Folklore (Bookshelf)
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Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, material culture, and so forth, common to a particular population, comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared.
—Excerpted from Folklore on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
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Asia
India
- Folklore of the Santal Parganas
by Cecil Henry Bompas.
- Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit by S. M. Mitra.
- Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs.
- Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling.
Iran
Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by William Alexander Clouston.
China
- A Chinese Wonder Book by Pitman, Norman Hinsdale
- Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
Japan
- Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki.
- Mythen & Legenden van Japan by F. Hadland Davis. (Dutch)
- Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford.
- Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 - The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari by James S. De Benneville.
- Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 - Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals by James S. De Benneville.
Philippines
Filipino Popular Tales by Dean S. Fansler.
- A comprehensive study of Filipino Folklore, compares stories collected in the Philippines with similar stories found elsewere, and attempts to trace their origins.
Philippine Folklore Stories by John Maurice Miller.
- A nicely illustrated book of stories with Philippine folklore themes, retold by the author.
Philippine Folk-Tales by Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington, Fletcher Gardner, and Laura Watson Benedict.
- A number articles on the subject from the Journal of American Folk-Lore.
Philippine Folk Tales by Mabel Cook Cole.
- Popularly retold Philippine stories.
Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore by Fay-Cooper Cole.
- A comprehensive study of Tinguian traditions.
Americas
Ade's Fables and More Fables by George Ade, 1866-1944
- The "little man's" view of morality as America shifted from agragrian to industrial society.
Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles by Stuart, Ruth McEnery, (?-1917).
- Illustrated homely admonitions in short verse.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land by Charles M. Skinner.
- A collection of American popular tales, retold by the author.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings by Joel Chandler Harris.
Algonquin Indian Tales by Egerton R. Young
Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland
American Indian stories by Zitkala-Sa, 1876-1938
Birch Bark Legends of Niagara by Owahyah
Blackfoot Lodge Tales by George Bird Grinnell
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by McLaughlin, Marie L.
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Judson, Katharine Berry
American Hero-Myths;
A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
The Myths of the New World;
A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
Europe
English
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks (English) by William Elliot Griffis.
Welsh Fairy Tales (English) by William Elliot Griffis.
Folk-Lore and Legends: Scotland (English).
Fairies and Folk of Ireland (English) by William Henry Frost.
Irish Fairy Tales (English)by Stephens, James
Legends of the Rhine (English) by Wilhelm Ruland
Stories from Hans Andersen (English) by Hans Christian Andersen
Celtic Tales, Told to the Children (English) Chisholm, Louey
Celtic Fairy Tales (English) ed. Jacobs, Joseph
German
Der Goldene Topf (German) by E. T. A. Hoffmann, 1776-1822.
