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Monsters and Myth

Resources for Mr. Kennedy's class, Fall 2023.

Web Resources

Sacred Texts: Asia
Myths & Legends of China
Myths of China and Japan
Japanese Fairy Tales
A Korean Creation Myth
The Kathāsaritsāgara, or the Ocean of the Streams of Stories
An 11th-century collection of Indian folk tales and legends, translated from Sanskrit.

eBooks

An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology by Won-Oh Choi
ISBN: 9781905246601
Publication Date: 2008-04-10
Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings: Buddhist and Hindu Stories by Roy C. Amore; Larry D. Shinn; Sharon Wallace (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780195028393
Publication Date: 1981-03-26
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters by Michael Dylan Foster
ISBN: 9780520253629
Publication Date: 2008-11-03
The Price of Three Stories: Rare Folktales from Japan by Hiroko Fujita; Fran Stallings
ISBN: 9781624910616
Publication Date: 2015-08-01
Old China Through the Eyes of a Storyteller by Julie Moss Herrera
ISBN: 9781935166863
Publication Date: 2013-12-01

Books

Indian Mythology
ISBN: 9780753709481
Myths and Legends of Japan by F. Hadland Davis
ISBN: 0486270459
Publication Date: 1992-03-23
Chinese Folktales by Howard Giskin (Editor); McGraw-Hill Staff
ISBN: 0844259276
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. Werner
ISBN: 0486280926
Publication Date: 1994-06-16
Oriental Mythology by Joseph Campbell
ISBN: 9780140194425
Publication Date: 1991-11-01