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Pearls of wisdom (Following folktales around the world 156. - Kuwait)

Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you can find the introduction post here. You can find all posts here, or you can follow the series on Facebook!

The tales from the next few countries are from two different books:




Folktales ​from the Arabian Peninsula
Tales of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,

Down the Rabbit Hole: Questions from the workshop about researching stories

Last night I taught a 90-minute online workshop as part of the Story Crossroads Spectacular! It was a lovely, lovely experience with a lot of amazing people from various countries. The title of the workshop was Down the Rabbit Hole: The how and why of researching stories. It was the "teaser" version of a 5-hour workshop I will be (hopefully) teaching in person at Story Crossroads next year.

Wonders on wings (Following folktales around the world 155. - Bahrain)

Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you can find the introduction post here. You can find all posts here, or you can follow the series on Facebook!
The tales from the next few countries are from two different books:




Folktales ​from the Arabian Peninsula
Tales of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,

Riina and her Amazons (Feminist Folktales 17.)

Another Thursday, another post for Feminist Folktales! It's a series of traditional stories from around the world that display motifs that reflect feminist values. I am not changing any of the stories, merely researching and compiling them, and posting them here as food for thought. You can find the list of posts here.


Origin: Solomon Islands (Malaita)

The story



Image from Rejected

Even more tales for a time of quarantine

This post is a follow-up to my two previous posts: Folktales for a time of quarantine and More folktales for a time of quarantine. Over the course of the past month and a half I had a lot of time to think about stories. I have been doing live storytelling on my Facebook page because I miss telling, and by now I have a new batch of stories I feel like have something to do with the continued

A to Z Challenge Reflections - Mission Accomplished!

Honestly, I thought this April was going to be slow because of the quarantine, but in the end it really flew by. Going in, I was not sure what the challenge was going to be like this year, because of all the things going on in the world... but I found that A to Z 2020 was a very positive experience for me!

We had fewer blogs participating, and I had fewer daily visitors, but maybe this was

Great women in a small country (Following folktales around the world 154. - Qatar)

Today I continue the blog series titled Following folktales around the world! If you would like to know what the series is all about, you can find the introduction post here. You can find all posts here, or you can follow the series on Facebook!

The tales from the next few countries are from two different books:




Folktales ​from the Arabian Peninsula
Tales of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,

Z is for Zebras (Folktales of Endangered Species)

Welcome to the 2020 A to Z blogging challenge! This year my theme is Folktales of Endangered Species. I am researching cool traditional stories about rare, fascinating animals - to raise awareness of what we might lose if we don't get our collective shit together. Enjoy!





Species: Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi)

Status: Endangered


How the zebra got its stripes



There are various stories

Y is for Yangtze river dolphins (Folktales of Endangered Species)

Welcome to the 2020 A to Z blogging challenge! This year my theme is Folktales of Endangered Species. I am researching cool traditional stories about rare, fascinating animals - to raise awareness of what we might lose if we don't get our collective shit together. Enjoy!






Species: Yangtze river dolphin or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis

X is for Xolotl (Folktales of Endangered Species)

Welcome to the 2020 A to Z blogging challenge! This year my theme is Folktales of Endangered Species. I am researching cool traditional stories about rare, fascinating animals - to raise awareness of what we might lose if we don't get our collective shit together. Enjoy!





Species: Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)

Status: Critically endangered


How Xolotl became an axolotl

Aztec myth



The