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 Gift of the Magi
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until ones ch…
00:18:15 |
Tue 20 Dec 2016
Good Helpmates
Once there was a very rich man who had a son who could not tell a bean-pod from a cucumber. Unable to put up any longer with this, his father gave his son, Moscione, a good handful of crowns and sent…
00:12:12 |
Mon 19 Dec 2016
The Dragon and His Grandmother
There was once a great war, and the King had a great many soldiers, but he gave them so little pay that they could not live upon it. Then three of them took counsel together and determined to desert.…
00:09:44 |
Fri 16 Dec 2016
Tiller And Flutist
There was once a youth named Joseph Ciufolo. He played the flute when he wasn't tilling the soil. One day he was dancing through the fields and playing his flute to relax awhile from all his digging,…
00:05:51 |
Thu 15 Dec 2016
Prince Hyacinth And The Dear Little Princess
Once upon a time there lived a king who was deeply in love with a princess, but she could not marry any one, because she was under an enchantment. So the King set out to seek a fairy, and asked what …
00:17:09 |
Wed 14 Dec 2016
The Money-Box
In a nursery where a number of toys lay scattered about, a money-box stood on the top of a very high wardrobe. It was made of clay in the shape of a pig, and had been bought of the potter. In the bac…
00:07:16 |
Tue 13 Dec 2016
Prunella
There was once upon a time a woman who had an only daughter. When the child was about seven years old she used to pass every day, on her way to school, an orchard where there was a wild plum tree, wi…
00:12:16 |
Mon 12 Dec 2016
The Frog Prince
One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water, that rose in the midst of it, she sat her…
00:08:39 |
Thu 08 Dec 2016
Little Jack Frost
Little Jack Frost went up the hill. Watching the stars so cold and chill, Watching the stars and the moon so bright. And laughing aloud like a crazy wight.
00:03:29 |
Wed 07 Dec 2016
The Magic Kettle
Right in the middle of Japan, high up among the mountains, an old man lived in his little house. He was very proud of it, and never tired of admiring the whiteness of his straw mats, and the pretty p…
00:08:13 |
Tue 06 Dec 2016
The Adventures of Little Peachling
Many hundred years ago there lived an honest old woodcutter and his wife. One fine morning the old man went off to the hills with his billhook, to gather a faggot of sticks, while his wife went down …
00:05:31 |
Mon 05 Dec 2016
The Giant Dog
There was once a man who had a giant dog. It could swim in the sea, and was so big that it could haul whale and narwhal to shore. The narwhal it would hook on to its side teeth, and swim with them ha…
00:06:07 |
Fri 02 Dec 2016
The Goose Girl
Once upon a time an old queen, whose husband had been dead for many years, had a beautiful daughter. When she grew up she was betrothed to a prince who lived a great way off. Now, when the time drew …
00:14:58 |
Thu 01 Dec 2016
The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles
You must know, sire, that my father was Mahmoud, the king of this country, the Black Isles, so called from the four little mountains which were once islands, while the capital was the place where now…
00:08:32 |
Wed 30 Nov 2016
Visu the Woodsman and The Old Priest
Many years ago there lived on the then barren plain of Suruga a woodsman by the name of Visu. He was a giant in stature, and lived in a hut with his wife and children. One day Visu received a visit f…
00:07:57 |
Tue 29 Nov 2016
The Birth of Maui and How He Found His Family
Taranga’s child was born early, before his time. He was born by the seashore. Taranga was afraid of this early birth, of this child who had come into the world before he was fully formed. So she cut …
00:14:41 |
Mon 28 Nov 2016
The Tongue Cut Sparrow
Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman. The old man, who had a kind heart, kept a young sparrow, which he tenderly nurtured. But the dame was a cross-grained old thing; and one day,…
00:06:51 |
Fri 25 Nov 2016
Skunny-Wundy and The Stone Giant
A long time ago, there lived a person called Skunny-Wundy. He wasn't very big and he wasn't very small, but everybody knew him well because he was always boasting about his bravery. He would talk abo…
00:10:21 |
Thu 24 Nov 2016
The Story of the Vizier Who Was Punished
There was once upon a time a king who had a son who was very fond of hunting. He often allowed him to indulge in this pastime, but he had ordered his grand-vizir always to go with him, and never to l…
00:23:33 |
Wed 23 Nov 2016
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