Category: Scandinavia

November 1, 2021

The scariest folk- and fairytales for Halloween

Historical and cultural backdrop Origin of Halloween On 31st of October we are celebrating Halloween or Hallows Eve. Nowadays kids go from house to house, dressed in fancy costumes and to demand “trick or...

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...

Category: Scandinavia

The scariest folk- and fairytales for Halloween

Favorite folk- and fairy tales about greed

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

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

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

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

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