On the 7th day of the 7th month of the Chinese lunar calendar Chinese celebrate a festival called the Double Seventh Festival, the Qixi Day or nowadays mostly refered to as the Chinese Valentine’s Day. In order to celebrate Chinese Valentine’s Day and furthermore to console lovers from all around the world that are separated…
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE (OLD GREEK FOLK STORIES TOLD ANEW By Josephine Preston Peabody 1897)
When gods and shepherds piped and the stars sang, that was the day of musicians! But the triumph of Phoebus Apollo himself was not so wonderful as the triumph of a mortal man who lived on earth, though some say that he came of divine lineage. This was Orpheus, that best of harpers, who went…
A Ghostly Wife (Folk-Tales of Bengal, 1912) by Rev. Lal Behari Day
Once on a time there lived a Brahman who had married a wife, and who lived in the same house with his mother. Near his house was a tank, on the embankment of which stood a tree, on the boughs of which lived a ghost of the kind called Sankchinni. One night the Brahman’s wife had…
The Man who wished to be Perfect (Folk-Tales of Bengal, 1912) by Rev. Lal Behari Day
Once on a time a religious mendicant came to a king who had no issue, and said to him, “As you are anxious to have a son, I can give to the queen a drug, by swallowing which she will give birth to twin sons; but I will give the medicine on this condition, that…
THE GRATEFUL PRINCE (The Violet Fairy Book, 1889) by ANDREW LANG
Once upon a time the king of the Goldland lost himself in a forest, and try as he would he could not find the way out. As he was wandering down one path which had looked at first more hopeful than the rest he saw a man coming towards him. ‘What are you doing here,…
Kisa Gotami
Kisa Gotami was the wife of a wealthy man of Savatthi. Her story is one of the more famous ones in Buddhism. After losing her only child, Kisa Gotami became desperate and asked if anyone could help her. Her sorrow was so great that many thought she had lost her mind. An old man told…