Folktales

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France

  • Jean de la Fontaine, Les Fables, [1]
  • Charles Perrault, Contes, [2]

Germany

Haiti

  • Price-Mars, Ainsi parla l'oncle [4]

International

  • "Folklore and Mythology: Electronic texts", edited and/or translated by D.L. Ashliman [5]

Japan

  • Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things,
    • 11. Yuki-Onna is one of the four stories in Masaki Kobayashi's 1964 film Kwaidan
      (0:39:55—1:22:40 @ archive.org) <-- much recommended, comes with English subtitles
    • the original text of the (very) short story can be found at gutenberg.org
    • you can even find a nicely done librivox.org recording made by Availle (who is a good storyteller with a slight accent):
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Norse mythology

Russia

  • Afansaev, Народные русские сказки, [6]
  • Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale, [7]

Sweden

  • Fairy Tales from the Swedish, Baron G. Djurklou, trans. H. L. Brækstad [8]

US

  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales, [9]
  • Joel Chandler Harris, Nights with Uncle Remus, 1883, Gutenberg
  • Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus, libravox gutenberg
  • Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men, [10]