Myths

The Gold of Fairnilee

by Andrew Lang Read by John 4.4
A fairy story set in Scotland about Jean and Randal and what happens when Randal disappears into fairyland. This is Lang's second fairy tal…

Famous Stories Every Child Should Know

by Hamilton Wright Mabie Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know is a curated collection of tales that resonate with the everyday experiences of childhood. Compiled b…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Myths and Legends Around the World

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

The Demi-Gods

by James Stephens Read by Joe Bergin 4.4
In this memorialized Irish tale, 3 huge winged demi-gods (part god/part human) have descended to earth to experience human existence. They e…

A Book of Fairy-Tale Bears

by Clifton Johnson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Bears make an appearance in so many fairy tales and fables, it is difficult to imagine a fairy-tale world without them. However, in most of …

Once on a Time

by A. A. Milne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle …

Children's Classics

by Augusta Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is a collection of short stories by the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, H. C. Andersen, and more authors, turned into short children's plays by …

The Crocodile

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by Phillip Cryan 4.4
Fyodor Dostoevesky's "The Crocodile," first published in 1865 in the magazine "Epoch," is the story of Ivan Matveitch, a…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

by Joseph Jacobs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales invites listeners into the enchanting world of Irish folklore, where magic and reality intertwine. This collecti…

The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer

by Anonymous Read by Phil Schempf 4.4
Before the events of the Nibelungenlied, the young Siegfried sets out to make a name for himself and prove worthy of his ancestors. His jour…

The Book of Stories for the Storyteller

by Fanny Coe and Fanny E. Coe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, bro…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

by Anonymous Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch

by Eva Katherine Gibson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Annie Elfrida McLane lives in a little brown house of the South Dakota prairie, within sight of the Black Hills. Her father is a widower and…

The Book of Good Counsels

by Sir Edwin Arnold Read by Jothi Tharavant 4.9
The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel). As the term suggests, The…

The Story of the Champions of the Round Table

by Howard Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The second of four volumes of Pyles' retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which tells the stories of Percival, Trist…

More English Fairy Tales

by Joseph Jacobs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…

The Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it spun

by Catulle Mendès Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is a little volume of old-fashioned fairy tales, collected and rewritten by Catulle Mendès and translated from the French and ad…

Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

by Edgar Thurston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India explores the rich tapestry of beliefs and practices that shape the psychical life of the people in…

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