Books: What to Know
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 Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker · novel
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The Laird o' Coul's Ghost
William Ogilvie · myth
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The Lake Gun
James Fenimore Cooper · short story
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The Lake of Lucerne
Joseph E. Morris · myth
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The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania
E. Gerard · myth
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The Land of Heart's Desire
W. B. Yeats · play
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The Land of Look Behind
Paul Cameron Brown · short story
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The Last Tournament
Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson · poetry
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The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran
Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister · myth
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The Laughing Prince: Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales
Parker Fillmore · myth
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The Laughter of Peterkin: A retelling of old tales of the Celtic Wonderworld
William Sharp · myth
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The Lay of Havelok the Dane
Frederic Madden · poetry
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The Lay of the Nibelung Men
Arthur S. Way · poetry
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The Legend of Dah-nol-yo, Squaw Rock
Helen McCowen -1917 Carpenter · myth
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The Legend of Kupirri, or, The Red Kangaroo
W. A. Cawthorne · poetry
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The Legend of Monte della Sibilla; or, Le paradis de la reine Sibille
Clive Bell · novel
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The legend of Perseus, Volume 1 (of 3)
Edwin Sidney Hartland · myth
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The legend of Perseus, Volume 2 (of 3)
Edwin Sidney Hartland · myth
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The legend of Perseus, Volume 3 (of 3)
Edwin Sidney Hartland · myth
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The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac
Jessie L. Weston · myth
The story in one page
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A lanky teacher stalks a Dutch heiress until a headless rider intervenes.
Washington Irving · short story
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The Legend of the Bleeding-heart
Annie F. Johnston · myth
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The legend of the blemished king, and other poems
James Henry Cousins · poetry
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The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere
Charles de Coster · myth
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The Legend of the Lincoln Imp
H. J. Kesson · poetry
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The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume 1 (of 2)
Charles de Coster · myth
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The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume 2 (of 2)
Charles de Coster · myth
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The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby
John Roby · poetry
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The Legendary History of the Cross
Johann active Veldener · myth
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The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The fables and folk-lore of a strange people
David King of Hawaii Kalakaua · myth
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The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
James Sir Knowles · myth
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The Legends of Saint Patrick
Aubrey De Vere · poetry
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The Legends of San Francisco
George W. Caldwell · poetry
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The Legends of the Iroquois
William Walker Canfield · myth
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The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
Louis Ginzberg · myth
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The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2
Louis Ginzberg · myth
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The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3
Louis Ginzberg · myth
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The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
Louis Ginzberg · myth
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The Lenâpé and Their Legends
Daniel G. Brinton · myth
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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
L. Frank Baum · novel
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The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
W. G. Collingwood · myth
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The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Candide Chalippe · collection
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The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore
P. Power · myth
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The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore
P. Power · myth
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The Light of Asia
Edwin Sir Arnold · poetry
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The Light Princess
George MacDonald · novel
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The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories
George MacDonald · myth
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The Lilac Fairy Book
Andrew Lang · myth