The Princess Imprisoned in the Summerhouse by H.J. Ford, 1892 from Andrew Lang's Green Fairy Book |
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
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
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 and 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, 1914http://archive.org/details/writingslafcadi00bislgoog
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.
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 2: D - E
http://tinyurl.com/mcab948
http://tinyurl.com/mcab948
Volume 3: F- H
http://tinyurl.com/m5q8ml4
http://tinyurl.com/m5q8ml4
Volume 4: J - K
http://tinyurl.com/mgws5bq
http://tinyurl.com/mgws5bq
Volume 5: L - Z
http://tinyurl.com/kja4l9p
http://tinyurl.com/kja4l9p
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