A reissue of a 1934 collection of stories to read and tell including myths, folk tales, ballads and a section of stories for the very young

First published in three separate volumes from 1855 to 1863, Bulfinch's Mythology quickly became the standard source of classic tales from ancient Greece and Rome, the Norse tradition, and beyond. This edition contains the full text of The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, the first volume of Bulfinch's seminal work. From stories of the Greek gods of Mt. Olympus to retellings of the Iliad and the Odyssey, from descriptions of mythological...

Includes folk versions of writings of various authors and a folk version of the Gospels, Paul's Rome and Corinth correspondence, James' advisory, Hebrews tract, and Revelation with references

Geomythology, the name of a fascinating new science, is a term invented by Dorthy Vitaliano and now increasingly current among both geologists and students of myth. It denotes the study of the actual geologic origins of natural phenomena which were long explained in terms of myth or folklore. Primarily, there are two kinds of geologic folklore, that in which some geologic feature or the occurrence of some geologic phenomenon has inspired a folklore...

A collection of folklore, including an index of authors, titles, and first lines of songs and an index of subjects and names.