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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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The Fairy Mythology
Thomas Keightley · myth
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The Fairy Nightcaps
Aunt Fanny · novel
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The Fairy Ring
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin · myth
The story in one page
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Ten stories where the woods are dangerous, the cats are devious, and magic rarely simplifies anything.
Charles Perrault · collection
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The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
W. Y. Evans-Wentz · myth
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The Fall of the Nibelungs
Margaret Armour · poetry
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The Fall of Troy
Smyrnaeus active 4th century Quintus · poetry
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The Farmer Boy: The Story of Jacob
James Hartwell Willard · myth
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The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
H. B. Cotterill · myth
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The feather symbol in ancient Hopi designs
Jesse Walter Fewkes · myth
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The fetish folk of West Africa
Robert H. Milligan · myth
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The Fir-Tree Fairy Book: Favorite Fairy Tales
Clifton Johnson · myth
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The fire of Asshurbanipal
Robert E. Howard · short story
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The Firelight Fairy Book
Henry Beston · short story
The story in one page
The First Book of Adam and Eve
A family drama of the first humans navigating a lethal new world of hunger, darkness, and a very persistent shapeshifting devil.
Rutherford Hayes Platt · myth
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The First Christmas Tree: A Story of the Forest
Henry Van Dyke · myth
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The Fisher-Boy Urashima
Basil Hall Chamberlain · myth
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The Flood
myth
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The Flower Basket
novel
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The folk-lore of China
N. B. Dennys · myth
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The Folk-lore of Plants
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer · myth
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The Folk-Tales of the Magyars
W. Henry Jones · myth
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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age
Aubrey De Vere · myth
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The Forest Beyond the Woodlands: A Fairy Tale
Mildred Kennedy · novel
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The Forest of Vazon
myth
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The Fountain of Maribo, and Other Ballads
George Borrow · poetry
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The Four Seasons
Carl Ewald · novel
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The Fox and the Geese; and The Wonderful History of Henny-Penny
novel
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The Fox That Wanted Nine Golden Tails
Kathleen Gray Nelson · novel
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The Frithiof Saga
Esaias Tegnér · poetry
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The Frog Prince and Other Stories
Walter Crane · collection
The story in one page
The Frogs
Dionysus goes to the Underworld to rescue a poet, but the candidates won't stop bickering.
Aristophanes · play
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The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations
Zelia Nuttall · myth
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The Garden of Eden: Stories from the first nine books of the Old Testament
George Hodges · myth
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The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories
Aryasura · myth
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The Ghost World
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer · myth
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The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India
W. H. D. Rouse · myth
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The Giant Hands; or, the Reward of Industry
Alfred Crowquill · novel
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The Giant of Bern and Orm Ungerswayne: A Ballad
George Borrow · poetry
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The gnome's gneiss
Kendell Foster Crossen · novel
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The Goblin Groom: a Tale of Dunse
R. O. Fenwick · poetry
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The Goblins' Christmas
Elizabeth Anderson · myth
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The gods of Mexico
Lewis Spence · myth
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The Gods of Pegana
Lord Dunsany · novel
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The Gods of the North: an epic poem
Adam Oehlenschläger · poetry
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The Gold Of Fairnilee
Andrew Lang · myth
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The Gold Sickle; Or, Hena, The Virgin of The Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul
Eugène Sue · novel
The story in one page
The Golden Asse
A man obsessed with sorcery accidentally transforms into a donkey. Staying that way is harder.
Apuleius · novel