Folklore & Mythology Tradition
Documented in Fuller’s books, manuscripts
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“The first of All says the oriental mythos brooded on Itself like a sea of milk.”
Fuller, Margaret. "La Nuovissima Vita." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.
Inferred No specific work can be identified.
“The God Brahma, while on earth, was set to fill up a valley, but he had only a basket given him in which to fetch earth for this purpose; so is it with us all.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
“woman appears as Sita in the Ramayana, a form of tender purity”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Sita named as figure in the Ramayana; Fuller names 'Sita in the Ramayana' as a source. Fuller explicitly names 'Sita in the Ramayana'. Sita is the heroine of the Sanskrit epic attributed to Valmiki.
Sita is the heroine of the Sanskrit epic attributed to Valmiki.
“At one time I used to change from reading Confucius to one of the great religious books of another Eastern nation; and it was always like leaving the street and the palace for the blossoming forest of the East, where in earlier times we are told the angels walked with men and talked, not of earth, but of heaven.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred Fuller does not name the text; the reference to "one of the great religious books of another Eastern nation" read alongside Confucius is editorially identified as the Bhagavad Gita. Identification inferred.