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Folklore

Folk literature

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Europe

• Aesop's Fables, circa 6-7th century by Aesop
• True and wonderfull, 1614.
• Fables and Parables, 1779 by Ignacy Krasicki, translated by Christopher Kasparek
• Grimm's Household Tales, 1812 by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, multiple editions available on Wikisource
• Slavic Folk Songs, 1822–1827 by František Ladislav Čelakovský, translated 1832 by John Bowring
• Wagner the Wehr-wolf, 1846 by George W. M. Reynolds
• Fairy Tales, 1697–98 (translation 1856) by the Countess d'Aulnoy
• The Fireside Stories of Ireland, 1870, by Patrick Kennedy IA
• Gesta Romanorum, an anonymous collection of medieval religious tales translated from Latin
• Slavonic Fairy Tales, 1874, Polish, Czech, Serbian and Russian tales, selected and translated by John T. Naaké
• The Leprechaun; or Fairy Shoemaker, 19th century by William Allingham
• Portuguese Folk-Tales, 1882; collected by Consiglieri Pedroso and translated by Henriqueta Monteiro. (transcription project)
• Italian Popular Tales, 1885 by Thomas Frederick Crane
• Tales of Old Lusitania, from The Folk-Lore of Portugal, 1888; partial translation of Contos Populares Portuguezes. Translation by Henriqueta Monteiro, tales collected by Francisco Adolfo Coelho. (transcription project)
• English Fairy Tales, 1890, by Joseph Jacobs
• "English and Scotch Fairy Tales" in Folk-Lore, 1 (1890) collected by Andrew Lang
• Segnius Irritant: or Eight Primitive Folk-lore Stories, 1896, by Karel Jaromír Erben and Walter William Strickland
• Gypsy Folk Tales, 1899 by Francis Hindes Groome (external text)
• Celtic Wonder-Tales, 1910 by Ella Young
• Popular Tales from the Norse, 1912, by George Webbe Dasent
• A Russian Garland of Fairy Tales, 1916 by Robert Steele
• Russian Folk-Tales, 1916 by Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev, translated by Leonard Arthur Magnus
• Czech Folk Tales, 1917 by Josef Baudiš
• The Disobedient Kids and other Czecho-Slovak fairy tales, 1917 by Božena Němcová

Africa

• Swahili Tales by Edward Steere

Asia

• Book of Dede Korkut, circa 13-15th century, a Central Asia epic legend
• Sagas from the Far East, 1873 by Rachel Harriette Busk
• Wonder Tales from Tibet, 1922 by Eleanore Myers Jewett
• The Japanese Fairy Book, 1908 (original: 1903) by Iwaya Sazanami, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki
• Myths and Legends of Japan, 1914 by Frederick Hadland Davis
• What We Plant, We Will Eat Korean folktale retold by S. E. Schlosser

India

• The Panchatantra (Purnabhadra's Recension of 1199 CE) by Vishnu Sharma, translated by Arthur William Ryder
• Bengal Fairy Tales by Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, illustrated by Abanindranath Tagore
• Folk-tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Dey, illustrated by Warwick Goble
• Cradle Tales of Hinduism by Sister Nivedita (transcription project)
• The Folk-Literature of Bengal by Dinesh Chandra Sen (transcription project)

North America

• Myths and Tales from the San Carlos Apache, 1918 by Pliny Earle Goddard
• Indian Story and Song From North America, 1907 by Alice Cunningham Fletcher IA
• Eskimo Folk-Tales, 1921, by Knud Rasmussen
• A Treasury of Eskimo tales, 1922 by Clara Kern Bayliss IA
• Indian Legends of Vancouver Island, 1922 by Alfred Carmichael IA
• Canadian Fairy Tales, 1922 by Cyrus MacMillan IA
• Kutenai Tales, 1918 by Franz Boas and Alexander Francis Chamberlain
• Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, 1886 by Joel Chandler Harris

Russia

• Russian Folk-Tales Afanasyev. Leonard A. Magnus [transl., notes] New York: Dutton. 1916.
• A Russian Garland of Fairy Tales. Robert Steele, ed.; R. de Rosciszewiski ill. New York: McBride. 1916.

Works about Folkliterature

• The Age of Fable, 1855 retellings of Norse, Roman and Greek fables by Thomas Bulfinch
• The Book of Were-Wolves, 1865 by Sabine Baring-Gould
• Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, 1866 by Sabine Baring-Gould
• The Science of Fairy Tales, 1891 by Edwin Sidney Hartland
• The Grateful Dead; the history of a folk story, 1908 by Gordon Hall Gerould
• A Book of Folklore, 1913 by Sabine Baring-Gould (transcription project)

Folk beliefs & superstitions

• "Midsummer-eve in Bohemia" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 11 (1864)
• "The Genesis of Superstitions" by Herbert Spencer in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (March 1875).
• "Idol-Worship and Fetich-Worship" by Herbert Spencer in Popular Science Monthly, 8 (December 1875).
• "The Zuni Social, Mythic, and Religious Systems" by F. H. Cushing in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (June 1882).
• "Anthropoid Mythology" by B. Placzek in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (September 1882).
• "The Astronomy of Primitive Peoples" by Georg Müller Frauenstein in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (September 1884).
• "Fetichism of the Bantu Negroes" by Max Joseph August Heinrich Markus Buchner in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (October 1884).
• "Fetich-Faith in Western Africa" by H. Nipperdey in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (October 1887).
• "Strange Medicines" by Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (October 1887).
• "Ghost Worship and Tree Worship I" by Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (February 1893).
• "Ghost Worship and Tree Worship II" by Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (March 1893).
• "Totemism in the Evolution of Theology" by Clara Kempton Barnum in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (January 1893).

Periodicals

• Folk-Lore Record (1878–1882) by The Folk-Lore Society
• Folk-Lore Journal (1883–1889) by The Folk-Lore Society
• Folk-Lore (1890–1923) by The Folk-Lore Society

Authors

• Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev
• William Allingham
• Sabine Baring-Gould
• Josef Baudiš
• Thomas Bulfinch
• František Ladislav Čelakovský
• Karel Jaromír Erben
• Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
• Francis Hindes Groome
• Joseph Jacobs
• Josef Štefan Kubín
• Beneš Metod Kulda
• Andrew Lang
• Božena Němcová

As illustrator:

• John Dickson Batten

As translator:

• Margaret Hunt
• Henriqueta Monteiro

See also

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