Alice in Wonderland (Text Library) - Downloadable as plain text, or for purchase as searchable hypertext for 32-bit Windows and Internet Explorer 4.0+.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Full text formatted in HTML, with banner advertisements.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Project Gutenberg) - Complete plaintext version, archived at Accelerated Schools
At the Edge archive: Celtic fallacy - Argument and counter-argument from Bob Trubshaw, Alby Stone and Nigel Pennick
Australian Folklore - Yesterday and Today: Definitions and Practices by John S. Ryan
Baba Yaga the Witch - This is the story of Baba Yaga, a sneaky witch who flies through the air in a mortar and pestle. Based on a Russian Fairy Tale. There are a number of other stories on this site.
Baldwin Project - Bringing Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children - online collection of resources for parents and teachers. Focus is on literature for children in the public domain in the United States including many fairy tales from different sources.
Bartleby.com - Online publication of the 1910 edition of the classic "The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales," by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
Beauty and the Beast - A site detailing the on-line resources related to the fairy tale.
Beth Gellert - A Welsh Fairy story about Prince Bledri's favourite greyhound companion, Beth Gellert.
Bewitched Butter - the complete text of this folklore piece reproduced from the Dublin University Magazine, 1839
Buddhist Tales - Jataka Stories
Celtic and Faery Folklore Original Literature - site of original writings from W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Thomas Croker, Walter Traill Dennison and others.
Celtic Customs Archive - Dalriada Celtic Heritage Trust : including customs of home, hearth and death.
Celtic Folklore: The People of the Mounds - by L. MacDonald from - Dalraida Magazine 1993.
Celtic Historical Fiction - Reviews of and links to Celtic historical fiction including Celtic faery and folk tales and links to purchasing these works
Cinderella - Aarne-Thompson folktale type 510A and related stories of persecuted heroines
Conkers and Ghosts - Includes a three month calendar, folktale and the season's customs.
Cornish Folklore - Index of Cornish Folklore including: faeries, giants, legends, and superstitions.
Eau de Paques - French Canadian Culture - folkore from this culture mainly about Easter - (from About.com)
Eurotales - Five European schools collaborating as part of a Comenius partnership to share folk tales and story telling in their own languages.
Fairy Flag of the Clan MacLeod - The story of the fairy flag
Fairy Tales - Classic Tales, Into the Woods, and Selchies sections with origin and resources. From the popular "Legends" website.
Fairy Tales and Fables - E-texts concentrating on the Brothers Grimm, Arabian Nights, and H.C. Andersen.
Fairy Tales for Children - some good traditional tales from Childenstory.com
Folk and Fairy Tales - Sources for analysis and interpretation, includes an extensive list of online articles.
Folklore and Faery Tales - Poland - Short but interesting folklore tales from Poland and the Slavic countries
Folklore of Ireland - Good overview of Irish Folklore - from the Kerry Gems site
Folklore of the Gaels of Ireland and the Highlands - Short introduction to the subject with good glossary of subjects and terms
French Fairy Tales - Course web page from Wesleyan University. Major readings, resources, and forum.
French Fairy Tales Project - A multitude of resources including: online texts, articles, origins, themes, and influences.
Gutnish folklore - General information on Gutnish folklore and fairy-faith on the island of Gotland (now a province of Sweden).
Humpty Dumpty - Chapter 6 of Through the Looking Glass, with biographies on Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel.
Il Pentamerone (Story of Stories) by Giambattista Basile - Features the text and illustrations by Warwick Goble and George Cruikshank for Giambattista Basile's book, Il Pentamerone, one of the first collection of European literary fairy tales from the 17th century.
Irish Fairy Folk - Images from the ancient tales combined with observations.
Irish/Celtic Ghost Stories - Short summaries of a few tales with illustrations.
Isle of Man - Folklore - Manx Fairy Stories from a collection of traditional tales compiled by Sophia Morrison in 1911.
Jack and the Beanstalk/Jack the Giant-Killer Project - From the Univ. of Southern Mississippi, includes: origins, archives, images, and versions.
Japanese Old Tales - Table of Contents page (English version) with many interesting old tales.
Lewis Carroll: Master of Nonsense - HTML etext of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" with the Tenniel illustrations.
Literature Network: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Book available to read online.
Little Mos'-Woman - The Story of a (Fairy-)Tale. From a Sukyrja village in the north-western corner of a Mansi (Vogul) area.
Little Red Riding Hood Project: - From the Univ. of Southern Mississippi, includes: origins, archives, images, and versions.
Marvels and Tales - The journal's collection of links to scholarly study.
Mayan Folktales - "These stories were told to Fernando Peñalosa by don Pedro Miguel Say, a famous Q'anjob'al storyteller from San Miguel Acátan, Huehuetenango, Guatemala."
Molla Nasreddin - Comic Sage of the Ages - Article in Azerbaijan International; includes stories.
Nasreddin Hodja - introduction, stories, pictures and more, by Erol Beymen.
Newfoundland--Yaffles & Yaffles - Newfoundland and Labrador : Baccalieu Trail Fairy Stories
Northumbrian Folk Tales - "These stories come from North East England and have been passed from generation to generation in the oral tradition."
Once Upon A Time - Information about contemporary novels that expand and twist classic fairy tales.
One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights - extensive collection of folk tales from Papua New Guinea.
Ongoing Tales Fairy Tales - Antelope Publishing brings well loved and lesser known fairytales to life with electronic enhancement. New postings monthly.
Ongoing Tales From the Past - "Old time stories, fairytales, poems and more with electronic enhancement."
Palestinian Folktales - Stories are : Ataba & Zarief and The Hunter.
Philippine Folklore - collection of stories, myths, folktales and fairy tales from the Philippines.
Pied Piper of Hamelin - by Robert Browning, Illustrated by Kate Greenaway from the Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1888 edition.
Prolegomena to a History of Story-Telling Around the Baltic Sea, C. 1550-1800 - German- and Dutch-speaking folklorists on the background of the nineteenth-century collections of folk narratives.
Russia, Folk Tales, Fairy Tales - a series of Russian Fairy Tales which have been translated by the author
Russian and Ukrainian Folk Tales - Traditional stories translated into English.
Russian Fairy Tales - Sorted by theme, subject, and artist.
Satire: Molla Nasreddin - Eighteen stories, taken from Mohammad Ramazani's "600 Molla Nasreddin Tales", published by Iranbooks (1997) in Persian.
Scottish Fairy Tales - The Ochil Fairy Tales: The King of the Fairies by R. Menzies Fergusson
Scottish Folklore Page - Browse a selection of antiquarian and secondhand books dealing with Scottish folklore
Seelie Court, Unseelie Court - "In Scotland faeries were divided into the Seelie Court and Unseelie Court depending on whether or not they were kind."
Shattered Mirror Library - An on-line library of the myth and meaning of Fairy Tales. In April 2000 this site was still heavily under construction but has great potential and is worth bookmarking.
Short Stories - Thirteen folktales of Russia's northern minority peoples.
Stories - "Once upon a time, there lived in the borders of Scotland a piper called Angus McDougal."
Stories of the Feri Folk - Fairy and folk tales from around the world, with a focus on Norway. Includes some modern day fairy stories.
Stories, Folklore, and Fairy Tales Theme Page - This CLN menu page provides links to English curricular resources and instructional materials (lesson plans) in the specific topic of stories and fairy tales
Tales of Faerie Worldwide - International faerie stories.
Tam Lin: Comparison Pages - Scottish ballad "Tam Lin" comparisons to similar tales such as Beauty and the Beast, and the Fairy Oak of Corriewater.
The Nursery Alice - Complete online text of Carroll's own adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for nursery-school-aged ("Children aged from Nought to Five") readers, along with colored reproductions of the original Tenniel illustrations.
The Tuatha De Danaan - Good overview on the origin of the Irish Faerie Folk
Three Little Pigs - The complete traditional story online.
Through the Looking Glass (Bragi) - Full text.
Through the Looking Glass (Literature Network) - Searchable chapter indexed etext, with background on the book.
Through the Looking Glass (Project Gutenberg) - Text file by ftp from UIUC.
Through the Looking Glass (Text Library) - Through the Looking Glass as a plain text file.
Tir Nan Og - Faerie lore from mythology and literature traditions.
Tir Nan Og--Land of the Irish Faerie - Plentiful illustrations and information of this Otherworld realm.
Trolls - An introduction to the Scandinavian troll with stoies, pictures, troll links etc.
Vietnamese Folk Tales - Vietnamese Boat people Connection - traditional folk tales. Vietnamese font required for some words and phrases.
Witch and Priest Juxtaposed: - Two figures from Irish Traditional Narratives. Essay by Deirdre Nuttall