Old Books of Folktale
This section covers those books, in full or in part, which are written either
--around 1900 or
before, OR
--are scarce or out of print OR see the list of
these books
--are of Africa
--are not available in Hindi
Most folktales have been translated from various
books and Web Sites but some folktales books have been translated in full.
They have been selected from all the continents depending on their availability. The
criteria of choosing them are one, the book is about rare folktales; and
two, the book is old - normally around or before 1900, the book is out of
print, all African books, and certainly those books which are not
available in Hindi. A couple of more
books have also sneaked in this list. The
list of presently available titles are given here with the number of their stories
contained in and translated.
AFRICA
African Folktales (18)
by Alessandro Ceni. 1998.
18 stories
Favorite African Stories (32)
edited by Nelson Mandela. 32 Stories.
List of Stories.
Fourteen
Hundred Cowries: traditional stories of the Yoruba (29/31)
by Abayomi Fuja. Ibadan: OUP. 1962. 164 p. List of Stories
The Orphan Girl and Other Stories
(41)
by Offodile Buchi. 2001. 41 Stories. List of Stories.
Zanzibar Tales:
told by the natives of the East Coast Africa (10)
Translated by
George W Bateman. Chicago: AC McClurg. 1901. List of Stories.
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AMERICA, NORTH
The Thunder Bird
Tootooch Legends (38)
By ML Webber. 1936. List of Stories
Available in English at the Web Site :
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/ttb/index.htm
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ASIA
Folklore and
Legends: Oriental (24)
By Charles John
Tibbits. London: WW Gibbins. 1889. List of Stories
Available in English at the Web Site
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Tibbitts%2C%20Charles%20John
Chinese Myths and Legends (38)
By Joanne
O'Brien. Translated by Kwak Man Ho. 38 Myths.
Available in English at the Web Site :
https://www.scribd.com/document/57934877/Chinese-Myths-and-Legends
Folk-tales of Bengal (22)
By Lal Behari Dey. London, Macmillan. 1883. 22 Stories. These stories from its 1912 edition.
Published by NBT,
Delhi.
Available in English at the Web Sites :
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38488/38488-h/38488-h.htm
https://archive.org/details/folktalesofbenga019703mbp/page/n11
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Folk-tales_of_Bengal
Folktales of Kashmir (64)
By James Hinton Knowles. London: Kegan Paul. 1887. 2nd edition.
List of Stories.
Available in English at the Web Site :
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ChaBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3&redir_esc=y&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
Folktales from
the Punjab (43)
By Flora Annie Steel. London: MacMillan & Co. 1894.
List of Stories.
Available in English at the Web Site :
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/steel/punjab/punjab.html
Wide Awake
Stories
By Flora Annie Steel. London : MacMillan & Co.
Israel: King Solomon and Solomon and
Markolf
Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Rithues are the two medieval texts of
widely spread genre in a number of languages.
Published with the title "Raja Solomon" by Prabhat Prakashan, Delhi. 2019.
Folk Tales From the Russian (9)
By Veera Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Bluementhal. 1903. List of Stories.
Available in English at the Web Site :
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ftr/index.htm
Russian Folk-Tales (73)
By Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev. 1889.
List of Stories.
Translated in English by Leonard Arthur Magnus. 1916.
Available in English at the Web Site :
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Russian_Folk-Tales
Russian Folktales
Retold by
James Riordan. Oxford, OUP. 2000. 96 p.
Folktales of Serbia
(26)
Translated by Madam Csedomille Mijatovies. London: W Isbister. 1874. 26 tales
Available in English at the Web Site :
https://books.google.ca/books?id=lC4CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR4&redir_esc=y&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
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EUROPE
Georgian Folktales (38)
Translated by Marjorie Wardrop. London, David Nutt in the Strand. 1894. 200 p.
38 Stories.
Available in English at the Web Site :
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924029936006#page/n12/mode/1up
Italian
Folktales : collected and retold by Italo Calvino. (125/200)
by Italo Calvino. 1889. 200 Stories.
Translated by George Martin. San Diego, Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich. 1980. 200 Stories.
Pentamerone
(50)
By
Giambattista Basile. Naples (Italy). 1634, 1636. 2 volumes.
Available in English at the Web Site :
Decamerone
(100)
By Flora Annie Steel. London : Macmillan & Co.
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