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
Anthony's Nose, and The Spirit Hand
The Hudson Highlands are suggestively named Bear Mountain, Sugar Loaf, Cro' Nest, Storm King, called by the Dutch Boterberg, or Butter Hill, from its likeness to a pat of butter; Beacon Hill, where t…
00:06:42 |
Mon 13 Mar 2017
The Fourth Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor
Rich and happy as I was after my third voyage, I could not make up my mind to stay at home altogether. My love of trading, and the pleasure I took in anything that was new and strange, made me set my…
00:17:53 |
Fri 10 Mar 2017
The Boots Of Buffalo Leather
A soldier who is afraid of nothing, troubles himself about nothing. One of this kind had received his discharge, and as he had learnt no trade and could earn nothing, he traveled about and begged alm…
00:09:59 |
Thu 09 Mar 2017
The Cock's Stone
There was once in the city of Black-Grotto an old man named Janor, who was so miserably poor that all he owned was a little cock that he had reared on bread-crumbs. But one morning, being pinched wit…
00:10:19 |
Wed 08 Mar 2017
The Red Slipper
Rosy-red was a sweet little girl, with beautiful blue eyes, soft pink cheeks and glorious ruddy-gold hair of the tinge that artists love to paint. Her mother died the day she was born, but her grandm…
00:12:42 |
Tue 07 Mar 2017
The Fairy Nurse
There was once a little farmer and his wife living near Coolgarrow. They had three children, and my story happened while the youngest was a baby. The wife was a good wife enough, but her mind was all…
00:09:42 |
Mon 06 Mar 2017
The Third Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor
After a very short time the pleasant easy life I led made me quite forget the perils of my two voyages. Moreover, as I was still in the prime of life, it pleased me better to be up and doing. So once…
00:17:34 |
Fri 03 Mar 2017
The Cruel Stepmother
Once, long ago, when the Blackfeet Indians dwelt on the Canadian prairies, a poor Indian and his two children, a boy and a girl, were living near the bank of a great river. The children’s mother had …
00:11:20 |
Thu 02 Mar 2017
The Cortelyou Elopement
In the Bath district of Brooklyn stands Cortelyou manor, built one hundred and fifty years ago, and a place of defense during the Revolution when the British made sallies from their camp in Flatbush …
00:04:26 |
Wed 01 Mar 2017
The Insects That Wooed A Wifeless Man
There was once a wifeless man. Yes, that is the way a story always begins. And it was his custom to run down to the girls whenever he saw them out playing. And the young girls always ran away from hi…
00:09:42 |
Tue 28 Feb 2017
The Three Wishes
Once upon a time, and be sure 'twas a long time ago, there lived a poor woodman in a great forest, and every day of his life he went out to fell timber. So one day he started out, and the goodwife fi…
00:04:38 |
Mon 27 Feb 2017
The Second Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor
I had resolved, as you know, on my return from my first voyage, to spend the rest of my days quietly in Bagdad, but very soon I grew tired of such an idle life and longed once more to find myself upo…
00:13:08 |
Fri 24 Feb 2017
The Gentleman's Bride
Once upon a time there was a rich farmer who owned a large farm. Silver had he in a chest, and money out to loan. But there was something he was lacking, for he was a widower. One day the daughter fr…
00:06:46 |
Thu 23 Feb 2017
The Galloping Hessian
In the flower-gemmed cemetery of Tarrytown, where gentle Irving sleeps, a Hessian soldier was interred after sustaining misfortune in the loss of his head in one of the Revolutionary battles. For a l…
00:04:34 |
Wed 22 Feb 2017
Why Dog and Cat are Enemies
Once upon a time there was a man and his wife, and they had a ring of gold. It was a lucky ring, and whoever owned it always had enough to live on. But this they did not know, and hence sold the ring…
00:04:21 |
Tue 21 Feb 2017
The Quarrel of the Cat and Dog
In the childhood of the world, when Adam named all the animals and ruled over them, the dog and the cat were the greatest good friends. They were inseparable chums in their recreations, faithful part…
00:10:15 |
Mon 20 Feb 2017
The Just Man
Once upon a time there was a peasant and his wife who had a child that they would not baptize until they could find a just man for his godfather.
00:03:47 |
Fri 17 Feb 2017
From Shepard Boy To King
On a desolate plain, a little shepherd-boy stood alone. His day's work was over and he had wandered through field and forest listening to the twittering of the birds and the soft sound of the summer …
00:06:52 |
Thu 16 Feb 2017
Polly's Lover
In about the middle of this century a withered woman of ninety was buried from a now deserted house in White Plains, New York, Polly Carter the name of her, but “Crazy Polly” was what the neighbors c…
00:04:34 |
Wed 15 Feb 2017
The First Voyage Of Sinbad The Sailor
I had inherited considerable wealth from my parents, and being young and foolish I at first squandered it recklessly upon every kind of pleasure, but presently, finding that riches speedily take to t…
00:11:45 |
Tue 14 Feb 2017
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