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Last name	First name	Title	Publisher	Location	Date	Notes	Category
		Mythology of All Races (MOAR). 12 vols.	Archaeological Institute of America, Marshall Jones	Boston	1916-1932
		Robin Goodfellow his Mad Prankes and Merry jests		London	1628
		Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition, vols. I-V, Argyllshire Series	Nutt	London	1889
—-		The Folk-Lore Record, 5 vols.	printed for the Folk-Lore Society by Nichols & Sons	London	1878-82
Abbot	G. F.	Macedonian Folklore		Cambridge	1903
Allen	R.	Star-Names and their Meanings		New York	1899
Allies	Jabez	On the Ancient British, Roman and Saxon Antiquities and Folk-Lore of Worcestershire	Marshall	London	1840
Andrews	E.	Ulster Folklore			1913
Aston	W.G.	Shinto		London	1921
Atkinson	James	Lailí ad Majnún, a poem…from the Persian of Nazámi, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, Publication no. 44	A.J. Valpy	London	1836	Johnson Reprint, New York 1968
Aubrey	John	Hypomnemata Antiquaria	Bodleian Ms. Aubrey III
Aubrey	John	Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, 5 vols.	Curll	London	1718-19
Aubrey	John	Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, edited by James Britten, first full edition	Folk-Lore Society	London	1881
Aubrey	John	Miscellanies, 5th edition	Reeves & Turner	London	1890
Balfour	Mrs	Folklore Society County Publications, vol. IV
Balfour	Mrs	‘Legends of the Cars’			1891	Folk-Lore, II,
Balfour	M. C. and Northcote W. Thomas	County Folk-Lore, vol. IV: Northumberland	Folklore Society County Publications		1903
Banerjea	Krishna Mohan	Purana Sangraha, no. 1 Markandeya Purana	Encyclopedia Press	Calcutta	1851
Barton	G.A.	A Sketch of Semitic Origins		New York	1902
Beaumont	JOHN	An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits	D. Browne	London	1705
Beck	B.F.	Honey and Health		New York	1938	check c.r.
Billson	C. J.	County Folk-Lore, vol. I: Leicestershire and Rutland	Folklore Society County Publications		1895
Black	G. F. and Northcote W. Thomas	County Folk-Lore, vol. III: Orkney and Shetland Islands	Folklore Society County Publications		1901
Blagden	C.O.	Pagan Races of the Malay Penninsula		London	1906
Blinkenberg	C.	The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore		Cambridge	1911
Bottrell	William	Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Three Series (The title of the third volume in the series was Stories and Folk-Lore of West Cornwall.)	Bottrell	Penzance	1870-90
Bourclzier, Lord Berners	Sir John	The Boke of Duke Huon of Bordeuxe done into English	Early English Text Society	London	1883-7
Bovet	Richard	Pandaemonium, or The Devil’s Cloyster	J. Walthoe	London	1684
Bowker	James	Goblin Tales of Lancashire	Swan Sonnenschein	London	1883
Brand	J.	Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain		London	1810
Bray	Mrs A. E.	The Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy. Their Natural History, Manners, Customs, Superstitions, etc., new edition, 2 vols.	John Murray	London	1879
Briggs	C.A. and E.G.	A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms, 2 vol.		New York	1914-17
Brinton	Daniel Garrison	The Lenâpe and Their Legends (Walum Olum)	Brinton	Philadelphia	1885
Brinton	Daniel Garrison	Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History	McCall and Co.	Philadelphia	1894
Brinton	Daniel Garrison	Myths of the New World		Philadelphia	1896
Budge	E.A.W.	The Book of Governors		London	1893
Budge	E.A.W.	Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great		London	1896
Budge	E.A.W.	Gods of the Egyptians		London	1904
Budge	E.A.W.	Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection		London	1911
Burkhardt	J.L.	Bedouins and Wahabys		London	1831
Burne and jackson, g. F.	C. S.	Shropshire Folk-Lore	Trübner & Co	London	1883
Burney	C.F.	Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Book of Kings		Cambridge	1903
Campbell	J. G.	The Fions		London	1891
Campbell	J. G.	Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland	J. MacLehose	Glasgow	1900
Campbell	J. G.	Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland	MacLehose	Glasgow	1902
Carleton	T. Crofton	Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry			1830
Chambers	Robert	Popular Rhymes of Scotland	W. & R. Chambers	Edinburgh	1870
Chenery	Thomas	The Assemblies of Al-Hariri, Translated from the Arabic	Williams and Norgate	London	1896-98
Clayton	A.C.	The Rig-Veda and Vedic Religion		London and Madras	1913
Codrington	R.H.	The Melanesians		Oxford	1891
Comfort	W. W.	Geoffrey of Monmouth, Histories of the Kings of Britain	Dent	London	1914
Courtney	Margaret	Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore	Beare & Son	Penzance	1890
Craig	R.T.	The Shamash Religious Texts		Chicago	1901
Crane	Thomas Frederick	Italian Popular Tales	Houghton Mifflin and Company	New York	1895
Crawley	A.E.	The Idea of the Soul		London	1909
Cromek	R. H.	Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song	Cadell & Davies	London	1810
Curtin	Jeremiah	Hero-tales of Ireland		London	1894
Davids	C.A.F. Rhys	Kindred Sayings		London	1918
Dennys	N.B.	The Folklore of China		London	1876
Doughty	C.A.	Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vols.		Cambridge	1888
Edmonston	Arthur	A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands, 2 vols.		Edinburgh	1809
Erman	A.	Handbook of Egyptian Reigion		London	1907	tr. F. Griffith
Ewald	H.	History of Israel, 6 vols.		London	1878-86
Ewald	H.	Commentary on the Prophets of the Old Testament, 5 vols.		London	1875 ff.	tr. J.F. Smith
Farnell	L.R.	Cults of the Greek States, 6 vols.		Oxford	1896-1909
Fehlinger	H.	Sexual Life of Primitive People		London	1921
Fox	W.S.	Greek and Roman Mythology		Boston	1916
Frazer	J.G.	Pausanias’ Description of Greece		London	1898
Frazer	J.G.	Folk-Lore in the Old Testament, 3 vols.		London	1919
Frazer	J. G.	Apollodorus, The Library	Loeb Classics		1921
Fulong	Alice	Tales of Fairy Folks, Queens and Heroes	Browne and Nolan	Dublin	1907	pp. 212. [from BLIC]
Garnett	Lucy Mary Jane	The Women of Turkey and their folk-lore, 2 vols.	D. Nutt	London	1890-1
Garnett	Lucy Mary Jane	Mysticism and Magic in Turkey	I. Pittman	London	1912	AMS reprint New York, 1979
Gaster	M.	The Book of Prayer, according to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews		London	1901
Gervase of Tilbury		Otia Imperialia, III		Hanover	1856
Gibbings	W. W.	Folk-Lore and Legends: Scotland		London	1889
Glanvill	Joseph	Saducismus Triumphatus		London	1681
Gollancz	I., ed.	Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight	Early English Text Society	London	1920
Gomme	Alice	Children’s Singing Games		London	1894
Gomme	Alice	A Dictionary of British Folk-Lore, Part I: Traditional Games, 2 vols.	Nutt	London	1898
Gould	S. Baring	Lives of the Saints, 16 vols.	Nimmo	London	1897-8
Graham	Patrick	Sketches Descriptive of Picturesque Scenery on the Southern Confines of Perthshire		Edinburgh	1806
Gray	L.H.	Baltic Mythology, (Mythology of all races. vol. 3)		Boston	1918
Griffin	Gerald	Tales of the Jury-Room		Dublin	1857		Celtic
Gurdon	Lady E. C.	County Folk-Lore, vol. I: Suffolk	Folklore Society County Publications		1893
Gutch	Mrs	County Folk-Lore, vol. II: North Riding of Yorkshire, York and the Ainsty	Folklore Society County Publications		1899
Gutch	Mrs, and Mabel Peacock	County Folk-Lore, vol. V: Lincolnshire	Folklore Society County Publications		1908
Gutch	Mrs	County Folk-Lore, vol. VI: Concerning the East Riding of Yorkshire	Folklore Society County Publications		1911
Haigh	A.H.	The Tragic Drama of the Greeks		Oxford	1896
Halliwell-phillipps	J. O.	Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of the Midsummer Night’s Dream	Shakespeare Society	London	1845
Hardy	James	The Denham Tracts, 2 vols.	Folk-Lore Society	London	1892
Harland	J. A., and Wilkinson, T. T.	Legends and Traditions of Lancashire	Routledge	London	1873
Harris	J. Rendell	The Cult of the Heavenly Twins		Cambridge	1906
Harris	J. Rendell	Picus who is also Zeus		Cambridge	1916
Harrison	W.	A Mona Miscellany	Manx Society	Douglas	1869
Harrison	Jane	Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion		Cambridge	1921
Harrison	Jane	Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion		Cambridge	1922
Harrison	Jane	Themis		Cambridge	1922
Hartland	E.S.	The Legend of Perseus, 3 Vols.		London	1894-96
Hartland	E. S.	County Folk-Lore, vol. I: Gloucestershire	Folklore Society County Publications		1892
Haxthausen	August Freiherr Von	Transcaucasia, Sketches of the nations and races between the Black Sea and the Caspian	Chapman and Hall	London	1854
Hazlitt	W. Carew	Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare	F. & W. Kerslake	London	1875
Hazlitt	W. Carew	Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore, 2 vols.		London	1905
Henderson	William	Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties	Folk-Lore Society	London	1879
Henderson	George	Survivals in Belief Among the Celts	MacLehose	Glasgow	1911
Heslop	R. O.	Northumberland Words: English Dialect Society, Nos. 66, 68, and 71		London	1892-4
Heywood	Thomas	The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels	Adam Islip	London	1635
Hochmann	J.	Jerusalem Temple Festivities		London	1908
Hodson	T.C.	The Nága Tribes of Manipur		London	1911
Hoernle	August Friedrich Rudolf	The Uvāsagadasāo, or, The Religious profession of an Uvāsanga expounded in ten lectures: being the Seventh Anga of the Jains, 2 vols. , Bibliotecha Indica no.105.	Baptist Mission Press	Calcutta	1888-1890
Holberg	U.	Finno-Ugric Mythology		Boston	1927	check c.r. MOAR
Hollis	A. C.	The Nandi, their Language and Folklore		Oxford	1909
Hone	W.	Ancient Mysteries Described, especially in English Miracle Plays		London	1823
Hull	Eleanor	The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature	Nutt	London	1898
Hutchinson	William	A View of Northumberland, 2 Vols.		Newcastle	1778
Im Thrum	E.F.	Among the Indians of Guiana		London	1883
Ispirescu	Petre	The Foundling Prince and other tales	Houghton Mifflin Company	Boston	1917	Children’s
Jacobson	D.	The Social Background of the Old Testament		Cincinnati	1942	check c.r.
Jastrow	M.	Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-omens and their Cultural Significance		Giessen	1914
Jeremias	A.	The Old Testament in the Light of the Ancient East, 2 vols.		London	1911	tr. C.L. Beaumont; ed. C.H.W. Johns
Jones	W. Henry	The Folk-takes of the Magyars	publ. for the Folk-lore society by E. Stock	London	1889
Joyce	P. W.	Old Celtic Romances, 2nd edition	Nutt	London	1894
Keightly	T.	Tales and Popular Fictions		London	1824
Keith	A.B.	Indian Mythology		Boston	1917	MOAR?
King	L.W.	Babylonian Magic and Sorcery		London	1896
King	L.W.	Chronicles concerning early Babylonian Kings		London	1917
Kosegarten	John Godfrey Lewis	Poems of the Hazailis, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, Publication No. 66		London	1854
Krappe	A.H.	Balor with the Evil Eye		New York	1927	check c.r.
Kúnos	Ignácz	Turkish Fairy Tales and folk tales	Stokes	New York	1896	tr. from the Hungarian by R. Nisbet Bain, Illustrated by Celia Levetus (Dover reprint)
Lane	E.	Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians	Minerva Library	London	1890
Langdon	S.	Tammuz and Ishtar		Oxford	1914
Larminie	W.	West Irish Folk-tales and Romances		London	1893
Layard	A.H.	Monuments of Nineveh		London	1853
Leamy	Edmund	Irish Fairy Tales			1894
Leather	E. M.	The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire	Sidgwick & Jackson	London	1912
Leslie	D.	Among the Zulus and Amatongas		Edinburgh	1875
Lichtenstein	H.	Travels in South Africa		London	1812-5
Lorimer	David Lockhart Robertson, and Emily Overend	Persian Tales	Macmillan and Co., Ltd.	London	1919
Mac Ritchie	David	The Testimony of Tradition	Kegan Paul	London	1890
Macalister	R.A.S.	The Philistines		London	1914
Macanally	D.R.	Irish Wonders			1888
Macdonell	A.A.	Vedic Mythology		Strassburg	1897
Macdougall	J., and Calder, G.	Folk Tales and Fairy Lore	Grant	London	1910
Macmanus	Seamus	Donegal Fairy Stories			1902
Mccullough	J.	Celtic Mythology		Boston	1918	MOAR
Mijatovič	Elodie Lawton	Serbian Folk-lore; popular tales	Ibister & Co.	London	1874	selected and translated by Madam Csedomille Mkjatovies. Edited with an Introduction by the Rev. W. Denton
Miller	Hugh	The Old Red Sandstone		Edinburgh	1841
Mitra	Rajendra Lal	Gopath Brahmana of Arthava-veda., Biblioteca Indica no. 69, new ser. 215, 252	Asiatic Society of Bengal		1872	Reprint Delhi, Indiological Book House, 1971
Mitra	Rajendra Lal	Aitareya Āra.nyaka, Biblioteca Indica no. 82		Calcutta	1876
Morrison	Sophia	Manx Fairy Tales	Nutt	London	1911
Müller	W. Max.	Egyptian Mythology		Boston	1918	MOAR?
Munch	P.A.	Norse Mythology		New York	1926	Check c.r.
Murray	Gilbert	Euripides and His Age		London	n.d.	Check c.r.
Murray	Gilbert	The Rise of the Greek Epic		Oxford	1907
Myhrman	D.W.	Babylonian Hymns and Prayers		Philadelphia	1911
Neumann	C.F.	The History of Vartan and of the Battle of the Armenians, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain an Ireland Publication No. 14		London	1830
Nicholson	Reynold A.	The Tarjumán al-ashwáq, a Collection of mystical odes, by … Ibn Al-Arabi, Oriental Translation Fund n.s., vol. xx	Royal Asiatic Society	London	1911
O’curry	Eugene	Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History	Hinch & Traynor	London	1878
Oesterley	W.O.E.	The Sacred Dance		New York	1923	Check c.r.
O’Grady	Standish H.	Silva Gadelica	Williams & Norgate	London	1892
O’Hanlon	J.C.	Irish Folklore			1870
O’Hanlon	J.C. (pseud. Lageniensis)	Irish Local Legends			1896
Peacock	Mabel	see Folklore Society County Publications, vol. V. Ralph of Coggeshall, Rolls Series 66			1857
Playfair	A.	The Garos		London	1909
Preston	Theodore	Makamat, or Rhetorical anecdotes of Al Hariri of Basra	J. Deighton	Cambridge	1850
Randsome	Arthur	Old Peter’s Russian Tales	Nelson	London	1916	Illustrated by Faith Jacques (Children’s)	Slavic
Redfield	R.	Tepoztlan		Chicago	1930	Check c.r.
Roer	E. and Cowell, eds.	The Sanhitá of the Black Yajur Veda, 4 vols. Biblioteca Indica no. 219, 221, 224, 228	Baptist Mission Press	Calcutta	1860-81	(English tr.?)
Ross	J.	History of Corea		Paisley	1897
Sâmaśramî	Âcharya Satyavrata	The Çatapatha Brâhmana of the White Yajurveda	Asiatic Society	Calcutta	1903-11	(English tr.?)
Śástri	Híshíkesá	The Varáha Purana, 14 vols.	Asiatic Society	Calcutta	1887-93	(English tr.?)
Scot	Reginald	The Discoverie of Witchcraft	Brome	London	1584	‘Discourse on Devils and Spirits’ (anon.) inserted in 1665 edition.
Scott	J.G.	Indo-Chinese Mythology		Boston	1918	MOAR
Scott	Sir Walter	Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, revised and edited by T. F. Henderson, 4 vols.	Oliver & Boyd	Edinburgh	1932	reprint, list original
Seligman	C.G.	The Melanesians of British New Guinea		Cambridge	1910
Shooter	J.	The Kaffirs of Natal and the Zulu Country		London	1857
Simpkins	John Ewart	County Folk-Lore, vol. VII: Fife, with Some Notes on Clackmannan and Kinross-Shires	Folklore Society County Publications		1912
Simpson	E. B.	Folk Lore in Lowland Scotland	Dent	London	1908
Smith	G. and Sayce, A.H.	The Chaldean Genesis		London	1880
Smythe-Palmer	A.	Babylonian Influence in the Bible and Popular Beliefs: Hades and Satan		London	1897
Smythe-Palmer	A.	Jacob at Bethel		London	1899
Spence	John	Shetland Folklore	Johnson & Greig	Lerwick	1899
Spence	Lewis	An Introduction to Mythology		New York	1921
Spencer	W.B. and Gillen, F.J.	The Native Tribes of Central Australia		London	1899
Steel	Flora Annie Webster, and Temple, Richard Carnac	Wide-awake stories, (…Punjab and Kashmir)	Trübner	London	1884	Republished as ‘Tales of the Punjab.’
Sternberg	W.	The Dialect and Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire		London	1851
Stewart	W. Grant	Popular Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland	Archibald Constable	London	1823	Ward Lock reprint, London, 1970
Sykes	A.A.	Nature, Design and Origin of Sacrifices		London?	1748
Thistleton-dyer	T.F.	British Popular Customs		London	1876
Thompson	J.	Through Masai Land		London	1887
Thompson	Reginald Campbell	The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia. 2 Vols.	Luzac’s Semitic text and translation series vol. 14 and 15	London	1903-4	[AMS Reprint]
Thompson	Reginald Campbell	Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon		London	1900
Thompson	Reginald Campbell	Semitic Magic	Luzac’s Semitic text and translation series vol. 3	London	1908
Thoms	W. J.	Early English Prose Romances	Routledge (Routledge’s Library of Early Novelists)		1907
Thorpe	B. (ed.)	Ancient Laws and Institutes of England		London	1840
Thurston	E.	Omens and Superstitions of South India		London	1912
Toland	J.	History of the Druids		London	1726
Topsell	Edward	The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes	William Taggard	London	1607
Turner	G.	Samoa a Hundred Years ago and long before		London	1884
Tylor	E.B.	Primitive Culture, 3rd ed.		London	1891
Urlin	Ethel	Festivals, Holidays and Saint’s Days		London	1915
Waldron	George	A Description of the Isle of Man		London	1731
Wardrop	Marjory Scott	Life of St. Nino	Clarendon Press	Oxford	1900
Weekes	J.H.	Among the Primitive Bakongo		London	1914
Weston	Jessie L.	The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac	Nutt	London	1901
William of Malmesbury		Chronicle of the Kings of England	Bohn Library	London	1841
Wood-Martin	W. G.	Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, 2 vols.	Longmans	London	1902
Wratislaw	Albert Henry	Lyra Czecho-slovanská, Bohemian Poems, Ancient and Modern	J. W. Parker	London	1849	reprint New York, Kraus 1971
Wratislaw	Albert Henry	The Native Literature of Bohemia in the fourteenth century	G. Bell and Sons	London	1878
Wright	Thomas	Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions and History of England in the Middle Ages, 2 vols.	J. R. Smith	London	1846
Wright	Thomas	Giraldus Cambrensis, The Historical Works	Bohn Library	London	1863
Wright	E. M.	Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore	Oxford University Press		1913