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Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day Let us celebrate Mother’s Day with our most beloved folk tales about mothers!   The Boy whom Seven Mothers Suckled – Folk Tales from Bengal Once on a time there reigned...

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Walpurgis Night and Beltane

May 1st is truly a unique day, as the horror of the mysterious witches’ magic of Walpurgis Night (= the night from April 30th to May 1st) is followed on the gray morning by...

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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...

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The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop

A SHEPHERD-BOY, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, “Wolf! Wolf!” and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at...

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Fairytalenight.com is on YouTube

  With great joy I announce that fairytalenight.com is now on YouTube. From time to time I will record folk- and fairytales and put them on the channel. I still encourage you to read the...

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Jupiter and the Monkey (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop

JUPITER ISSUED a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and presented,...