Justice & Fairness
Judgments, rewards, punishments and abuses of authority shape these stories. Some endings repair a wrong; others leave losses unresolved or impose a punishment readers may question. Follow whose testimony is heard, whose choices are respected and whether the powerful are held to the same standard as everyone else.
Korean Folk Tales
Ta-Hong
An old minister calmly tells a young secretary that he will die tomorrow, then shares the secret story of the dancing girl who once vowed to wait for him.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Wooing of Olwen
To win the giant’s daughter Olwen, young Kilhuch and King Arthur’s strangest champions must find a lost prisoner and hunt a terrible magic boar.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
The Vision of MacConglinney
A wandering scholar cures a king’s endless hunger by tying him up, eating in front of him and describing a dream of houses and boats made of food.
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 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
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
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.
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
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
Fair, Brown, and Trembling
Kept at home by jealous sisters, Trembling rides to church three Sundays in magic robes, loses a shoe to a prince, and then faces her sister’s worst treachery.
Celtic Folk Tales
Ages 9-12
Connla and the Fairy Maiden
An invisible fairy maiden calls Prince Connla away to the Plain of Pleasure, and even the king’s Druid cannot break the longing she leaves behind.
African Folk Tales
All Ages
Farmer Mybrow and the Fairies
Forest fairies help Farmer Mybrow clear, burn and plant a secret field, but his wife answers their question at the green crop and the fairies ruin it.