Folk Tales

A Collection of Traditional Stories from Around the World

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How to use the dataset

To use this dataset, you can either browse through the tales by nation, or you can search for a specific tale by title. To find a specific tale, you can either use the search function on Kaggle or you can look through the list of titles in each nation's file

Columns

File: folk_tales_deduplicated.csv

Column name	Description
source	The source of the folk tale. (String)
nation	The nation of origin for the folk tale. (String)
title	The title of the folk tale. (String)
text	The text of the folk tale. (String)

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File: australian_ethnic.csv

Column name	Description
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lemma
count
pos

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File: chinese.csv

Column name	Description
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lemma
count
pos

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File: czechoslovak.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: danish.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: english.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: french.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: german.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: greek.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: indian.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: irish.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: italian.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: japanese.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: nordic.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: north_american_native.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: philippine.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: portuguese.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: russian.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: scandinavian.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: scottish.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: slavic.csv

Column name	Description
****
lemma
count
pos

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File: shared_nouns.csv

Column name	Description
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lemma
portuguese	A list of Portuguese words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
north_american_native	A list of North American Native words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
english	A list of English words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
german	A list of German words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
scottish	A list of Scottish words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
danish	A list of Danish words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
french	A list of French words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
italian	A list of Italian words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
greek	A list of Greek words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
irish	A list of Irish words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
nordic	A list of Nordic words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
scandinavian	A list of Scandinavian words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
russian	A list of Russian words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
slavic	A list of Slavic words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
czechoslovak	A list of Czechoslovak words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
japanese	A list of Japanese words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
chinese	A list of Chinese words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
indian	A list of Indian words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
philippine	A list of Philippine words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
australian_ethnic	A list of Australian ethnic words and their frequencies. (Column Type: List)
diff	The difference in the number of words between the two languages. (Column Type: Integer)