Gathered by Dr. Eric Miller, Director,
Links to Traditional
Stories (written in English)
and
Links to Audio and
Video Recordings
relating to
Storytelling
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Links to Traditional
Stories (written in English)
Animal Fables (one
kind of Folktale) --
1
Some Panchatantra Stories,
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/panchatantra.html
https://parenting.firstcry.com/articles/top-10-short-stories-of-panchatantra-for-kids
https://www.tell-a-tale.com/10-short-panchatantra-stories-must-read-4-6-year-old-kids
https://www.momjunction.com/articles/interesting-panchatantra-stories-for-your-kids_0076202
https://kidsshortmoralstories.com/panchatantra-stories-for-kids
https://www.hopscotch.in/blog/5-thought-provoking-bedtime-stories-from-panchatantra
https://indianhindunames.com/panchatantra-stories.htm
About the Panchatantra Stories,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchatantra
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Aesop's Fables,
http://www.aesopfables.com/aesop1.html
http://www.aesopfables.com/aesop2.html
http://www.aesopfables.com/aesop3.html
http://www.aesopfables.com/aesop4.html
http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/index.html
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/fables.php
http://www.taleswithmorals.com
http://read.gov/aesop.html (Introduction).
http://read.gov/aesop/001.html (List of Stories).
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Jataka Tales,
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/jataka.html
http://www.buddhanet.net/bt_conts.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/kawasaki/bl135.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/jt/index.htm
Fairytales (one kind
of Folktale) --
4
Introduction to Fairytales,
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/introduction/index.html
5
47 Fairytales, with commentaries,
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/talesindex.html
6
Grimms' Fairytales, presented by D. L. Ashliman,
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html (The stories)
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html (About the stories)
7
http://fairytalez.com/authors-and-collections
8
40 complete e-books of and about Fairytales,
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/ebooksindex.html
9
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (The Blue Fairy Book, etc),
http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang
10
Fairytales, presented by Karen Chase,
http://tinyurl.com/fairytalesonline
Please see the "Blog Index," and the list of
"Favorite Storyteller's Blogs," on this page.
11
Indian Fairytales, collected by Joseph Jacobs,
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/ift/index.htm
12
Twelve favorite stories (mostly Fairytales),
http://www.storytellinginstitute.org/44.htm
Other kinds of
Folktales --
13
Stories for Children, re-told by Heather Forest,
http://www.storyarts.org/library/nutshell/index.html
14
Stories of many kinds,
15
http://tinyurl.com/folktales-in-public-domain-1
http://tinyurl.com/folktales-in-public-domain-2
http://tinyurl.com/folktales-in-public-domain-3
http://tinyurl.com/folktales-in-public-domain-4
http://tinyurl.com/folktales-in-public-domain-5
http://tinyurl.com/folktales-in-public-domain-6
http://tinyurl.com/folktales-in-public-domain-7
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99 Tamil Folktales, collected by Stuart Blackburn,
http://www.storytellinginstitute.org/99.pdf
.
22 of these Folktales, told by a group of women near
Thanjaur,
http://www.storytellinginstitute.org/85.pdf
.
17
"A Flowering
Tree" and Other Oral Tales from India.
Kannada Folktales collected and translated by A. K.
Ramanujan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
The complete book is at
Mythology --
18
Mythology and Folklore textbook,
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com
19
Folklore and Mythology, presented by D. L. Ashliman,
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
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Links to Audio and
Video Recordings
relating to
Storytelling
1
Approximately 120 one-hour audio recordings
of interviews with professional storytellers,
http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/past-guests
2
Audio recordings of talks by storytellers who practice
storytelling as a healing art,
http://healingstory.org/events/teleconference-recordings
3
Recordings of approximately 20 storytelling-related
videoconferences,
http://storytellinginstitute.org/av.html
4
An
online "interactive documentary" on story and storytelling,
http://biologyofstory.com .
The list of participants is at
http://biologyofstory.com/#/main?index=entity .
Especially recommended are the audio/video
recordings of,
Ben Haggerty (Storytelling).
Kendall Haven (Story).
Nancy Mellon (Story and Healing).
Deena Metzger (Story and Healing).
Jo Radner (Storytelling).
Laura Simms (Storytelling).
Dan Yashinsky (Storytelling).
Jack Zipes (Story).
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one could do a "Search" for
"Margaret Read MacDonald"
"Diane Ferlatte"
"Storytelling"
Any of the above-mentioned names, etc.
Last updated, March 2021
Please let me know about links that are not working,
eric@storytellinginstitute.org
.