Curious Myths of the Middle Ages is a collection of a dozen of tales and legends from medieval England. The author does a thorough research relating these stories to the extant mythology from many ancient cultures, tracing the origin of each myth.
Table of Contents:
The Wandering Jew
Prester John
The Divining Rod
The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
William Tell
The Dog Gellert
Tailed Men
Antichrist and Pope Joan
The Man in the Moon
The Mountain of Venus
Fatality of Numbers
The Terrestrial Paradise

Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow. One of his most important works is the 16 volume The Lives of the Saints. Baring-Gould organized the first scientific archaeological excavations of hut-circles on Dartmoor at Grimspound during 1893, and he wrote much about Dartmoor.