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Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental (London: W. W. Gibbings, 1889), ed. by Charles John Tibbitts
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com

• Art of Island Southeast Asia: The Fred and Rita Richman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Florina H. Capistrano-Baker, contrib. by Paul Michael Taylor (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Two Tales (Bloomington, IN: Text Materials Program, Indiana University, 1963), by Mohammed Yassin Nassimi (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Some Chinese Ghosts, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• The Chinese Boy and Girl, by Isaac Taylor Headland
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Diamond: A Study in Chinese and Hellenistic Folk-Lore (Field Museum of Natural History publication #184; 1915), by Berthold Laufer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Tibetan Folk Tales (St. Louis, MO: United Christian Missionary Society, 1925), by A. L. Shelton, ed. by Flora Beal Shelton, illust. by Mildred Bryant (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Oral Tales of India (Indiana University Publications folklore series #10; 1958), by Stith Thompson and Jonas Balys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk Lore Notes (2 volumes; Mazgaon, Bombay, British India Press, 1914-1915), by A. M. T. Jackson, ed. by R. E. Enthoven
  • Volume I (Gujarat): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Konkan): multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Hindu Tales, Retold (Chicago et al.: Rand, McNally and Co., c1917), by Teresa Peirce Williston, illust. by Maud Hunt Squire (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indian Fairy Tales (1890), by Joseph Jacobs, illust. by John D. Batten (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Indian Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs, illust. by John D. Batten (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Tales of Bengal, by S. B. Banerjea, ed. by Francis Henry Skrine (Gutenberg text)

• Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1996), by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Folklore of the Santal Parganas (London: D. Nutt, 1909), trans. by Cecil Henry Bompas, contrib. by P. O. Bodding
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Story-Book of the Shah: or, Legends of Old Persia (London: J. Macqueen, 1901), by Ella Sykes, illust. by Claude Cooper and Ethel R. Sykes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adventures of Hatim Taï: A Romance (London: Printed for the Oriental translation fund, 1830), trans. by Duncan Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)
• The Gulistan of Sa'di, by Sa'di, trans. by Edward Rehatsek (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• On Jewish Folklore (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983), by Raphael Patai (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), ed. by Geoffrey Khan, Masoud Mohammadirad, Dorota Molin, and Paul M. Noorlander
  • Volume I: multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume II: multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1994), by Michiko Iwasaka and Barre Toelken (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (based on the 1896 edition; this edition Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), by Lafcadio Hearn (PDF at unl.edu)
• Japanese Demon Lore: Oni From Ancient Times to the Present (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2010), by Noriko T. Reider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Ancient Tales and Folk-Lore of Japan, by Richard Gordon Smith (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Boy Who Drew Cats (Japanese Fairy Tale Series #23; Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, ca. 1898), trans. by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at Cincinnati Public Library)
• In Ghostly Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Kimiko, and Other Japanese Sketches (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Shadowings (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1919), by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Japanese Fairy Tales (unillustrated version), ed. by Yei Theodora Ozaki (Gutenberg text)
• Japanese Fairy Tales, Compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki, Profusely Illustrated by Japanese Artists (New York: A. L. Burt Co., ca. 1905), ed. by Yei Theodora Ozaki (page images at durendal.org)
• Kokoro, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• Kokoro (German translation and notes; Frankfurt am Main: Rütten und Loening, 1905), by Lafcadio Hearn, trans. by Berta Franzos, contrib. by Hugo von Hoffmansthal (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kokoro (German translation and notes; Frankfurt am Main: Rütten und Loening, 1907), by Lafcadio Hearn, trans. by Berta Franzos, contrib. by Hugo von Hoffmansthal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies (London: J.M. Dent and Sons New York, E.P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by Im Pang and Yi Yuk, trans. by James Scarth Gale
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Fables and Folk-Tales From an Eastern Forest (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1901), ed. by Walter W. Skeat, illust. by F. H. Townsend (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Filipino Popular Tales, Collected and Edited with Comparative Notes (1921), by Dean Spruill Fansler (Gutenberg text)
• Philippine Folk Tales, by Mabel Cook Cole (HTML at surlalunefairytales.com)
• 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)
• Myths and Legends of our New Possessions and Protectorate (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by Charles M. Skinner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Türkische Volksmärchen aus Stambul (in German; Leiden: E. J. Brill, ca. 1905), by Ignácz Kúnos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (London: A. H. Bullen, 1901), by Ignácz Kúnos, trans. by R. Nisbet Bain, illust. by Celia Levetus (multiple formats at archive.org)

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