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Fabulotheca

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Folk tale and folklore scholarship search: verbatim passages with sources. Access by application.

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Install

Add this to your client's MCP configuration (Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json; Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json; VS Code and others use the same "mcpServers" shape).

Remote (streamable-http)
Claude Code 
claude mcp add --transport http fabulotheca 'https://fabulotheca.org/mcp/{access_key}'
JSON configuration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "fabulotheca": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://fabulotheca.org/mcp/{access_key}"
        }
    }
}

Documentation

From the project's README on GitHub, refreshed weekly. Links open on GitHub.

Contents
  1. Fabulotheca — MCP search server for folklore & fairy-tale studies
  2. Connect
  3. Tools
  4. Languages
  5. Contact

Fabulotheca — MCP search server for folklore & fairy-tale studies

Fabulotheca (https://fabulotheca.org/en) is a search service over a scholarly corpus on Russian and European folk tales and folklore studies: 2,000+ full-text sources and 5,000+ catalogued works, with tale-type indexes (ATU / SUS). It returns verbatim fragments with exact bibliographic references — it does not paraphrase and does not serve files.

Free until 1 January 2027. Texts are machine-recognised; check quotations against the original.

Connect

It is a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). Each user gets a personal URL of the form https://fabulotheca.org/mcp/<personal-key> (the key acts as the password).

  1. Apply at https://fabulotheca.org/en/apply (English form; a short application).
  2. You receive the personal link in your account straight after the application.
  3. Add it as a custom connector / remote MCP server in your AI client — step-by-step guides: https://fabulotheca.org/en/connect

There is no public anonymous endpoint, so catalogs cannot connect to it; access is by application. Server card: https://fabulotheca.org/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

Tools

account, search, expand, get_context, where, collection_stats, guide — search, show a list of sources, expand chosen ones into verbatim fragments, get surrounding context, and tell where a source can be obtained.

Languages

Interface: English and Russian (application form, account, website search, connection guides). Corpus: mostly Russian, part in European languages.

Contact

alyzlova@rambler.ru · Website: https://fabulotheca.org/en

Frequently asked questions

What is Fabulotheca?

Folk tale and folklore scholarship search: verbatim passages with sources. Access by application.

How do I install Fabulotheca?

It runs as a remote server. In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http fabulotheca 'https://fabulotheca.org/mcp/{access_key}'. For other clients, paste the JSON configuration from this page into their MCP settings.

Does Fabulotheca need an API key?

Its registry entry lists no required key or secret. Some features may still need an account with the service it connects to.

Is Fabulotheca open source?

Its code is public on GitHub, but the repository does not declare a standard license.

Who maintains Fabulotheca?

It is published by karbonovblyenot-cell. AI.tn lists it but does not maintain or endorse it.

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