Resources!

[crantz]

All canons for this exchange must be publicly available, and to help you find the tales and even versions you want to ask for, here's a list!



Fairy-tales, legends, folklore, cryptids, and where to find them:

• Project Gutenberg (especially this bookshelf of fairy-tales, the mythology bookshelf, and this bookshelf of children's literature)


• Wikisource (as well as making use of Wikipedia's category pages with examples like: Scottish Legendary Creatures, American Folklore, and Canadian Legendary Creatures)


• Andrew Lang's Colour Fairy Books


• Sur La Lune Fairytales


• University of Pittsburgh's Folktexts


• Sacred-Texts (Suggested sections: The Classics, Legendary Creatures, and Legends and Sagas)


• The Thousand Nights and a Night, which has several classic translations of the 1001 Arabian Nights


• The Internet Classics Archive


• Theoi.com - From the site: Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion.

Please feel free to comment with any other resources!

• 2015's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.


• 2016's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.


• 2017's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.


• 2018's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.


• 2019's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.


• 2020's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.


• 2021's spreadsheet of sources for the fics that year.

Comments

[acequeenking]

For people looking for sources for Greek/Roman mythology, can I humbly suggest Theoi.Com? They tend to exhaustively document resources, so if you're looking to compare differences in various retellings of myths (did Persephone eat 4 seeds or 6? Did Hades get hit by Cupid's arrow or not? etc), they have an almost exhaustive amount of sources you can look up (and an almost exhaustive amount of full-text sources are on the site as well)

[crantz]

Thank you for the link! I'll add it!

[calenlily]

Two things:

Fairytales Collection.com is a dead link

I'd like to submit the University of Pittsburgh's Folktexts page (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html) for inclusion as a resource - great collection of fairy tales and myths with multiple related variants grouped together under the core theme and has become my go-to for looking up fairytales

[crantz]

Thanks for the heads up on both counts! I'll edit out fairytales collection and put in University of Pittsburgh!