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Collection Of William Shakespeare Volume 4 Arguably the greatest writer the English language has ever seen, and perhaps the most quoted, William Shakespeare's 37 plays and 154 sonnets and other poems are here collected in this neat, easy navigable digital edition. Conveniently divided...

A Study of Fairy Tales BY LAURA F. KREADY "A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional story that usually features folkloric characters (such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals) and enchantments, often involving a far-fetched sequence of events. In...

THE CRYSTAL CUP by Bram Stoker "The Crystal Cup" reveals the struggle a young artist faces when he is taken from his family and forced to work for the king. He is promised freedom in return for his hard work making a perfect crystal vase. But the story takes a tragic twist when he...

The Mahabharata, Book 16: Mausala Parva Kisari Mohan Ganguli, tr. Om! Having bowed down to Narayana, and Nara the foremost of male beings, and the goddess Saraswati also, must the word Jaya be uttered. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent, and is a major...

Specimens of Ainu Folk-lore by John Batchelor Another collection of Ainu folktales, by a Christian missionary who lived among them for many years; these translations are considered primary source material to this day. "These folktales were originally published in the Transactions...

Lives of the Greek Heroines by Louisa Menzies Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. Modern scholars refer to the myths and study...

The Chaldean Account of the Deluge by George Smith A historic article in which the discovery of the Babylonian Deluge account was announced, an episode from the Gilgamesh myth. "This paper, which was read before the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London on Decmber 3rd, 1872,...

Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps and Sites by Alfred Watkins These-if ancient-seem to be invariably on (not merely alongside) a ley, and in many cases are at the crossing of two leys, thus appropriating the sighting point to a new use. -from "Churches" Were the...

The Customs And Traditions Of The Aboriginal Natives Of North Western Australia by John G. Withnell A short amateur ethnography of the Northwestern Aborigines, primarily of historical interest. The object of this work is to preserve, before civilization has made them obsolete, the traditions...

Symbolical Masonry by H.L. Haywood Everything is explored here: symbolism, steps, signs, lectures, balloting, and much more. Essential to the study of the blue degrees.

Myths of Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europe By Donald A. Mackenzie When I first saw learned of the existence of this book, I was a little suprised, since very little concrete information is available on this topic, and even less was known in 1917. However, to paraphrase a recent President of the...

Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays tr. by Charles William King The works which go by the name of Plutarch's "Morals" (though certainly not all from his hand) are a collection of short treatises upon a great variety of subjects—Ethics, History, Politics, Preservation of Health,...

Pow-Wows By John George Hoffman Written by a Pennsylvania Dutch healer in the 1820s, this book is a rambling collection of rural home remedies and folk invocations. Pow-wow is a unique creole of Christian theology and a shamanistic belief system. It is still practiced in some rural areas...

The Syrian Goddess translated by Herbert A. Strong Lucian of Samosata's account of Astarte worship in the late classical era, in what is now Turkey. "Lucian of Samosata's De Dea Syria, (the Syrian Goddess) is one of the most 'notorious' classical writings. Not only does it acknowledge...