CHAPTER I

. PRIMITIVE RELIGIOUS GROUP=

=Myth=

CRITICAL BOOKS.

Andrew Lang, _Custom and Myth_ (Longmans). Max Müller, _Chips from a German Workshop_, vol. II and IV. Max Müller, _Last Essays_, 2nd series. W. G. Wood Martin, _Traces of the Elder Faiths in Ireland_, 2 vols. E. B. Tylor, _Primitive Culture_. Laura E. Poor, _Sanscrit and Its Kindred Literatures_. Jacob Grimm, _Teutonic Mythology_.

DICTIONARIES

Fernando Blumentritt, _Dictionario Mitológico de las Filipinas_. Isabelo de los Reyes, _La Religion Antigua de los Filipinos_. E. C. Brewer, _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_ (Altemus). A. S. Murray, _Manual of Mythology_.

COLLECTIONS OF MYTHS

Hawthorne's _Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales_ (E. L.). The works of Jeremiah Curtin: _Creation Myths of Primitive America_; _Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland_; _Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars_; _A Journey in Southern Siberia_ [the religion and myths of the Mongols]. The works of C. M. Skinner: _American Myths and Legends_, 2 vols; _Myths and Legends of Our New Possessions and Protectorates_; _Myths and Legends of Our Own Land_, 2 vols.; _Myths and Legends Beyond Our Borders_. Florence J. Stoddard's _As Old as the Moon_ [Folk-lore of the Antillas] (Doubleday, Page); _Myths of the Quichas_. Guerber's _Myths of Greece and Rome_; Bulfinch's _Age of Fable_; Katherine B. Judson's _Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest_ (McClurg); T. G. Thrum's _Stories of the Menehunes_ (1910).

=Legend and Saga=

_The Legends of St. Patrick_, by Aubrey de Vere (C. N. L.); H. A. Guerber's _Legends of Switzerland_, and _Legends of the Rhine_; Sidney Lanier's Boys' Library of Legend and Chivalry contains _The Boy's King Arthur_, _The Boy's Percy_, and _The Knightly Legends of Wales_ (Scribners); Selma Lagerlöf's _Invisible Links_; Ruskin's _King of the Golden River_ (A. B.); Canton's _W. V.'s Golden Legend_ (Dodd, Mead); _Finnish Legends_, stories from the Kalevala, told by Eivind (T. Fisher Unwin). S. Baring Gould's _Curious Myths of the Middle Ages_ (Longmans) are really legends. Hawthorne's _Twice Told Tales_ includes a number of legends. _Mediaeval Tales_ in Morley's Universal Library contains stories from the _Gesta Romanorum_ and the Faust legend. Nutt's _Legends of the Holy Grail_. Dr. Whitley Stokes has translated many of the early Irish sagas (_Revue Celtique_, 1869-1902, and in _Irische Texte_, 1880-1902). Kipling's _Puck of Pooh's Hill_ [fairy tale and legend] (Doubleday); Eleanor H. Broadus' _The Book of the Christ Child_ (Appleton); Van Dyke's _Other Wise Man_ (Harpers) is purely literary. _The Story of Grettir the Strong_, translated from the Icelandic by Magnusson and Morris (Longmans); _The Volsunga Saga_, translated by Magnusson and Morris (Scott); _Beowulf_, translated into modern English prose, by J. Clark Hall (Sonnenschein); J. Baldwin's _Story of Roland_ (Scribners); C. D. Wilson's _Story of the Cid for Young People_. _The Nibelungenlied_ is well translated in the World's Great Classics Series and contains a good introduction. _Orlando Furioso_, translated by W. S. Rose (Bohn). _The Mabinogion_, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest (Nutt); _The Stories of the Ramayana and Mahabharata_, told by Oman (Bohn). An English translation of the _Shah Nameh_ may be found in Oriental Literature (W. G. C.).

=Fairy Tale and Nursery Saga=

Collectors have not distinguished carefully between fairy tales and nursery sagas. Many of the collections cited as fairy tales contain nursery sagas. A general term often used to include both is folk-tales; Tolstoy has re-done several of the Russian folk stories, which may be found in _Twenty-three Tales from Tolstoy_, translated by L. & F. Maude (W. C.). T. G. Thrum's _Hawaiian Folk-Tales_; F. H. Cushing's _Zuñi Folk-Tales_ (Putnam); Blue, Red, Green, Gray, Yellow, Pink, Violet, Crimson, and Brown Fairy Books, edited by A. Lang (Longmans). _The Fairy Library_ (Putnam), collected and edited by Joseph Jacobs, contains English, Celtic, Indian, East Indian, Persian, Chinese, South Sea Island, African, and Japanese fairy tales. W. R. S. Ralston's _Russian Fairy and Folk Tales_ (Hurst); _English Fairy and Folk Tales_, edited by E. S. Hartland (Scott); _Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales_, edited by Sir Geo. Douglas (Scott); _Irish Fairy and Folk Tales_, edited by W. B. Yeats (Scott); Grimm's _Household Tales_ in any of the good editions (E. L., Lippincott, Bohn); Hans Christian Andersen's _Fairy Tales_ (E. L.). Burt's Fairy Library includes among others _Cossack Fairy Tales_, _Russian Fairy Tales_, _Turkish Fairy Tales_. _Fairy Gold_, stories chosen by E. Rhys (E. L.). Thomas Keightley's _Fairy Mythology_ (Bohn) is a standard reference work. Alfred Nutt's _Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare_ (1900).

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