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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Alas, Poor Ghost! Traditions of Belief in Story and Discourse (revised edition of "Traditions of Belief: Women and the Supernatural"; Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1999), by Gillian Bennett (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• English Fairy and Other Folk Tales, ed. by Edwin Sidney Hartland, illust. by C. E. Brock (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Old Church Lore, by William Andrews (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Dog and Duck (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Arthur Machen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Stories and Sayings of Great Britain and Ireland (London: C. W. Daniel, ca. 1911), ed. by Isabella Fyvie Mayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection With the Calendar (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1869), by Robert Chambers (HTML at thebookofdays.com)
• Chambers's Book of Days (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co, 1879), by Robert Chambers (page images at Wisconsin)
• Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (new edition, in 3 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by John Brand and Henry Ellis, contrib. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs (1910), by T. Sharper Knowlson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Early English hero tales told by Jeannette Marks ... (New York & London, Harper & brothers, [c1915]), by Jeannette Augustus Marks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People. Arranged According to the Calendar of the Year., by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Byways in British Archaeology, by Walter Johnson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Early English Hero Tales, by Jeannette Augustus Marks (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 2 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes, and Methods of Playing etc., by Alice Bertha Gomme (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc., by Alice Bertha Gomme (Gutenberg ebook)
• A New Catalogue of Vulgar Errors, by Stephen Fovargue (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Testimony of Tradition, by David MacRitchie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Church Lore, by William Andrews (Gutenberg ebook)
• Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, illust. by John Dickson Batten (Gutenberg ebook)
• More Celtic Fairy Tales, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, illust. by John Dickson Batten (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fians, Fairies and Picts, by David MacRitchie (Gutenberg ebook)

• Fians, Fairies and Picts, by David MacRitchie (Gutenberg ebook)

• Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1887), by Allan Cunningham, contrib. by Henry Morley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs (1910), by T. Sharper Knowlson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man (London: Methuen and Co., 1892), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)

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