John Brougham · short story

The Cambrian Sketch-Book: Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales

R. Rice -1882 Davies · myth

The Cat and the Mouse: A Book of Persian Fairy Tales

Hartwell James · myth

The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic

Lucy Winifred Faraday · novel

The Celtic Magazine, Vol I, No. IV, February 1876

Alexander Macbain · periodical

The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875

Alexander Macbain · periodical

The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876

Alexander Macbain · periodical

The Celtic Magazine, Vol. I, No. VI, April 1876

Alexander Macbain · periodical

The Celtic Twilight

W. B. Yeats · myth

The Chaldean account of Genesis

George Smith · myth

The Child's World: Third Reader

Hetty Sibyl Browne · poetry

The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths

Padraic Colum · myth

The Children of the Castle

Mrs. Molesworth · novel

The children's book of Christmas

J. C. Dier · myth

The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10)

Eva March Tappan · myth

The Chinese Dragon

L. Newton Hayes · myth

The Chinese Fairy Book

Richard Wilhelm · myth

The Christian Mythology

E. B. Leatherbee · religious

The Christmas city

Lewis Gaston Leary · myth

The Cities of the Sun

Elizabeth Cannon Porter · myth

The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)

Charles Mills Gayley · myth

The Clyde Mystery

Andrew Lang · myth

The coasts of illusion

Clark B. Firestone · myth

The cock, the mouse, and the little red hen

Félicité Lefèvre · novel

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8)

W. B. Yeats · poetry

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 3 (of 8)

W. B. Yeats · play

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8)

W. B. Yeats · poetry

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 7 (of 8)

W. B. Yeats · poetry

The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 02 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen · collection

The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 1 of 2

Dougal Graham · poetry

The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 2 of 2

Dougal Graham · myth

The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce

William Denison Lyman · myth

The Comic History of Rome

Gilbert Abbott À Beckett · myth

The Comical Adventures of Twm Shon Catty (Thomas Jones, Esq.),

T. J. Llewelyn Prichard · novel

The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg

Herrmann Ploucquet · novel

The Coming of Cuculain

Standish O'Grady · novel

The Coming of Lugh: A Celtic Wonder-Tale Retold

Ella Young · myth

The Coming of the Fairies

Arthur Conan Doyle · myth

The Complete Collection of Pictures and Songs

Randolph Caldecott · myth

The Conjure Woman

Charles W. Chesnutt · short story

The Cornish Riviera

Sidney Heath · myth

The Crimson Fairy Book

Andrew Lang · myth

The Crock of Gold

James Stephens · novel

The Cruise of the Little Dipper, and Other Fairy Tales

Susanne K. Langer · myth

The Crystal Palace and Other Legends

Marie Harriette Frary · myth