Folk Tales

"Folktales" is a general term for different varieties of traditional narrative. ...more

The Skull
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Three Little Vikings
The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole
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Kapaemahu
Old Songs: Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads
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Benita and the Night Creatures
Treasury of Folklore, Seas and Rivers: Sirens, Selkies And Ghost Ships
Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heidrek, Hrólf Kraki and His Champions
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Queer Mythology: Epic Legends from Around the World
Magnolia Flower
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Italian Folktales
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
The Skull
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Lion and the Mouse
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Aesop’s Fables
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti

Sindiwe Magona
Central to the stories in which people featured, was the bond of love with the concomitants: duty, obedience, responsibility, honor, and orderliness; always orderliness. Like the seasons of the year, life was depicted full of cause and effect, predictability and order; connectedness and oneness.
Sindiwe Magona, To My Children's Children

John Francis Campbell
Among curious rubbish you will find sound sense if you look for it. You will find the creed of the people, as shewn in their stories, to be, that wisdom and courage, though weak, may overcome strength, and ignorance, and pride: that the most despised is often the most worthy; that small beginnings lead to great results. You will find perseverance, frugality, and filial piety rewarded; pride, greed and laziness punished... That you may go on acquiring knowledge, selecting the good, and rejecting ...more
John Francis Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Volume 1

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