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marycrawford) wrote2003-09-02 09:19 am
marycrawford) wrote2003-09-02 09:19 am
Fairytale find
Gleaned from Teresa Nielsen Hayden's blog, here's a fabulous trove of online folklore and fairy tales from around the world.
What's so great about this is that they're classified by subject, more or less along Aarne-Thompson lines, so that you can easily find, say, Folktales about Hairless Men from Burma, Tibet, Korea or Germany. (Smallville fans, take note.)Or twelve different versions of The Beauty and the Beast, or Cinderella, or seven versions of Melusine. And I bet you know about Rumpelstiltskin or even Repelsteeltje, but what about Kruzimugeli, Holzrührlein Bonneführlein or Kinkach Martinko?
What's so great about this is that they're classified by subject, more or less along Aarne-Thompson lines, so that you can easily find, say, Folktales about Hairless Men from Burma, Tibet, Korea or Germany. (Smallville fans, take note.)Or twelve different versions of The Beauty and the Beast, or Cinderella, or seven versions of Melusine. And I bet you know about Rumpelstiltskin or even Repelsteeltje, but what about Kruzimugeli, Holzrührlein Bonneführlein or Kinkach Martinko?