Bedtime StoriesFairy TaleFolktale Riquet with the TuftMarch 15, 2019Riquet with the Tuft There was, once upon a time, a Queen, who was brought to bed of a son,…
Bedtime StoriesCzech Folk TalesFolktale SHEPHERD HYNEKMarch 15, 2019SHEPHERD HYNEK To cut a long story short, there was a prince and he had three sons. The first two…
Bedtime StoriesCzech Folk TalesFolktale KOJATAMarch 15, 2019KOJATA Once there was a king who had an only son. One day the king went to inspect his estates….
Bedtime StoriesCzech Folk TalesFablesFolktale THE BEAR, THE EAGLE, AND THE FISHMarch 15, 2019THE BEAR, THE EAGLE, AND THE FISH Once there was a count and he had three daughters. All of them…
Bedtime StoriesCzech Folk TalesFolktale THREE DOVESMarch 15, 2019THREE DOVES A certain merchant died. His son was nineteen years old at the time. He said to his mother:…
Bedtime StoriesFolktaleOthers LITTLE TOM THUMBMarch 14, 2019Once upon a time there lived a wood-cutter and his wife, who had seven children, all boys. The eldest was only…
Bedtime StoriesFolktaleOthers SindbadMarch 12, 2019IN the time of Harun-er-Rashid there was, in Baghdad, a rich merchant named Sindbad the Sailor, the source of whose…
Folktale The Gold-giving SerpentMarch 10, 2019The Gold-giving Serpent ow in a certain place there lived a Brahman named Haridatta. He was a farmer, but poor…
Folktale The Soothsayer's SonMarch 10, 2019The Soothsayer’s Son soothsayer when on his deathbed wrote out the horoscope of his second son, whose name was Gangazara,…
Bedtime StoriesFolktalePanchatantra The Broken PotMarch 10, 2019There lived in a certain place a Brahman, whose name was Svabhavakripana, which means “a born miser.” He had collected…