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• Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (London: Griffith and Farran, ca. 1883), by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Folk-lore of Shakespeare, by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (Gutenberg ebook)

• Folk-Lore of Shakespeare (London: Griffith and Farran, ca. 1883), by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Folk-lore of Shakespeare, by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (Gutenberg ebook)

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• The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction (London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,1880), by Edward Yardley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jeu d'esprit [ressource électronique] / ([S.l. : s.n., 18--?]), by Diggory (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Make We Merry More and Less: An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Douglas Gray and Jane Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Chiji Akoma (PDF at Ohio State)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)

• The Denham Tracts: A Collection of Folklore, Reprinted From the Original Tracts and Pamphlets Printed by Denham Between 1846 and 1859 (2 volumes (Publications of the Folk-Lore Society v29 and v35); 1892-1895), by Michael Aislabie Denham, ed. by James Hardy
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Anecdotes and Traditions, Illustrative of Early English History and Literature (London: Printed for the Camden Society by J. B. Nichols and son, 1839), ed. by William John Thoms, contrib. by Nicholas L'Estrange, John Aubrey, and John Collet (page images at HathiTrust)
• English Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (Gutenberg text)
• The Famous Exploits of Robin Hood, Little John and His Merry Men All (London: J. Catnach, ca. 1821) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• More English Fairy Tales (1894), by Joseph Jacobs, illust. by John D. Batten (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Stories of King Arthur (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), by A. L. Haydon, illust. by Arthur Rackham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Legend Land, Vol. 4: Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Nearer Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway, by G. Basil Barham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Legend Land, Vol. 3: Being a Further Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway, by G. Basil Barham (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, by Thomas Malory, ed. by Sidney Lanier, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur, by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The History of Sir Richard Whittington, ed. by Henry B. Wheatley (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of King Arthur and his Knights, by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table, Adapted from the Book of Romance, ed. by Andrew Lang and J. C. Allen, illust. by H. J. Ford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore, by Elizabeth Mary Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore: (Chiefly Lancashire and the North of England:) Their Affinity to Others in Widely-Distributed Localities; Their Eastern Origin and Mythical Significance., by Charles Hardwick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Robin Hood, by Paul Creswick, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg ebook)
• Legend Land, Vol. 2: Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway, by G. Basil Barham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Legend Land, Vol. 1: Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway, by G. Basil Barham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Current Superstitions: Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk, ed. by Fanny D. Bergen, contrib. by William Wells Newell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The History of Sir Richard Whittington, ed. by Henry B. Wheatley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion, by Beatrice E. Clay (Gutenberg ebook)
• More English Fairy Tales, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, illust. by John Dickson Batten (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights, by James Knowles and Thomas Malory, illust. by Lancelot Speed (Gutenberg ebook)
• Whittington and his cat. (London : Printed by W. Wilson, and are to be sold by Frances Coles ..., 1656), by Thomas Heywood (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Description of the castle of entertainment as also the wonderful increase of the race of the Huffs : together with a relation of their first original as it was attested by Old Mother Huff in strange characters, and since discover'd and copied out by a pilgrim in the year 1668. ([London : s.n., 1679]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Legends of Longdendale: Being a series of tales founded upon the folk-lore of Longdendale Valley and its neighbourhood, by Thomas C. Middleton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Popular Romances of the West of England, ed. by Robert Hunt (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall (first series (presented online as "vol. 1"), originally published 1870), by William Bottrell (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall (second series; Penzance: Printed for the author by Beare and Son, 1873), by William Bottrell, illust. by Joseph Blight
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Popular Romances of the West of England, Second Series: or, The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall, by Robert Hunt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore, by M. A. Courtney (Gutenberg ebook)
• North Cornwall Fairies and Legends, by Enys Tregarthen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North Cornwall, by Enys Tregarthen, illust. by J. Ley Pethybridge (Gutenberg ebook)

• Tales and Legends of the English Lakes, by Wilson Armistead (Gutenberg ebook)

• Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c.; With an Appendix Containing a Rare Tract on the Lancashire Witches (London: G. Routledge and Sons; Manchester: L. C. Gent, 1873), by John Harland and Thomas Turner Wilkinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A History of Leagram: The Park and the Manor (v72 of new series, Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected With the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester; Manchester, UK: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1913), by John Weld, contrib. by J. Brownbill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Goblin Tales of Lancashire (London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., n.d.), by James Bowker, illust. by Charles Gliddon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lancashire Folk-lore: Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine, by John Harland and Thomas Turner Wilkinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore: (Chiefly Lancashire and the North of England:) Their Affinity to Others in Widely-Distributed Localities; Their Eastern Origin and Mythical Significance., by Charles Hardwick (Gutenberg ebook)

• Magic in Modern London (Croydon: Printed at the "Advertiser" offices, 1925), by Edward Lovett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tales of Northumbria (London: Methuen and Co., 1899), by Howard Pease
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tales of Northumbria, by Howard Pease (Gutenberg ebook)

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