Storytelling
Effective Storytelling
A manual for beginners
http://www.eldrbarry.net/roos/eest.htm
Overcoming Performance Anxiety & Stage Fright
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/articles/stagefright.html
Tim Sheppard’s Storytelling Resources for Storytellers
If you visit no other link, read no other page - click this one and give it your full attention!
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/
The Art of Storytelling links
http://www.eldrbarry.net/roos/art.htm
Traditional Storytelling
Discusses the difference in storytelling patterns in the various countries
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/dir/traditions/index.html
Folktale Openings
If you want something other than 'Once upon a time'
http://www.folktale.net/openers.html
Folktale Closings
When you want to use something other than 'Happily ever after'
http://www.folktale.net/endings.html
Examples
5 Minute Irish Stories
http://web.ncf.ca/er719/blackbx.html
A Europe of Tales
All flash, loads slow but interesting enough to be worth the wait
http://www.europeoftales.net/site/en/index.html
Aesop's Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/
Ancient Finnish Myths
http://www.finnishmyth.org/
Camelot Project
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm
Cariadoc's Period Sources for Story Telling
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/period_sources_for_story_telling.html
Celtic Fairy Tales
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=jacobs&book=celtic&story=_contents
Cornish Mythos and Legends
http://www.connexions.co.uk/culture/index.htm
Eastern European Folktales
http://www.tccweb.org/eastern.htm
Far-Fetched Folklore
Tales of Jack
http://www.ibiblio.org/bawdy/folklore/
Folklore of the Orkney Islands
http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/index.html
Folktexts: A library of folktales,
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Four Arthurian Romances
"EREC ET ENIDE", "CLIGES", "YVAIN", AND "LANCELOT"
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/831/831-h/831-h.htm
Good King Henry Stories
http://home.comcast.net/~roger.redundant.roger/gkh_index.htm
In Parentheses
In Parentheses is devoted to distributing texts, translations, and commentaries from a wide variety of areas and disciplines in an elegantly presented form.
http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/
Myths & Legends
http://www.mythiccrossroads.com/myth.htm
Nasreddin Hodja
The Turkish Trickster and Wise Fool
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hodja.html
Norwegian Folktales
http://oaks.nvg.org/norwegian-folktales.html
Online Books Page
A collection of free folklore ebooks
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?GR
Russian Folktales
http://russian-crafts.com/russian-folk-tales.html
Sagen Story Archive
This one is for true bards. It's not in english but there is a link to translate. The translation is not perfect - you get an idea what the stories are about but you have to fill in quite a bit yourself.
http://www.sagen.at/
Simorgh -- An Old Persian Fairy Tale
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/mideast/mi-homa.htm
Stav Academy Library
A collection of tales from around the world (some modern - most have a date on them)
http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/
Stories and Legends from Around the World
http://www.unc.edu/~rwilkers/title.htm
Stories in a Nutshell
Simplified stories that will be easy to flesh out
http://www.storyarts.org/library/nutshell/index.html
TALES AND MAXIMS FROM THE MIDRASH
Jewish folktales
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/index.htm
Tales from Froissart
http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/froissart/tales.htm
Tales of Faerie - Worldwide
http://faerymists.tripod.com/fytales/fytales.htm
The Gold Scales
A large collection of tales from a number of countries
http://oaks.nvg.org/ind-3.html
The Golden Legend
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/
The Kalevala
The Kalevala is the national saga of Finland
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/index.htm
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, by Sir John Mandeville
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/tosjm10h.htm
Wooing of Etain
http://www.mesacc.edu/~tomshoemaker/celtic/Etain.html
Effective Storytelling
A manual for beginners
http://www.eldrbarry.net/roos/eest.htm
Overcoming Performance Anxiety & Stage Fright
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/articles/stagefright.html
Tim Sheppard’s Storytelling Resources for Storytellers
If you visit no other link, read no other page - click this one and give it your full attention!
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/
The Art of Storytelling links
http://www.eldrbarry.net/roos/art.htm
Traditional Storytelling
Discusses the difference in storytelling patterns in the various countries
http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/dir/traditions/index.html
Folktale Openings
If you want something other than 'Once upon a time'
http://www.folktale.net/openers.html
Folktale Closings
When you want to use something other than 'Happily ever after'
http://www.folktale.net/endings.html
Examples
5 Minute Irish Stories
http://web.ncf.ca/er719/blackbx.html
A Europe of Tales
All flash, loads slow but interesting enough to be worth the wait
http://www.europeoftales.net/site/en/index.html
Aesop's Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/
Ancient Finnish Myths
http://www.finnishmyth.org/
Camelot Project
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm
Cariadoc's Period Sources for Story Telling
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/period_sources_for_story_telling.html
Celtic Fairy Tales
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=jacobs&book=celtic&story=_contents
Cornish Mythos and Legends
http://www.connexions.co.uk/culture/index.htm
Eastern European Folktales
http://www.tccweb.org/eastern.htm
Far-Fetched Folklore
Tales of Jack
http://www.ibiblio.org/bawdy/folklore/
Folklore of the Orkney Islands
http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/index.html
Folktexts: A library of folktales,
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Four Arthurian Romances
"EREC ET ENIDE", "CLIGES", "YVAIN", AND "LANCELOT"
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/831/831-h/831-h.htm
Good King Henry Stories
http://home.comcast.net/~roger.redundant.roger/gkh_index.htm
In Parentheses
In Parentheses is devoted to distributing texts, translations, and commentaries from a wide variety of areas and disciplines in an elegantly presented form.
http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/
Myths & Legends
http://www.mythiccrossroads.com/myth.htm
Nasreddin Hodja
The Turkish Trickster and Wise Fool
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/hodja.html
Norwegian Folktales
http://oaks.nvg.org/norwegian-folktales.html
Online Books Page
A collection of free folklore ebooks
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?GR
Russian Folktales
http://russian-crafts.com/russian-folk-tales.html
Sagen Story Archive
This one is for true bards. It's not in english but there is a link to translate. The translation is not perfect - you get an idea what the stories are about but you have to fill in quite a bit yourself.
http://www.sagen.at/
Simorgh -- An Old Persian Fairy Tale
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/mideast/mi-homa.htm
Stav Academy Library
A collection of tales from around the world (some modern - most have a date on them)
http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/
Stories and Legends from Around the World
http://www.unc.edu/~rwilkers/title.htm
Stories in a Nutshell
Simplified stories that will be easy to flesh out
http://www.storyarts.org/library/nutshell/index.html
TALES AND MAXIMS FROM THE MIDRASH
Jewish folktales
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/index.htm
Tales from Froissart
http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/froissart/tales.htm
Tales of Faerie - Worldwide
http://faerymists.tripod.com/fytales/fytales.htm
The Gold Scales
A large collection of tales from a number of countries
http://oaks.nvg.org/ind-3.html
The Golden Legend
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/
The Kalevala
The Kalevala is the national saga of Finland
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/index.htm
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, by Sir John Mandeville
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/tosjm10h.htm
Wooing of Etain
http://www.mesacc.edu/~tomshoemaker/celtic/Etain.html