folk tale
traditional story that is passed down orally
Tongue-Cut Sparrow
traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow
The Little Red Hen
American fable
Dick Whittington and His Cat
English folklore concerning the rise of Richard Whittington in 14th-century London
The King of the Snakes
Chinese folktale about a snake husband
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Norwegian fairy tale
The Three Bears
Leo Tolstoy's adaptation
The Creation of the Violin
Transylvanian Roma fairy tale
Champa Si Ton
folktale from Laos
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Middle Eastern folk tale; one of the best-known tales associated with The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights), despite not being part of the original text
fairy fort
circular dwelling remains in Ireland
The Cat and the Fox
Russian fairy folk tale
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
folk tale from middle east, in '1001 Nights'
The Tale of the Eagle
Albanian folk tale
The Brahmin and the Mongoose
Indian folktale
Diplomacy
story by Lafcadio Hearn
Ukrainian fairy tale
fairy tale from Ukraine
The White Hound of the Mountain
Irish folk tale
The Golden Ball
Turkish folk tale
Peter Klaus
German folk tale
The Golden Arm
folk tale
Legend of the Christmas Spider
folktale from Eastern Europe
The Crow
Slavic fairy tale
The Cunning Servant
Korean folktale
Fire Boy
Japanese folktale
Hassan of Basra
fairy tale from the Arabian Nights
hidden village
remote settlement in Feudal Japan
My Lord Bag of Rice
Japanese fairy tale about a heroic samurai Tawara Tōda, based on real-life figure
Stone Soup
European folk story
Grateful dead
Tale of spirit who tests & provides assistance to hero; teaches burial rites & reciprocity
The King of the Cats
British folk tale
Lost Children of the Alleghenies
1856 missing persons case in Pavia, United States
The Great Snake
short story by Pavel Bazhov
The Donkey's Head
Jewish-Tunisian folktale
Cinderella
folk tale with multiple variants throughout the world
The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd
Chinese folk tale
Japanese folktale
Japanese well-known classic tales
The Stonecutter
Japanese folk tale of unknown authorship
Russian fairy tales
Russian folk or author's fairy tale in folk style
The Cat, the Rooster, and the Fox
Russian folk fairy tale
fable
short fictional story that often anthropomorphises non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson
Russian folktale
traditional fairy tale of the Russian people
The Snow-child
european folktale