Whispering Lore: A Comprehensive Digital Compendium of World Mythology and Folklore

A comprehensive dataset of 3,668 mythical creatures, 2,185 folklore stories, and 319 magical artifacts from 212 countries and territories, spanning 32 cultural regions. Each entry is researched, documented, and linked to its cultural tradition. Includes structured metadata (schema.org types, continent/country/region taxonomy, source quality ratings, oral tradition attribution), full-text story content, artifact records with cultural variants, and bidirectional creature-story and story-artifact cross-references. The dataset powers the Whispering Lore web application — a static, offline-capable mythology encyclopedia built with vanilla JavaScript.