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Folk Narrative Internet 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.
Tales of Wonder
Academic well organized web site of full texts of folk and fairy tales from around
the world, including Africa, China, Native American, England, and many more. | 
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