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Lantern Tales of the East, a folklore library

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A free, browsable library of ghost stories, folk tales, legends, and demon lore from several literary traditions.

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For: Readers of folklore, mythology, and translated older texts
Worth noticing: The Taiping guangji entry lists 83 chapters, including fox wives, fox scholars, impostor bodhisattvas, and Heavenly Foxes.

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The homepage gives books their own chapter counts and sequential links: Fox Spirits of the Taiping guangji is listed at 83 chapters, while Poetic Views of the Slavs on Nature, Volume III has 47. Its browse links divide material by culture and theme, and dated entries show chapters added on 5 and 6 November. The site says original texts are public domain and translations use AI assistance, with a separate link explaining the process.

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