Chock-full General Folklore Sites

SurlaLune Fairy Tales  http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/                              SurlaLune Fairy Tale Pages is a great starting place, truly a treasure trove of information.  Not only does librarian Heide Anne Heiner present 49 classic European tales and point the way to multicultural variants in picture books , but she offers educational guides and spearheads lively discussions about folktales  and folktales films both old and dressed  in new fictional clothes.  And so much more.

Project Gutenberg    www.gutenberg.org/ebooks                                                          The 78 subject headings under “Folklore” here lead to full-text, out-of-print ebooks by country and subject.

Story Arts Online  http://www.storyarts.org/                                                       Storyteller and author Heather Forest has created a valuable site with tips for storytelling in the classroom,  lesson plans and activities,  a Story Library with bare-bones plots of 36 global folktales and 26 Aesop’s fables for retelling,  storytelling resources, and a link to some YouTube.

Stories for the Season  http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~nilas/seasons/              Sponsored by The Nature In Legend and Story Society (NILAS) and H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line. 27 well-chosen folktales are amply retold here.

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts    http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html      D. L. Ashliman has created and sorted a giant database of global folk stories.

Karen Chace: Storytelling Links  http://www.storybug.net/links.html    From here you can reach a potpourri  of global folktales on themes such as bird stories, teaching tolerance, princess tales, trickster tales, Native American tales, and string stories, in addition to finding resources for storytelling.