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The Archive...

Have a wander through the Fireside folktale archive below, and see what you stumble into. Use the filters to narrow the world down, or fling the doors wide and browse by country, region, theme, collector, or whatever takes your fancy, then let the table do the rest. A few clicks can carry you from storm-tossed coasts to mountain villages, from clever tricksters to quiet miracles, and you will often find that the story you meant to read is not the one that chooses you.

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Other than my own versions of tales (as indicated), the stories in this archive are in the public domain

Stories in this view:

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Title	Book	Author / Collector	Country	Subject	Year
The Adventures Of Sanehat	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Adventures Of Sanehat: exile, identity, return, and royal reconciliation	1901
The Heart Of Carnelian	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Heart Of Carnelian: protection, vitality, magical safeguarding of the heart.	1901
Of Bringing The Makhent Boat	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of Bringing The Makhent Boat: access, passage, ritual transport in the afterlife.	1901
The Great Tablet Of Rameses Ii At Abu-Simbel	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Great Tablet Of Rameses Ii At Abu-Simbel: royal power, conquest, and monumental self-glorification	1901
Against Serpents	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Against Serpents: magical defence, protection from chaotic forces.	1901
Driving Back The Merti	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Driving Back The Merti: warding off dangerous beings through sacred power	1901
Hymn To The Setting Sun	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Hymn To The Setting Sun: praise of sunset, transition, and cosmic renewal	1901
Hymn To Pharaoh	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Hymn To Pharaoh: royal praise, divine kingship, and earthly authority	1901
Air And Water	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Air And Water: essential sustenance, survival, renewal in death.	1901
Of Protecting The Boat Of Ra	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of Protecting The Boat Of Ra: defending cosmic order from hostile forces	1901
Hymn To The Nile	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Hymn To The Nile: praise of fertility, abundance, and life-giving waters	1901
The Epic Of Penta-Our	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Epic Of Penta-Our: heroic warfare, royal glory, martial remembrance.	1901
Of Evil Recollections	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of Evil Recollections: banishing harmful memories, spiritual cleansing.	1901
The Chapter Of The Victory Over Enemies	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Chapter Of The Victory Over Enemies: triumph, protection, and defeat of hostile powers	1901
Hymn And Litany To Osiris	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Hymn And Litany To Osiris: devotional praise, repetition, and resurrection hope	1901
Travels Of An Egyptian In The Fourteenth Century BC	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Travels Of An Egyptian In The Fourteenth Century BC: travel, diplomacy, hardship, and foreign lands	1901
The Shipwrecked Sailor	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Shipwrecked Sailor: survival, wonder, divine encounter, and marvellous return	1901
Anpu And Bata	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Anpu And Bata: betrayal, innocence, transformation, and fraternal reconciliation	1901
The Introduction To Maati	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Introduction To Maati: truth, justice, balance, and moral order	1901
Hymn To Amen-Ra	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Hymn To Amen-Ra: exaltation of supreme divine kingship and creation	1901
Setna And The Magic Book	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Setna And The Magic Book: forbidden knowledge, magic, ambition, and consequence	1901
The Book Of Respirations	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Book Of Respirations: breath, life, renewal, sustaining the dead.	1901
Adoration Of The Gods Of The Qerti	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Adoration Of The Gods Of The Qerti: reverence, supplication, safe passage through judgement.	1901
Victory Over Enemies	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Victory Over Enemies: triumph, divine aid, and conquest of foes	1901
The Chapter Of Bringing Charms To Osiris	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Chapter Of Bringing Charms To Osiris: magical protection, offering, and ritual aid	1901
The Chapter Of Memory	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Chapter Of Memory: remembrance, identity, and continuity after death	1901
Tales Of The Magicians	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Tales Of The Magicians: wonder, magic, rivalry, courtly marvels.	1901
Hymns To Amen	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Hymns To Amen: devotion to hidden divinity, kingship, and cosmic power	1901
On Coming Forth By Day	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	On Coming Forth By Day: rebirth, liberation, and daily renewal after death	1901
Against Snakes	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Against Snakes: protection, warding, triumph over venomous chaos.	1901
Preserving The Heart	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Preserving The Heart: identity, conscience, protection in judgement.	1901
Transformation Into A Lotus	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Transformation Into A Lotus: rebirth, purity, emergence into light.	1901
Of The Four Flames	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of The Four Flames: fiery guardianship, danger, purification, sacred power	1901
The Doomed Prince	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Doomed Prince: fate, peril, prophecy, and doomed royal destiny	1901
Of The Swallow	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of The Swallow: transformation, freedom, movement between worlds.	1901
Of Knowing The Souls Of Khemennu	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of Knowing The Souls Of Khemennu: esoteric knowledge of sacred primeval powers	1901
Of Coming Forth From Re-Stau	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of Coming Forth From Re-Stau: escape, rebirth, emergence from the necropolis	1901
Transformation Into A Heron	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Transformation Into A Heron: metamorphosis, spiritual freedom, assuming divine bird form	1901
The Chapter Of The Chaplet Of Victory	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Chapter Of The Chaplet Of Victory: ritual triumph, protection, sacred adornment, victory over hostile powers	1901
Of Transformation	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of Transformation: metamorphosis, adaptability, spiritual power.	1901
Abolishing The Slaughterings	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Abolishing The Slaughterings: protection from violence, destruction, and ritual danger	1901
Of The Hour Apes	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of The Hour Apes: cosmic timekeeping, guardianship, and solar ritual	1901
Of Sekhet-Hetepet	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of Sekhet-Hetepet: blessed fields, abundance, ideal afterlife.	1901
The Hittite Invasion Of Damascus	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Hittite Invasion Of Damascus: warfare, foreign threat, and political upheaval	1901
Beating Back The Crocodile	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Beating Back The Crocodile: resisting danger, magical protection, survival.	1901
Hymn Of Praise To Osiris	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Hymn Of Praise To Osiris: reverence for resurrection, justice, and divine rule	1901
Transformation Into A Bennu Bird	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Transformation Into A Bennu Bird: rebirth, renewal, sacred transformation, solar resurrection.	1901
The Song Of The Harper	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	The Song Of The Harper: mortality, doubt, pleasure, and life’s brevity	1901
Of Knowing The Souls Of Pe	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of Knowing The Souls Of Pe: sacred knowledge of divine ancestral beings	1901
Of Travelling In The Boat Of Ra	Egyptian Book Of the Dead	Epiphanius Wilson	Generic	Of Travelling In The Boat Of Ra: solar journey, protection, divine alignment.	1901

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