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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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Use these drop down lists to choose one or more filters to select groups of tales to investigate in more detail

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
Flora	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Italy	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Ate	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Iris	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
The Epigoni	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Artemis (Diana)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Alcmæon And The Necklace	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Picus	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Italy	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Bellerophon (1)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Pallas-Athene (Minerva)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Hermes (Mercury)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
The Nymphs (2)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Terminus	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Italy	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Dryades, Or Tree Nymphs	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Asclepias (Æsculapius)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Ares (Mars)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Aphrodite (Venus)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Dionysus (Bacchus Or Liber)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Pomona	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Italy	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Pan (2)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Morpheus	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Horæ (Seasons)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Eos (Aurora)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Erinyes Eumenides (Furiæ Diræ)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
The Seven Against Thebes	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Tyche (Fortuna) And Ananke (Necessitas)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Ganymedes	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Demeter (Ceres)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Pales	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Italy	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Grææ	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Pelops	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
The Harpies	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Nymphs Of The Valleys And Mountains	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Comus	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Italy	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Uranus And Gæa (Coelus And Terra)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Hephæstus (Vulcan)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Cronus (Saturn)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Perseus (2)	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Consus	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Italy	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Momus	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E.M. Berens	Greece	Greek and Roman Gods, Legendary Creatures, Mythical Heroes, and Minor Deities	1880
Huirakhocha and his mystical performance	Myths, Superstitions, and Popular Survivals of Bolivia	M. Rigoberto Paredes	Bolivia	Huirakhocha and his mystical performance: divine power, miraculous spectacle, sacred authority, and creation myth.	1920
The Old Sky Woman	North Cornwall Fairies and Legends	Enys Tregarthen	England	The Old Sky Woman: childlike cosmology, snow explained through kindly imagination.	1906
The Little Cake-Bird	North Cornwall Fairies and Legends	Enys Tregarthen	England	The Little Cake-Bird: dreams, fairy gifts, childhood delight, festive magic.	1906
The Impounded Crows	North Cornwall Fairies and Legends	Enys Tregarthen	England	The Impounded Crows: saintly power, mischief punished, birds restrained by legend.	1906
The Legend Of The Padstow Doombar	North Cornwall Fairies and Legends	Enys Tregarthen	England	The Legend Of The Padstow Doombar: sea tragedy, haunting lament, perilous coast, mourning.	1906
How Jan Brewer Was Piskey-Laden (1)	North Cornwall Fairies and Legends	Enys Tregarthen	England	How Jan Brewer Was Piskey-Laden: disorientation, enchantment, night wandering, piskey-led confusion.	1906
The Piskeys Who Carried Their Beds	North Cornwall Fairies and Legends	Enys Tregarthen	England	The Piskeys Who Carried Their Beds: fairy migration, cliffside dancing, vanishing old ways.	1906
The Little Horses And Horsemen Of Padstow	North Cornwall Fairies and Legends	Enys Tregarthen	England	The Little Horses And Horsemen Of Padstow: midnight marvels, animated figures, childhood wonder, fairy horsemanship.	1906
The Piskeys Who Did Aunt Betsy's Work	North Cornwall Fairies and Legends	Enys Tregarthen	England	The Piskeys Who Did Aunt Betsy’s Work: helpful fairies, household labour, curiosity punished, missed wonder.	1906
Reefy, Reefy Rum	North Cornwall Fairies and Legends	Enys Tregarthen	England	Reefy, Reefy Rum: childish rhyme, living carvings, pursuit, peril, narrow escape.	1906
The Piskeys' Revenge	North Cornwall Fairies and Legends	Enys Tregarthen	England	The Piskeys’ Revenge: fairy retaliation, slighted beings, mischief answering human offence.	1906

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