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.
- Irish History, Myths and Legends.
Fairies, Dwarves, Brownies, Bogles, Goblins, Gnomes, and Little People[edit | edit source]
- Fairy Tales from All Nations. by Anthony R. Montalba.
- A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients. by Edward Tyson.
- The Indian Fairy Book: From the Original Legends. by Cornelius Mathews. Stories from the American West.
- Brownies and Bogles. by Louise Imogen Guiney.
- The Scottish Fairy Book. by Elizabeth W. Grierson.
- The Fairy Book. by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
- Irish Fairy Tales. by James Stephens.
- Celtic Fairy Tales.
- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.
- The Irish Fairy Book.
- The Orange Fairy Book. by Andrew Lang. Part of a series of "Color Fairy Book".
- Heros, Myths and Legends of the British Race. by M I Ebbutt.
- Welsh Fairy Tales. by William Elliot Griffis.
- 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.
- The Fairy Mythology. by Thomas Keightley. 1892. Superstitions of several countries.
- The Islands of Magic: Legends, Folk, and Fairy Tales From the Azores. by Ells.
- British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions. by Wirt Sikes.
- Fairies and Folk of Ireland. by William Henry Frost.