Folklore Books

Blackfeet Indian Stories

George Bird Grinnell

Those who wish to know something about how the people lived who told these stories will find their ways of life described in the last chapter of this book.The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from p..

A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore

Fay-Cooper Cole

This paper is based on a collection of Philippine folk-tales recently published by the Field Museum of Natural History. The material appearing in that publication was gathered by the writer during a s..

Algonquin Legends of New England

Charles Godfrey Leland

This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; that is to say, of the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots of Main..

Fairies and Folk of Ireland

William Henry Frost

This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. The story which r..

A Chinese Wonder Book

Norman Hinsdale Pitman

A Chinese Wonder Book is a collection of fairy tales and folk tales written by Norman Hinsdale Pitman,  an educator and author.His other writings include: The Lady Elect: A Chinese Romance, ..

Fables de La Fontaine, livre premier

Jean de La Fontaine

Fables de La Fontaine. Tome Premier is a French fables collection written by Jean de La Fontaine, a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above ..

Australian Legendary Tales

 Australian Legendary Tales Folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies is a collection of fairy and folk tales written by K. Langloh Parker, a South Australian born writer who liv..

Where Animals Talk - West African Folk Lore Tales

Robert Hamill Nassau

Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales is a collection of folklore written by Robert Hamill Nassau, an American presbyterian missionary who spent forty years in Africa. He is also the author..