Birds in Legend, Fable and Folklore by Ernest Ingersoll

Read now or download (free!)

Choose how to read this book Url Size
Read online (web) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59598.html.images 630 kB
EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59598.epub3.images 529 kB
EPUB (older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59598.epub.images 529 kB
EPUB (no images, older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59598.epub.noimages 327 kB
Kindle https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59598.kf8.images 683 kB
older Kindles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59598.kindle.images 640 kB
Plain Text UTF-8 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59598.txt.utf-8 526 kB
Download HTML (zip) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59598/pg59598-h.zip 488 kB
There may be more files related to this item.

About this eBook

Author Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946
LoC No. 23017974
Title Birds in Legend, Fable and Folklore
Contents A chat with the intending reader -- Birds as national emblems -- An ornithological comedy of errors -- The folklore of bird migration -- Noah's messengers -- Birds in Christian tradition and festival -- Birds as symbols and badges -- Black feathers make black birds -- The familiar of witches -- A flock of fabulous fowls -- From ancient auguries to modern rainbirds -- A primitive view of the origin of species -- Birds and the lightning -- Legends in an historical setting -- Some pretty Indian stories.
Credits Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive)
Language English
LoC Class GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
Subject Birds -- Folklore
Subject Birds -- Miscellanea
Category Text
EBook-No. 59598
Release Date
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
Downloads 99 downloads in the last 30 days.
Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!