Vast collection of folktales, myths, legends, and texts pertaining to folklore, arranged by title and theme, with a focus on northern and western Europe. - 

This is a type 766 folktale. Davis entitles the story "The Rip van Winkle of Old Japan." Return to the table of contents. ... - 

Retellings of American folktales, tall tales, myths and legends, Native American myths, weather folklore, ghost stories, and more from each of the 50 United ... - 

Retellings of American folktales and legends, Native American myths, ... Famous American Folktales & Stories. Click on a letter to read a summary of the ... - 

Folktales (or folk tales) -- including fairy tales, tall tales, trickster tales, and legends -- retold by award-winning author Aaron Shepard. - 

World tales told by award-winning author Aaron Shepard -- folktales, fairy tales, tall tales, myths, legends, world classics, and sacred stories -- plus ... - 

A fascinating line-up of folktales for kids from India, China, Burma and other Asian countries. You will also find Aesop's fables and animal lore for kids, ... - 

Texts of Russian and Ukrainian folk tales traslated into English. - 

An assortment of traditional tales translated into English. - 

Share the magic of clever animals, enchanted kingdoms, and much more with this folktale writing activity. Along the way, we'll offer tips, challenges, ... - 

This content resource connects students with many activities on myths, folktales and fairy tales. Students read myths, publish their work online and ... - 

Folktales, according to Carl Tomlinson and Carol Lynch-Brown's Essentials of Children's Literature are "stories that grow out of the lives and imaginations ... - 

Folktales deal with adventures both plausible and implausible wrapped in the forms of human or animal abilities. Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, ... - 

Folktales from around the world retold for children by Rohini Chowdhury. - 

By James A. Honeij (1910), e-text from the Internet Sacred Texts Archive. - 

Compiled by B. Chamberlaine, 1888, e-text at Sacred Texts. - 

Folktales from various countries and cultures. ... Folktales Many attempts have been made to define, classify, and describe the folktale. ... - 

Motoko Dworkin and Eshu Bumpus, Storytellers of Asian and African folktales. Amherst, Massachusetts. - 

Eight Zulu folktales contributed by Loreen McDonald. - 

folktale, general term for any of numerous varieties of traditional narrative. ... Folklorists make distinctions among the categories of folktales. ... -