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 Butterfly
There was once a butterfly who wished for a bride, and, as may be supposed, he wanted to choose a very pretty one from among the flowers. He glanced, with a very critical eye, at all the flower-beds,…
00:09:07 |
Tue 22 Nov 2016
The Golden Crab
Once upon a time there was a fisherman who had a wife and three children. Every morning he used to go out fishing, and whatever fish he caught he sold to the King. One day, among the other fishes, he…
00:14:13 |
Mon 21 Nov 2016
The Story of the Husband and the Parrot
A good man had a beautiful wife, whom he loved passionately, and never left if possible. One day, when he was obliged by important business to go away from her, he went to a place where all kinds of …
00:04:57 |
Fri 18 Nov 2016
The Peasant Astrologer
A king had lost a precious ring. He looked all over for it, but nowhere was it to be found. He issued a proclamation stating that the astrologer who could tell him where it was would be rich for the …
00:06:38 |
Thu 17 Nov 2016
How the Fog Came
There was a Mountain Spirit, which stole corpses from their graves and ate them when it came home. And a man, wishing to see who did this thing, let himself be buried alive. The Spirit came, and saw …
00:04:38 |
Wed 16 Nov 2016
The Conceited Apple Branch
It was the month of May. The wind still blew cold; but from bush and tree, field and flower, came the welcome sound, "Spring is come." Wild-flowers in profusion covered the hedges. Under the little a…
00:11:17 |
Tue 15 Nov 2016
Mirror Of Matsuyama
In ancient days there lived in a remote part of Japan a man and his wife, and they were blessed with a little girl, who was the pet and idol of her parents. On one occasion the man was called away on…
00:06:32 |
Mon 14 Nov 2016
Vasilisa the Beautiful
Long, long ago, in a certain tsardom there lived an old man and an old woman and their daughter Vasilisa. They had only a small hut for a home, but their life was a peaceful and happy one. However, e…
00:26:21 |
Fri 11 Nov 2016
The Emperor's New Clothes
Many, many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them; his only ambition was to be always well dressed. He did not care for his…
00:13:17 |
Thu 10 Nov 2016
Ravens
Why are Ravens black and why do they shriek? Music is Kirigami by Graham Bole. (freemusicarchive.org/music/Graham_B…_01_-_Kirigami)
00:04:26 |
Wed 09 Nov 2016
Pepper-Corn
Once on a time there was an old man and an old woman who had no children; and one day the old woman went into the fields and picked a basket of beans. When she had finished, she looked into the baske…
00:03:46 |
Tue 08 Nov 2016
The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban
In the country of Zouman, in Persia, there lived a Greek king. This king was a leper, and all his doctors had been unable to cure him, when a very clever physician came to his court. Music this week …
00:06:33 |
Mon 07 Nov 2016
The Stonecutter
Once upon a time there lived a stonecutter, who went every day to a great rock in the side of a big mountain and cut out slabs for gravestones or for houses. He understood very well the kinds of ston…
00:08:47 |
Fri 04 Nov 2016
Baba Yaga
Somewhere, I cannot tell you exactly where, but certainly in vast Russia, there lived a peasant with his wife and they had twins — a son and daughter. One day the wife died and the husband mourned ov…
00:10:58 |
Thu 03 Nov 2016
Little Snow White
Once upon a time in midwinter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from heaven, a queen sat sewing at her window, which had a frame of black ebony wood. As she sewed she looked up at the s…
00:21:40 |
Wed 02 Nov 2016
The Story of The Fisherman
Sire, there was once upon a time a fisherman so old and so poor that he could scarcely manage to support his wife and three children. He went every day to fish very early, and each day he made a rule…
00:08:51 |
Tue 01 Nov 2016
Jack o' The Lantern
Once upon a time there lived a man whose natural disposition was churlish and morose and the asperities of whose soul had not been softened down by the influence of a knowledge of God; and his acquir…
00:13:47 |
Mon 31 Oct 2016
Masha and The Bear
Once upon a time there lived an old man and woman who had a granddaughter named Masha. One day some friends of Masha's decided to go to the forest to gather mushrooms and berries and they came to Mas…
00:07:12 |
Fri 28 Oct 2016
Savitri and Satyavan
A long time ago, King Aswapati ruled over the Madra Kingdom. He was a virtuous and high-souled King, but was sorrow stricken for he was childless. For eighteen years he underwent austerities and perf…
00:10:51 |
Thu 27 Oct 2016
The Woman Who Had a Bear as a Foster Son
There was once an old woman living in a place where others lived. She lived nearest the shore, and when those who lived in houses up above had been out hunting, they gave her both meat and blubber. A…
00:07:46 |
Wed 26 Oct 2016
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