Category: Africa

May 13, 2022

THE STORY OF A GAZELLE (The Violet Fairy Book, 1889) by ANDREW LANG

Once upon a time there lived a man who wasted all his money, and grew so poor that his only food was a few grains of corn, which he scratched like a fowl from...

October 30, 2020

Favorite folk- and fairy tales about greed

Folk- and fairy tales hand down a morality and principles for living together in a society. Since greed is such a wide-spread human trait, it became one of the most famous motives in folk...

March 25, 2020

Folk- and Fairy Tales around slaves and slavery

International Day of Remembrance of Slavery Victims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade The United Nations’ (UN) International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is on March 25...

March 24, 2020

Best folk and fairy tales about WATER – Happy World Water Day

The 22 of March is the UN’s world water day. Water is a source of life and an important element of many folk- and fairy tales. Therefore fairytalenight.com has collected the best stories around water...

December 29, 2019

LION AND BABOON (South-African Folk-Tales, 1910) by James A. Honey

Baboon, it is said, once worked bamboos, sitting on the edge of a precipice, and Lion stole upon him. Baboon, however, had fixed some round, glistening, eye-like plates on the back of his head....

December 22, 2019

THE JUDGMENT OF BABOON (South-African Folk-Tales, 1910) by James A. Honey

One day, it is said, the following story happened: Mouse had torn the clothes of Itkler (the tailor), who then went to Baboon, and accused Mouse with these words: “In this manner I come...