[ **up: [[Literature]]** ] --- # Folk tales (Tales): fairy tales, tales & legends --- ## Brothers Grimm > I enjoy a joke about fucked up German fairy tales as much as the next nerd, but it’s genuinely striking how often the source for the *really* fucked up stuff turns out to be “yeah, this is only in the Brothers Grimm version and doesn’t appear in any extant oral tradition, and we’re like 80% sure they added it themselves”. To a large extent it’s not German fairy tales that are fucked up, it’s two specific German dudes.[^1] --- ## External resources ### Tales - [Multilingual Folk Tale Database](https://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=home) (external resource) — Read popular folk tales from all over this world, in their original language or a translation. + [The Little Girl Sold with the Pears](https://www.ruanyifeng.com/calvino/2006/10/11_the_little_girl_sold_with_t.html) #### Genderbending folktales - [A Afilhada de Santo António](https://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=file&cid=xmlfiles/por/trans-3871.xml)—The sister becomes a soldier in place of her brother. Marries the daughter of the king \[K1837, K1322]. She is driven away and rescued by her companions. The change of sex in the ogress’ house \[D11]. Marriage with the princess \[L161]. --- ### Tales—Study and teaching - [Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology](https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html) — D.L. Ashliman’s Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts Collection. #### Tales—Classification - [[Aarne-Thompson-Uther Classification (of Folk Tales)]] - [S. Thompson. Motif-index of folk-literature](https://sites.ualberta.ca/~urban/Projects/English/Content/Motif_Quick_Index.htm) (external resource) — a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends. - [Propp's Functions](https://sites.ualberta.ca/~urban/Projects/English/Content/Propp_Functions.htm) (external resource) - [AT Types of Folktales](http://oaks.nvg.org/folktale-types.html) - [Motif-Index of Folk-Literature](https://archive.org/details/Thompson2016MotifIndex/mode/2up) [^1]: prokopetz \[pseud.], ‘I enjoy a joke about fucked up German fairy tales as much as the next nerd …’, *David J Prokopetz* (Tumblr blog), 28 November 2022, 2:54 AM, https://www.tumblr.com/prokopetz/768315597165592576.