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Unknown . Eskimo Folktales

Essay
English
46008 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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These stories were collected in various parts of Greenland, taken down from the lips of the Eskimo story-tellers themselves, [more]

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Xenoyuna Sakura Japan Folktales The Story of Two Farmer

Fantasy
English
3307 Words
Ages 3 and up
98
0

There were once two farmer men who were brothers. Both of them worked hard in seed-time and in harvest-time. They stood knee-deep in water to plant out the young rice, bending their backs a thousand times an hour; they wielded the sickle when the hot sun shone; when the rain poured down in torrents, there they were still at their digging or such like, huddled up in their rice-straw rain coats, for in the sweat of their brows did they eat their bread. The elder of the two brothers was called Cho. For all he laboured so hard he was passing rich. From a boy he had had a saving way with him, and had put by a mint of money. He had a big farm, too, and not a year but that he did well, what with his rice, and his silk-worms, and his granaries and storehouses. But there was nothing to show for all this, if it will be believed. He was a mean, sour man with not so much as a “good day” and a cup of tea for a wayfarer, or a cake of cold rice for a beggar man. His children whimpered when he came near them, and his wife was much to be pitied. The younger of the two brothers was called Kanè. For all he laboured so hard he was as poor as a church mouse. Bad was his luck, his silk-worms died, and his rice would not flourish. In spite of this he was a merry fellow, a bachelor who loved a song and an honest cup of saké. His roof, his pipe, his meagre supper, all these he would share, very gladly, with the first-comer. He had the nimblest tongue for a comical joke, and the kindest heart in the world. But it is a true thing, though it is a pity all the same, that a man cannot live on love and laughter, and presently Kanè was in a bad way………. [more]

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elena koutsis scary stories and folktales

well it may be inappropriate to some users

Horror
English
431 Words
Ages 18 and up
431
49

caution this book may be innapropriate for some users.

Keywords: horror, scary, haunted, bloody, ghosts, ghouls, goblins.

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Xenoyuna Sakura Japan Folktales The Young Samurai & Beautiful Lady From The Painting

Romance
English
4070 Words
No Age Recommendation
77
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Many years ago, long before the present prosaic era in ancient japan, there lived in Yedo a young samurai named Toshika. His family belonged to the aristocratic rank of the hatamoto samurai, those knights who possessed the right to march to battle directly under the Shogun's flag (hata), and his father was a high official in the Tokugawa Shogunate.Toshika, whose disposition was of a dreamy and indolent nature with scholarly tastes, had no occupation. He took life easily, and when his studies were finished, he went to live at the family villa situated in the suburb of Aoyama. Toshika was not interested in society, and except for an occasional visit to his home or to his favourite friend, he never went anywhere. Far from the world he spent his days quietly and pleasantly, reading books, tending and watering his flowers, practising the tea-ceremony, and composing poetry and playing on the flute. He was a young man of many accomplishments and studied art. He collected curios and specimens of well-known calligraphy, which all Japanese prize greatly, and he particularly delighted in pictures. One day a certain friend whom Toshika had not seen for several months, came to call upon him. He had just returned from a visit to the seaport of Nagasaki and knowing the young man's tastes had brought with him, as a present, a Chinese drawing of a beautiful woman, which he begged Toshika to accept. Toshika was very pleased with this acquisition to his treasures. He examined the painting carefully, and though he could find no signature of the artist, his knowledge of the subject told him that it was probably drawn by the well-known Chinese painter of the Shin era. It was the portrait of a young woman in the prime of youth, and Toshika felt intuitively that it was a real likeness. The face was one of radiant loveliness, and the longer he gazed at it, the more the charm and fascination of it grew upon him. He carried it to his own room and hung it up in the alcove. Whenever he felt lonely he retired to the solitude of his chamber, and sat for hours before the drawing, looking at it and even addressing it. As the days went by, gradually the picture seemed to glow with life and Toshika began to think of it as a person. He wondered who the original of the portrait could have been, and said that he envied the artist who had been granted the happiness of looking upon her beauty…… [more]

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Alastair Macleod The Three Herons

and other folktales of Orkney

Fiction
English
3041 Words
Ages 8 and up
101
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Five modern folktales from Orkney; The Three Herons, The House Elves of Breck, The Trolls of Trolla Vatn, [more]

Keywords: life force, the Norse elves, trolls, Giantesses, the Elvar, Orkney

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Debbie Lacy Scary Mary

Short Story
English
3442 Words
Ages 14 and up
611
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A young farmer named William became acquainted and married a wonderful woman named Mary. She was a successful seamstress from Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. They transitioned out to his secluded, yet beautiful farm in the middle of Grand Teton, Wyoming. William loved farming and was also a great storyteller, as he would always amuse Mary of the eerie mysteries and old folktales of past, but over a period of time, William's negligence of her overly skittish manner resulted into a devastating tragedy. [more]

Keywords: Yellowtone Park, Wyoming, Grand Teton, Farm, Marriage, Cows, Horses, Hills, Meadows, Grassland, House, Folktales, Seamstress, Sounds, Eerie, Rifle, Tragedy, goats, chickens [more][Less]