Category: Scandinavia

November 1, 2021

Best Scary Fairy Tales for Halloween

Halloween or Hallows Eve. It was the Celtic New Year festival, which marked the beginning of winter and also recognized a kind of harvest festival. The Celts believed that on this evening the gates...

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...

May 20, 2020

KNÖS (THE SWEDISH FAIRY BOOK) By Frederick H. Martens

Once upon a time there was a poor widow, who found an egg under a pile of brush as she was gathering kindlings in the forest. She took it and placed it under a...

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...

March 20, 2020

THE MASTER-SMITH (Popular Tales from the Norse) By SIR GEORGE WEBBE DASENT

Once on a time, in the days when our Lord and St Peter used to wander on earth, they came to a smith’s house. He had made a bargain with the Devil, that the...

March 20, 2020

HOW ONE WENT OUT TO WOO (Popular Tales from the Norse) By SIR GEORGE WEBBE DASENT

Once on a time there was a lad who went out to woo him a wife. Amongst other places, he came to a farm-house, where the household were little better than beggars; but when...