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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 Prem sagur
active 17th century Caturbhujamisra · myth
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The Princess and the Physicist
Evelyn E. Smith · novel
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The Princess Idleways: A Fairy Story
Helen Ashe Hays · novel
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The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland
Andrew Lang · novel
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The promised land
Catharine Shaw · myth
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The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche)
Alexander Mackenzie · myth
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The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems
John Reade · poetry
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The Proverbs of Scotland
Alexander Hislop · myth
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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories
George Bird Grinnell · myth
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The Purcell Papers — Volume 1
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · short story
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The Purcell Papers — Volume 3
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · short story
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The Purcell Papers: Index and Contents of the Three Volumes
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · reference
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The Purgatory of St. Patrick
Pedro Calderón de la Barca · play
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The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic
poetry
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The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm
John Ruskin · myth
The story in one page
The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse
An exiled prince pursues a phantom deer, loses his wife to a ten-headed demon king, and rallies a woodland army.
Valmiki · myth
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The Rāmāyana, Volume 1. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam
Valmiki · novel
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The Rāmāyana, Volume 2. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam
Valmiki · novel
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The Rāmāyana, Volume 3. Yuddhakāndam
Valmiki · novel
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The Rāmāyana, Volume 4. Uttara Kānda
Valmiki · novel
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The Red Fairy Book
Andrew Lang · myth
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The red feathers
Theodore Goodridge Roberts · novel
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The Red Romance Book
Andrew Lang · myth
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The reign of King Oberon
Walter Jerrold · myth
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The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
William A. Sir Craigie · myth
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The Religion of the Ancient Celts
J. A. MacCulloch · myth
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The Religion of the Indians of California
A. L. Kroeber · myth
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The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child
Matilda Coxe Stevenson · myth
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The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules
Hesiod · poetry
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The return of Alcestis
Laurence Housman · play
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The Return of the Dead, and Other Ballads
George Borrow · poetry
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The Rhesus of Euripides
Euripides · play
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The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
Richard Wagner · play
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The romance of comets
Mary Proctor · myth
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The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories
Lafcadio Hearn · myth
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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Two people drink a love potion, wreck their lives, and never once think of stopping.
Joseph Bédier · myth
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The Romaunce of the Sowdone of Babylone and of Ferumbras His Sone Who Conquerede Rome
Emil Hausknecht · poetry
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The Round Towers of Ireland; or, The History of the Tuath-De-Danaans
Henry O'Brien · myth
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The Ruinous Face
Maurice Hewlett · myth
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The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales
Robert Reynolds Steele · myth
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The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales
Louise Seymour Houghton · myth
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The Russian story book
Richard Wilson · myth
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The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Volume 6 (of 14)
Charles F. Horne · myth
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The sacred dance
W. O. E. Oesterley · myth
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The Sacred Tree; or, the tree in religion and myth
J. H. Mrs. Philpot · myth
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The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga
novel
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The sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)
Snorri Sturluson · myth
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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North
James Baldwin · myth