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• The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Barre Toelken (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

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

• Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2000), ed. by Polly Stewart, Steve Siporin, Charles Wm. Sullivan, and Suzi Jones (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Barre Toelken (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)
• Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature (Indiana University Publications folklore series #7; 1952), by Tom Peete Cross (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
  • both volumes: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story (London: Published for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1908), by Gordon Hall Gerould
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Odyssee und Argonautika: Untersuchungen zur Griechischen Sagengeschichte und zum Epos (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1921), by Karl Meuli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature (Indiana University Publications folklore series #7; 1952), by Tom Peete Cross (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Motif-Index of Traditional Polynesian Narratives (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1961), by Bacil F. Kirtley (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Sicilianische Märchen, Aus dem Volksmund Gesammelt (2 volumes in 1, in German; Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1870), by Laura Gonzenbach, contrib. by Otto Hartwig (page images at HathiTrust)