Folk tales, fairy tales, legends and fables
A comprehensive list of websites
See also: Mythology
African folklore
African Folk Tales
CanTeach
West African folk tales, by William H. Barker
African Folktales
Read an online collection of African folktales at World of Tales –
South African Folk Tales Index
American folklore
American Folklore
Retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends.
Folklore of the United States
Wikipedia entry.
Heroes & Champions
Americanfolklore.net
Andersen, Hans Christian. Hans Christian Andersen Centre
Research, texts in 15 languages, web links.
Hans Christian Andersen:
Fairy Tales and Stories, from the English translation H. P. Paull.
Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One NIghts)
Arabian Nights
An Annotated Index
Arabian Nights
Wikipedia entry.
Beowulf
Beowulf
Wikipedia entry.
Beowulf
Full text and audio.
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Celtic legends
Celtic Fairy Tales, the collection by Joseph Jacobs.
Celtic Legends and Mythology
Wikipedia entry.
China
Cinderella. Cinderella texts.
English-language versions of Cinderella published between 1729 and 1912 versions. The Cinderella Project
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Eastern Stories and Legends,
re-told by Marie L. Shedlock.
England
Europäische Märchengesellschaft. The European Fairy-Tale Society
Fairy Tales. SurLaLune.
A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 35 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, and over 1,200 illustrations. Discover hundreds of fairy tales from around the world.
The Folklore Society, U.K.
The Folklore Society (FLS) is a learned society, based in London, devoted to the study of all aspects of folklore and tradition, including: ballads, folktales, fairy tales, myths, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, childlore and children’s folklore, folk arts and crafts, popular belief, folk religion, material culture, vernacular language, sayings, proverbs and nursery rhymes, folk medicine, plantlore and weather lore.
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Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Complete texts.
Grimm Fairy Tales,
an interactive website.
Grimm Fairy Tales,
an animated site from National Geographic.
Hungary
Iceland
India
A Flowering Tree and other Oral Tales from India.
A. K. Ramanujan.
Indiana University Folktales Collection
Internet folklore, story-telling, game-playing
Games for Change
Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational efforts.
Unlike the commercial gaming industry, we aim to leverage entertainment and engagement for social good.
Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
Ireland
Irish Fairy Tales
Etexts from Project Gutenberg.
Journals
Marvels and Tales
Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies
Persia
Project Gutenberg etexts of Persian folk tales and legends.
Project Gutenberg (German version)
Russia
Russian and Ukrainian Folktales
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Russian Fairy Tales, by W. R. S. Ralston.
Snow White. A scholarly Snow White.
Texts and illustrations.