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- Hey hey folks! The long awaited and highly requested video is here - my mythology, folklore, fairy tale and legends collection!
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I've been getting seriously into mythology recently and now I have so many books to add to my ever growing tbr!
ahhh that's amazing, I'm so glad!
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This is quite an amazing collection.
I've been obsessed with mythology since I was little (I remember learning the Egyptian pantheon by heart when I was 9), and I finally started my library. So you know damn well I'm taking notes on this.
same.....i never read novels but have lots of mythology book kinda addicted to it than novels
You ever play assassins creed origins?
@@Laocoon283 can't say I have
@@XTheBeautyGuruX Well do it.
Ahhh I'm so glad you have Sioned's Edition of the Mabinogion (You were very close with the pronunciation; mab-e-noh-gi-on)! It is absolutely the best edition out there. The Celtic Miscellany is also a very good edition. Over the nine waves is considered to be less academic and not as good in terms of truth to the folklore; I would recommend Gantz's Early Irish Myths and Sagas as a better intro to Irish mythology. If you want any more recs for Welsh/Irish mythology/folklore/pronunciation let me know; I taught Celtic Mythology at Queens University, Belfast, for 2 years and have a PhD in Welsh and Irish folklore (King Arthur and Fionn mac Cumhaill, respectively!).
I need all the Welsh mythology rec.. I have some.. need them all 🙈😅
Ooh please do give more recs, I love Celtic mythology!!
Love this video!! It’s not a book but one way I like finding out about myths/folklore is the podcast called Myths and Legends which retells stories from all over the world and it’s fabulous (and super calming too!) xxx
I started listening to the podcast a year and half ago, and i am hooked 😍
I've been wanting to learn a little more about Greek mythology (yes, because I'm reading the Percy Jackson series for the first time...) so I might look into getting that Mythologica book, it looks amazing!
I love the cover of the Chinese fairytales!!
I grew up reading fairytales from 366 and More Fairy Tales retold by Gianni Padoan and illustrated by Sandra Smith. This book was and is still one of my favorites to flip through because its split up into a story for every day of the year and each one had an illustration. So gorgeous 😍
your intro... i feel this so much!! i’ve collected so many books and haven’t gotten to read them yet but i have such a desire to! it’s super tricky when life gets busy though to pick up a book and read
The coolest thing is that indian mythology is true for the people who follows hindu religion just like its bible for you but English mythology to us same goes for hindu mythology. And best book with illustration u can go for namaha by Abhishek Singh.
You already have an excellent collection Ashleigh, build upon it. I'm going to recommend just two books. Firstly, 'The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt' by Richard H Wilkinson, published in 2003 by Thames And Hudson. Wilkinson has excellent Egyptological and academic credentials. The thing about Egyptian mythology is that, while there are many gods and goddesses, there are few monsters and no semi-divine heroes and, with a couple of notable exceptions, there is very little conflict between the gods. The Egyptian gods are, in the main, serene and dignified so this does not make for many mythic tales as such. Still, I think you'll find the book a valuable reference resource.
My second recommendation goes right back to the very beginning of recorded mythology. That is 'The Epic of Gilgamesh' - "Surpassing all other kings, heroic in stature, brave scion of Uruk, wild bull on the rampage, Gilgamesh the tall, magnificent and terrible..." This is a quote from the Penguin Classics edition. The story goes back 4,000 years and Gilgamesh has a lot in common with Greek heroes like Heracles and Odysseus. I've got the 2003 edition which is full of beautiful line illustrations taken from Mesopotamian art. Enjoy and have a lovely weekend !
I have multiple paperback and soft cover editions of Edith Hamilton's Mythology. It has been a favorite since high school (50 years ago)! I will look for the illustrated hardback edition that you featured. Thanks for this vid!
If you are interested in more Irish myths I recommend 'Lady Gregory's Complete Irish Mythology' ! Your collection is amazing
That is a nice collection in my opinion. I grew up on the Aesops fables, Grimm's Tales, and Greek Myths. I think I need to add to my collection for sure. Finding second hand of older versions of myth books always brings a joy to my heart with the old illustrations.
I'am so jealous darling!
Your mythology collection is amazing!
Thanks for sharing the video with the rest of us. ⭐⭐⭐
Wow! I’m so impressed by your collection! Now I have loads more folklore And books I would like to add to my collection too! Lol
My wishlist just exploded 🙈 I now have a lot to choose from when I have worked my way through Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales, which is my current fairy tale/folklore read. You have such a fantastic collection 😍
* opens amazon immediately *
OMG I loved this so so much and don't worry about not having read them all because girl...same. I cannot pinpoint what it is that keeps me from reading folklore/mythology but it is vaguely this fear of not 'getting' all of it and not recognizing the intertextuality if any. So I always feel like I have to do some pre-reading first. Of what? I have no idea. Sorry for the babble but your collection is glorious and now I have 156 books in my cart LMAO
All the love
Girl samee 😂😂
i get so excited when you showed that book on russian fairy tales, the bear and the nightingale is one of my favorite books ever and i', getting obssesed with eslavic mithology
Love the Barnes and Noble collectors editions! I have the Beauty and the Beast and other fairytales one!
WOW! Can I just say that your mythology/folklore collection is STUNNING! 😍 I have never purchased a book so fast (I’m looking at you Mythologica!) 😂 and the Warriors, Witches, Women book is also on my to-purchase list. I’m very interested in The Library of Greek Mythology too 😊 and the Japanese Tales 😅 I think I better add some of these to my wishlist. Great video, Ashleigh - quite possibly one of my all-time faves 🤗💜
an all time favourite?? Oh my goodness, thank you!
I made myself I nice cup of coffee and sat down to enjoy this video. What a bliss 😍😍😍😍
Annnnndddd now I've got so many more books to add to my TBR. So many pretty editions!
i'm now just starting getting into mythology and i needed help looking for books and this is the right video for me
Thank you and God bless you for this video. Been looking for something like this for a while. Putting all these books in my list 😁
for iliad and odyssey, what I found helpful were annotations on them which are sold as separate books. iliad and odyssey with lots of footnote annotations would also be helpful.
I've read Le Morte d'Arthur. It's very thick but there's a lot of repetition from what I remember. Lots of knights getting of their horses for a duel, smiting each other to the ground. It was super interesting but not as compelling as I'd expected. I was glad that I didn't get the original medieval text, because the 'translated' version I read was already archaic enough at times. But definitely worth a read!
The Treasury of Irish Folk and Fairytales was really hard to read. But I'm trying to push through it.
For Indian Mythology go for books of Devdut Pattanayak....Has nice little illustrations here and there
This is one of my favorite videos that I have ever seen in the entirety of my history as a BookTube watcher. It was that awesome.
oh wow that's a bold claim, thank you!!
love it, i ove everything related with mithology, leyends, fairy tales, medieval literature, folklore love it
This video was everything. I also have a large mythology and folklore collection. A few I would recommend: Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland edited by WB Yeats. Phantasmagoria by Terry Breverton . And Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies by Ella E Clark
I've been waiting to peek your collection since I first subscribed (your birthday haul gave me life). I love folklore and mythology and actually am doing my masters in Japanese Folklore, but you're making me want to branch out into Greek a little more with how beautiful some of these books are!
So genuine . I love how you didn't lie like you've read all of the books that you've reviewed 😭😂 . Much love ❤️. And damn I have got to add some of those books to my collection although I want a single compilation under "World Mythology " title 🥺
I need to get the Bushmen Folklore one. Thank you for this video. I totally love it
As someone who also collects books on mythology and collections of myths, legends etc., your collection is absolutely #goals. 😉😍
My own is currently mostly focused on Norse mythology - one of my favourite nonfiction books being a 600 pages beast about Loki's role in the myths which is based on the author's dissertation.
I find it interesting that you don't like to "hear the author's voice" when reading a retelling, because that's something I actually adore. I love books like Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology or Stephen Fry's Mythos exactly because you can see that these experienced writers took those myths and treated them as what they know best - fictional stories, yet without losing sight of their cultural and spiritual aspect. It's modern but respectful to the stories' origins. I think that is a great way to get new people interested & also I just find it lots of fun.
Sorry this comment is so long and rambly. 😆
Thank you! Ahhh that’s so interesting 🙌🏻 I defo need to look more into Norse myth.
I think when it comes to hearing the author’s voice, it’s more a case of when they try to make things humorous. I have this problem with all books - if an author is trying to be funny, I often don’t like it 😂 and with fairytales etc I like how the bizarreness of the stories is just standard so drawing attention to how odd they are by making it funnier just misses the mark for me. Not always - I do like Stephen Fry’s Mythos (which is in a different area on my shelves for some reason, I seem to have categorised wrong 😂).
@@AFrolicThroughFiction Is it silly if I tell you that your answer really means a lot? I'm so used to people not caring about the stuff I find interesting, lol.
I HAVE to know what that dissertation is called!! Norse myth is my life’s blood.
@@jenniferbrooks It's called Loki: Mover of Stories by Yvonne Bonnetain. It's in German but I think someone is working on an English translation & you can read a summary online. Also I just saw it's actually only about 450 pages, oops.
What an amazing collection!! It is stunning. So much beautiful illustration. I’m really into Norse and Greek myth but this is really encouraging me to get out of my comfort zone and dive into something new.
I don’t think I saw it but you should get The Táin if you don’t have it. It’s an Irish myth. I’m only about a third of the way through it and it’s already great!
for norse mythology, the color comics of neil gaiman are pretty good retellings and they are called norse mythology (norse mythology volume 1), norse mythology II (norse mythology volume 2) and norse mythology III (norse mythology volume 3).
as a childhood mythology book reader....i want them all
Maybe you should do a 24 hs/weekend readathon with the shorter books! If it's something you're interested in obviously :)
Loved this so much! This was both informative and relaxing, highly appreciate that you commented on each and every book 🌞💫
I'm so glad!
Micellar water on a cotton pad will take any sticky mark right off! And won’t damage your book as long as it’s a not a paper cover, just Whip the excess of with a damp cloth or cotton pad and the dry ⭐️ literally the best thing I’ve ever thought of hahaha
shall give it a go, thank you!
I love all mythology too from around the world I’ve got Norse and Greek mythology next is Hinduism for me
Thank you so much Ashley for this video!!!!! 😍😍😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️❤️🌸🌸🌸❤️❤️ So I was watching the video, created a collection called 'Ashley's collection' in bookdepository and included all the books mentioned by Ashley for future reference/purchase haha 😝😝😜😜🌸🌸🌸❤️❤️🌸🌸
There are two illustrated books by Abhishek Singh. One is NAMAHA and the other is PURNAM. You may check these out if you have an interest in Hindu Mythology. Anyways, it is a great suggestion about mythological books. Thank you.
Just bought mythologica. Thanks for the recommendation ❤️
So many books added to my amazon wish list during this video
First, I absolutely LOVE your hair! It's so cute!
Also, I adore your collection! So many great editions and gorgeous books! I love watching your collection expand! And I hope you end up enjoying the inside of them when you read them as well!
Ooh I actually read Simon Armitage's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight recently and loved it! SO MUCH ALLITERATION! 😂
Wow, you have an amazing mythology book collection.
The Edith Hamilton book probably includes the Norse Myths because the author of the Prose Edda puts forward that the Norse Gods came from Troy. The theory is probably the author's invention but there is a lot of mixing of Greek, Roman, Celtic and Germanic gods in the Netherlands and other places. I've found that it's not always clear what is unique and what isn't - until I came across the Dutch Goddess Nehalennia and looked into the archelogy of her temples, I thought that there wasn't any connection at all, and it was just Snorri Sturluson's way of making the pagans appear stupid.
For Indian myths I have read the Amar Chitra Katha collection of comics. But I am also looking for some nice adaptations and retellings.
What a brilliant collection
I was surprised you had not come across much British tales. In Cornwall you may find some good collections! X also i love German ones too.
Ahhh love this video!
I'm trying to get more into folklore and when I went to Iceland earlier this year, I really wanted to get a collection of their folk tales, but they were soooo expensive. I do have a couple of Norse mythology books and I did my undergrad dissertation on retellings of fairytales so I do a have a few of those, but they're very British.
That Irish Fairytale and Folklore books is STUNNING! OMG I want to read that so bad!
This is such an amazingly varied collection, is it bad that I was surprised?
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This is a wonderful collection! It's very inspiring.
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for mythology, I tend to try more places. there are mythology books on mesopotamia, hittite, ugarit, canaan, north america, central america, south america, hawaii, etc. I am from the philippines and I have the whole set of philippine mythology books by Damiana Eugenio which includes volumes on riddles, proverbs and folk songs.
Omg Mythologica is stunning
this was such a lovely video! I love all of the illustrated copies in this
I'm really into mitology and folklore! Thanks for this video x
The Norton critical edition of The Classic Fairy Tales looks so interesting! I'm tempted to order it right now 😂 I wrote my MA thesis on YA retellings of the classic Cinderella fairy tale, so this is definitely something I'm very interested in - also, I wish I knew about this book back then haha!
WE ABSOLUTELY LOVE TO SEE IT
Thank you for this marvellous video, I have added quite a few of these books to my Amazon wish list. One of the best books I have got about Greek Mythology is The Handbook of Classical mythology by Edward Tripp, It is a dictionary and is very in depth.
the illustrations 😍😍😍
so many excellent recommendations- thank you!
Ah Ashleigh this video is amazing! Love the way it was filmed, SO many gorgeous books, I've added so many to my to-buy list! x
Glad you enjoyed!
So many beautiful editions to add to my wishlist! I've been loving anything illustrated so I can't wait to get my hands on some of these books 😍
If you want a more fun way to read mythology, I really enjoyed Stephen Frys retellings: Mythos, the greek myths retold and Heroes, mortals and monsters, quests and adventures. He has a really fun writing style, also, if you're wanting to dive more into norse mythology, a good beginner friendly book is Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman, it's also a very fun, easy read
I’ve read all of the above but didn’t really like any of them sadly 😅
You have to check out the Zipes edition of the brothers grim because Zipes translates the original stories published in the brothers grimms first edition from the original German- it is amazing to see exactly what the stories were in 1812 before they evolved over time. Also, Great video- I immediately added many of these to my wishlist :)
ahh good old Zipes. I've only ever read his essays on fairytales
Such an amazing collection! Now I want to buy all the books haha
You should! Treat yourself ahaha
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I love this video! So many amazing books!
The need is great and powerful! Excellent video! :D
This is an amazing collection! Very inspiring. I'd love to read the Icelandic Folk Legends one and the Native American Legends compilation.
Illustrated Myths & Legends of China translated by tony blishen is a newer translation from around 2018.
Have you tried the book called The Amazons: lives and legends of warrior women across the ancient world? It touches on a lot of Greek mythology and what modern technology are able to discover from artifacts. Taking a relook at myths and the possible truth behind them. The way the book is written is extremely readable and fun and I feel like it would fit in your collection well!
I have! That’s in my nonfiction section so not in this video ☺️
@@AFrolicThroughFiction oh funny! It’s a good one 😁 one other recommendation, not sure if this would fit, but it’s a mythology retelling of Psyche and cupid, have you read till we have faces by C.S Lewis? I just thought it was a genius look into the ugly and selfish step sister character study! I have added a few more mythology books into my collection now because of your video, so thank you for doing it!
Awesome video, thank you so much for this
These look so fun!
Also, I’ve been trying to find this book for years now but I can’t remember the title or the name of the author. But, I do remember some parts of the book:
-The cover of the book was like a blue sky with fairies flying around in the middle
-There was once scene where water pond/ lake fairies made you answer riddles to pass the lake
-There was a scene were you walked into a shy weeping fairy in an icy cave
-There was a scene in the dark, where the pond/ lake morphed into a face of person....
That’s really all I remember, also the book was more a chapter thick book, rather than a thin book
If anyone knows the name of the book or the author pls tell me, thank you 🙏🏻🤍🤍
I’m glad I’m not the only one with a stack of mythology books but haven’t yet read most 😂
Loved this video! Was constantly pausing to go add another book to the wishlist 😂 great job and I loved the set up was very aesthetically pleasing! ❤️
So yeah my wishlist just grew even more 🙈🙈
Such a wonderful video! I've already jotted down a few that I "need" to pick up :)
I somehow always forget that there are scottish tales 😂 I have to read some! Thank you for making this video 🦄💕
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 great collection🌹
You have a great collection!!
THIS IS SUCH AN EXTENSIVE LIST. I will be happily be broke. I wanted to get in mythology, fairytales and folklore and this is just a sigh. And thaaaankkk you for this listtt ❤️
Love this so much
Highly informative! For a broader perspective, you'd do well to read a similar book. "Galaxies United" by Olivia Whitestone
Woah this is such an big collection really loved watching it 🥰
Glad you liked it!!
This is pretty cool!!!
heroes gods and monsters of the greek is awesome
I saw the Chinese Fairy Tales one in Daunt Books too! I wonder if you bought the copy I flipped through 😍🥰
oh my goodness I'm defo saying it was
I’ve been so excited for this!!!!
I also collect myth and legend books, and watching this I was like, that looks kind of familiar... I also have a Jake Jackson book, but mine is Japanese myths!
I can help you with ‘The Mabinogion’ if you want☺️ They’re a bit crazy but so are all fairytales tbh😂
There are only 3 Welsh legends that focus on King Arthur and they’re in the Mabinogion if you want a taste of the legend without having to read that massive book😂
I love the penguin classics edition of The Odyssey! I was so intimidated before I started reading this Epic but omfg I love it so much! I’m so glad I decided to pick it up☺️✨
@@welshreader There are actually 4 in the Mabinogion, (Peredur, Gereint, Owain, and Culhwch ac Olwen) And a good few poems from the Black Book of Carmarthen and elsewhere that add more to the Welsh Arthurian legend. There are 11 "Welsh" Arthurian tales in total, but some of these are Cambro-Latin (the Saints' lives' presentation of Arthur are hilarious!). But I must admit, the 3 romances from the Mabinogion (Peredur, Owain, Gereint) are perhaps the best known (thanks Chretien de Troyes! 😂)
I love this video!! Thank you so much for doing this. Your collection is amazing
You need some expansion in the slavic myths and legends for sure. And please remember that the russian are only one of many completely different directions. You can find a complete set of mythology even in the borders of one country. Very diverse and not well known!
I know, this is only the beginnings of what I hope will be a much bigger collection. By no means do I think what I have is the extent of it all