All Stories
Browse our complete collection of folk tales, Panchatantra stories, and moral stories from around the world.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Guleesh
Guleesh rides with the fairy host to France to steal a princess on her wedding night, outwits the fairies, then must find a way to give her back her voice.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
How Cormac Mac Art Went to Faery
High King Cormac trades his family for a silver branch whose music ends all sorrow, then follows them into a strange land of wonders to win them back.
Celtic Folk Tales
How Fin Went to the Kingdom of the Big Men
Fin sails to the Kingdom of the Big Men, where the king keeps him as a pet dwarf, and with his hound Bran he defeats the sea monsters that haunt the land.
Celtic Folk Tales
Hudden and Dudden and Donald O’Neary
Donald O'Neary retaliates after two farmers kill his cow, but his escalating tricks also harm people outside their quarrel.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Jack and His Comrades
Poor Jack sets off to seek his fortune and rescues a donkey, a dog, a cat and a cock, and together the five comrades rout a gang of robbers.
Celtic Folk Tales
Jack and His Master
Jack confronts the master who injured his brothers, exploiting the wording of their bargain and finally demanding money for their support.
Celtic Folk Tales
Jack the Cunning Thief
Jack's career of deception leads to four challenges from a squire: a goose, guarded horses, a ridden horse and a bed sheet.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
King O’Toole and His Goose
Old King O’Toole can no longer hunt, and his only joy is a goose too old to fly, until a stranger offers to make her new for a curious price.
Celtic Folk Tales
Morraha
Morraha wins a castle and a wife at cards from a stranger in a green boat, then loses a game and must fetch the sword of light and a strange story.
Celtic Folk Tales
Munachar And Manachar
Munachar sets out to punish greedy Manachar for eating his raspberries, but every helper he needs asks for something first, all the way to a leaky sieve.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Paddy O’Kelly and the Weasel
Paddy O’Kelly pockets a heap of gold that a weasel has piled on a hearth, and the angry creature turns out to be far more than she seems.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Powel, Prince of Dyfed
Powel chases a lady on a white horse whom no rider can catch, wins Rhiannon with a magic bag, and years later must learn the truth about their lost son.