Query: Collection of world "fairy" stories?

[womzilla]

Can you recommend a collection of traditional magic stories that includes stories from outside Western and Central Europe?

I'm looking for something like the equivalent of Andrew Lang's [Color] Fairy Books, but wider-ranging.

Comments

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

Have you checked all the later Lang's Fairy Books? He ran out of western fairy tales and did range very far. Also try Sur La Lune.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
By Laura Gibbs at http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/
A wonderful site with ALL Lang's fairy tales, clickable in lots of ways, or search for key words in text
by source of story
by title of story

Sur La Lune -- surlalunefairytales.com

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Sorry your comment got held as spam--I think it was the two embedded urls and the somewhat mechanical formatting.

Thanks for the recommendation of the Lang index. As I noted to papersky below, I haven't read all that much of the Lang and had no idea he had ventured outside his continent. According to the index, even in the Lilac book (1910, the last original volume), most of the stories are European, but there are Punjabi, Oceaniac, central African, and Pashto stories, so that's cool.

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

Iirc Lang started branching out pretty early, within the first four books? Then in some later books he found some more closer to home.

I wouldn't vouch for his accuracy especially in the foreign ones. He was sort of collecting broad outlines of motifs and editing them for sales. Profitable series, had to fill out each year's volume.

Iirc there's a way to search by origin at the Lang site I gave.