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 Little Girl and the Winter Whirlwinds
One year the wicked Winter Witch decided to stop Spring from coming on time and make Winter the only season on Earth. She hid the Sun behind dark clouds and covered the Earth with heavy snow. So one …
00:10:21 |
Mon 10 Apr 2017
The Daisy
Now listen. Out in the country, close by the roadside, stood a pleasant house; you have seen one like it, no doubt, very often. In front lay a little fenced-in garden, full of blooming flowers. Near …
00:11:02 |
Fri 07 Apr 2017
The Pancake
Once upon a time there was a wife who had seven hungry children, and these she fried a pancake for. It was a raw-milk cake, and it lay in the pan and swelled itself so thick and good, and the childre…
00:07:33 |
Thu 06 Apr 2017
Why the Worms Live Underneath the Ground
When Eyo III. was ruling over all men and animals, he had a very big palaver house to which he used to invite his subjects at intervals to feast. After the feast had been held and plenty of tombo had…
00:03:44 |
Wed 05 Apr 2017
How Maui Fished for an Island
Maui, the unwanted, the child of ridicule, was the one who put the barb on the fishhook and the hunting spear. Though famous as hunters and fishermen, Maui’s four brothers often lost their game becau…
00:07:14 |
Tue 04 Apr 2017
The Skull In The Wall
A skull is built into the wall above the door of the court-house at Goshen, New York. It was taken from a coffin unearthed in 1842, when the foundation of the building was laid. People said there was…
00:03:44 |
Mon 03 Apr 2017
One Eye, Two Eyes, and Three Eyes
There was once a woman who had three daughters, the eldest of whom was called One-eye, because she had only one eye in the middle of her forehead, and the second, Two-eyes, because she had two eyes l…
00:18:22 |
Fri 31 Mar 2017
The Outcast Prince
There lived a king who had an only son, on whom he doted. No one, not even his oldest tutor, was permitted to utter a word of correction to the prince whenever he did anything wrong, and so he grew u…
00:15:38 |
Thu 30 Mar 2017
The Seventh and Final Voyage of Sinbad The Sailor
After my sixth voyage I was quite determined that I would go to sea no more. I was now of an age to appreciate a quiet life, and I had run risks enough. I only wished to end my days in peace. One day…
00:13:41 |
Wed 29 Mar 2017
The Wild Man Of Cape Cod
For years after Bellamy's pirate ship was wrecked at Wellfleet, by false pilotage on the part of one of his captives, a strange-looking man used to travel up and down the cape, who was believed to be…
00:03:54 |
Tue 28 Mar 2017
How Maui Lifted The Sky
At the time when Maui was growing up in his mother’s house, the sky was held up only by the leaves of trees. So close did the sky press to the earth’s surface that all the leaves were flattened out a…
00:03:44 |
Mon 27 Mar 2017
The Tortoise With The Pretty Daughter
There was once a king who was very powerful. He had great influence over the wild beasts and animals. Now the tortoise was looked upon as the wisest of all beasts and men. This king had a son named E…
00:08:07 |
Fri 24 Mar 2017
The Death Of Koschei The Deathless
In a certain kingdom there lived a Prince Ivan. He had three sisters. The first was the Princess Marya, the second the Princess Olga, the third the Princess Anna. When their father and mother lay at …
00:16:06 |
Thu 23 Mar 2017
The Sixth Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor
It must be a marvel to you how, after having five times met with shipwreck and unheard of perils, I could again tempt fortune and risk fresh trouble. I am even surprised myself when I look back, but …
00:15:54 |
Wed 22 Mar 2017
The Water Babe
Floating in a basket on the River Nile, Princess Bathia, the daughter of Pharaoh, King of Egypt, found a tiny little water-babe. Princess Bathia was a widow and had no children, and she was so deligh…
00:08:52 |
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Hans Dumb
There was a king who lived happily with his daughter, his only child. Quite suddenly the princess had a baby, but no one knew who the father was. For some time the king was beside himself. Finally he…
00:04:50 |
Mon 20 Mar 2017
The Little Shoe
" Now tell me, Molly," said Mr. Coote to Molly Cogan, as he met her on the road one day, close to one of the old gateways of Kilmallock, did you ever bear of the Cluricaune?" "Is it the CIuricaune? w…
00:04:50 |
Fri 17 Mar 2017
The Fifth Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor
Not even all that I had gone through could make me contented with a quiet life. I soon wearied of its pleasures, and longed for change and adventure. Therefore I set out once more, but this time in a…
00:13:03 |
Thu 16 Mar 2017
The Moon
In days gone by there was a land where the nights were always dark, and the sky spread over it like a black cloth, for there the moon never rose, and no star shone in the obscurity. At the creation o…
00:05:42 |
Wed 15 Mar 2017
The Leaping Match
The Flea, the Grasshopper, and the Frog once wanted to see which of them could jump the highest. They made a festival, and invited the whole world and every one else besides who liked to come and see…
00:06:10 |
Tue 14 Mar 2017
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