Tagged: WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

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...

February 5, 2019

Best Folk tales about the “The Hare” – a cunning and deceitful character

The hare in various traditions Easter bunny The Easter Bunny has a long and deeply rooted in pagan European traditions. The Germanic goddess Eostre was the goddess of spring and fertility. The goddess animal...

September 13, 2017

HOW THE KING OF PAGAN CAUGHT THE THIEF (SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES, 1902) BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

MANY, many years ago there lived near the old city of Pagan a famous robber chief who was so fierce and cruel that he made all men fear his name. He stole and killed and burned...

September 12, 2017

HOW THE WORLD WAS CREATED (SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES, 1902) BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

IN the beginning of the world, many, many cycles ago, so long ago, in fact, that no man knows how long it was, there were no trees, no hills, no land, nothing but water. The wind...

September 11, 2017

THE SPARROW’S WONDERFUL BROOD (SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES, 1902) BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

MANY, many years ago, at the beginning of the world, a little sparrow built her nest on the top of a tall tree that grew near the edge of a lake. In it she laid five...

September 10, 2017

THE STORY OF THE TORTOISE (SHAN FOLK LORE STORIES, 1902) BY WILLIAM C. GRIGGS

THERE was once a man who had two wives. Now as everybody knows it is always the chief wife that the husband loves best, while the other instead of being Mae Long, is only Mae Noi, and this...