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
Folktale Project Classics - The Dreamer
This week's tale comes to us from Armenia. As I'm revisiting these tales I'm thinking hard about what the next chapter of The Folktale Project looks like. I'd like to start with having you tell your …
Folktale Project Classics - The Fountain of Giant Land
This week is one of my favorite folktales from Brazil. As I'm revisiting these tales I'm thinking hard about what the next chapter of The Folktale Project looks like. Have an idea you'd like to share…
Folktale Project Classics - Raiko and the Shi-Ten Doji
This week one of my favorite Japanese folktales. As I'm revisiting these tales I'm thinking hard about what the next chapter of The Folktale Project looks like. Have an idea you'd like to share? Reac…
Folktale Project Classics - Genovefa
This week on Folktale Project Classics we have the origin story of Count Siegfried of the Palatinate and his saint-like wife, Genovefa.
Folktale Project Classics - Little Red Riding Hood
The first of our Folktale Project Classics is truly a classic tale with a (perhaps) unfamiliar ending?
The Voice of Death - A Roumanian Folktale
Our last new story for a bit is a short (but very good) tale about death. Starting next week The Folktale Project will be replaying classic stories while we get ready for something completely new.
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Reflections - A Japanese Fairytale
This week's tale comes from rural Japan and shows how a young couple discovers some modern conveniences.
Title: Japanese Fairy Tales
Author: Grace James
Host: Dan Scholz
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Little Annie's Dream - An American Fairytale
This week's story comes to us from the one and only Louisa May Alcott. 'Little Annie's Dream" is a story about controlling our negative emotions, something that I'm sure we all struggle with from tim…
The Two Jewels - A Jewish Fairytale
A story with quite the important message about tolerance, particularly when it comes to religion.
Title: Jewish Fairy Stories
Translator: Gerald Friedlander
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Woodman and the Mountain Fairies - A Korean Folktale
A very familiar tale of a human getting caught up in the affairs of fairies, but this time from Korea.
Book: Korean Fairy Tales
Author: William Elliot Griffis
Host: Dan Scholz
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Uncle Capriano - An Italian Folktale
From 'Italian Popular Tales' we have the story of practical jokes gone (in my opinion) too far with Uncle Capriano.
Book: Italian Popular Tales
Author: Thomas Frederick Crane
Host: Dan Scholz
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The King of the Golden Mountain - A German Folktale
This week we return to The Brothers Grimm with the harrowing tale of the making (and keeping) of a King.
Book: Snowdrop & Other Tales
Authors: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Flower-Elves - A Chinese Folktale
This week from China we have a sweet and short story of the cooperation between man and nature.
Book: The Chinese Fairy Book
Editor: Dr. R. Wilhelm Translator: Frederick H. Martens
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body - A Norwegian Folktale
'The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body' is a familiar tale, but one that is at the same time very much its own story of love and kindness.
Title: East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales fro…
The Lost Woman - A Blackfeet Folktale
This week we have a love story from the Blackfeet Nation. It's quite a tale brought to us by George Bird Grinnell.
Title: Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
Author: George Bird Gri…
Prince Sandalwood: The Father of Korea - A Korean Folktale
Today's story is a combination of my favorite types of tales and origin story and a tale told by a grandparent to their grandchildren. That it features a bear turning human is just a bonus!
Book: Kor…
Unlucky Daniel - A Russian Fairytale
Today a very lucky Dan will share with you the twisted and twisting tale of 'Unlucky Daniel'.
Book: Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Author: Anonymous
Illustrator: Noel L. Nisbet
Translator: R. Nis…
The Morning Star and the Evening Star - A Romanian Fairytale
Today we have a story of brotherly love and a healthy dose of mistrust. But we get a lovely story out of it.
Book: Roumanian Fairy Tales
Author: Various
Compiler: Mite Kremnitz
Editor: J. M. Percival
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The Three Heads of the Well - An English Fairytale
This week's tale is one of my favorite versions of the "Toads and Diamonds" story - 'The Three Heads of the Well'.
Book: English Fairy Tales
Editor: Flora Annie Webster Steel
Host: Dan Scholz
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The Coins of Elijah - A Jewish Fairytale
Today's story from 'Jewish Fairy Stories' is a tale all about doing good with what heaven blesses us. Something we should all certainly aspire to.
Book: Jewish Fairy Stories
Editor: Aunt Naomi Trans…