1. Getting Started

Use web and subject specific encyclopedias to identify tales and tale types. These sources can help you understand context, key concepts, and identify readings that can help you to start to dig into your topic. Generally these sources are not things that you would site in your paper; they're intended as starting points.

The print resources here may make it easier for you to discover topics that had not already occurred to you as they present essays on a wide range of issues related to fairy tales in Europe (and elsehwere).

Wikipedia
There are many entries in Wikipedia on specific tales but it is more difficult to use for generating ideas and linking concepts.
Folktales and Fairy Tales
Call Number: GR 74 .F65 2016 (REF)
Global encyclopedia on fairy tales and folk tales. Has information on tales types, specific tales, and cultural and linguistic groups. Each entry includes a list of further/suggested readings.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales
Call Number: GR 74 .G73 2007 (B/H 3rd Floor)
This encyclopedia includes information on different cultural groups, tale types, and methods for examining folk and fairy tales.

The Research Cycle

ATU Index

The Aarne-Thompson-Uther Classification of folk tales , which you've already been introduced to, can help you identify folk and fairy tales across cultures.

"There are many different folk tales in the world, but many tales are variations on a limited number of themes. The classification system originally designed by Aarne, and later revised first by Thompson and later by Uther, is intended to bring out the similarities between tales by grouping variants of the same tale under the same ATU category. "