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Tyr and the Binding of Fenrir Norse Folk Tales Ages 9-12

Tyr and the Binding of Fenrir

Tyr and the Binding of Fenrir: In the time before Ragnarok, when the gods still believed they could prevent the end times through cunning and sacrifice, there

Adzanumee And Her Mother African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Adzanumee And Her Mother

Adzanumee And Her Mother. A girl chooses between magic and memories. Learn why love and memories are worth more than anything else in the world.

Anansi And Nothing African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Anansi And Nothing

Anansi And Nothing: Near Anansi’s miserable little hut there was a fine palace where lived a very rich man called Nothing. Nothing and Anansi proposed, one

Anansi The Blind Fisherman African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Anansi The Blind Fisherman

Anansi the Blind Fisherman: A Tale of Cleverness and Justice In a village near a great river in Africa, there lived a spider named Anansi. Unlike...

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Farmer Mybrow And The Fairies African Folk Tales All Ages

Farmer Mybrow And The Fairies

Farmer Mybrow And The Fairies — a tale of justice and vindication. Farmer Mybrow faces cruel accusations, but justice arrives through supernatural intervention.

Honourable Minū African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Honourable Minū

Honourable Minū: It happened one day that a poor Akim-man had to travel from his own little village to Accra - one of the big towns on the coast. This man

How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World African Folk Tales Ages 9-12

How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World

How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World: The famine had lasted nearly three years. Kweku Tsin, being very hungry, looked daily in the forest in the

How Mushrooms First Grew African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

How Mushrooms First Grew

How Mushrooms First Grew — a tale of brothers, trickery, and transformation. Two brothers with bad habits deceived their community, changing the land.

How The Tortoise Got Its Shell African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

How The Tortoise Got Its Shell

How The Tortoise Got Its Shell: A few hundred years ago, the chief Mauri (God) determined to have a splendid yam festival. He therefore sent his messengers to

How We Got The Name ‘Spider Tales’ African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

How We Got The Name ‘Spider Tales’

Anansi the spider climbs to the Sky God to buy the world's stories — and almost every folk tale in Africa now wears his name.

How Wisdom Became The Property Of The Human Race African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

How Wisdom Became The Property Of The Human Race

How Wisdom Became The Property Of The Human Race. Long ago, wisdom belonged only to a few. Learn how one person changed everything by sharing knowledge.

King Chameleon And The Animals African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

King Chameleon And The Animals

An African folk tale about how the animals once chose a king by race — and why a clever little chameleon beat the swift hare to the stool of power.

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