Folklore (Bookshelf)
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Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, material culture, and so forth, common to a particular population, comprising the traditions (including oral 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.
Contents
Asia
- The Oriental Story Book
A Collection of Tales
(English) by Hauff, Wilhelm, 1802-1827, trans. Quackenbos, G. P. (George Payn), 1826-1881 - Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate Skinner, Charles M. (Charles Montgomery), 1852-1907
India
- A Collection of Kachári Folk-Tales and Rhymes by J. D. Anderson.
- Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas.
- Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs.
- Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling.
- Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit by S. M. Mitra.
- Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan Dutt, Toru, 1856-1877
Iran
Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers 
by William Alexander Clouston.
The Cat and the Mouse
A Book of Persian Fairy Tales ed. James, Hartwell
China
- A Chinese Wonder Book by Pitman, Norman Hinsdale
- Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
Japan
- Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki.
- Mythen & Legenden van Japan by F. Hadland Davis. (Dutch)
- Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford.
- Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 - The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari by James S. De Benneville.
- Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 - Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals by James S. De Benneville.
- Japanische Märchen Alberti, Karl (German)
- Fables et légendes du Japon (French) Ferrand, Claudius
Philippines
Filipino Popular Tales by Dean S. Fansler.
- A comprehensive study of Filipino Folklore, compares stories collected in the Philippines with similar stories found elsewere, and attempts to trace their origins.
Philippine Folklore Stories by John Maurice Miller.
- A nicely illustrated book of stories with Philippine folklore themes, retold by the author.
Philippine Folk-Tales by Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington, Fletcher Gardner, and Laura Watson Benedict.
- A number articles on the subject from the Journal of American Folk-Lore.
Philippine Folk Tales by Mabel Cook Cole.
- Popularly retold Philippine stories.
Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore by Fay-Cooper Cole.
- A comprehensive study of Tinguian traditions.
Americas
Ade's Fables and More Fables by George Ade, 1866-1944
- The "little man's" view of morality as America shifted from agragrian to industrial society.
Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles by Stuart, Ruth McEnery, (?-1917).
- Illustrated homely admonitions in short verse.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land by Charles M. Skinner.
- A collection of American popular tales, retold by the author.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings by Joel Chandler Harris.
Native American
Algonquin Indian Tales by Egerton R. Young
Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland
American Indian stories by Zitkala-Sa, 1876-1938
Birch Bark Legends of Niagara by Owahyah
Blackfoot Lodge Tales by George Bird Grinnell
The Indian Fairy Book;
From the Original Legends by Cornelius Mathews
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by McLaughlin, Marie L.
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Judson, Katharine Berry
American Hero-Myths;
A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
The Myths of the New World;
A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains ed. Judson, Katharine Berry
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children (English) Powers, Mabel
A Treasury of Eskimo Tales (English) Bayliss, Clara Kern, 1848-
Occoneechee: The Maid of the Mystic Lake (English) Jarrett, Robert Frank
Europe
A Book of Myths (English) Lang, Jean
English
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks (English) by William Elliot Griffis.
Welsh Fairy Tales (English) by William Elliot Griffis.
Folk-Lore and Legends: Scotland (English).
Fairies and Folk of Ireland (English) by William Henry Frost.
Irish Fairy Tales (English)by Stephens, James
Legends of the Rhine (English) by Wilhelm Ruland
Stories from Hans Andersen (English) by Hans Christian Andersen
Celtic Tales, Told to the Children (English) Chisholm, Louey
Celtic Fairy Tales (English) ed. Jacobs, Joseph
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race (English) Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel), 1867-
German
Der Goldene Topf (German) by E. T. A. Hoffmann, 1776-1822.
Dutch
Sprookjes
Tweede verzameling (Dutch) Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl and Grimm, Wilhelm Carl
Russian
Russian Fairy Tales;
A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore (English) Ralston, W. R. S.
More Russian Picture Tales Carrick, Valery; English Translator: Forbes, Nevill, 1883-1929
Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen (English) Chodzko, Alexander, 1804-1891
The Story Of Frithiof The Bold (English) trans. Eiríkr Magnússon 1833-1913 and Morris, William, 1834-1896
The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald (English) trans. Eiríkr Magnússon 1833-1913 and Morris, William 1834-1896
Viking Tales Hall, Jennie, 1875-1921
Analysis
The Science of Fairy Tales
An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Hartland, Edwin Sidney, 1848-1927
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