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

A comprehensive dataset of 3,668 mythical creatures and 1,719 folklore stories from 209 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, and bidirectional creature-story cross-references. The dataset powers the Whispering Lore web application — a static, offline-capable mythology encyclopedia built with vanilla JavaScript.