Folk Tales, Legends: a List of Websites

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Africa

African Folk Tales
CanTeach
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Bura folktales.
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South African Folk Tales Index

American Folklore

American Folklore
Retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends.
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American Folklore Society
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Native American Lore Index

Andersen, Hans Christian. Hans Christian Andersen Centre
Research, texts in 15 languages, web links.

Hans Christian Andersen:
Fairy Tales and Stories, from the English Translationby H. P. Paull.

Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One NIghts)

Arabian Nights
An Annotated Index
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Arabian Nights
Wikipedia entry.

Beowulf

Beowulf
Wikipedia entry.
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Beowulf resources.
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Beowulf
Full text and audio.

Celtic legends

Celtic Fairy Tales, the collection by Joseph Jacobs.
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Celtic Legends and Mythology
Wikipedia entry.

China

Ancient Chinese Fables
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Chinese folk tales.

Cinderella. Cinderella texts.
English-language versions of Cinderella published between 1729 and 1912 versions. The Cinderella Project.
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E

Eastern Stories and Legends,
re-told by Marie L. Shedlock.
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English fairy tales.
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Europäische Märchengesellschaft. The European Fairy-Tale Society
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F

Fairy Tales,
an index from The University of Maryland.
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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.
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Festivals

Folklore festivals, an international listing.

Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World
An archive of folk and fairy tales.
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The Folklore Society, U.K.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Grimm's Fairy Tales. Complete texts.
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Grimm Fairy Tales,
an interactive website.
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Grimm Fairy Tales,
an animated site from National Geographic.

Hungary

Hungarian Folklore. American
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Hungarian Folklore Centrum

Iceland

Icelandic Folk Tales

India

A Flowering Tree and other Oral Tales from India.
A. K. Ramanujan.

Indiana University Folktales Collection
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Ireland

Irish Fairy Tales
Etexts from Project Gutenberg.
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Irish Folk Tales

Journals

Marvels and Tales
Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies

The Little Red Riding Hood Project
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Norway

Norwegian Folk Tales

Persia

Persian Folk Tales for Children

Project Gutenberg etexts of folk tales and legends.
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Project Gutenberg (German version)
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Russia

Russian and Ukrainian Folktales

Snow White. A scholarly Snow White.
Texts and illustrations.
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Wikipedia entry on folklore.

Re-enchantment
Live on ABC Online

Re-enchantment is a transmedia documentary about the hidden meanings of fairy tales across cultures, periods and medias.

Did you know the first-known written Cinderella story dates back to 9th century China and the practice of foot binding?

Did you know an early version of Red Riding Hood has the wolf chop up grandma and feed her to Little Red?

This and more can be found in Re-enchantment!

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