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January 27, 2018

THE FIRST KANGAROO (Australian Legends) by C. W. Peck

According to the inhabitants of the South-Eastern parts of the country-around the Monaro District, Mount Kosciusko, Goulburn, the Currockbilly Ranges, Mittagong, Burragorang and as far north as the Nepean River, there was a time...

January 23, 2018

Concerning the Woman, the Ape, and the Child (FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA WEST AFRICA, 1910) BY ELPHINSTONE DAYRELL

Okun Archibong was one of King Archibong’s slaves, and lived on a farm near Calabar. He was a hunter, and used to kill bush buck and other kinds of antelopes and many monkeys. The...

January 21, 2018

The Farmer and the Snake (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop

ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth,...

January 16, 2018

THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

1. HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS ‘The nuts are quite ripe now,’ said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet, ‘suppose we go together to the mountains, and eat as many as...

January 14, 2018

The Farmer and the Stork (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop

A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the...

January 9, 2018

THE GOOSE-GIRL (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

The king of a great land died, and left his queen to take care of their only child. This child was a daughter, who was very beautiful; and her mother loved her dearly, and...