Myths
Alice in Wonderland
The well known and delightful tale of Alice in Wonderland but retold in simpler language. All the characters are there, even the Cheshire C…
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…
Medusa
LibriVox volunteers bring you 30 recordings of Medusa by Oliver Herford.This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 26, 2025. ------We…
Myths and Legends Around the World
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
The Ingoldsby Legends
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…
The Wonder-Smith and His Son
This 1928 Newbery Honor book is a collection of fourteen Irish folktales about the Gubbaun Saor, a mythologized historical architect and smi…
Lucian's Dialogues
The Dialogues of the Sea-Gods are 15 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally written in Attic Greek…
Buddhist Legends
A reading of some of the stories from the Dhammapada Commentary as translated by Prof. Burlingame.
The Ingoldsby Legends
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…
The Poems of Madison Cawein
This is Volume 4: Poems of Mystery and of Myth and Romance of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. …
Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills
In this little book I have endeavoured to interweave with descriptions of the most picturesque parts of the Canterbury Port Hills some of th…
The Frost Spirit
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Frost Spirit by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Octo…
Shakespeare's Ovid
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …
Cocoa Break Collection
Following in the vein of my Coffee-Break collections, this is a collection of short (all under 15 minutes) stories for kids. Focus is on fab…
Orpheus with His Lute
In retelling the mythological story of Orpheus the musician, Winifred Hutchinson covers the singer's education by the nine Muses in Part 1, …
Lore of Proserpine
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…
The Ramayan
The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). …
The Princess Pourquoi
Once upon a time, a princess was born, and a fairy cursed her with a mind: "She is a woman-child, and yet she shall think. She shall be…
Minutes To Midnight
Mythics... Creatures and beings of legend, possessing extraordinary abilities. Once thought of as merely stories, they've learned to blend i…
A Tale Of Cader Idris
Our narrator, Bob, knows George Bowring from school days. Their lives, dreams and misfortunes are parallel until George marries the woman Bo…