Public Domain Folktales VII : Fairytales, Folktales, Legends and Myths From Around the World



The Princess Imprisoned in the Summerhouse
by H.J. Ford, 1892
from Andrew Lang's Green Fairy Book

“Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.”- J.R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings


It has been far too long since I posted a collection of public domain books. Here is the seventh in the installment that will continue to for as long as there are stories to share!

Below you will find tales from France, Korea, Serbia, India and more. It always amazes me that we have an endless supply of wonder tales at our fingertips.

I hope you find something wonderful to add to your spring and summer storytelling repertoire.

The Animal Story Book by Andrew Lang, 1914http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38208/38208-h/38208-h.htm

Eskimo Folktales by Knud Rasmussen, 1921
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/inu/eft/index.htm

Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods collected and translated by W.D. Westervelt, 1916.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/index.htm

Korean Imps, Ghosts and Fairies by James S. Gale, 1913
https://archive.org/details/koreanfolktalesi00impaiala

The Man who Married the Moon: and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories by Charles Fletcher Lummis, 1894.
http://archive.org/details/manwhomarriedmo00lummgoog

Myths and Legends of All Nations translated and edited by Logan Marshall, 1914.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20740/20740-h/20740-h.htm

Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse De Segur, 1920.
https://archive.org/details/oldfrenchfairyta00sgrich

Serbian Fairy Tales by Elodie L. Muatovich, 1919 http://chestofbooks.com/fairy-tale/Serbian/index.html

The Talking Thrush and Other Tales of India collected by W. Crooke and retold by W.H. Drouse, 1922.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30635/30635-h/30635-h.htm

Tales of the Sun or Folktales from Southern India collected by Mrs. Howard Kingscote and Paṇḍit Naṭêsá Sástrî, 1890 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37002/37002-h/37002-h.htm#ch16


Twenty-Three Tales by Leo Tolstoy
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/tolstoy/23storie.pdf

The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn, 1922
http://archive.org/details/writingslafcadi00bislgoog

Village Folktales of Ceylon by Henry Parker, 1914
http://archive.org/details/villagefolktale00parkgoog

Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories collected and edited by P.H. Emerson, 1891.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8675/8675-h/8675-h.htm

Below is an invaluable resource, now available on line, to assist you when researching stories by theme.

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature by Stith Thompson. A classification of narrative elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Fabliaux, Jest-Books and Local Legends. These books are fully searchable.

Volume I: A - C
http://tinyurl.com/m8hm52w 

Volume 2:  D - E
http://tinyurl.com/mcab948

Volume 3:  F- H
http://tinyurl.com/m5q8ml4

Volume 4:  J - K
http://tinyurl.com/mgws5bq

Volume 5:  L - Z
http://tinyurl.com/kja4l9p

And if you missed the six previous blog posts of public domain story collections go to:

1.      http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2011/05/public-domain-folktales-myths-legends.html

2.      http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2011/06/public-domain-ii-folktales-myths-and.html

3.      http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2011/09/public-domain-iii-folktales-fairy-tales.html

4.      http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2011/10/public-domain-iv-folktales-fairytales.html

5.      http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2012/07/public-domain-v-folktales-fairytales.html

6.      http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/05/public-domain-vi-ballads-folktales.html

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