My Sources for Tales
This page is where I will link the sources I use in creating my fairy tale videos. First up I will share some frequent books and websites I use. Following that is a list of all the tales I've told so far, with sources for each. I will update this list as I share stories on my socials.
Frequently Used Sources:
General:
Brothers Grimm:
Hans Christian Andersen:
Andrew Lang (and Leonora Lang): The Fairy Books, via Gutenberg.org
African American Tales:
Asian Tales
Jewish Tales:
Russian tales:
Various European tales:
Most of these you can find through my collection on Bookshop.org!
- The Internet Archive: Bless these people! Donate when you can!
- Project Gutenberg: Great for the public domain texts. You can donate there too!
Brothers Grimm:
- The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated by Jack Zipes (2014) - Bookshop.org
- Grimms' Complete Fairy Tales: Barnes and Noble Collectible Editions (1997) - Barnes and Noble
Hans Christian Andersen:
- Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories, translated by Erik Christian Haugaard (1983)
- The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Maria Tatar (2007) - Amazon.com
Andrew Lang (and Leonora Lang): The Fairy Books, via Gutenberg.org
African American Tales:
- The Annotated African American Folktales, collected by Henry Louis Gates and Maria Tatar (2017)
- Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales, collected by Virginia Hamilton (1995)
- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, collected by Virginia Hamilton (1993)
Asian Tales
- Why the Piña Has 100 Eyes and Other Classic Philippine Tales About Fruit (Phillipines)
- Yaganita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folktale, edited and translated by Fanny Hagin Mayer (Indiana University Press)
Jewish Tales:
- Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales, translated by Howard Schwartz (1994)
- Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook, collected by Jane Yolen (2020)
- Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural, translated by Howard Schwartz (1991) - Amazon.com
Russian tales:
- Malachite Casket: Tales from the Urals, by Pavel Bazhov (2002 reprint)
- Russian Fairy Tales (Illustrated), by Alexander Afanasyev and Ivan Bilibin (2012 reprint)
Various European tales:
- Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain and Ireland, by Kevin Crossley-Holland and Frances Castle (2019)
- The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe, translated by Tiina Nunnally (2019)
- Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (2007 reprint)
- The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, translated by W. Heath Robinson (2020)
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, collected and/or translated by D. L. Ashliman
- The Island of Happiness: Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy, edited by Natalie Frank, and translated by Jack Zipes
- The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa (2016)
Most of these you can find through my collection on Bookshop.org!
Tales Told, with sources as needed (linked if not listed above):
- 12/18 - 12/25 Eight Nights of Jewish Fairy Tales - sources are cited in the videos!
- 12/5/2022 The Yule Buck and the Girl (80 Folktales series) - FolkloreThursday
- 12/1/2022 Tatterhood (Asbjørnsen & Moe)
- 11/28/2022 The Battle of the Mountains (80 Folktales series) - Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- 11/23/2022 Whuppity Stoorie (Ashliman)
- 11/21/2022 Legend of the Hummingbird (80 Folktales series) - Pura Belpré
- 11/17/2022 Thumbelina (Andersen)
- 11/14/2022 The Cat Who Became Queen (80 Folktales series) - Indian Folk Tales (Ness)
- 10/31/2022 The Fall of the House of Usher (Poe)
- 10/27/2022 The Monkey's Paw (Jacobs)
- 10/19/2022 Florinda (80 Folktales) - Cinderella Tales from Around the World
- 10/13/2022 Bogeyman tales - the Boto-Man, the Jersey Devil, and Black Annis
- 10/12/2022 Puteri Walinong Sari (80 Folktales series) - Legendary Princesses of Malaysia
- 10/6/2022 The Demon in the Tree (Schwartz)
- 10/5/2022 The Poor Man and His Wife of Wood (80 Folktales series) - African Myths and Legends
- 9/29/2022 The Mermaid Who Laughed Three Times - Folk and Fairy Tales from Denmark
- 9/28/2022 The Wolf and the Raven (80 Folktales series) - Latvian Folktales
- 9/22/2022 Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse - English Fairy Tales (Jacobs)
- 9/15/2022 Hiddensee Island (Germany) - Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles
- 9/8/2022 Boitata legend (Brazil - Folklore with Friends series)
- 9/1/2022 Lean Lisa/Hans Trina (Grimm)
- 8/24/2022 Crow, The (Poland - Lang)
- 8/20/2022 Kate Crackernuts (Scotland) - Sacred Texts
- 8/13/2022 Maria Morevna (Russia)
- 8/10/2022 Bony-Legs (Russia) - Ashliman translation
- 8/8 Vasilisa the Beautiful (Russia)
- 8/3/2022 Tinderbox, the (Andersen)
- 7/31/2022 StruwelPeter (Hoffman) - Gutenberg.org
- 7/25/2022 Three Little Pigs (English) - Ashliman
- 7/23/2022 Cannetella (Basile)
- 7/17/2022 Three Snake Leaves (Grimm)
- 7/14/2022 Boy Who Cried Wolf, The (Aesop)
- 6/30/2022 Young Woman/Young Man (Lang, adapted by Cosbrarian)
- 6/23/2022 Silver-Tree and Gold Tree (English - Jacobs) - Sacred Texts
- 6/15/2022 Ugly Duckling, The (Andersen)
- 6/8/2022 Happy Prince, The (Wilde)
- 6/2/2022 Rumpelstiltskin (Grimm)
- 5/30/2022 Why the Mango is Shaped Like a Heart (Philippines)
- 5/28/2022 Buried Arm, The (Philippines)
- 5/27/2022 Why the PIna Has 100 Eyes (Philippines)
- 5/22/2022 Five Chinese Brothers/Ten Brothers (China)
- 5/15/2022 Wife of the Dragon Palace, The (Japan - Kunio)
- 5/13/2022 Pirate Princess, The (Jewish - Schwartz)
- 5/8/2022 Story of a Mother, The (Andersen)
- 5/4/2022 Man Make Fly (Marshallese - Pacific Island legends : tales from Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Australia, via Archive.org)
- 5/1/2022 Kuzunoha (Japan - "Magic Fox of Japan")
- 4/23/2022 Cap O'Rushes (England) - Sacred Texts
- 4/20/2022 Prince and the Pauper, The (Dickens) - via Gutenberg.org
- 4/10/2022 Maiden and the Unicorn, The (Scotland) - Folk Tales of the Moor and Mountain
- 4/6/2022 Cantuña and the Devil (Ecuador) - "The Story of Cantuna and the Devil"
- 4/2/22 Red Shoes, The (Andersen)
- 3/18/22 White Cat, The (d'Aulnoy)
- 3/4/22 Wonder Tales of the Baltic Wizards (Baltic) - Baltic Tales
- 2/16/2022 Snow Queen, The (Andersen)
- 2/14/2022 Robber Bridegroom (Grimm)
- 2/3/2022 The Fox Borrows the Tiger's Terror (China) - StoryMuseum.org
- 2/3/2022 Tiger and the Dried Persimmon (Korea) - National Folk Museum of Korea
- 2/1/2022 Cat and Rat of the Zodiac (China) - adapted from Ed Young's version
- 1/28/2022 Frau Holle (Grimm)
- 1/25/2022 Ivan and the Chestnut Horse (Russia) - Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book
- 1/18/2022 Marriage of the Rat's Daughter (Japan - Lang)
- 1/14/2022 Three Ridiculous Wishes (France - Perrault)
- 1/11/2022 Cinderella - Little Saddleslut (Greek) - Ashliman
- 1/6/2022 Cinderella - Fair, Brown, and Trembling (Ireland) - Ashliman
- 1/4/2022 Cinderella - Grimm
- 12/30/2021 Cinderella - Naples, Cat Cinderella (Basile)
- 12/23/2021 Befana, the Italian Xmas Witch - Ottowa Italians
- 12/22/2021 Christmas Spider (Ukraine) - Wikipedia.org
- 12/20/2021 Gingerbread Man (American) - Ashliman
- 12/16/2021 Little Match Girl, The (Andersen)
- 12/12/2021 Gift of the Magi, The (Henry) - AmericanEnglish.state.gov
- 12/10/2021 St Nicholas and the Evil Butcher - Saint Nicholas Center
- Smee (Burrage) - The Paris Review
- 11/28/2021 Little Red Hen (American) - Google Books
- 11/26/2021 Beauty and the Beast (Literary - Madame de Villeneuve)
- 11/24/2021 Why the Sea is Salty (Norway) - Ashliman
- 11/24/2021 Water Mother, The (China)
- 11/24/2021 Sweet Porridge (Grimm)
- 11/18/2021 Bird, Mouse, and Sausage (Grimm)
- 11/12/2021 Three Bears, The (English - Eleanor Mure)
- 11/7/2021 Clam Wife, The (Japan - Kunio)
- 11/4/2021 Most Sensitive Woman (Italy)
- 11/4/2021 Three Fastidious Men (India - Ocean of Story)
- 11/4/2021 Princess and the Pea, The (Andersen)
- 10/28/2021 Cask of Amontillado (Poe Museum)
- 10/27/2021 Finger, The (Jewish - Schwartz)
- 10/25/2021 Zibirinis legend (Hungary)
- 10/25/2021 Skeleton lore (America)
- 10/21/2021 Yotsuya Kaidan (Japan)
- 10/15/2021 Godfather Death (Grimm)
- 10/11/2021 Tailypo (Appalachia)
- 10/8/2021 Adventures of a German Student/The Green Ribbon (Irving)
- 10/5/2021 La Ramee and the Phantom (France)
- 10/1/2021 Willful Child, The (Grimm)
- 9/29/2021 Story of Tấm and Cám, The (Vietnam)
- 9/24/2021 Malachite Casket, the (Ural Mountains)
- 9/17/2021 Ungrateful Son, the (Grimm)
- 9/14/2021 One Eyes Two Eyes Three Eyes (Grimm)
- 9/9/2021 Nightingale, The (Andersen)
- 9/1/2021 How Children Played at Slaughter (Grimm)
- 8/31/2021 Mistress of the Copper Mountain, the (Ural Mountains)
- 8/24/2021 Maiden with No Hands, The (Grimm)
- 8/13/2021 Flayed Old Woman, The (Basile)
- 8/9/2021 Ricky of the Tuft (Perrault)
- 8/8/2021 Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, The (Andersen)
- 8/7/2021 Goose Girl, The (Grimm)
- 8/1/2021 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Arthurian)
- 7/30/2021 Everyone Thinks Their Own Children Are Best (Asbjornsen and Moe)
- 7/25/2021 Red Riding Hood (Thurber)
- 7/24/2021 Red Riding Hood (Millien)
- 7/11/2021 Enchanted Snake, The (Lang)
- 7/10/2021 Singing Bone, the (Grimm)
- 7/5/2021 Seven Ravens, the (Grimm)
- 7/3/2021 Sleeping Beauty (Chinese myth)
- 7/1/2021 Sleeping Beauty (Perceforest)
- 6/23/2021 Sleeping Beauty (Basile)
- 6/19/2021 Sleeping Beauty (Perrault)
- 6/12/2021 Sleeping Beauty (Grimm)
- 6/8/2021 Pink, The (Grimm)
- 6/5/2021 Swineherd, The (Andersen)
- 5/31/2021 Six Swans, The (Grimm)
- 5/27/2021 Musicians of Bremen, The (Grimm)
- 5/24/2021 Molly Whuppie (Scotland)
- 4/29/2021 Butterfly, The (Andersen)
- 4/25/2021 Fitcher's Bird, The (Grimm)
- 4/19/2021 Selkie Myth (Ireland)
- 4/15/2021 Baker's Daughter, The (Ireland)
- 4/9/2021 12 Dancing Princesses, The (Grimm)
- 3/27/2021 Frog King, the (Grimm)
- 3/20/2021 Juniper Tree, The (Grimm)
- 3/14/2021 Strange Feast, The (Grimm)
- 3/12/2021 Little Mermaid, The (Andersen)
- 3/6/2021 Clever Elsie (Grimm)
- 3/3/2021 Snow White and Rose Red (Grimm)
- 3/1/2021 Rapunzel (Grimm)
- 2/27/2021 Faithful John (Grimm)
- 2/26/2021 Princess in Disguise (Grimm)