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Creation Myths of Primitive America
(2002, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Dictionary of African Mythology
Collection of synopses of tales from African mythology, covering the entire continent. (2000, Oxford Reference Online)
Dictionary of Asian Mythology
Entries address the key mythologies of India, China, Tibet, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Japan, with broad overviews of specific cultures and their mythic traditions. (2001, Oxford Reference Online)
Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
Survey of Celtic mythology, legend, saga, and folklore, covering people, themes, concepts, places, and creatures, from both ancient and modern traditions. (1998, Oxford Reference Online)
Dictionary of Chicano Folklore
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Dictionary of English Folklore
Entries on ancient folk customs, such as well dressing and harvest festivals, but also on photocopylore, the Tooth Fairy and the folklore of sex. (2000, Oxford Reference Online)
Dictionary of Native American Mythology
(1992, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Dictionary of Superstitions
Dictionary covering the wide range of folk beliefs that have survived into our own age. (1996, Oxford Reference Online)
Dictionary of World Mythology
Presents information on the gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and the spirits of the African and American continents. (1997, Oxford Reference Online)
Encyclopedia of Creation Myths
(1994, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Encyclopedia of Folk Heroes
(2001, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions
(2004, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature
(1998, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Encyclopedia of Graeco-Roman Mythology
(1998, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic Myth and Legend
(1998, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
(2001, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales
(2002, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art
(1997, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Folktales from Northern India
(2002, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Goddesses in World Mythology
(1993, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Guide to the Gods
(1992, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Handbook of Egyptian Mythology
(2002, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Handbook of Hindu Mythology
(2003, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Handbook of Inca Mythology
(2004, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Handbook of Japanese Mythology
(2003, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Handbook of Mesoamerican Mythology
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Handbook of Norse Mythology
(2001, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Italian Popular Tales
(2001, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Motif Index of Folk Literature
Classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends. (1955, InteLex)
Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology
(2002, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Mythical West: An Encyclopedia of Legend, Lore, and Popular Culture
(2001, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia of Animals in World Myth, Legend, & Literature
(2001, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Mythology & Folklore - Oxford Reference Collection
Searches simultaneously in all of the Mythology & Folklore titles in Oxford Reference Online, covering African, Asian, and Celtic mythology, English Folklore, and titles on world mythology.
Myths gods & fantasy
(1991, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Nectar & Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World Mythology
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends
(2002, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Oxford Companion to World Mythology
Essays on the world's major mythological traditions, retellings of some better-known myths, and entries on mythological types, motifs, and figures. (2005, Oxford Reference Online)
Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt
(2002, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Popular Tales and Fictions: Their Migrations and Transformations
(2002, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
UFOs and Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Voyages in Classical Mythology
(1994, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary
(1991, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
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