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W is for Whale sharks (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: Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)

Status: Endangered


Lolo Awing

Bantoanon legend from the Philippines

Muslim

United Arab Folktales (Following folktales around the world 153. - United Arab Emirates)

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,

V is for Volcano rabbits (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!




Image from here

Species: Volcano rabbit (Romerolagus diazi), a.k.a. teporingo or zacatuche

Status: Endangered (some

U is for Utah prairie dogs (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: Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens)

Status: Endangered


The man saved by prairie dogs

Jicarilla Apache legend

T is for Tigers (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: South China tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)

Status: Critically endangered (possibly extinct in the wild)


Five

The king who trusted his kingdom to his daughters (Feminist Folktales 16.)

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.


I read this story yesterday and I had to share it right away. 

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S is for Singing Snails (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!





Partulina variabilis, image from here


Species: Lanai tree snail (Partulina semicarinata), Lanai tree snail (Partulina

R is for Rattlesnakes (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!




Massasauga rattlesnake

Species: Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus), Arizona black rattlesnake (Crotalus cerberus)

Status:

Q is for Quoll (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: Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus)

Status: Endangered


Crow and Quoll go fishing

Legend from Arnhem Land

Happily ever after, with a little help (Following folktales around the world 152. - Oman)

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!






Halimah ​and the Snake and Other Omani Folktales
Grace Todino-Gonguet
Stacey International Publishers, 2008.

The book contains ten Omani