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
La Chasse Galerie, or The Bewitched Canoe
Very long ago, in the North Woods, a small crew of French Canadian lumberjacks were finishing their day’s work and settling down around a campfire to relax and cheer up. It was New Year’s Eve, and it…
00:08:21 |
Mon 16 Jan 2017
The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
In a town of moderate size, two men lived in neighbouring houses; but they had not been there very long before one man took such a hatred of the other, and envied him so bitterly, that the poor man d…
00:24:47 |
Fri 13 Jan 2017
The Brave Little Tailor
One summer's morning a little tailor was sitting on his table by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might. Then came a peasant woman down the street crying: 'Good jams, cheap!…
00:19:25 |
Wed 11 Jan 2017
The Tsarevna Frog
In an old, old Russian tsarstvo, I do not know when, there lived a sovereign prince with the princess his wife. They had three sons, all of them young, and such brave fellows that no pen could descri…
00:16:58 |
Tue 10 Jan 2017
The Lawyer and The Devil Monkey
Above the Clock Tower of Venice is a carved marble angel with clasped hands and peacefully folded wings. Many years ago, a clever lawyer of Venice lived in that house. He was known all over the city …
00:07:40 |
Tue 10 Jan 2017
The Man Who Took a Vixen to Wife
There was once a man who wished to have a wife unlike all other wives, and so he caught a little fox, a vixen, and took it home to his tent. One day when he had been out hunting, he was surprised to …
00:04:31 |
Mon 09 Jan 2017
How Maui Slowed the Sun
One evening, Māui and his brothers were making a hāngi for their evening meal. They had just finished heating the stones when the sun went down and it quickly became too dark to see. Māui was annoyed…
00:07:26 |
Fri 06 Jan 2017
The Story of the Second Calendar, Son of a King
"Madam," said the young man, addressing Zobeida, "if you wish to know how I lost my right eye, I shall have to tell you the story of my whole life." I was scarcely more than a baby, when the king my …
00:17:49 |
Thu 05 Jan 2017
King for Three Days
Godfrey de Bouillon was a famous warrior, a daring general and bold leader of men, who gained victories in several countries. And so, in the year 1095, when the first Crusade came to be arranged, he …
00:09:43 |
Wed 04 Jan 2017
The Singing Bone
Once upon a time in a certain country there was great concern about a wild boar that was destroying the peasants' fields, killing the cattle, and ripping people apart with its tusks. The king promise…
00:05:08 |
Tue 03 Jan 2017
The Loving Pair
A whipping Top and a Ball lay close together in a drawer among other playthings. One day the Top said to the Ball, “Since we are living so much together, why should we not be lovers?”
00:06:33 |
Mon 02 Jan 2017
The Little Match Girl
It was dreadfully cold; it was snowing fast, and was almost dark, as evening came on—the last evening of the year. In the cold and the darkness, there went along the street a poor little girl, barehe…
00:08:35 |
Fri 30 Dec 2016
Fastrada
When the Kaiser, Karl, abode at Zurich, he dwelt in a house called “The Hole,” in front of which he caused a pillar to be erected with a bell on the top of it, to the end that whoever demanded justic…
00:07:03 |
Thu 29 Dec 2016
Fundevogel
There was once a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and as he entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there. He followed the sound, and at last came to a high tree,…
00:06:39 |
Wed 28 Dec 2016
The Story of the First Calendar, Son of a King
In order, madam, to explain how I came to lose my right eye, and to wear the dress of a Calender, you must first know that I am the son of a king. My father's only brother reigned over the neighborin…
00:14:25 |
Tue 27 Dec 2016
Artuk, Who Did All Forbidden Things
A man whose name was Artuk had buried his wife, but refused to remain aloof from doings which those who have been busied with the dead are forbidden to share. He said he did not hold by such old cust…
00:03:58 |
Mon 26 Dec 2016
The Story of Hanukkah
The story of Hanukkah begins in strife. Antiochus, a Greek who was king of Syria, marched with an army of soldiers into the kingdom of Judea, home to many Jews. He insisted that the Jews worship the …
00:04:42 |
Sat 24 Dec 2016
Twas the Night Before Christmas, or A Visit from St. Nicholas
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be t…
00:04:28 |
Thu 22 Dec 2016
The Giant of The Flood
Just before the world was drowned all the animals gathered in front of the Ark and Father Noah carefully inspected them. "All ye that lie down shall enter and be saved from the deluge that is about t…
00:10:53 |
Thu 22 Dec 2016
The Story of the Three Calenders, Sons of Kings, and of Five Ladies of Bagdad
In the reign of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid, there lived at Bagdad a porter who, in spite of his humble calling, was an intelligent and sensible man. One morning he was sitting in his usual place wi…
00:23:45 |
Wed 21 Dec 2016
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