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• Kaffir folk-lore; or, A selection from the traditional tales current among the people living on the eastern border of the Cape colony. With copious explanatory notes. By Geo. McCall Theal ... (London, W.S. Sonnenschein & co., [1884]), by George McCall Theal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bull of the kraal and the heavenly maidens; a tale of black children, by Dudley Kidd. (London, A. and C. Black, 1908), by Dudley Kidd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cinderella in the South; South African tales. (Oxford : B. H. Blackwell, 1918), by Arthur Shearly Cripps (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of a gold concession : and other African tales and legends / by J. Forsyth Ingram. (Pietermaritzburg : W.H. Griffin, 1893), by J. Forsyth Ingram (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schwarze Seelen : Afrikanisches Tag- und Nachtleben : neue Erzählungen / gesammelt von Leo Frobenius. (Berlin-Charlottenburg : Vita, 1913), by Leo Frobenius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• African genesis. (New York, Stackpole sons, [c1937]), by Leo Frobenius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winds and lights; African fairy tales, by H. H. Prince Akiki K. Nyabongo; with illustrations by B. Hewitt. (New York, N. Y., The Voice of Ethiopia, [c1939]), by Akiki K 1905- Nyabongo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Litteratura dos negros : contos, cantigas e parabolas. (Lisboa : Typographia do Commercio, 1900), by M. Marques de Barros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der schwarze Dekameron, belege und aktenstücke über leibe, witz und heldentum in Innerafrika gesammelt von Leo Frobenius; mit zeichnungen von Fritz Nansen und photographischen aufnahmen. (Berlin-Ch., Vita, deutsches verlaghaus, [c1910]), by Leo Frobenius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Atlantis; Volksmärchen und Volksdichtungen Afrikas (Jena, E. Diederichs, 1921-28]), by Leo Frobenius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The golden ship and other tales : translated from the Swahili / with illustrations by Lilian Bell and Alice B. Woodward. (London : Universities Mission to Central Africa, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Märchen und Sagen der afrikanischen Neger. Gesammelt von T. von Held. Mit Buchschmuck von G. Nehring und einer Einführung von General von Liebert. (Jena, H. W. Schmidt (Gustav Tauscher), 1904), by T. von Held (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Märchen und sagen der afrikanischen neger. (Jena, H. W. Schmidt, 1904), by T. von Held (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Afrikanische Tierwelt; Novellen und Erzählungen. (Leipzig, E. Haberland, 1918-20), by Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The long grass whispers / by Geraldine Elliot ; illustrated by Sheila Hawkins. (New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1939), by Geraldine Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black Tales for White Children, by C. H. Stigand and Nancy Yulee Stigand, illust. by John Hargrave (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales, by Arthur Shearly Cripps (Gutenberg ebook)

• Ancient Egyptian Legends (London: John Murray, 1920), by Margaret Alice Murray (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Egyptian Myth and Legend, by Donald A. Mackenzie (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Louqsor sans les pharaons; légendes et chansons populaires de la haute Égypte, (Bruxelles, Paris, Vromant & co, 1914), by Georges Albert Legrain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Astralmythen der Hebraeer, Babylonier, und Aegypter ... (Leipzig, E. Pfeiffer, 1896-), by Eduard Stucken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A paper (read at the monthly sessional meeting at No. 1, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.) : on light and darkness, ruin and reparation, as manifested in Genesis I., and also in recent biblical archaeological discoveries in Egypt and Assyria / by the Rev. Alfred Jones, B.D., vicar of Carrington, Hon. Sec. of the Committee for the Endowment of Additional Bishoprics, and member of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, London, etc., etc. (London : W.H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, publishers to the India Office, 1881), by Alfred Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Zanzibar Tales, Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1901), trans. by George W. Bateman, illust. by Walter Bobbett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Zanzibar tales told by natives of the east coast of Africa / Translated from the original Swahili by George W. Bateman ; illustrated by Walter Bobbett. (Chicago : A. C. McClurg, 1901), by George W. Bateman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swahili tales, as told by natives of Zanzibar, with an English translation. (London, Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1922), by Edward Steere (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Zanzibar Tales, Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1901), trans. by George W. Bateman, illust. by Walter Bobbett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Zanzibar tales told by natives of the east coast of Africa / Translated from the original Swahili by George W. Bateman ; illustrated by Walter Bobbett. (Chicago : A. C. McClurg, 1901), by George W. Bateman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swahili tales, as told by natives of Zanzibar, with an English translation. (London, Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1922), by Edward Steere (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Essai sur la littérature merveilleuse des noirs, suivi de Contes indigènes de l'Ouest africain français - Tome premier (in French), by François-Victor Equilbecq (Gutenberg ebook)

• Soudan français. (Paris, E. Leroux, 1905), by Charles Monteil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Fables sénégalaises / recuellies de l'Ouolof et mises en vers français, avec des notes destinées a faire connaître la Sénégambie ... par M. le Bon Roger. (Paris : Nepveu : F. Didot : Ponthieu, 1828), by M. le baron Roger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fables sénégalaises / recuellies de l'Ouolof et mises en vers français, avec des notes destinées a faire connaître la Sénégambie ... par M. le Bon Roger. (Paris : Nepveu : F. Didot : Ponthieu, 1828), by M. le baron Roger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nouveaux contes berbères, recueillis traduits et annotés par René Basset. (Paris, E. Lereux, 1897), by René Basset (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Koos, the Hottentot : tales of the veld / by Josef Marais ; illustrated by Henry Stahlhut. (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), by Josef Marais (page images at HathiTrust)

• Folk-Tales of Angola: Fifty Tales, With Ki-Mbundu Text, Literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes (1894), ed. by Héli Chatelain
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• Folk-tales of Angola: Fifty tales, with Ki-mbundu text literal English translation, introduction, and notes. Collected and edited by Heli Chatelain. (New York, Negro Universities Press, [1969, c1894]), by Héli Chatelain (page images at HathiTrust)

• Contes populaires des Bassoutos (Afrique de Sud) recueillis et traduits par E. Jacottet. (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1895), by Édouard Jacottet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Contes populaires des Bassoutos (Afrique de Sud) recueillis et traduits par E. Jacottet. (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1895), by Édouard Jacottet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kaffir Folk-Lore: A Selection from the Traditional Tales Current Among the People Living on the Eastern Border of the Cape Colony, With Copious Explanatory Notes (1886), by George McCall Theal (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• South-African Folk-Tales, by James A. Honeij (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Old Hendrik's tales / by A.O. Vaughan ; with twelve illustrations by J.A. Shepherd. (London ; New York : Longmans, Green, 1904), by Arthur Owen Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales from the Veld. With 12 illus. by M. Nisbet. (London, Chatto & Windus, 1897), by Ernest Glanville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The outspan; tales of South Africa, by J. Percy Fitzpatrick. (London, W. Heinemann, 1897), by Percy Fitzpatrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contes populaires des Bassoutos (Afrique de Sud) recueillis et traduits par E. Jacottet. (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1895), by Édouard Jacottet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Hendrik's Tales, by Arthur Owen Vaughan, illust. by J. A. Shepherd (Gutenberg ebook)

• Erzälungen in Fulfulde, niedergeschrieben von Abdallah Adam, transkribiert, übersetzt und mit einem Nachtrag: Erzählungen im Dialekt von Sokoto, von D. Westermann. (Berlin, G. Reimer, 1913), by Abdallah Adam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ajongs erzählungen; marchen der Fangneger, wiederzählt und herausgegeben von Günter Tessmann. (Berlin, Pantheon-Verlag, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Where animals talk; west African folk lore tales, (Boston, R. G. Badger, [c1912]), by Robert Hamill Nassau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kameruner märchen. Gesammelt und übersetzt von Wilhelm Lederbogen (Berlin : Deutscher kolonial-verlag (G. Meinecke), [1901]), by Wilhelm Lederbogen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Stories of the High Priests of Memphis: The Sethon of Herodotus and The Demotic Tales of Khamuas, by F. Ll. Griffith (PDF files at ETANA)
• Contes populaires inédits de la vallée du Nil, (Paris, J. Maisonneuve, 1895), by Yacoub Artin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contes populaires du Soudan égyptien : recueillis en 1908 sur le Nil blanc et le Nil bleu / par Yacoub Artin Pacha. (Paris : E. Leroux, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die novelle im alten Aegypten. Ein litterar-historischer essay, (Strassburg, K. J. Trübner, 1898), by Wilhelm Spiegelberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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