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Hi,

With a bit of patience, many old folktales can be found at . They can be read online (make sure you maximize the view for better reading).

These are scanned versions of the English translations of many collections. The are old — ranging from 1870 to 1920 — and show the mark of time: yellowed and stained paper, faded typography, notes on the marginalia, library stamps... They have prefaces that now sound a bit pretentious or naive. And quaint illustrations, showing a lot of artistic craftmanship. I would like you to read them in this repository, as a way to experiencing a bit the atmosphere and emotion children might have felt when reading these old volumes...

You may chose from any of 45 collections bellow:

BRITISH ISLES

, illustrated, coll. W. J. Glover, 1920

, coll. Sidney Oldall Addy, 1895

, coll. Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, 1937.

, coll. Elias Owen, 1896.

coll. William Butler Yeats, 1857 (orig. publ 1888)

, coll. William Larminie, 1898

, coll. Mary Grant O'Sheridan, 1910 (Chicago ed.)

, coll. James McDougal, 1891

, collected by Bampton Hunt, 1912

, Seumas MacManus, 1917.

, coll. sir George Douglas, year: 19??

SCANDINAVIA

collected by Asbjörnsen, 7th edition, 1883.

, Anna Maria von Rydingsvärd, 1891

, coll. Sven Grundtvig, Evald Tang Kristensen, Ingvor Andreas Bondesen, Leopold Budde. Year: 1899.

, coll. Parker Filmore, 1922

, illustrated, coll. Gwyn Jones, 1992 (original edition 1956)

IBERIAN PENINSULA

, coll. Rachel Harriette Busk, 1870
* Attention: not all tales in this book are what we call fairy tales (tales of magic)

, coll. Consiglieri Pedroso , Henriquetta Monteiro, 1882

, coll. Mariana Monteiro, 1897.

ITALY

, coll. Thomas Frederick Crane, 1885

Seven of

BENELUX

, coll. William Eliot Griffis, 1919.

, illustrated, coll. Jean de Boschère, 1918.

RUSSIAN EMPIRE

, coll. Alexander Afanassyev, (ed. Leonard A. Magnus), 1916

, 1985 (orig publ.

collected by W. R. S. Rollston, 1873.

, (with color illustrations by Bilibin)coll. Wheeler Post, 1912.

, (Raduga Publishers), 1981
* this is not really a first-level authored collection, but rather an anonymous anthology of anthologies. It is included here for its charming folk-like illustrations.

, coll. Marjory Scott Wardrop,1894

, coll. Vian R. Nisbet, publ. 1908

, coll. A.G. Seklemian, 1898.

EASTERN EUROPE

, coll. Jeremiah Curtin, 1903 (first edition 1890)

, coll. Albert Henry Wratislaw, 1890.

coll. Josef Baudiš, 1917

, coll. Parker Filmore, 1920.

, richly illustrated, coll. Bozena Nemcová, 1921

, coll. Maximilian August Mügge, 1901

, by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, 1922

, coll. Edmund Martin Geldart, 1884.

, coll. Csedomille Mijatovich, 1874.

, coll Grigore Botezatu, 1986

, coll. Kriza János, Erdélyi János, Pap Gyula, ed. Henry Jones 1889

, coll Helena Frank, 1912

, coll. Francis Hindes Groome, 1899

GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD

, coll. James Lee & James Carey, 1915

, coll. Theodor Vernaleken, 1889

WORLD

s, illustrated, coll. Joseph Jacobs, 1916

, coll Herschell Williams, 1908.
Contains Tales from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spain, Italy...

], coll. F. H. Lee published 1921
* but please remember this course is ONLY about European folk tales, so forget about Asia, Africa or the Americas!

TYPE-BASED LISTS

If you plan to start from a certain type of FT, such as a Cinderella-type or a Rapunzel-type, then you may use:

Professor . (University of Pittsburg)

or

The beautiful and well-organized resource that is -- just pick up a category on the left (such as Bluebeard of The Girl without Hands) and you will be taken to the several better known variants of that tale.

OFFLINE

All of the above require good internet access. For those of you who lack this, I have prepared I have made a package of European fairy tales, which you can download from . You will not be taken to a web page, but instead, the ZIP file will be downloaded to your computer immediately, without asking your confirmation.

It is a BIG file, so have patience! The zip file opens with our default password (like the other packages).