LIBRARY
Schauerman Library Web Guides - World Folk & Fairy Tales
General Collections
Aesop's Fables Online Collection http://www.aesopfables.com/
Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/LanBlue.html
Andrew Lang's Yellow Fairy Book http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/LanYell.html
Countries Folk Tales. http://kcweb.sno-isle.org/kcweb/kcExplore?parentID=2426&generation=0,2339
Encyclopedia Mythica (includes folklore & legend) http://www.pantheon.org/
Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World. Just click on the country to get to links to stories from that country. http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts. Vast collection of original texts mainly covering folklore arranged by title and theme http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Folklore, Myth & Legend. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html
Knowledge Network Folk & Fairy Tales http://www.nhptv.org/kn/vs/engla7.htm
Myth*ing Links - Worldwide mythologies, folktales� http://www.mythinglinks.org/home.html
Open Directory Folk & Fairy Tales http://dmoz.org/Society/Folklore/Literature/Tales/Fairy_Tales/
Stories, Folklore & Fairy Tales Theme page http://www.cln.org/themes/fairytales.html
Africa
African Folk Tales: Background Information http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3716.html
African Folk Tales in the Classroom http://webinstituteforteachers.org/99/teams/tales/folktales.html
South African Folk Tales. An entire on line book. http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/saft/index.htm
Specimens of Bushman Folklore http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/sbf/index.htm
Journey to Africa http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/Curriculum%20Info/africa/aboutaf.htm
Americas
El Diablo y el Mozo (The Boy and the Devil). A Mexican tale from the Texan borderlands. http://www.rain.org/~galvan/dichos.html
Mayan Folk Tales. Translated into English by Fernando Penalosa
http://www.folkart.com/~latitude/folktale/folktale.htm
Native American Legends, Folk Tales, and stories. Legends of the Blackfeet and Kiowa Tribes. http://www.ocbtracker.com/ladypixel/legend.html
Magic Tales of Mexico. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to get to the list of stories.Dual Spanish/English texts. http://www.g-world.org/magictales/
The Moonlit Road: Ghost Stories and Folktales of the American South. Go to the "Feature Stories" section to read or listen to these stories. Unfortunately one has to be a member to get access to the Archives - but there are at least 4 or 5 stories one can access freely every month. They also say which Southern State the stories are from and give a background to the tale. http://www.themoonlitroad.com/
Asia
Arabian Nights http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ags/ti/personen/mfreeric/m/an/a_index.html
Fascinating Folk Tales. Tales behind Chinese New Year customs. http://onezine.s-one.net.sg/@Best/990129M/CNY/FolkTales/
Folktales from Japan. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html
Folk Tales, Legends, and Superstitions of Japan. http://japaneseculture.about.com/cs/folktales1/index.htm
Korean Folktales homepage. Offers tales and an investigation into the traditional culture of Korea. http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu004/
Pacific Rim Folk & Fairy tales on the WWW. http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/weather/pacrim/pacfolk.html
Traditional Vietnamese Folktales. Select a story from the drop down menu and then click "Read". http://www.boatpeople.com/vn_folktales/
Australia & the Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim Folk & Fairy tales on the WWW. http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/weather/pacrim/pacfolk.html
Stories of the Dreaming. Australian Aboriginal folktales. http://www.dreamtime.net.au/dreaming/storylist.htm
Europe
Fairy tales & Folklore of Western Europe. http://www.mythinglinks.org/euro~west~fairytales.html
Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers. Dual German/English text. http://www.fln.vcu.edu//grimm/grimm_menu.html
Folktales from the North East of England/Northumbrian Folk Tales. http://www.pacificcoast.net/~patkinson/folk.htm
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales & Stories http://hca.gilead.org.il/
Norwegian Folktales. With comments and primers after each story. http://oaks.nvg.org/lg4ra2.html
Russian Folk Tales. http://russian-crafts.com/tales.html
Russian Folk Tales and Folk Belief. An explanation of the different types and characteristics of Russian folk tales with links to stories representative of each type. http://members.aol.com/MHoll/Tales/RussianFolktalePage.html
Sagas, Eddas... http://www.northvegr.org/lore/main.php
The Troth: Grimm's Fairy tales. Complete, with dual Eng/Ger texts. http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grimmsf/
Analysis & Interpretation of Fairy/Folktales
Sources for the Analysis & Interpretation of Folk & Fairy Tales http://www.mythinglinks.org/home.html
Classifying Folktales http://www.folklorefellows.org/netw/ffn20/classifying.html
Endicott Studio Forum. Essays, talks�on folklore, fairytales & magic fiction http://www.endicott-studio.com/forum.html
Fairy Tales http://www.english.vt.edu/~kagraham/childlit/fairytales.htm
Fairy Tales http://www.geocities.com/heathcote12/fairytales.htm
Forms of Traditional Literature http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/form2.htm
Interpreting Fairytales & Traditional Stories http://www1.appstate.edu/~davisct/symbols/library/journey/fairytale_interpretation.htm
Donald Barthelme. http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/barthelme.html
Brono Bettelheim. http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/kardas/courses/AHG/Bettelheim.html
Angela Carter. http://www.artandculture.com/arts/artist?artistId=1243
Fairy Tales. http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~mmagouli/fairy_tales.htm
Women and Fairy Tales http://www.endicott-studio.com/forwmnft.html
Versions
Beauty & the Beast - versions, T.V., film, scholarship� http://beauty.rivkashome.com/
Cinderella - Aarne-Thompson folktale type 510A and related stories of persecuted heroines http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510a.html
Cinderella Project -many English language versions. Click on Archive Inventory. http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/cinderella/cinderella.html
In Search of Cinderella. http://www.rolandv.net/insearch.html
Jack & the Beanstalk/Jack the Giant Killer Project http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/jack/jackhome.html
Little Red Riding Hood Project http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/lrrh/lrrhhome.htm
Snow White http://scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/snowwhite.html
Hansel and Grethel: the origin of the fairy tale. http://www.lyricoperaofwaco.org/humperdinck/hansel_and_grethel.htm
If you go to About.com (http://www.about.com) and click on Cultures, then click on the country you are interested in, for example, German Culture, you will be taken to a site detailing that country's cultural heritage. Then look at the side Subject menu for headings like Literature, or Myths and Folklore, or similar that will get you to interesting stories about and from that region.
You can also use a good search engine like Google (http://www.google.com/) and type in a country name followed by terms like folktales, folk tales, folklore, legends� you will get some good results.
Cs/ecc2003 June
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