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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.
Folk literature
[edit]- Portal:Arthurian legend
- Portal:Children's fairy tales
- Portal:Cinderella
- Portal:Cock Robin and Jenny Wren
- Portal:Dick Whittington and His Cat
- Portal:Libuše
- Portal:Mermaids
- Portal:Reynard
- Portal:Robin Hood
- Portal:Rübezahl
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]- Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, 1886 by Joel Chandler Harris
- In the Reign of Coyote, 1905 by Katherine Agnes Chandler
- Indian Story and Song From North America, 1907 by Alice Cunningham Fletcher IA
- Myths and Legends of British North America, 1917, by Katharine Berry Judson
- Kutenai Tales, 1918 by Franz Boas and Alexander Francis Chamberlain
- Myths and Tales from the San Carlos Apache, 1918 by Pliny Earle Goddard
- Eskimo Folk-Tales, 1921, by Knud Rasmussen
- A Treasury of Eskimo tales, 1922 by Clara Kern Bayliss IA
- Canadian Fairy Tales, 1922 by Cyrus MacMillan IA
- Indian Legends of Vancouver Island, 1922 by Alfred Carmichael IA
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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