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10 best books like Welsh Fairy Tales (William Elliot Griffis): American Fairy Tales, Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland, Indian Fairy Tales, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, The Violet Fairy Book, The First Chronicles Of Prydain, Japanese Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends of China, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland, Celtic Tales, Told to the Children

American Fairy Tales
AuthorL. Frank Baum
ISBN0486236439
In Chicago, an ordinary key unlocks a magical trunk packed with robbers and a pie. In Boston, five magical bon-bons make an ordinary senator, an ordinary professor, an ordinary girl and her ordinary parents do the most extraordinary things! A young cowboy lassoes Father Time; the dummy in Mr. Floman's...
Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland
AuthorLady Augusta Gregory
ISBN0901072370
It's always weird to read a book that's essentially a twice-over translation. First the original author translated the myths to English, and that was over a hundred years ago... and then the Polish translator, while trying to keep the archaic and mythical sound of the original, translated it into Polish......
Indian Fairy Tales
AuthorJoseph Jacobs
Stories included are:

The Lion and the Crane
How the Raja's Son Won the Princess Labam
The Lambikin
Punchkin
The Broken Pot
The Magic Fiddle
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
Loving Laili
The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackel
The Soothsayer's Son
Harisaman
The...
Traditional Irish Fairy Tales
AuthorJames Stephens
ISBN0486291669
'In truth we do not go to Faery, we become faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.'

A good collection, very funny and with that uniquely Irish feel to it. And I should say that this is not so much a collection of Irish fairy tales as a collection of Irish sagas,...
The Violet Fairy Book
AuthorAndrew Lang
ISBN0486216756
In the preface of The Violet Fairy Book, Andrew Lang's seventh in the series, he seems quite annoyed at certain "ladies" who persist in the belief that he is the author, rather than editor of the stories. Before you get too excited that means he will for once provide thorough credit for his sources, he continues: ...
The First Chronicles Of Prydain
AuthorLloyd Alexander
ISBN0006173713
Taran's dreams are heroic, and his beloved land of Prydain is threatened by the forces of evil, the terrible Cauldron-born hordes of the Horned King. Taran's adventures will take him through enchanted and perilous lands before his epic quest is complete, his mission accomplished...

Lloyd...
Japanese Fairy Tales
AuthorYei Theodora Ozaki
ISBN4805308818
Things I learnt from Japanese Fairy Tales
-Never trust a monkey.
-Never trust a stepmother.
-Never trust a stepmother with your monkey.
-Almost every boy in Japan is named Taro, or a variant of that name: Kintaro, Urashima Taro, Momotaro...
-If an old man wants to wrestle your...
Myths and Legends of China
AuthorE.T.C. Werner
Edit: Jan.25

I've decided to change my original rating of 2 stars to 1.

I tried to read this again after downloading another free ebook of Chinese myths from the iBook store called The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Shan Hai Jing. The earliest accounts of some of the stories found in TCoMaS...
Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland
AuthorW.W. Gibbings
I chose to read "The Fisherman and the Merman" folk-story out of this book. Like many other folk-stories this was at times hard to understand what was going on and was required to be read more than once. This story showed the very dark side that these types of stories can posses. This story says things like,...
Celtic Tales, Told to the Children
AuthorLouey Chisholm

Title
Celtic Tales Told to the Children: The Starry-Eyed Deirdre

Author
Louey Chisholm

Illustrator
Catherine Cameron

Category
Traditional and ICDL

Copyright Date
1910

Estimate of age level of interest
Adult

Estimate...
Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard
AuthorRolland Hein
The very best books, in my opinion, are the ones that lead me to read many other very good books. Two examples of this sort par excellence are Francine Prose's Reading like a Writer and Stephen Cox's The New Testament and Literature. From them, I received not only the pleasure of those authors' well-written...
The Druid Animal Oracle
AuthorPhilip Carr-Gomm
ISBN0671503006
Bring the power of Ancient Druid wisdom into your life today.

You are holding a source of great power and influence -- the wisdom of the animal world drawn from the wellspring of ancient Celtic tradition. The Druids, like the Native Americans, revered animals as sacred guides, guardians and...
The Mountain of Marvels: A Celtic Tale of Magic, Retold from the Mabinogion
AuthorAaron Shepard
ISBN1620355418
A thousand years ago, in the Celtic kingdoms of Wales, great lords gave great feasts for their fighting men and courtiers. In timbered halls, for days on end, heaps of meat and bread were washed down with gallons of beer and mead. And in between the meals, when bellies were stuffed and spirits high, the...
King Arthur and the Goddess of the Land: The Divine Feminine in the Mabinogion
AuthorCaitlín Matthews
ISBN0892819219
Reveals how the ancient Celtic text of the Mabinogion was the mythical predecessor to the legends of King Arthur.

• Revised edition of Arthur and the Sovereignty of Britain (UK) that includes the author's latest research and insights.

• A comprehensive reader's companion with...
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0520034147
The title Mabinogi refers to the first four stories in this collection of tales from Welsh tradition. They are best known as the "Four Branches of the Mabinogi," and comprise the tales of Pwyll, Branwen, Manawydan, and Math. The remaining stories also spring from the same tree, and together they form...
Merlin
AuthorNorma Lorre Goodrich
ISBN0531150607
"The man, Merlin/Saint Dubricius, a wondrous prodigy, has even now supplied history with a retrospective pattern of crisis and human response the we treasure, like his voice form the so very long ago, speaking as a survivor of terrible perils and penance."


My goal today was to finish this...
Darkin: A Journey East
AuthorJoseph A. Turkot
ASIN B00902HZZ2 moved to the more recent edition here and then here

The greatest dark wizard, long thought dead, has risen anew; in his wake marches the vast army of the Feral Brood. None could have foreseen the total evil set to descend upon Darkin.

A long age of peace has left the land...
King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero
AuthorJohn Matthews
ISBN0517224445
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have captured the world's imagination since medieval times. The tales of King Arthur are rooted in history, but over the years the facts have become shrouded in myth and mystery. In this beautifully illustrated book Arthurian expert John Matthews explores...
Venom of the Serpent's Cunning
AuthorL.R.W. Lee
ISBN1494730162
"This series has everything a kid could want, action, adventure, magic, excitement and mystery!" - Erik Weibel, This Kid Reviews Books (Erik is 12)

Eleven-year-old Andy Smithson returns to Oomaldee to retrieve the second ingredient needed to break a 500-year-old curse enacted to punish...
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