History

This is a list pointing to free ebooks about history, myths, legends, etc. Many sites often offer the ebooks in many formats including html, EPUB, PDF, and sometimes plain TXT.


 * 1) Irish History, Myths and Legends.

Fairies, Dwarves, Brownies, Bogles, Goblins, Gnomes, and Little People

 * 1) Fairy Tales from All Nations. by Anthony R. Montalba.
 * 2) A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients. by Edward Tyson.
 * 3) The Indian Fairy Book: From the Original Legends. by Cornelius Mathews. Stories from the American West.
 * 4) Brownies and Bogles. by Louise Imogen Guiney.
 * 5) The Scottish Fairy Book. by Elizabeth W. Grierson.
 * 6) The Fairy Book. by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
 * 7) Irish Fairy Tales. by James Stephens.
 * 8) Celtic Fairy Tales.
 * 9) Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.
 * 10) The Irish Fairy Book.
 * 11) The Orange Fairy Book. by Andrew Lang. Part of a series of "Color Fairy Book".
 * 12) Heros, Myths and Legends of the British Race. by M I Ebbutt.
 * 13) Welsh Fairy Tales. by William Elliot Griffis.
 * 14) The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. by W. Y. Evans Wentz. 1909. A study of various beliefs in the Celtic world. It mentions the Tuatha de Danaan (or the Sidhe), the Sidhe as a spirit race, King Arthur, the Celtic Otherworld, Celtic ideas about rebirth, uses of megaliths, fairies and trees.
 * 15) The Fairy Mythology. by Thomas Keightley. 1892. Superstitions of several countries.
 * 16) The Islands of Magic: Legends, Folk, and Fairy Tales From the Azores. by Ells.
 * 17) British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions. by Wirt Sikes.
 * 18) Fairies and Folk of Ireland. by William Henry Frost.