Folk literature
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Folk literature -- Bibliography
- Folk literature -- Computer network resources
- Folk literature -- Great Britain
- Folk literature -- History and criticism
- Folk literature -- Themes, motives
- Chapbooks
- Folk drama
- Folk literature, African
- Folk literature, Arabic
- Folk literature, English
- Folk literature, Indic
- Folk literature, Irish
- Folk literature, Italian
- Folk literature, Judeo-Arabic
- Folk literature, Malagasy
- Folk literature, Philippine
- Folk literature, Polynesian
- Folk literature, Scottish Gaelic
- Folk poetry
- Folk songs
- Proverbs
- Riddles
- Tales
- Tongue twisters
- Oral literature
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Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)- Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission From Country to Country (London: Whittaker and Co., 1834), by Thomas Keightley
- Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Catalogue of English and American Chap-Books and Broadside Ballads in Harvard College Library (Harvard Library Bibliographical Contributions #56; 1905), by Harvard University Library (multiple formats at archive.org)
- English Tracts, Pamphlets and Printed Sheets: A Bibliography (2 volumes; London: W. Gandy, 1922-1923), by J. Harvey Bloom (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Types of the Folk-Tale: A Classification and Bibliography (translated and enlarged by Thompson; FF Communications #74; Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientarum Fennica, 1928), by Antti Aarne, ed. by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Vergleichende Märchenforschungen (in German; Helsinki: Druckerei der Finnischen Literaturgesellschaft, 1908), by Antti Aarne (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
- Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends (second edition, 1926, with supplements from 1937 and 1952), by Mary Huse Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Types of the Folk-Tale: A Classification and Bibliography (translated and enlarged by Thompson; FF Communications #74; Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientarum Fennica, 1928), by Antti Aarne, ed. by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Vergleichende Märchenforschungen (in German; Helsinki: Druckerei der Finnischen Literaturgesellschaft, 1908), by Antti Aarne (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
- Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1887), by Allan Cunningham, contrib. by Henry Morley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Flowering Thorn: International Ballad Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), ed. by Thomas A. McKean (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story) (10 volumes; London: Privately printed by C. J. Sawyer Ltd., 1924-1928), by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, ed. by N. M. Penzer, trans. by C. H. Tawney, contrib. by Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Kathá Sarit Ságara: or, Ocean of the Streams of Story (2 volumes; Kolkata: Printed by J. W. Thomas, 1880-1884), by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, trans. by C. H. Tawney
- The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story (London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1908), by Gordon Hall Gerould
- Odyssee und Argonautika: Untersuchungen zur Griechischen Sagengeschichte und zum Epos (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1921), by Karl Meuli
- Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882), ed. by John Ashton
- The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Die Sezession in der Dramatischen Kunst und das Volksfestspiel, Mit Einem Rückblick auf die Passion von Oberammergau (in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1911), by Georg Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Uit den Kunstschat der Bakongos (2 volumes, in Dutch; Amsterdam: C. L. Van Langenhuysen; Berlin: D. Reimer, 1908), by Ivo Struyf
- The Oral Tales of India (Indiana University Publications folklore series #10; 1958), by Stith Thompson and Jonas Balys (page images at HathiTrust)
- Philippine Folk-Tales, by Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington, Fletcher Gardner, and Laura Estelle Watson Benedict, ed. by Jeroen Hellingman (Gutenberg text)
- Philippine Folklore Stories (1904), by John Maurice Miller (Gutenberg text)
- Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English, Collected From Oral Tradition (Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910), by J. MacDougall, ed. by George Calder
- Ritual Voices of Revelation: The Origin Narratives of the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia (Canberra: ANU Press, c2024), by James J. Fox
- Tale of the Parrot (Novas Del Papagai), by Arnaut de Carcasses, trans. by Ross G. Arthur (PDF at In Parentheses)
- Vox Populi: Essays in the History of an Idea (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by George Boas (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British (new edition, with Ramsay's collection of Scottish proverbs added; London: T. and J. Allman, 1819), ed. by Thomas Fuller, contrib. by Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Proverbial Lore in Nebraska (1933), by Emma Louise Snapp (PDF at unl.edu)
- Signs, Omens, and Portents in Nebraska Folklore (1933), by Margaret Cannell (PDF at unl.edu)
- A Dictionary of International Slurs (Ethnophaulisms); With a Supplementary Essay on Aspects of Ethnic Prejudice (Cambridge, MA: Sci-Art Publishers, c1944), by A. A. Roback (page images at HathiTrust)
- One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- A New Riddle Book: or, A Whetstone for Dull Wits (ca. 1790), contrib. by John Drewry
- Vergleichende Rätselforschungen (3 parts (FF Communications #26-28), in German; Helsinki and Hamina: Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Kustantama, 1918-1920), by Antti Aarne
- Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
- The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), by Henry Ernest Dudeney
- A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
- Maze (electronic edition), by Christopher Manson (illustrated HTML at obs-us.com)
- More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
- A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
- A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
- A Little Book of Poetry for Children (Pittsfield, MA: E. Werden, 1847) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Folk-Tales From Many Lands (c1939), by Rose Fyleman (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (Harvard Classics v17; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, and H. C. Andersen
- Oriental Tales, Collected From an Arabian Manuscript, in the Library of the King of France (2 volumes, translated from the Comte de Caylus's Contes Orientaux; London: Printed for T. Trye et al., 1745), by Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tales of All Nations: or, Popular Legends and Romances (bound collection of about 48 issues; London: W. Strange, ca. 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies (London: E. Stock, 1888), by W. A. Clouston
- Peter Piper's Playmates (Chicago: A. Whitman and Co., c1930), illust. by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard
More items available under narrower terms.