All Stories – Page 52 – Indian Folk Tales

African Folk Tales Ages 9-12

Lion and Jackal

Jackal agrees to share a winter’s hunting with Lion, starves Lion’s family while his own grows fat, then escapes up a cliff with a rope and a hot stone.

African Folk Tales Ages 9-12

Lion Who Thought Himself Wiser Than His Mother

After quarrelling with the Only Man, Lion ignores his mother’s warning about the man with pinching weapons and white dogs, and lies in wait at the water.

African Folk Tales

Lion Who Took a Woman’s Shape

A lion kills a young woman gathering herbs and returns home in her skin, but the cows, the milk and a little sister sense something terribly wrong.

African Folk Tales Ages 9-12

Lion’s Share

Jackal yields credit for his own shot to Lion, then keeps the best meat through false trails, false accusations and a dangerous tower trick.

African Folk Tales Ages 9-12

Story of Lion and Little Jackal

Little Jackal agrees to hunt with Lion, then carries the eland home to his own children and escapes Lion again and again with quick-witted lies.

African Folk Tales Ages 9-12

The Dance for Water, or Rabbit’s Triumph

Rabbit refuses to help the animals dance water up from a dry riverbed, drinks it anyway, and is caught by a pitch-covered Tortoise, but not for long.

African Folk Tales Ages 9-12

The Hunt of Lion and Jackal

Jackal’s arrow brings down an eland, Lion claims the shot, and Jackal lays a false trail of his own blood so he can steal back all the fat.

African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

The Judgment of Baboon

Itkler the tailor wants justice for his torn clothes, and every creature blames the next, so Baboon orders each to punish the one before.

African Folk Tales Ages 9-12

The Lion, the Jackal, and the Man

Tired of Lion’s boasting, Jackal promises to show him a creature stronger than any lion, and leads him past a boy and an old man to a hunter.

African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

The Lioness and the Ostrich

An ostrich roars as loudly as a lioness and out-hunts her too, until her cubs spot that their mother’s new equal has no teeth at all.

African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

The Lost Message

The ants hold a council about their enemies but every kind of ant goes its own way, and the message of unity they need is sent by Beetle.

African Folk Tales Ages 9-12

The Monkey’s Fiddle

Monkey brings home a bow that never misses and a fiddle that makes everyone dance, and when a crooked court sentences him to hang, he plays.