The Norweigan Fairy Book
The Diamond Fairy Book
The Ruby Fairy Book
The Golden Fairy Book
The Silver Fairy Book
Stories by Hans Christian Anderson
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories
Irish Fairy Tales
My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales
Tales of Folk and Fairies
Rumplestiltskin isn't the only story about a Fairy helper! There are LOTS of them acutally. You can read different ones from all over the world here.
Nightmares were believed to be caused by Fairy creatures, (called, of course, night-mares). Read lots of stories about them here
Fairies were very often believed to kidnap people - kind of like you hear about aliens doing. Stories that describe this are listed here Fairies were also believed to leave a fairy baby in place of the real one, (kind of like the 'Labyrinth' story). These were called Changelings. Lots of stories about them are here
Aesop's Fables - each one has a moral. Read them here
Legends of King Arthur that you might not find elsewhere are listed here
Did you know that there are even fairy tales about the Devil! Here is a list of some of them More can be found here, here and here
Stranger still, there are a number of fairy tales about farts!!! I am so not kidding. These somewhat disturbing tales are listed here
An English tale about when the whole world was overrun with ghosts. There are also lots of stories about ghosts who come back for their belongings. They are here
Stories about the origins of Fairies and Elves and about why we don't see them so much anymore here
Fairy tales about dreams and more dreams
A fantastic list of Fairy Tales from England
Stories about presents from fairies and other magic gifts
Fairies who steal things from people
Tales of foolish wishes
Fairy Tales from Ireland
Japanese fairy tales and more Japanese Fairy Tales
My favorite, Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
Fairy tales about lies
Some of the coolest fairy tales were from the Isle of Man
Tales from ancient India
Stories by Charles Perrault, author of 'Puss in Boots'
Shoes that were danced to pieces
Singing Bones
Fairy Tales from Scotland
There are actually MANY versions of the best known fairy-tales, here are some of them:
Rapunzel stories
The Pied Piper of Hamlin
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Stories that have no ending!
Vampire and ghost stories from Russia
Werewolf legends from Germany
Folklore and Fairy tales from Wales
The real Jack o Lantern and similar stories
If you want to learn even more about Fairy Tales, here's an entire directory of sites on-line!
