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Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared.— Excerpted from Folklore on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Folk literature[edit]
- Portal:Children's fairy tales
- Portal:Cinderella
- Portal:Arthurian legend
- Portal:Mermaids
- Portal:Reynard
- Portal:Robin Hood
Europe[edit]
- Aesop's Fables, circa 6-7th century by Aesop
- True and wonderfull, 1614.
- 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
- Celtic Wonder-Tales, 1910 by Ella Young
- The Fireside Stories of Ireland by Patrick Kennedy (external scan)
- The Leprechaun; or Fairy Shoemaker, 19th century by William Allingham
- Popular Tales from the Norse by George Webbe Dasent
- English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
- "English and Scotch Fairy Tales" in Folk-Lore, 1 (1890) collected by Andrew Lang
- Fables and Parables, 1779 by Ignacy Krasicki, translated by Christopher Kasparek
- Slavonic Fairy Tales, Polish, Czech, Serbian and Russian tales, selected and translated by John T. Naaké
- Italian Popular Tales, 1885 by Thomas Frederick Crane
- Portuguese Folk-Tales, 1882; collected by Consiglieri Pedroso and translated by Henriqueta Monteiro. (transcription project)
- 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)
- Fairy Tales, 1697–98 (translation 1856) by the Countess d'Aulnoy
- Gypsy Folk Tales, 1899 by Francis Hindes Groome {external text)
- 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
- Gesta Romanorum, an anonymous collection of medieval religious tales translated from Latin
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 (external scan)
- Eskimo Folk-Tales, 1921, by Knud Rasmussen
- A Treasury of Eskimo tales, 1922 by Clara Kern Bayliss (external scan)
- Indian Legends of Vancouver Island, 1922 by Alfred Carmichael (external scan)
- Canadian Fairy Tales, 1922 by Cyrus MacMillan (external scan)
- Kutenai Tales, 1918 by Franz Boas and Alexander Francis Chamberlain
- Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, 1886 by Joel Chandler Harris
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, 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[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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As translator: