Myths

Children's Short Works

by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Discover a delightful assortment of enchanting tales in Children's Short Works, a collection curated from the timeless stories of Jacob and …

The King of Ireland's Son

by Pádraic Colum Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.7
The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy Pogany. It i…

The Magic Nuts

by Mary Louisa Molesworth Read by Anne Fletcher 4.8
A delightful children’s story about Leonore, a little English girl, taken by her governess to Fraulein Elsa’s home town in an (unnamed) coun…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

by Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

by Selma Lagerlöf Read by Gerald Moe 5
Nils Holgersson is a boy who would rather cause trouble than be responsible. One day as he is skipping out on going to church he captures an…

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii

by David Kalakaua Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
A collection of legends and myths of the Hawaiian islands and their 'strange people' as told by His Majesty King Kalakaua, the last king of …

John Dough and the Cherub

by L. Frank Baum Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir - a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strengt…

Aino Folk-Tales

by Basil Hall Chamberlain Read by Expatriate 4.8
Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of …

The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales

by Frank R. Stockton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is a collection of original and interesting fairy tales. We have here princes and princesses, pirates, wizards, and all the other ingre…

The Algonquin Legends of New England

by Charles Godfrey Leland Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…

Old Fashioned Fairy Tales

by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The title may lead you to think that these are retellings of old familiar fairy tales. Not so at all. These are completely new stories bu…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

by Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble

by Johnny Gruelle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Raggedy Andy raised up on his cotton stuffed elbow and whispered to Raggedy Ann, "Less have another adventure! Shall we?"And Ragge…

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. …

Lāčplēsis

by Andrejs Pumpurs Read by Kristine Bekere 5
Lāčplēsis is an epic poem by Andrejs Pumpurs, a Latvian poet, who wrote it between 1872-1887 based on local legends. Lāčplēsis is regarded a…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales

by Charles Perrault Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. All stories we of course have heard many times. But these are retold…

The Other Side of the Sun

by Evelyn Sharp Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
What better thing can I say about this book except that it is written by Evelyn Sharp the author who writes fairy stories with a flowing and…

Myths and Legends Around the World

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio

by Songling Pu Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly sup…

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