Folktale collections on the internet

Fables

[ENGLISH] Aesop's Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/aesopsel.html

[FRENCH] Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
http://www.lafontaine.net/lesFables/listeFables.php?tri=alpha

Fairy tales

[ENGLISH] Fairy Tales and Stories by H.C. Andersen:
http://hca.gilead.org.il/

[ENGLISH] The Arabian Nights:
http://mfx.dasburo.com/an/a_index_commented.html

[ENGLISH] Stories, Folklore, and Fairy Tales Theme Page, a resource page for teachers:
http://www.cln.org/themes/fairytales.html

[ENGLISH] SurLaLune fairy tale pages (from different cultures):
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/

[ENGLISH] The fairy tales of Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy:
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/daulnoy.html

[ENGLISH] Folklore and Fairy Tale Resources on the Web:
http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/folklorefairytales/

[ENGLISH] YASHPEH International Folktale Collection:
http://btjerusalem.com/yashpeh/yashpeh.htm

[FRENCH] Contes de ma Mère l'Oye by C. Perrault:
http://www.alyon.org/litterature/livres/XVIII/esprit_salon/perrault/

[GERMAN] Kinder- und Hausmärchen by the Brothers Grimm:
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/grimm/maerchen/0htmldir.htm

[GERMAN] Märchen by Ludwig Bechstein:
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/bechstei/maerchen/0htmldir.htm

[GERMAN] Volksmärchen der Deutschen by J.K.A. Musäus:
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/musaeus/vmd/vmd.htm

[GERMAN] Deutsche Hausmärchen by J.W. Wolf:
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/wolf/hausmrch/hausmrch.htm

[GERMAN] Animals, Birds, Insects: Estonian Animal Tales, compiled by Pille Kippar
http://www.folklore.ee/rls/tiere/

[GERMAN] Estonian Folktales by Oskar Loorits
http://de.folklore.ee/publik/loorits/

Traditional anecdotes and jokes

[ENGLISH] Tales of Nasreddin Hodja (English):
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hodja.html

[ENGLISH] Hodja Stories:
http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~schiff/Net/front.html

Myths

[ENGLISH] Solar folklore, the site created by Stanford Solar center:
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/folklore/folklore.html

[ENGLISH] Regional folklore and mythology:
http://www.pibburns.com/mythregi.htm

Traditional legends

[GERMAN] Deutsche Sagen by the Brothers Grimm:
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/grimm/sagen/grimmsag.htm

[GERMAN & ENGLISH] Collection of 'Sagen' (both traditional and modern) and some fairy tales as well:
http://www.sagen.at/

[ENGLISH] Ancient Irish Tales:
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bj333/folklore.html#ancient

[ENGLISH] Documents of the Witchcraze—a collection of stories of witchcraft, from the 15th century to the present:
http://www.shanmonster.com/witch/docs.html

[ENGLISH] Famous ghosts and hauntings—a collection of stories. The site contains a classification, a lexicon, references to books and movies, links to other related sites, etc.:
http://ghosts.monstrous.com/famous_ghosts.htm#_Toc521862650

Contemporary legends

[ENGLISH] Urban Legends:
http://urbanlegends.com/

[ENGLISH] Urban legends reference page—a vast collection or legends and rumors, systematically updated:
http://www.snopes.com

[ENGLISH] Christian Urban Legends:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm

[ENGLISH] More Christian Urban Legends:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul6.htm

[ENGLISH] Vmyths:
http://www.vmyths.com/

[ENGLISH] Urban Legends and Hoaxes:
http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html

[ENGLISH] Urban Legends and Modern Myths:
http://www.warphead.com/urbanlegends/

[ENGLISH] Circulating Chain Letters:
http://www.breakthechain.org/current.html

Riddles

[ENGLISH] Just riddles and more!:
http://www.justriddlesandmore.com/

[ENGLISH] Riddlenut:
http://www.riddlenut.com/

[ENGLISH] Estonian Droodles. Compiled by Piret Voolaid.
http://www.folkore.ee/Droodles/

Contemporary jokes

[DUTCH] Turkish Temel jokes translated into Dutch:
http://www.tapu.nl/kk_1300002.html

[ENGLISH] Jokes Galore:
http://www.jokesgalore.com/

[ENGLISH] Joke Center:
http://www.jokecenter.com/

[ENGLISH & FRENCH] Newfoundland & Labrador Folklore, jokes etc.:
http://www.wordplay.com/tourism/folklore.html

[FRENCH] Mort de rire:
http://www.mortderire.info/

Proverbs

[GERMAN] Dictionairy of Proverbs. Compiled by Arvo Krikmann
http://www.folklore.ee/~kriku/VSR/FRAMEGER.HTM

[GERMAN] Estonian Proverbs with a litteral translation into German
http://www.folklore.ee/rl/date/saksa/

Miscellaneous

[DUTCH] Folktales from all over the world translated into Dutch:
http://www.beleven.org/verhalen/index.html

[ENGLISH] American folklore, including tall tales, legends, myths, ghost stories, famous characters, animal stories, etc.:
http://www.americanfolklore.net/tt.html

[ENGLISH] Professor D. L. Ashliman's library of folktales:
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

[ENGLISH] Weather folklore and jokes:
http://members.aol.com/Accustiver/wxworld_folk.html

[ENGLISH] The British Columbia Folklore Society which contains a web-index and some examples of B.C. folklore:
http://www.folklore.bc.ca/

[ENGLISH] Norwegian Folktales: the classics collection. Includes link to fables, fairy tales and folklore from other countries:
http://oaks.nvg.org/lg4ra2.html

[ENGLISH] A collection of folktales recorded by the staff of the Peacecorps organization in various countries:
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/students/folktales/

[ENGLISH] Japanese Folktale Database:
http://www.isc.senshu-u.ac.jp/~thb0309/MinwaDB/

[ESTONIAN] Databases in Estonian language: Ethnoastronomy, ethnobotany, popular calendar, legends, riddles, catchwords, proverbs, etc.
http://en.folklore.ee/dbases/