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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 Wine-ghosts of Bremen
Wilhelm Hauff · novel
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The Winter Solstice Altars at Hano Pueblo
Jesse Walter Fewkes · myth
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The Witch of Atlas
Percy Bysshe Shelley · poetry
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The Wolf-Leader
Alexandre Dumas · novel
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The Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories
Algernon Blackwood · short story
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The Wonder Book of Bible Stories
Logan Marshall · myth
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The Wonder Clock; or, four & twenty marvellous Tales
Howard Pyle · short story
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The Wonderful Story of Blue Beard, and His Last Wife
George Cruikshank · novel
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The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01
of Samosata Lucian · collection
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The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
of Samosata Lucian · collection
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 2
Thomas Sir Browne · collection
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The World English Bible (WEB): Daniel
myth
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The World English Bible (WEB): Esther
myth
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The World English Bible (WEB): Genesis
myth
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The World English Bible (WEB): Jonah
myth
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The World English Bible (WEB): Ruth
myth
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The World of Homer
Andrew Lang · myth
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The World's Desire
H. Rider Haggard · novel
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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ
Kersey Graves · myth
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The Yellow Fairy Book
Andrew Lang · myth
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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 2 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)
Valmiki · myth
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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 2 (of 4), Part 2 (of 2)
Valmiki · myth
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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 3 (of 4), Part 2 (of 2)
Valmiki · myth
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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 4 (of 4), Part 2 (of 2)
Valmiki · myth
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The Yoke
Elizabeth Miller · novel
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The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari
James S. De Benneville · myth
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The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2
Ella Flagg Young · poetry
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The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories
Charles Egbert Craddock · short story
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The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson · myth
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Theocritus, translated into English Verse
Theocritus · poetry
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Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes
Catherine Ann Turner Dorset · myth
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Thirsty blades
Otis Adelbert Kline · novel
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Thirty Indian legends
Margaret Bemister · myth
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Thistledown: A Book of Scotch Humour, Character, Folk-lore, Story & Anecdote
Robert Ford · myth
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Thomas Hardy's Dorset
R. Thurston Hopkins · myth
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Three Good Giants
François Rabelais · novel
The story in one page
Three hundred Aesop’s fables
A frog gets pelted with stones and points out the obvious to the neighborhood children.
Aesop · collection
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Three Wonder Plays
Lady Gregory · play
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Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources
Anton Schiefner · myth
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Time and the Gods
Lord Dunsany · short story
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Tioba, and Other Tales
Arthur Colton · short story
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Tlingit myths and texts
John Reed Swanton · myth
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Told After Supper
Jerome K. Jerome · myth
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Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas
E. M. Wilmot-Buxton · myth
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Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation
Joel Chandler Harris · short story
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Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales
Cyrus Adler · myth
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Told in the gardens of Araby (untranslated until now)
Izora C. -1906 Chandler · myth
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Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah
Mimosa · myth