"Look at them," troll mother said. "Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon." (1915) drawing by John Bauer, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
From Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories (p. 309), illustrated by Hans Tegner, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Searching Our Collections
You can use SURF to search for primary sources (the actual text of fairy tales) in the Salisbury University Library's collection.
Use the search term GE:"fairy tales" this will limit your results to sources in the fairy tale genre.
If you want to research the broader subject of fairy tales you can search SU:"fairy tales" to look for sources that are about the subject of "fairy tales."
In the library you'll find physical books about Fairy Tales in the stacks on the 3rd floor on the side for Call Numbers A-HG.
Salisbury University Libraries use the Library of Congress classification for organizing books, and physical books about Fairy Tales will be found in the GR section (Class G for Geography, Anthropology, and Recreation; Subclass GR for Folklore). In our library, these sections will be on or around Shelves 54 and 55.
GR72 - 79 is where you will find general folklore (including legends and folktales)
GR99.6 - 390 organizes folklore by country/region
GR500-615 includes materials on supernatural beings, demonology, fairies, ghosts, charms, etc.
Actual Fairy Tales may be also found in our literature collection (Class P) as well as our juvenile collection (in the PZ section on or around Shelf 5) and the Curriculum Resource Center in Conway Hall (second floor).