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August 12, 2017

The Charcoal-Burner And The Fuller (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop

A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better...

August 11, 2017

OLD SULTAN (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

A shepherd had a faithful dog, called Sultan, who was grown very old, and had lost all his teeth. And one day when the shepherd and his wife were standing together before the house...

August 10, 2017

The Woman with Two Skins (FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA WEST AFRICA, 1910) BY ELPHINSTONE DAYRELL

Eyamba I. of Calabar was a very powerful king. He fought and conquered all the surrounding countries, killing all the old men and women, but the able-bodied men and girls he caught and brought...

August 9, 2017

THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work. His...

August 8, 2017

THE CAT AND THE DOG (Indian Fairy Tales, 1880) collected and translated by Maive Stokes

Introduction. All cats are aunts to the tigers, and the cat in this story was the aunt of the tiger in this story. She was his mother’s sister. When the tiger’s mother was dying,...

August 7, 2017

The Ass And The Grasshopper (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop

AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They...