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
Puss in Boots
There was a miller whose only inheritance to his three sons was his mill, his donkey, and his cat. The division was soon made. They hired neither a clerk nor an attorney, for they would have eaten up…
00:11:12 |
Tue 25 Oct 2016
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found …
00:10:05 |
Mon 24 Oct 2016
The Sagacious Monkey and The Boar
Long, long ago, there lived in the province of Shinshin in Japan, a traveling monkey-man, who earned his living by taking round a monkey and showing off the animal's tricks. One evening the man came …
00:06:37 |
Fri 21 Oct 2016
The Willow-wren and The Bear
Once in summer-time the bear and the wolf were walking in the forest, and the bear heard a bird singing so beautifully that he said: 'Brother wolf, what bird is it that sings so well?' 'That is the K…
00:06:37 |
Thu 20 Oct 2016
The Bell
In the narrow streets of a large town people often heard in the evening, when the sun was setting, and his last rays gave a golden tint to the chimney-pots, a strange noise which resembled the sound …
00:13:02 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
Kate Crackernuts
Once upon a time there was a king and a queen, as in many lands have been. The king had a daughter, Anne, and the queen had one named Kate, but Anne was far bonnier than the queen's daughter, though …
00:08:06 |
Tue 18 Oct 2016
The Very Obstinate Man
There was once an Obstinate Man—no one in the world could be as obstinate as he. And no one dared come near him, so obstinate was he, and he would always have his own way in everything.
00:07:37 |
Mon 17 Oct 2016
The Two Frogs
Once upon a time in the country of Japan there lived two frogs, one of whom made his home in a ditch near the town of Osaka, on the sea coast, while the other dwelt in a clear little stream which ran…
00:04:03 |
Fri 14 Oct 2016
Beauty and The Beast
Once upon a time, in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich. As he had, however, six sons and six daughters, he f…
00:44:19 |
Thu 13 Oct 2016
The Story of the Second Old Man and of the Two Black Dogs
Great prince of the genii, you must know that we are three brothers— these two black dogs and myself. Our father died, leaving us each a thousand sequins. With this sum we all three took up the same …
00:07:57 |
Wed 12 Oct 2016
Rumpelstiltskin
There was once upon a time a poor miller who had a very beautiful daughter. Now it happened one day that he had an audience with the King, and in order to appear a person of some importance he told h…
00:07:48 |
Mon 10 Oct 2016
The Fool
Once u on a time there was a mother who had a son with little brains. One morning she said, "We must get up early, for we have to make bread." So they both rose and began to make bread. The mother ma…
00:03:19 |
Fri 07 Oct 2016
The boy from the bottom of the sea, who frightened the people of the house to death
Well, you see it was the usual thing: "The Obstinate One" had taken a wife, and of course he beat her, and when he wanted to make it an extra special beating, he took a box, and banged her about with…
00:03:21 |
Wed 05 Oct 2016
Little Red-cap (Little Red Riding Hood)
Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once s…
00:08:20 |
Wed 05 Oct 2016
The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind
I am now going to begin my story (said the old man), so please attend. This hind that you see with me is my wife. We have no children of our own, therefore I adopted the son of a favorite slave, and …
00:07:21 |
Wed 05 Oct 2016
The Old Man and His Grandson
There was once a very old man, whose eyes had become dim, his ears dull of hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon...
00:02:24 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
The Shoemaker's Elves
There was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and was very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make o…
00:04:57 |
Mon 03 Oct 2016
The Drop of Water
Of course you know what is meant by a magnifying glass—one of those round spectacle-glasses that make everything look a hundred times bigger than it is? When any one takes one of these and holds it t…
00:04:22 |
Fri 30 Sep 2016
The Nightingale and The Rose
“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red rose.” From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him,…
00:12:32 |
Thu 29 Sep 2016
Foolish Hans
Once upon a time there was a poor peasant woman. She was a widow and had but one son. His name was Hans, and he was an idiot.
00:03:16 |
Wed 28 Sep 2016
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