Myths, legends and traditions are the fantastic ideas of our ancestors about the world around us; they are a kind of history of the past. The illustrated book “One Hundred Great Legends and Myths of the World” contains the most famous of them. The reader learns about the mystery of the Egyptian Sphinx, about the moral quest of people in the stories of the Old Testament, about the struggle of the gods to control the world and man according to the myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, about the famous British King Arthur and the wizard Merlin, the German sorcerer Doctor Faustus, about the exploits of Russian heroes and adventures of the guslar Sadko.