Below are source that can be used for further information on the subject of folklore and fairy tales.

Brown, Sarah. The history of European fairy tales. London: Macmillan, 1992.

Burton, Richard Francis, Bennett Cerf, and Ben Ray Redman. The Arabian nights' entertainments; or, The book of a thousand nights and a night;. New York: Modern library, 1932.

Cawthorne, Nigel. A brief history of Robin Hood. London: Robinson, 2010.

Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a casebook. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Harries, Elizabeth Wanning. Twice upon a time: women writers and the history of the fairy tale. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Marshall, H. E., and A. S. Forrest. Stories of Robin Hood told to the children. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Yesterday's Classics, 2005.

Paradiž, Valerie. Clever maids: the secret history of the Grimm fairy tales. New York: Basic, 2005.

Ziolkowski, Jan M.. Fairy tales from before fairy tales: the medieval Latin past of wonderful lies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007.

Zipes, Jack. Fairy tale as myth/myth as fairy tale. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Zipes, Jack. Happily ever after: fairy tales, children, and the culture industry. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Zipes, Jack. When dreams came true: classical fairy tales and their tradition. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Zipes, Jack. The irresistible fairy tale: the cultural and social history of a genre. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012.