Mythology & Folk Tales
epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Andrew Lang

I gave you always of the best; I kept you warm in my soft nest. I loved and watched you day and night— You were my joy, my one delight.’ ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:H. A. Guerber

CHAPTER XI. TITUREL AND THE HOLY GRAIL. [Sidenote: Origin of the legend.] The most mystical and spiritual of all the romances of chivalry is doubtless the legend of the Holy ...
( Category: Medieval March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hans Christian Anderson

THE MERMAID FAR OUT AT SEA the water is as blue as the bluest cornflower, and as clear as the clearest crystal; but it is very deep, too deep for ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Idries Shah [Shah, Idries]

49 Warning Nasrudin entered the Land of Fools. ‘O people,’ he cried, ‘sin and evil are hateful!’ He did the same thing every day for some weeks. One day as ...
( Category: Sufism March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Andrew Lang

THE MAGIC RING Once upon a time there lived an old couple who had one son called Martin. Now when the old man’s time had come, he stretched himself out ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 18,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Charles Kingsley

CHAPTER V “Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead’s most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-27 | Author:Mary Shelley [Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus ]

Chapter 14 "Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding as it ...
( Category: Gothic March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:Fiona Macdonald

Llud and Llevelys King Beli of Britain had four sons: Lludd, Casswallawn, Nynnyaw and Llevelys [Hleeth, Cass-wah-hlawn, Nyn-yow and Hlev-ell-ees]. They were all very fine fellows, but this story is ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:George MacDonald [MacDonald, George]

and ever he looked again, and died not, though his heart seemed ready to break with intensity of life and longing. And the more he did for her, the more ...
( Category: Anthologies March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-05 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

This is the story of Taffimai Metallumai carved on an old tusk a very long time ago by the Ancient Peoples. If you read my story, or have it read ...
( Category: Short Stories March 17,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-01-11 | Author:Colin Falconer

It Is Never Over THERE IS A VICTORY BANQUET for the serpent gods. The whole village is there, and the Norsemen are seated in the place of honor at the ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Juliana Horatia Ewing

MURDOCH'S RATH.[8] There was not a nicer boy in all Ireland than Pat, and clever at his trade too, if only he'd had one. But from his cradle he learned ...
( Category: Fantasy March 17,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Andrew Lang

CHAPTER IX Haunted Houses. Antiquity of Haunted Houses. Savage Cases. Ancient Egyptian Cases. Persistence in Modern Times. Impostures. Imaginary Noises. Nature of Noises. The Creaking Stair. Ghostly Effects produced by ...
( Category: Ghosts & Hauntings March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-27 | Author:Flora Steel

“Oh!” says the form, “Titty’s dead, and Tatty weeps, and the stool hops, and the broom sweeps, the door jars, and the window creaks, and so I gallop round the ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-01 | Author:D.E. Chapman [Chapman, D.E.]

Chapter 13 Seraphine No. no. I can’t be going into heat. Not here, not so soon. I’m scared. I’m so scared. But a little voice in my head whispers that ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 17,2020 )