Source ideas!

[crantz]

Sign ups are on the horizon which means you're going to need sources for your stories!

Here's some starting places:

• Children's Myths, Fairy Tales, etc. (Bookshelf) Children's Bookshelf on Gutenberg - Several eligible fairytale and legend sources from around the world!


• The Color Fairy Books by Andrew Lang https://sacred-texts.com/neu/lfb/index.htm - The entire collection on Sacred-texts! (You can also find these books on gutenberg for download for your ereader of choice!)


• http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/index.htm - speaking of Sacred-texts, they also have some pretty extensive archives themselves!


• Homer, Virgil, Hesiod, all these and other classics can be found here at http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html


• Folkore and Mythology Electronic Texts http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

And this year, though it was always allowed previous years but not emphasized, you can nominate a mythological animal instead of a story! You just have to provide me with a comprehensive enough 'source' for the spreadsheet and your writer.

Here's some places to start (if they exist only, in say, Hellboy they're not eligible):

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Legendary_mammals


• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mythological_hybrids


• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Monsters


• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dragons


• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fantasy_creatures

AS WELL:

• The Aberdeen Bestiary - a medieval Christian bestiary, with pictures, transcription, and translation


• A set of public domain bestiary texts - one of these may have a creature that intrigues you


• A public-domain scholarly work on Japanese and Chinese dragons, published in 1913 (you could nominate a specific dragon or type of dragon from this book)


• The Wikipedia article on the Chupacabra - EXAMPLE. This is fine as it is well-referenced and not a stub article

PREVIOUS SOURCES:

• 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

[alexseanchai]

Yipe! That soon?!

Yay! That soon!!

[crantz]

Look upon my links, ye mighty, and plan your sign up.

[alexseanchai]

I have submitted my nominations!

Arachne and Niobe's stories are both in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book VI. Metis's and Pandora's are both in Hesiod's Theogony.

Ctrl-F for 'Pandora' in that Theogony theoi.com page will get you nowhere, mind; she isn't named in the Evelyn-White translation. You get to Pandora's tale by finding the section heading "Prometheus". theoi.com's page entitled "Pandora" has more sources on her story, including various related to the jar thing. While I won't say no to a story about the jar thing, I nominated Pandora's tale as Theogony instead of, say, an Aesop for a reason!

[wendelah1]

The link to Children's Myth's etc. has no content.

[crantz]

fixed! Thanks for the heads up, the c/p of the link was ignoring the final bracket.