Legends & Fairy Tales
The Laughing Bear and Other Stories
A collection of unique stories for listeners with the wisdom to see a bit beyond the printed words. The stories start in Korea with The Lau…
The Lavender Dragon
A well meaning dragon steals lonely humans to populate his version of paradise. A knight-errant comes to the rescue, but finds this terribl…
Aesop's Fables
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
The Mermaid's Message
This is a collection of fairy tales and fables compiled in 1919. The stories contain original but old-fashioned tales which modern children …
The Reign of King Oberon
In all the annals of Fairyland nothing is more wonderful—and the annals are found in many hundreds of volumes—than that chapter which tells …
Stories from Pentamerone
This is one of the oldest written collections of fairy tales. Although the names are different, listeners should recognise many of the stori…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…
Outa Karel’s Stories
Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, Geor…
The Angels of Mons
The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at…
Denslow's Three Bears
This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their…
Welsh Fairy Tales
Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Welsh folklore with this collection of fairy tales, meticulously gathered by P. H. Emerson durin…
Sintram and His Companions
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in dis…
Folk-lore and legends
The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is be…
Fables of Aesop and Others
The origins of these fables are perhaps lost in obscurity, but they are so closely identified with the Greek writer Aesop, that we may regar…
In Indian Tents
A collection of the legends and stories of North Eastern Indians "In the summer of 1882 and 1883, I was associated with Charles G. Lela…
Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch
Annie Elfrida McLane lives in a little brown house of the South Dakota prairie, within sight of the Black Hills. Her father is a widower and…
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories
Step into the enchanting world of Hans Christian Andersen, a master storyteller whose fairy tales have captivated readers for generations. T…
Aesop's Fables
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
The Mabinogion
Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest:On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flo…
The Islands of Magic
LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beauti…