Folklore Curriculum
Folklore, myth, narrative, and symbolism
Ancient Myths
Cupid and Psyche
Saint's Stories
Iconography of Christendom
Saint's Tales
Secular Tales
- Tales of the Fox and the Wolf
- Tales of the Lion
- Tales of the Bear
- Tales of the Dog
- Tales of the Birds
- Tales of the Snake
- Tales of Giants
Singular Tales
- The Dragon Slayer
- The Bridge
- Three Stolen Princesses
- The Princess's Ring
- The Sword of Light
- The Brothers Seeking Wives
- The Night Watch
- The Dancing Shoes
- The Maiden in the Tower
- The Singing Bag
- The Maiden Killer
- The Flight
- The Cannibal Princess
- The Tree That Grows Up To The Sky
- The Recovered Eyeballs
- The Magnet Mountain
- The Sorceror's Apprentice
- The Youth Who Wanted To Leanr What Fear Is
- Hansel and Gretel
- The Witch's Sack
- The Witch & the Fisher Boy
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Stealing the Sun Moon and Stars
- Godfather Death
- Little Red Riding Hood
- House of the Witch
- The Wolf with the Iron Head
- The Lost Father
- The Lost Wife (Swan Maiden)
- The Lost Brothers
- The Lost Soldiers
- The Beastly Wife
- The Beastly Husband
- Beauty and the Beast
- Brides Black & White
- Sleeping Beauty
- The Petrified Kingdom
- The Witch's Son
- The House in the Forest
- The Diver
- Little Brother & Little Sister
- In Search of Fortune
- The Persecuted Husband
- The Wedding Invitation (Friends in Life & Death)
- The Land Where No One Dies
- The Bridge to the Other World
- The Monk & the Bird
- The Undeworld's Midwife
- Girls Kind & Unkind
- The Strange House
- The Three Old Women
- The Wild Man
- The Gifts of Little People
- Cinderella
- Peau d'Asne
- Six Go Through the Whole World
- Faithful John
- The Boy Who Understood Birds
- The Inheritance
- Brunhilde
- The Wild Child
- The Dog & The Sailor
- The Magic Castle
- The Cat in Boots
- The Water of Life
- The Fisherman & his Wife
- The Witch's Shepherd
- The Ring
- Aladdin
- The Spirit in the Blue LIght
- The Bird's Heart
- The Seven League Boots
- 100 Rabbits
- The Rat Catcher
- All Stuck Together
- The Barking Dog's Head
- The Knife
- Strong John
- Quest for a Strong Companion
- The Wishing Prince
- The Skillful Brothers
- The Hypnotist
- The Man Who Flew Like a Bird & Swam Like a Fish
- The Magic Boy
- Stone of the Snake
- The Lazy Boy
- Below the Sea
- The King's Parrot
- Tom Thumb
- The Giant's Toy
- The Snow Child
- The Princess & The Pea
- The Handless Maiden
- The Three Golden Children
- The Wonder Child
- Snow White
- The Sister of Nine Brothers
- The Twin Sisters
- The Lost Ring
- The Lucky Wife
- The Hanging
- The Hatch-Penny
- The Star Money
- The Singing Bone
- The Murderous Princess
- The Golden Ram
- The Man With Four Wives
- The Princess Under the Hill
- The Goose Girl
- The King & the Clever Girl
- The Bride in Disguise
- The Innocent Maiden
- The Crystal Palace
- The Ghoulish Schoolmaster
- The Unholy Man
- The Daughter of the Sun
- Alcestis
- Beggar, Thief, Murderer
- The Bearer of Bad News
- Trapping the Demon
- The Fallen Snow
- The Prophecied Wife
- The Misfortunate King
- The Money Stick
- The Spider Web
- The Hidden Old Man
- Not Dead Yet
- Thunder
- The Bear Trainer
- The Troll at a Baptism
- Topsy Turvy Land
- Climbing to Heaven
- The Strongest Son in Law
19th Century National Scholarship
Brothers Grimm - Germany
Alexander Afanasyev - Russia
Elias Lönnrot - Finland - Kalevala
William Butler Yeats - Ireland
John Francis Cambell - Scotland
Abjornsen and Moe - Norway
Evald Tang Kristensen - Denmark
Joseph Ritson - English nursery rhymes
Francis James Child - English ballads
Niccolò Tommaseo - Italy
Walter Scott - Borderer ballads
Bell & Dixon - English Peasant Songs
William John Thoms - English Folklore
Sabine Baring-Gould - English folklore and Saints Tales
Academics, Symbolists and Psychologists
Max Muller
Mircea Eliade
Carl Jung
George Frazer
Iona and Peter Opie
Marie-Louise von Franz
Margaret Fay Shaw
Georges Dumézil
Aarnes Thompson
Alan Dundes
Vladimir Propp
Umberto Eco
Roland Barthes
Italo Calvino