Favorite folktales from around the world
[Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library]
Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library.
The man who had no story How Spider obtained the Sky God's stories Helping to lie The ash lad who made the princess say "You're a liar!" The parson and the sexton The tall tales Catherine, sly country lass The wise little girl Clever answers A dispute in sign language Leopard, goat, and yam An endless story Glooscap and the baby The brewery of eggshells Father of eighteen elves The fly The two pickpockets The seventh father of the house The king's favorite Wagging my tail in the mud When one man has two wives The old man and his grandson Half a blanket How men and women got together The little old woman with five cows The prayer that was answered The merchant's daughter and the slanderer What happened to Hadji Mr. Fox The waiting maid's parrot The white cat Sedna Urashima the fisherman The spirit of the Van The toad-bridegroom Taken The girl at the shieling Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden Tyll Ulenspiegel's merry prank The hodja and the cauldron Being greedy chokes Anansi Quevedo and the king Why the hare runs away Coyote fights a lump of pitch Crack and crook The master thief Peik The monkey and the crocodile The race between Toad and Donkey The king's son goes bear hunting John Brodison and the policeman The rabbi and the inquisitor The ugly son Dividing the goose The men who wouldn't stay dead The story of Campriano The three sillies Nasr-ed-Din Hodja in the pulpit Lazy Jack Chelm justice Those stubborn souls, the Biellese The drovers who lost their feet The old man and woman who switched jobs The two old women's bet A stroke of luck The sausage Nail soup Old dry Frye "Bye-bye" The barn is burning The birth of Finn MacCumhail Li Chi slays the serpent The devil with the three golden hairs The Longwitton dragon The orphan boy and the elk dog Molly Whuppie The beginning of the Narran Lake The flying head The story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was Talk The King of Ireland's son The goose girl The princess on the glass hill The promises of the three sisters The magic mirror of Rabbi Adam The old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle The magic pear tree Faithful John Found hound-dog stories The doctor and his pupil The swan-maiden Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka The blacksmith's wife of Yarrowfoot The seal's skin The wounded seal The cat-woman The serpent-woman The snake's lover The well-baked man The Finn messenger Vasilisa the beautiful Bridge and the Lurikeen The two hunchbacks Then the merman laughed Pergrin and the mermaid The ash lad who had an eating match with the troll How mosquitoes came to be The departure of the giants The peasant and the Devil Wicked John and the Devil The bad wife Katcha and the Devil The lawyer and the Devil Coals on the Devil's hearth The Devil's hide How El Bizarrón fooled the devil Bearskin The lad and the devil Wiley and the hairy man Truth and falsehood Getting common sense Rich man, poor man The lost horse It could always be worse His just reward Djuha's sleeve King Mátyás and his scholars The missing axe What melody is the sweetest? The peddler of Swaffham The Beduin's gazelle The happy man's shirt Orpheus and Euridice The spirit-wife One night in paradise A pretty girl in the road The dream house The peasant and the fiend The tinker and the ghost Hold him, Tabb Drinking companions The ostler and the grave robbers The duartion of life Woman chooses death Jump into my sack Youth without age and life without death Goha on the deathbed Death of a miser Godfather Death The hungry peasant, God, and death The word the Devil made up A paddock in heaven How a man found his wife in the Land of the Dead The end of the world
