The Folktale Project

'Two Out of the Knapsack' is a Russian version of 'The Ass, The Table, and The Stick' and stars my favorite version of the "old woman/wife" character ever.

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'Thomas Berennikov' is a Russian hero in the mold of 'The Brave Little Tailor'.

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In 'The Woman-Accuser' an old man holds onto his treasure by really knowing his wife, and thinking at least two steps ahead.

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In 'The Goblins' we learn why the heinzelmännchen have abandoned the humans they once helped.

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'The Doctor's wine of Bernkastel' is the perfect mix of history and folklore and one of the main reasons why I love "Legends of the Rhine". You can still buy Doctor's wine from the Mosel Valley today…

Our first story from "Legends of the Rhine" 'The Blind Archer' isn't child friendly, but it certainly is a great tale for those of us who like the bad guy getting his due.

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In our final story from Carl Sandburg this week, 'How Bozo the Button Buster Busted All His Buttons When a Mouse Came' we discover who ran out and held up the sky when the sky began to fall.

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Today we get the first of two stories narrated by Sandburg's Hatrack the Horse, 'How Six Umbrellas Took Off Their Straw Hats to Show Respect to the One Big Umbrella'.

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This week we have three new stories about Hatrack the Horse, beginning with 'How the Three Wild Babylonian Baboons Went Away in the Rain Eating Bread and Butter'.

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Our final story this week is a traveling tale of sorts, 'How Six Pigeons Came Back to Hatrack the Horse After Many Accidents and Six Telegrams' is a Carl Sandburg fairytale where we learn about a tri…

In Carl Sandburg's fairytale 'How Rag Bag Mammy Kept Her Secret While the Wind Blew Away the Village of Hat Pins' we never do find out what's in that rag bag.

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This week we're starting off with a silly fairytale from Carl Sandburg's "Rootabaga Pigeons" - 'Shush Shush, the Big Buff Banty Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Postmaster’s Hat'.

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In our final fairytale from Carl Sandburg this week, 'Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House', we get to revisit the newlyweds the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle from "Rootabaga Stories".

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In today's fairytale from Carl Sandburg, 'Slipfoot and How He Nearly Always Never Gets What He Goes After', we hear the story of a man who does so well for himself until he tries to go just that one …

This week we revisit Carl Sandburg with the first of his stories from "Rootabaga Pigeons" - 'The Skyscraper to the Moon and How the Green Rat with the Rheumatism Ran a Thousand Miles Twice'.

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In our final story from Brazil 'How the Monkey and the Goat Earned Their Reputations' we see how a monkey and a goat respond to the tiger's tricks.

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In the Brazilian fairytale of 'Why the Lamb is Meek' we get the answer to why people say "as meek as a lamb". We also get to meet a very, very mean toad.

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Today's fairytale from Brazil 'How the Tiger Got His Stripes' combines two of my favorite things, a story by Elise Spicer Eells and an origin tale.

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'King Bean' is an Italian love story of sorts, but it also includes some witches, murder and a transforming King. A little something for everyone.

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'Zelinda and the Monster' is an Italian version of 'Beauty and the Beast' where the beast is much, much less charming and much, much more realistic.

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