All Stories
Browse our complete collection of folk tales, Panchatantra stories, and moral stories from around the world.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Huntsman’s Son
Fergus, a huntsman’s son, gives shelter to three strange guests one stormy night, and each repays him when he tries to win a proud princess at Tara.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Lad with the Goat-Skin
Tom, a poor widow’s son dressed only in a goat-skin, wins three magic gifts from giants and sets out to make the gloomy princess of Dublin laugh three times.
Celtic Folk Tales
The Little White Cat
Eileen delays a forced marriage with three impossible balls of fairy dew, while the Little White Cat guides a prince through enchanted islands to obtain her rescue.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Ridere of Riddles
Two princes flee a poisoning stepmother, and a string of strange deaths on the road gives them a riddle that even the Knight of Riddles cannot solve.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Russet Dog
The Russet Dog, the clever Highland fox, tricks a hunter, a cock and the poor wolf over and over, until one careless joke finally costs him dearly.
Celtic Folk Tales
The Sea-Maiden
Promised to a sea-maiden before he was born, a fisherman’s son goes out with a huge sword and three animal friends, beheads giants and saves a princess.
Celtic Folk Tales
The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
To win the king of Ireland’s daughter, the Shee an Gannon must find out why the Gruagach Gaire, whose laugh once filled the world, stopped laughing.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Shepherd of Myddvai
A Welsh shepherd wins a lovely maiden from the lake with the right kind of bread, but she warns him she will leave if he strikes her three times without cause.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Sprightly Tailor
Dared to sew a pair of trews by night in a haunted church, a cheerful tailor keeps stitching while a huge, roaring thing rises bit by bit from the floor.
Celtic Folk Tales
The Story of Deirdre
Hidden from birth because of a dark prophecy, Deirdre falls in love with Naois, son of Uisnech, and flees with him from the king who means to marry her.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Story of the McAndrew Family
Seven foolish McAndrew brothers lose their cows, their gold and their land, field by field, to neighbours ready to cheat them, until only begging is left.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Story-Teller at Fault
A king’s story-teller who cannot think of a tale loses everything at dice to a lame beggar, and is whisked off to watch the stranger’s wildest tricks.