Topics: Tales : Fairy Tales
Fairy tales (Märchen) are fictional stories which contain elements of magic or the supernatural. Their usual theme is the triumph over difficulty of the one least likely to succeed. Characters are stylized.
Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights, or Thousand and One Nights, is a collection of stories from Arabic literature.
Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night,
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Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), linguists, became famous for their collection of folktales, "Grimm's Fairy Tales".
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Hauff, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827), German author, who remains most famous for his fairy tales.
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Jacobs, Joseph
Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916), historian and folklorist, compiled several collections of fairy tales and edited Aesop's fables and the Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights).
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Journals
This category is for publications researching folk literature.
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Lang, Andrew
Andrew Lang (1844-1912), writer and folklorist, was one of the first to apply anthropological findings to the study of myth and folklore.
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Pentamerone
"Il Pentamerone", or "Lo cunto de li cunti" (The Story of Stories), is one of the oldest collections of fairy tales, written down in an embellished style in the Neapolitan dialect by Giambattista Basile (ca.
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World Tales
This category is for sites on folk literature that focus on a particular country, region, or culture.
African,
American,
Asian,
British and Celtic,
Chinese,
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