All Stories
Browse our complete collection of folk tales, Panchatantra stories, and moral stories from around the world.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Princess Finola and the Dwarf
A mute dwarf who loves the lonely Princess Finola is given back his speech by a fairy and sets out for a magic spear and shield to break her enchantment.
Celtic Folk Tales
Smallhead and the King’s Sons
Smallhead, mocked by her cruel half-sisters, outwits a wicked hag again and again, wins husbands for her sisters, then frees an enchanted prince for herself.
Celtic Folk Tales
The Battle of the Birds
A prince promises his future son to a giant in exchange for moving a magical castle. Years later, Auburn Mary helps that son escape impossible tasks and reclaim a lost memory.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Black Horse
A king’s youngest son swaps a lame old pony for a black horse that can go anywhere in the world, then must fetch a Greek princess for the Prince Underwaves.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Enchanted Cave
Prince Cuglas chases a deer into a cave and finds himself in the realm of a fairy queen who loves him, while his true love, Princess Ailinn, waits at Tara.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Fairy Tree of Dooros
A tiny fairy drops one magic berry in Dooros Wood, is banished to the land of giants, and brings back Sharvan the Surly to guard the tree that springs up.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Farmer of Liddesdale
A desperate farmer hires the first stranger who knocks, a ploughman who sniffs his stakes and asks a strange wage: all the corn he can carry in one rope.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Field of Boliauns
Tom Fitzpatrick catches a leprechaun mending a shoe in a hedge and makes him show where his gold is buried, but the little man is cleverer than Tom.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Golden Spears
Connla and Nora save a thrush from a hawk, and in thanks it leads them after nine fairy pipers into a crystal hall, across the sunset and under the sea.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener
A gardener’s youngest son hunts a golden bird with the help of a talking fox, and keeps landing in trouble because he can never resist a golden prize.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Horned Women
Late one night twelve horned witches come knocking, take over a woman’s kitchen and spin by her fire, until the Spirit of the Well tells her what to do.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The House in the Lake
A fisherman’s son spares a little trout that turns into a talking swan, and to free her he must walk the lake bed past a dragon to the fairy queen.