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Kaffir (Xhosa) Folk Tales by Georg McCall Theal "[A collection of folklore from the Kaffir people of South Africa.] By the 15th century, the word kafir/kuffir was used by Muslims in Africa to refer to the non-Muslim African natives. (Kafir translated means infidel / disbeliever.)...

मुंशी प्रेमचंद प्रेमचन्द का जन्म ३१ जुलाई सन् १८८० को बनारस शहर से चार मील दूर समही गाँव में हुआ था। आपके पिता का...

Munshi Premchand (1880-1936) Premchand was the pen name adopted by the Hindi writer Dhanpatrai who was born on 31 July 1880 at Lamati near Varanasi. His early education was in a madarasa under a Maulavi, where he learnt Urdu. When he was studying in the ninth class he was married, much against...

Myths and Legends of China by Edward T.C. Werner The author's aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with the limitations of space, with the philosophy of the subject,...

Sacred Places in China by Carl F. Kupfer This is a travelogue by a 19th century Christian missionary who visited several sacred locations in China, including places holy to all three of China's principal religions: Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. The writer is not exactly neutral, but he...

Munshi Premchand (1880-1936) Premchand was the pen name adopted by the Hindi writer Dhanpatrai who was born on 31 July 1880 at Lamati near Varanasi. His early education was in a madarasa under a Maulavi, where he learnt Urdu. When he was studying in the ninth class he was married, much against...

Popular Romances of the West of England by Robert Hunt Or the drolls, traditions and superstitions of Old Cornwall. The romances collected in this volume give the tourist the means of restoring the giants and the fairies to their native haunts. None of the legends found within were invented by the author. They were all gathered in their native homes, more than a century previously.

The Irish Sketch-book by William Makepeace Thackeray A travelogue of Ireland of the 1840s, not much in the way of folklore, but good background information. "The Irish Sketch Book, which was the more substantial work, focuses on 'the manners and scenery of the country'. Nevertheless,...

Myths and Legends of the Andamans by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown An excerpt from Radcliffe-Brown's classic ethnography, The Andaman Islanders. Myths and Legends of the Andamans was first published in 1922 under the authorship of A.R. Radcliffe Brown. The Andamanese have a number of stories...

Buddhist Scriptures by E.J. Thomas A short collection of Buddhist scripture, from the Wisdom of the East series. This is a short collection of excerpts from Buddhist scripture, selected by an expert in the field. It includes several stories drawn from the Buddhas' life, including past...

A Problem in Greek Ethics by John Addington Symonds "This book is a ground-breaking study of the Greek institution of paiderastia. This was a custom by which adolescent men made alliances with older men of a romantic and sexual nature. The young men in question were the same age as contemporary...

In Wicklow and West Kerry by John M. Synge A travelogue of rural Ireland at the turn of the 19th Century. Edmund John Millington Synge (1871-1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known...

My Own Life by David Hume IT Is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without Vanity; therefore, I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; but this Narrative shall contain little more than the History of my Writings; as, indeed,...

The Six Keys of Eudoxus Eudoxus of Cnidus (410 or 408 BC ­ 355 or 347 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, physician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus's poem on astronomy. Theodosius of Bithynia's Sphaerics may be based on a work of Eudoxus.