SCAN 240: Fairy Tales & Folklore (Dr. Henry)

Index of AT fairy tale motifs (from the University of Missouri).

A brief set of definitions for adaptations, fractured tales, versions, and variants of fairy tales from Nancy O'Brien at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

John Lang includes both audio and text versions of 655+ of Aesops' Fables.

S.E. Schlosser features retold folktales from across America and around the world.

Public domain ebooks about fairy tales from Project Gutenberg.

From the University of Rochester, a collection of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information relating to King Arthur and his Knights.

A collection of links to fairy tales on the web from George Mason University.

A rich list created by Professor D. L. Ashliman at the University of Pittsburgh.

A comprehensive collection of folk tales from around the world, gathered by Tormod Kinnes at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

This resource, compiled by D. L. Ashliman, gives a chronology of the Grimm Brother's works as well as links to Children's and Household Tales.

English Translation by H. P. Paull (1872).

Read Norwegian fairy tales from the collections of Asbjornsen, Lang, and more.

This guide from the University of Washington provides some useful resources regarding the indigenous Sami people of Lapland.

A very comprehensive site that contains 49 annotated fairy tales and their histories as well as similar stories from other cultures. Includes over 1600 tales from around the world.

From a guide at Everett Library at Queens University, dedicated to a course fairytales, fantasy, and folklore.

This guide contains links with information about fairy tales and folklore from around the world. From Southern Connecticut State University.