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Folk literature[edit]
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Europe[edit]
- 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[edit]
Asia[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- "Midsummer-eve in Bohemia" in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 11 (1864)
- "The Genesis of Superstitions" by in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (March 1875).
- "Idol-Worship and Fetich-Worship" by in Popular Science Monthly, 8 (December 1875).
- "The Zuni Social, Mythic, and Religious Systems" by in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (June 1882).
- "Anthropoid Mythology" by in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (September 1882).
- "The Astronomy of Primitive Peoples" by in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (September 1884).
- "Fetichism of the Bantu Negroes" by in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (October 1884).
- "Fetich-Faith in Western Africa" by in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (October 1887).
- "Strange Medicines" by in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (October 1887).
- "Ghost Worship and Tree Worship I" by in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (February 1893).
- "Ghost Worship and Tree Worship II" by in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (March 1893).
- "Totemism in the Evolution of Theology" by in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (January 1893).
Periodicals[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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
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