Folktales
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[hide]France
Germany
- Brüder Grimm @ wikisource, English translation: gutenberg
- Teutonic Mythology, [3]
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 (1904), Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
- 11. Hearn's telling of the Yuki-onna story is one of four adapted 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):
- 11. Hearn's telling of the Yuki-onna story is one of four adapted in Masaki Kobayashi's 1964 film Kwaidan
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Norse mythology
- Bloodofox has done significant work on Norse mythology on en.wp.
- Genderdesk has done work on Swedish and Sami, Icelandic and Irish folksongs and religious music.
Russia
Sweden
- Fairy Tales from the Swedish, Baron G. Djurklou, trans. H. L. Brækstad [8]