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NORDIC FOLKTALES
  • Norwegian Folktales - 72
  • Swedish Folktales - 56
  • Danish Folktales - 51
  • Finnish Folktales - 6
  • Tales from Iceland - 15

OTHER TALES
  • H. C. Andersen Fairy Tales - 12
  • The Complete Grimm tales - 212
  • Czechoslovak Folktales - 52
  • A Collection of Fairy Tales - 61
  • More Fairy Tales - 38
  • A Book of Tales - 22
  • The Wise Men of Gotham - 14 +
  • Italian Folktales - 21
  • Sicilian Folktales - 9
  • Celtic Tales - 30+
  • Irish Folktales - 8
  • Scottish Folktales - 34
  • English, Cornish, and Welch Folktales - 21
  • Buddhist Tales and Others - 21
  • Parables and Teachings of Buddhism - 7
  • Tales from Tibet - 16
  • Chinese Tales - 35
  • French Fairy Tales and Legends - 13
  • Austrian Folk Tales - 33
  • German Tales - 25
  • Till Owlglass (Till Eulenspiegel) - 4
  • Bechstein Märchen - 70 +
  • Till Eulenspiegel - 96
FABLES AND FUN
  • Indian Fables - 110
  • Fables of Aesop - ca. 325
  • Some Munchausen Adventures - 13

FANTASTIC
  • The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
  • Wonder-Beasts
  • Odd Folks
  • The Dragon

OLD GREEK CYCLES
  • Greek heroes by Charles Kingsley
  • Jason and the Golden Fleece
  • Old Greeks Stories Retold (Ovid) Many
  • Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang

ASSORTED
  • Georgie O. Seaman (Sailor Tales)
  • Deutsche Sagen - 128 Sagen
  • L. Bechstein - Deutsches Sagenbuch - 1000
  • Windsor Castle Ghost Stories - 6
  • King Llud and Others - 5
  • Yogi Stories - 55

USE OF BIBLE TALES
  • The Sahara Beavers - 10 chapters
  • White Bear Tales - 11
  • Apocrypha Stories - 2
  • Lady Godiva - 1
FOLKLORE
  • Deep into Folklore
      • Back-up Maxims of Folk Tales
      • Tool Tales
      • Served by Animals
      • Folk Tales on Illnesses and Cures
  • Folktales and Other Tales
      • The ATU Types of International Folktales
      • AT Types of Folktale
      • Folktales Examined


Snatching a coveted object - a theme of folklore and fairy tales
Jason snatches the Golden Fleece. Greek Vase from the 5th century BCE (Metropolitan Museum, New York).

What sustains the ultimate Self is a different sort of awareness, and it may be suggested by fine fairy tales.

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