All Stories
Browse our complete collection of folk tales, Panchatantra stories, and moral stories from around the world.
Indian Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
How Raja Rasalu Went Out into the World
Rasalu leaves his underground home a year early, damages the townspeople's water pots and misreads his frightened father's silence before a painful farewell.
Indian Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
How Raja Rasalu’s Friends Forsook Him
The carpenter's son defeats a snake during the first watch, but Rasalu faces a far greater horror. His companions ask to return home, and he lets them go.
Indian Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
How the Raja’s Son Won the Princess Labam
Grateful ants and tigers, stolen magical objects and Labam's own advice help a prince face her father's changing, deadly marriage tests.
Indian Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
How the Wicked Sons Were Duped
An old father whose greedy sons treat him badly gets help from a wise friend, whose clever trick with four heavy bags soon changes how the sons behave.
Indian Folk Tales
Jackal or Tiger?
A king banishes his queen over a silly quarrel about a howl in the night, and years later the son raised in the forest comes to his court as a servant.
Indian Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Krishna Tames the Serpent Kaliya
When a many-headed serpent poisons the river Yamuna near Vrindavan, young Krishna climbs a tree, leaps into its whirlpool and dances on its hoods.
Indian Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Kupti and Imani
A princess who vows to make her own fortune is sent to live with a poor old fakir, and a misheard word brings her a magic fan and a royal friend.
Indian Folk Tales
Little Anklebone
A little shepherd boy is given up to a hungry wolf by his own aunt, yet his tiny anklebone goes on to scare off robbers and make a pond of milk.
Indian Folk Tales
Loving Laili
Laili searches for Majnun through years of enchantment, then repeatedly rescues him when he dismisses her warnings; their reunion ends in a palace they cannot leave.
Indian Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Peasie and Beansie
Kind Peasie helps a tree, a fire, a pipal and a stream on her way to visit their father, and her selfish sister Beansie hopes to win the same rewards.
Indian Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Prince Half-a-Son
A prince mocked for his unusual body uses magic and careful listening to survive his brothers' attacks, while the tale exposes their envy and the court's prejudice.
Indian Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Prince Wicked and the Grateful Animals
A man rescues a prince and three animals from a flood. The animals honour their promises, but the new king remembers the rescue with resentment and tries to silence him.