Links of sources for a wealth of Stories of every genre and from just about about every Country
Andrew Lang colour fairy books.
Sur la Lune- 1660 fairy tales and 40 ebooks of stories.
Ashliman's site for folk tales - he lists them under themes so that you get 15 variants of Cinderella, or folktales that have "abduction by aliens”.
Stav Academic Library - has a mixture of folk tales and historical papers.
Theoi Greek Mythology - website for classical myths.
Chest of Books - another useful collection of out of print folk tale and fairy tale books that you can download.
Applit - Appalachian Folktales in Children's Literature and Collections for all ages.
Project gutenberg - many free downloadable books!
- more texts, including folklore (and opportunity to buy searchable CDs which contains the texts).
- another source of free downloadable books (which is also a print on demand company which will sell you a paper copy).
- it's not a free download, but a print on demand access to out of print books (works through Amazon).
Folklore & Mythology Resource Guide