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Today we're bringing a Thanksgiving tradition here at The Folktale Project - our annual reading of 'A Turkey for the Stuffing' by Katherine Grace Hulbert.

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'The Anxious Leaf' is our first tale of autumn for this Thanksgiving week here in the US.

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'Mangita and Larina' is a familiar tale about two sisters and a mysterious visitor.

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'The Light of the Fly' is a poem from the Philippines all about how the firefly got his lantern.

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Our first tale this week from "Philippine Folklore Stories" is the story of the origin of a lizard known for its distinctive cry.

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Finishing off our week of tales from Joseph Jacobs we have what is absolutely my favorite version of the Goldilocks tale - 'Scrapefoot'.

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'The Three Wishes' is a lovely English fairytale about thinking before you speak and of course a delicious black pudding.

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'The Three Cows' is the truly terrifying English tale of pixies tormenting a farmer, and his cows.

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'Winter's Herald' is a tale of how Jack Frost (under a different name) comes to the world to warn of the impending winter.

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'Golden-Rod and Purple Aster' is the slightly sad origin story of the flowers who are best friends.

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'The Discontented Pumpkin' is exactly as it says on the tin - a pumpkin who is terribly unhappy with his lot in life and wants nothing more than to go to a fair.

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I'm a huge fan of traditions, and one of my absolute favorites is our annual reading of 'The Legend of Stingy Jack'. There's something about the Devil getting tricked and our "hero" Jack still gettin…

The ghost in 'A Misfit Ghost' is exactly the kind of specter you'd like to come across in real life. Pretty much the exact opposite of 'The Phantom Hag'.

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This week I have two new ghost stories for you, as well as our annual telling of 'The Legend of Stingy Jack'. Our first tale is a properly creepy ghost story from a small town in France.

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Our final Slavic tale of the week attempts a new way to teach the time honored lesson "If you're good and kind, you'll be rewarded. If you're rude, you'll send up dead." A bit on the harsh side for s…

Today's Slavic folktale is a story of a husband and wife who love each other very much, and is very reminiscent of 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon'.

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This week we have three Slavic stories from a new book, "Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen", beginning with the tale of 'The Two Brothers'.

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Our final tale from the Brothers Grimm, 'The Star-Money', is a short tale that proves the Grimms are more than purveyors of dark fairy tales.

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'Ash-Maiden' is my absolute favorite version of the Cinderella tale, it combines and ground the magical elements you remember into something a bit difference and a bit better in my opinion.

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This week I'm bringing you three new tales from the Brothers Grimm, beginning with the story of 'Bird-Found' a tale of young love and a witch.

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