Mythology in literature
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Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance (second edition, enlarged; New York: B. Franklin, 1960), by Lucy Allen Paton, contrib. by Roger Sherman Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Mythology- The Universal Mystery-Language and Its Interpretation (revised edition, 1997), by Henry T. Edge (illustrated HTML at TUP)
- Myths and Their Meaning (Boston et al.: Allyn and Bacon, c1928), by Max J. Herzberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Ancient City: Discovery of the City That Cain Built and Discovery of the Most Ancient Site of the City of Thebes and the Lost Europa, the Princess of Tyre, and Origin of the Swiss Lake Dwellings (1911), by John Martin Woolsey
- Bulfinch's Mythology (see also The Age of Fable), by Thomas Bulfinch
- Folklore and Mythology: Electronic Texts (continually updated anthology), ed. by D. L. Ashliman (HTML at Pitt)
- The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (first edition reprint, 2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1894), by James George Frazer
- The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (second edition, 3 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1900), by James George Frazer
- The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (third edition, 12 volumes; Macmillan, c1906-1915), by James George Frazer (multiple formats at Google, archive.org, and HathiTrust)
- The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged edition: New York: Macmillan, 1922), by James George Frazer, ed. by Lady Frazer (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged edition), by James George Frazer, ed. by Lady Frazer (Gutenberg text)
- An Introduction to Mythology (New York: Moffat Yard and Co., 1921), by Lewis Spence (Gutenberg text)
- Modern Mythology, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Myths and Legends of All Nations: Famous Stories From the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian, and Other Sources (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., c1914), ed. by Logan Marshall (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Natural Genesis (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1883), by Gerald Massey
- The Original Garden of Eden Discovered, and the Final Solution of the Mystery of the Woman, the Tree and the Serpent: Being the Lunar Theory of Mythology and the Analysis and Satisfactory Explanation of the Ancient Mystical Lore (c1910), by John Martin Woolsey (page images at HathiTrust)
- Orpheus: Myths of the World, by Padraic Colum, illust. by Boris Artzybasheff (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Demonology and Devil-Lore (2 volumes in 1; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1879), by Moncure Daniel Conway (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Devil of Darkness in the Light of Evolution, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
- Error's Chains: How Forged and Broken (New York: Standard Publishing House, c1883), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall
- False Gods: or, The Idol Worship of the World (Philadelphia et al.: Hubbard Bros., ca. 1881), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gods and Devils of Mankind (c1897), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall
- Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology, by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
- Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning, by Edward Carpenter
- Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1920), by Edward Carpenter (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Anacalypsis (2 volumes; index, appendix, and illustrations omitted; originally published 1833-1836), by Godfrey Higgins (HTML at Tripod)
- Custom and Myth, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Evolution of the Dragon (Manchester, the University Press; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1919), by Grafton Elliot Smith
- Folk-Lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend, and Law (3 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1919), by James George Frazer
- Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (2 volumes; London: John Murray, 1920), by Edward B. Tylor
- A Book of the Beginnings (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1881), by Gerald Massey
- A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: or the Great Gods of Phenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete (2 volumes; Oxford: At the University press for the author, 1803), by George Stanley Faber (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- The Origin of All Religious Worship (with a description of the zodiac of Dandarah; New Orleans, 1872), by Dupuis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Quatre Lettres sur le Mexique: Exposition Absolue du Système Hiéroglyphique Mexicain; La Fin de Pȧge de Pierre; Époque Glaciaire Temporaire; Commencement De Pȧge de Bronze; Origines de la Civilisation Et des Religions de L'antiquité; (Collection de Documents Dans les Langues Indigenes v4, in French, with an English appendix by Rafinesque on the Lenape; Paris: F. Brachet; Mexico: Juan Buxo y Cia., 1868), by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, contrib. by C. S. Rafinesque
- 1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described: Adapted to Private Schools, High Schools and Academies (New York et al.: Hinds, Hayden and Eldridge, c1899), ed. by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. by Micha F. Lindemans (HTML at pantheon.org)
- A Key to Polite Literature, or Compendious Dictionary of Fabulous History: Containing the Characters and Principal Actions Ascribed to the Heathen Deities and Heroes (6th edition; London: Printed for J. Walker et al., 1802)
- The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (based on 1894 edition), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1898), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
- The Travels of Cyrus; To Which is Annexed, A Discourse Upon the Theology and Mythology of the Pagans (10th edition, first American edition; Burlington, NJ: Printed by I. Neale, 1793), by Chevalier Ramsay, contrib. by Nicolas Fréret (HTML at Evans TCP)
- Pyramid Scheme, by Dave Freer and Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
- Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends (second edition, 1926, with supplements from 1937 and 1952), by Mary Huse Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, by Otto Rank, trans. by F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study in Medieval Geography (research series #8; New York: American Geographical Society, 1922), by William Henry Babcock
- Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1898), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, illust. by Albert Herter (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text)
- The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Padraic Colum, illust. by Wilfred Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- Indian Myth and Legend (London: Gresham Pub. Co., ca. 1913), by Donald A. Mackenzie, illust. by Warwick Goble
- Mythologie des Indous (2 volumes, in French; Roudolstadt: La Librairie de la Cour: Paris: F. Schoell, 1809), by Marie-Elisabeth de Polier, contrib. by colonel de Polier
- The Mythology of All Races: Indian; Iranian (v6 of a 13-volume global mythology series; Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1917), by Arthur Berriedale Keith and Albert Carnoy, ed. by Louis H. Gray and George Foot Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition, Translated From the Original Sanscrit (London: John Murray, 1840), ed. by H. H. Wilson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic (Kolkata: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker and Co., 1900), by W. J. Wilkins (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Industrial Arts of India (2 volumes; London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1880), by George C. M. Birdwood
- The Industrial Arts of India (new edition in 2 parts; London: Pub for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1884), by George C. M. Birdwood
- Die Kosmographie der Inder, Nach den Quellen Dargestellt (in German; Bonn and Leipzig: K. Schroeder, 1920), by Willibald Kirfel
- Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda (third edition; London: T. Fisher Unwin, c1895), by Zénaïde A. Ragozin (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story) (10 volumes; London: Privately printed by C. J. Sawyer Ltd., 1924-1928), by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, ed. by N. M. Penzer, trans. by C. H. Tawney, contrib. by Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Kathá Sarit Ságara: or, Ocean of the Streams of Story (2 volumes; Kolkata: Printed by J. W. Thomas, 1880-1884), by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, trans. by C. H. Tawney
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