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alastair macleod The Green Man of The Pentland Firth

a northern folktale

Short Story
English
639 Words
Ages 6 and up
152
0

"Once, long before Buddha, long before Allah, long before the Christ, the peoples on either side of the Pentland Firth worshipped Mara, the Green Goddess of the sea. Mara gave them food, seals, birds, shellfish. She also gave them life; the tides of women’s courses that brought on the passion, and then the pain of birth. When angry she raged and swept away the sand and flooded inland: but none had ever seen her in the flesh except for the shamaness. In her conical stone hut she lived by a bay daily filled by the tide" [more]

Keywords: folkore, shamaness, sea goddess, caithness

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alastair macleod Beauty and The Prince

a modern folktale

Romance
English
940 Words
Ages 3 and up
249
1

"At first the forest was green and light with wide clearings between the trees. She saw many little birds and deer, who told her the way. The forest started to get darker with bigger, older trees. Not so much sunlight reached the forest floor. Then she met a bear. She was not frightened and spoke to the bear in its own language. “I seek the forgotten castle.” said the girl “The forgotten castle? queried the bear. “That is secret, we bears do not speak of it. It is quiet here now in these woods. We do not encourage humans. What if you find him? Will it be as before, with the hunting of bears? Many of my ancestors were hunted and killed. The bear said this with such feeling and looked sad. Then he turned and moved off. The girl carried on then she met a group of wolves. Again she spoke to them in their own language, “Do you know of the lost castle oh fleet of foot? [more]

Keywords: beauty, prince modern woman, nature, ecology

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Imonikhe Ahimie The Tortoise visits the City in the Sky

or, Greed Goes Before A Fall

Fairy Tale
English
4456 Words
Ages 8 and up
309
0

The Tortoise is the most popular character of all the varied characters that abound in the folklore of the Nigerian peoples. The exploits of the Tortoise, whether in all-animal stories or in stories that have an animal-human mix, are without compare in all of the folklore that originates from The Federal Republic of Nigeria. Indeed, in all of Nigerian folklore, there may be as many Tortoise stories as there are all other stories combined. In different circumstances, the Tortoise is associated with wisdom, selfishness, just low cunning or, even, kindness. In this adventure, our hero pays a visit to a fabulous city in the Sky in company of the avian folk but things don't work out quite in the way that he might have expected. [more]

Keywords: Africa, Nigeria, Folktale, Tortoise, Birds, Vulture

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Imonikhe Ahimie The Wily Tortoise

Fairy Tale
English
10295 Words
Ages 8 and up
390
0

The Tortoise is the most popular character of all the varied characters that abound in the folklore of the Nigerian peoples. The exploits of the Tortoise, whether in all-animal stories or in stories that have an animal-human mix, are without compare in all of the folklore that originates from The Federal Republic of Nigeria. Indeed, in all of Nigerian folklore, there may be as many Tortoise stories as there are all other stories combined. In different circumstances, the Tortoise is associated with wisdom, selfishness, just low cunning or, even, kindness. In this adventure, our hero cajoles the Eagle to allow him to follow to an island bristling with the most beautiful palm fruits in creation, but not even the Tortoise could have imagined what his greed for those luscious palm fruits would lead him through! [more]

Keywords: Africa, Nigeria, Folktale, Tortoise, Eagle, Fishes, Crocodile, Leopard, Mrs Tortoise

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Alastair Macleod The Living Cave

or Uamh An Oir

Fiction
English
3767 Words
Ages 10 and up
221
1

Four stories; In "The Living Cave," Sgithac, the legendary warrior priestess, trains young men on the Isle of Skye in the arts of war and also in the arts of life. Feargal faces one last challenge before he joins the warrior band; it is to do with his own fears and the mystery of life and of women. Will he emerge intact? In "The Serpent Queen," we see more clearly what once was. "Dust Devils," relates what happens when we lose our knowledge and reverence for the earth. In "The Silver Chanter" , a young man from the Isle of Skye finds himself under a fairy spell . [more]

Keywords: folktale, spiritual journey, walking into the unknown, confronting fears, rebirth, the mysteries, the earth mother, keeping the balance, the Aos Sí

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Florence White Williams The Little Red Hen

An Old English Folk Tale

Short Story
English
1464 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

During the 1880s, reading instruction in the United States continued to evolve to include primers that became known as literature readers. Prior to this time highly moralistic and religious texts were used to teach reading. The Little Red Hen offers a transition to less blatant religious and moralistic tales while still emphasizing a clear moral. During this time, consideration of the interest of the young reader became more central to the teaching of reading. In considering the young reader, the authors of this genre made their texts appealing visually both through illustrations and text formatting. "Margaret Free and Harriette Taylor Treadwell were the first authors to prepare beginning readers with a content consisting wholly of adaptations from the old folktales." (Smith, 1965/2002, p. 141). The genre of the folktale lent itself to repetitive vocabulary – an early reading strategy still in use today. [more]

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