Folk Narrative Interent Resources

Aesop's Fables On-line
     Personal web site containing online collection of Aesop's Fables includes more
     than 655 fables, in table format, with morals to the stories listed. Included are Real
     Audio narrations, Classic Images, Random Images, Random Fables and recently
     added are 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen with 209 Grimm's Fairy
     Tales.

American Life Histories
     Government site of manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1940.
     Part of the American Memory Project run by the Library of Congress. This site
     was created from The Folk Project, a part of The Federal Writers' Project, a
     1930's WPA project that gathered materials specifically related to folklore and
     social-ethnic studies. The holdings from the Federal Writers' Project span the
     years 1889-1942, cover a wide range of topics and holdings number
     approximately 300,000 items. These consist of correspondence, memoranda, field
     reports, notes, graphs, charts, preliminary and corrected drafts of essays, oral
     testimony, folklore, administrative and other material.

Bulfinch's Mythology
     Commercial site with full-text of Bullfinch's Mythology. This is an entertainment
     promotion site that also sells tickets and programs to events. The site is easy to
     read, very well designed for reading the text with hypertext links to further
     information about Bullfinch and the book.

The Cinderella Project
     Academic site from the University of Southern Mississippi including text and image
     archives containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. Represents some of
     the more common varieties of Cinderalla from the English-speaking world in the
     eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Materials to construct this
     archive were drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research
     Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
     Academic site with full texts of many little-known tales; mostly oriental and Nordic
     folk tales, indexed alphabetically.

Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories
     Academic site done by faculty at the Israel Institute of Technology with complete
     chronological list of 168 of Hans Christian Andersen's stories with full text.

Multilingual Electronic Text Folk Collection
     Not-for-profit organization, electronic full-text site for Japanese folk tales,
     browsable simultaneously in French, English and Japanese on standard browsers.

Tim Sheppard's Storytelling Links
     A collection of links to sites which features stories and folktales from various countries
     and cultures.