The Folktale Project
Every week The Folktale Project brings you new folklore, fairytales, myths and legends from around the world. Some tales you've heard before and some brand new.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 1352
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Blue Fairy Book - Rumpelstiltzkin, Pt. 1
To finish off the week we're splitting the story of 'Rumpelstiltzkin' into two parts, beginning with how a miller's daughter becomes a queen.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Blue Fairy Book - The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, Pt. 5
Today our protagonist spends the final night in the haunted castle and we find out if the youth ever learns what it is to shudder.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Blue Fairy Book - The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, Pt. 4
As we finish the week our young protagonist will spend a second night in the haunted castle and lose some money playing ninepins.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Blue Fairy Book - The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, Pt. 3
Today our young protagonist will spend the first of three nights in the haunted castle and experience some - interesting - ghosts.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Blue Fairy Book - The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, Pt. 2
In the second part of our tale of a young man trying to learn how to shiver we see the boy spend a night under the gallows and discover the ultimate challenge - a haunted castle.
Book: The Blue Fairy…
The Blue Fairy Book - The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, Pt. 1
Today we're beginning a new story 'The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was'. Pretty straightforward title, but a far from straightforward folktale! :)
Book: The Blue Fairy Book b…
The Blue Fairy Book - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Pt. 5
In the final installment of 'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp' Aladdin will face not one, but two dangerous magicians as he tries to regain his life.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan …
The Blue Fairy Book - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Pt. 4
Today the cunning African magician is back in the picture and Aladdin will lose everything.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Blue Fairy Book - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Pt. 3
Today Aladdin wins over the Princess and the Sultan and makes an enemy in the Vizier.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Blue Fairy Book - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Pt. 2
Remember when I said I didn't root for Aladdin through the story? Today's excerpt is a big, big part of why that is.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Blue Fairy Book - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Pt. 1
This week we're going to begin a new and yet familiar tale, 'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp'. But this certainly isn't the Disney version, as will be apparent as the story goes on.
Book: The Blue Fai…
The Blue Fairy Book - Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, Pt. 2
Today we have the conclusion of 'Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper', and the ending here is my favorite of all of the Cinderella endings around. It's probably the closest to a happily ever afte…
The Blue Fairy Book - Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, Pt. 1
Our final story of the week will be told in two parts, one will be rather familiar and the other may hold some surprises. Today we have the familiar beginning of 'Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slip…
The Blue Fairy Book - The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Pt. 5
Today we get the real ending of 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood' and find out what the Ogress Queen Mother's horrible longing was.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Blue Fairy Book - The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Pt. 4
On Wednesday we finished up the Disney part of the classic fairytale 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood'. Now we're going to find out what was cut off at "...and they lived happily ever after."
Book: T…
The Blue Fairy Book - The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Pt. 3
In Part 3 of 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood' our Prince will find his Princess and she'll wake up because it's been 100 years.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Blue Fairy Book - The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Pt. 2
In Part 2 of 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood' we'll see the fallout of the princess finding the old woman spinning in the tower.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Blue Fairy Book - The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Pt. 1
We began the week with and ending and will end the week with a beginning, the beginning of a rather long tale that tracks the life of a very familiar character, 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood'.
Boo…
The Blue Fairy Book - Little Red Riding Hood
Today's story from "The Blue Fairy Book" is a classic that is much, much darker than the version we were all told as school children. This is 'Little Red Riding Hood'.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by An…
The Blue Fairy Book - The Yellow Dwarf, Pt. 7
Today we finally have the finale of 'The Yellow Dwarf'. It's certainly not a happy ending by any means, but it is a cutting rebuke to the silliness of courtly love.
Book: The Blue Fairy Book by Andre…