Apollo

by Ron Leadbetter

The son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo was the god of music (principally the lyre, and he
directed the choir of the Muses) and also of prophecy, colonization, medicine, archery (but not for war or hunting),
poetry, dance, intellectual inquiry and the carer of herds and flocks. He was also a god of light, known as "Phoebus"
(radiant or beaming, and he was sometimes identified with Helios the sun god). He was also the god of plague and
was worshiped as Smintheus (from sminthos, rat) and as Parnopius (from parnops, grasshopper) and was known as
the destroyer of rats and locust, and according to Homer's Iliad, Apollo shot arrows of plague into the Greek camp.
Apollo being the god of religious healing would give those guilty of murder and other immoral deeds a ritual
purification. Sacred to Apollo are the swan (one legend says that Apollo flew on the back of a swan to the land of the
Hyperboreans, he would spend the winter months among them), the wolf and the dolphin. His attributes are the bow
and arrows, on his head a laurel crown, and the cithara (or lyre) and plectrum. But his most famous attribute is the
tripod, the symbol of his prophetic powers.
When the goddesss Hera, the wife of Zeus (it was he who had coupled with Leto) found out about Leto's pregnancy,
she was outraged with jealousy. Seeking revenge Hera forced Leto to roam the earth in search of a place to give birth.
Sicne Hera had forbidden Leto to stay anywhere on earth, either on terra-ferma or an island at sea, the only place to
seek shelter was Delos, being in the center of the Aegean, and also difficult to reach, as there were strong undercurrents, because it was said to be a floating island. Because it was a floating island, it was not considered either of
Hera's prohibitions, and so Leto was able to give birth to the divine twins Apollo and Artemis (before Leto gave birth to
Apollo, the island was encircled by a flock of swans, this is why the swan was sacred to him). As a gesture of thanks
Delos was secured to the sea-bed by four columns to give it stability, and from then on it became one of the most
important sanctuaries to Apollo. (A variation of Apollo's birth was that the jealous Hera had incarcerated Ilithyia, the
goddess of childbirth, but the other gods intervened forcing Hera to release Ilithyia, which allowed Leto to give birth ).
Apollo's first achievement was to rid Pytho (Delphi) of the serpent (or dragon) Python. This monstrous beast protected
the sanctuary of Pytho from its lair beside the Castalian Spring. There it stood guard while the "Sibyl" gave out her
prophecies as she inhaled the trance inducing vapors from an open chasm. Apollo killed Python with his bow and
arrows (Homer wrote "he killed the fearsome dragon Python, piercing it with his darts"). Apollo not only took charge of
the oracle but rid the neighboring countryside of widespread destruction, as Python had destroyed crops, sacked
villages and polluted streams and springs. However, to make amends for killing Python, as the fearsome beast was the
son of Gaia, Apollo had to serve king Admetus for nine years (in some versions eight) as a cowherd. This he did, and
when he returned to Pytho he came in the guise of a dolphin bringing with him priests from Crete (Apollo's cult title
"Delphinios" meaning dolphin or porpoise, is probably how Delphi was so named). After killing Python and taking
possession of the oracle, the god of light (Phobus) became known as "Pythian Apollo". He dedicated a bronze tripod to
the sanctuary and bestowed divine powers on one of the priestesses, and she became known as the "Pythia". It was
she who inhaled the hallucinating vapors from the fissure in the temple floor, while she sat on a tripod chewing laurel
leaves. After she mumbled her answer, a male priest would translate it for the supplicant. Delphi became the most
important oracle center of Apollo, there were several including Clarus and Branchidae.
Apollo, as with Zeus his father, had many love affairs with goddesses and mortals. Apollo's infatuation for the
nymph Daphne, which had been invoked by the young god of love Eros, because Apollo had mocked him, saying his
archery skills were pathetic, and Apollo's singing had also irritated him. Daphne was the beautiful daughter of the river
god Ladon, and she was constantly pursued by Apollo. To escape from Apollo's insistent behavior, she fled to the
mountains, but the persistent Apollo followed her. Annoyed by this, she asked the river god Peneus for help, which he
did. As soon as Apollo approached Daphne, he tried to embrace her, but when he stretched out his arms she
transformed into a laurel tree. Apollo, distraught by what had happened, made the laurel his sacred tree. Apollo also
loved Cyrene, she was another nymph, and she bore Apollo a son: Aristaeus, a demi-god, who became a protector of
cattle and fruit trees, and a deity of hunting, husbandry and bee-keeping. He taught men dairy skills and the use of
nets and traps in hunting.
The most famous mortal loves of Apollo was Hecuba, she was the wife of Priam, the king of Troy. She bore him
Troilius. Foretold by an oracle, as long as Troilius reached the age of twenty, Troy could not be defeated. But the
hero Achilles ambushed and killed him, when the young prince and his sister Polyxena secretly visited a spring. Apollo

also fell in love with Cassandra, the sister of Troilius, and daughter of Hecuba and Priam. He seduced Cassandra on the
promise that he would teach her the art of prophecy, but having learnt the prophetic art she rejected him. Apollo,
being angry of her rejection punished her, by declaring her prophecies never to be accepted or believed.
Asclepius, the god of healing, was also Apollo's offspring, after his union with Coronis, who was daughter of Phlegyas,
king of the Lapiths. While she was pregnant by Apollo, Coronis fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus, but a crow
informed Apollo of the affair. Apollo sent his twin sister Artemis to kill Coronis, and Artemis carried out he brothers
wishes. While her body was burning on the funeral pyre, Apollo removed the unborn child, and took him to Chiron,
who raised the child Asclepius.
Apollo also, as did his father Zeus, fall in love with one of his own gender, Hyacinthus, a Spartan prince. He was very
handsome and athletic, which inflamed the passions of Apollo. One day while Apollo and Hyacinthus were practicing
throwing the discus, Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, who was also attracted to the young prince, and jealous of
Apollo's amorous affection towards the boy, made the discus veer off course by blowing an ill wind. The discus, which
Apollo had thrown, hit Hyacinthus, smashing his skull. Apollo rushed to him, but he was dead. The god was overcome
with grief, but to immortalize the love he had for the beautiful youth, he had a flower grow were his blood had stained
the earth. Apollo also loved the young boy Cyparissus, a descendant of Heracles. The impassioned Apollo gave
Cyparissus a sacred deer, as a love token. The young deer became tame, and was the constant companion of the boy,
until a tragic accident occurred. As the young deer lay sleeping in the shade of the undergrowth, Cyparissus threw his
javelin, which by chance hit, and killed the deer. Grief-stricken by what had happened, Cyparissus wanted to die. He
asked Apollo to let his tears fall for all eternity. With apprehension Apollo transformed the boy into a tree, the cypress,
which became the symbol of sorrow, as the sap on its trunk forms droplets, like tears.
Apollo could also be ruthless when he was angered. The mortal Niobe, boasted to Apollo's mother Leto, that she had
fourteen children (in some versions six or seven), which must make her more superior than Leto, who had only bore
two. Apollo greatly angered by this slew her sons, and Artemis killed Niobe's daughters. Niobe wept so much that she
turned into a pillar of stone. Apollo was infuriated when the satyr Marsyas challenged Apollo to music contest. After
winning the competition, Apollo had Marsyas flayed alive, for being so presumptuous, as to challenge a god.
Apollo was worshiped throughout the Greek world, at Delphi every four years they held the Pythian Games in his
honor. He had many epithets, including "Pythian Apollo" (his name at Delphi), "Apollo Apotropaeus" (Apollo who averts
evil), and "Apollo Nymphegetes" (Apollo who looks after the Nymphs). As the god of shepherds he also had the cult
titles "Lukeios" (from lykos; wolf), protecting the flocks from wolfs, and "Nomius" (of pastures, belonging to
shepherds). Being the god of colonists, Apollo influenced his priests at Delphi to give divine guidance, as to where the
expedition should proceed. This was during the height of the colonizing era circa 750-550 BCE. Apollo's title was
"Archigetes" (leader of colonists). According to one legend, it was Apollo who helped either Cretan or Arcadian
colonists found the city of Troy.
In art Apollo is at most times depicted as a handsome young man, clean shaven and carrying either a lyre, or his bow
and arrows. There are many sculptures of Apollo and one of the most famous is the central figure from the west
pediment of the Temple of Zeus, at Olympia, showing Apollo declaring victory in favor of the Lapiths in their struggle
against the Centaurs.
A song sung in honor of Apollo is called a paean.

Whitsun (also Whitsunday, Whit Sunday or Whit) is the name used in the UK and Ireland[1] for the
Christian festival of Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of
the Holy Spirit upon Christ's disciples (Acts of the Apostleschapter 2). In England it took on some
characteristics of Beltane, which originated from the pagan celebration of Summer's Day, the beginning of
the summer half-year, in Europe.[2] Whitsuntide, the week following Whitsunday, was one of three vacation
weeks for the medieval villein;[3] on most manors he was free from service on the lord's demesne this week,
which marked a pause in the agricultural year.[4] Whit Monday, the day after Whitsun, remained a holiday in
the UK until 1971 when the movable holiday was replaced with the fixed Spring Bank Holiday in late May.
Whit was the occasion for varied forms of celebration. In the North West of England, church and chapel
parades called Whit Walks still take place at this time (sometimes on Whit Friday, the Friday after Whitsun).
[5]
Typically, the parades include brass bands and choirs; girls attending are dressed in white. Traditionally,
Whit fairs (sometimes called Whitsun ales[6]) took place. Other customs such as morris dancing[7] are
associated with Whit, although in many cases they have been transferred to the Spring Bank Holiday.

ETYMOLOGY
The name is a contraction of "White Sunday", attested in "The Holy-Ghost, which thou did send on WhitSunday" in the Old English homilies, and parallel to the mention of hwitmonedei in the early 13thcentury Ancrene Riwle.[7] Walter William Skeat noted that the Anglo-Saxon word also appears in
Icelandic hvitasunnu-dagr, but that in English the feast was always called Pentecoste until after the Norman
Conquest, when white(hwitte) began to be confused with wit or understanding.[8] According to one
interpretation, the name derives from the white garments worn bycatechumens, those expecting to
be baptised on that Sunday. Moreover, in England white vestments, rather than the more usual red, were
traditional for the day and its octave. A different tradition is that of the young women of the parish all coming
to church or chapel in new white dresses on that day. However, Augustinian canon John Mirk (c1382 1414), of Lilleshall Abbey, Shropshire, had another interpretation:

Good men and wimmen, this day (Dies Penthecostes) is called Wytsonday by cause the holy
ghost bought wytte and wisdom into Crists dyscyples, and so by prechying after in all
Cristendom and fylled him full of holy Wytte
Thus, he thought the root of the word was "wit" (formerly spelt "wyt" or "wytte") and Pentecost was socalled to signify the outpouring of the wisdom of the Holy Ghost on Christ's disciples. [9]
The following day is Whit Monday, a name coined to supersede the form Monday in Whitsun-week used
by John Wycliffe and others. The week following Whit Sunday is known as "Whitsuntide" or "Whit week".[10]
In the German language, the term "Weier Sonntag" (literally: "White Sunday") does not refer to
Whitsunday but rather to the first Sunday after Easter, known in English as either "Octave Day of Easter" or
"Low Sunday". Whitsunday is known as "Pfingstsonntag" ("Pentecost Sunday").

HISTORY
As the first holiday of the summer Whitsun was one of the favourite times in the traditional calendar and
Whit Sunday or the following week was a time for celebration. This took the form of ftes, fairs, pageants
and parades with Whitsun ales and Morris dancing in the south of England and Whit walks and wakes in
the north.[11] A poster advertising the Whitsun festivities at Sunbury, Middlesex in 1778 listed the following
attractions:

On Whit Monday, in the morning, will be a punting match...The first boat that comes in to
receive a guinea...In the afternoon a gold-laced hat, worth 30s. to be cudgell'd for...On
Whit Tuesday, in the morning, a fine Holland smock and ribbons, to be run for by girls and
young women. And in the afternoon six pairs of buckskin gloves to be wrestled for. [11]
In Manchester during the 17th century the Kersal Moor Whit races were the great event of the year when
large numbers of people turned the area into a giant fairground for several days. [12] With the coming of
industrialisation it became convenient to close down whole towns for a week in order to clean and maintain
the machinery in the mills and factories. The week of closure, or wakes week, was often held at
Whitsuntide. A report in John Harlan and T.T. Wilkinson's Lancashire Folk lore (1882) reads:

It is customary for the cotton mills etc., to close for Whitsuntide week to give the hands a
holiday; the men going to the races etc. and the women visiting Manchester on Whit-

Saturday, thronging the markets, the Royal Exchange and the Infirmary Esplanade, and
other public places: And gazing in at the shop windows, whence this day is usually called
'Gaping Sunday'.[11]
Whit Monday was officially recognised as a bank holiday in the UK in 1871 but lost this status in 1971 when
the Spring Bank Holiday was created.[11]

IN LITERATURE

The Whitsun Weddings is a poem and the title of a collection by Philip Larkin;

Whitsun, a poem by Sylvia Plath;

"Whitsunday in Kirchstetten" is a poem by W. H. Auden from his collection About the House.

Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory has the Knights of the Round Table witness a divine vision of the Holy Grail on
a Whitsunday, prompting their quest to find its true location.

In Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 4, Perdita imagines that she plays "as I have seen them do in Whitsun
pastorals".

Several chapters on Jeff Wheeler's Muirwood Trilogy revolve around Whitsunday and its significance and impact on
Muirwood's inhabitants;

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Don't Beat Grandfather (India, The Katha

Manjari).

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The Old Man, His Son, and His Grandson

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Respect Old Age (Philippines).

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A Wicked Man (France, Jacques de Vitry).

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La Housse Partie [The Divided Horse-Blanket]

(France).

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Let Him That Does Evil Expect Evil in Return

(Italy, Ortensio Lando).

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Of the Old Man of Monmouth That Gave His

Son All His Goods in His Lifetime (England).

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Old Frhling (Germany, Heinrich Stilling).

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Half a Blanket (Germany, Des Knaben
Wunderhorn)
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The Old Grandfather and His Grandson
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Pauli).
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Sindibd).
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Nights).
3. Story of the Confectioner, His Wife, and the Parrot
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Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio).
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Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer).
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translated by John Payne).
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translated by Richard Burton).
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the Forty Viziers).
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Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales. At this external
site are listed all the stories' titles, in English and in
French, plus their Aarne-Thompson-Uther type
classification numbers. Included are links to the texts of
individual tales.
4. Philippines.
Folktales from the Philippines.
1. How the First Head Was Taken.
2. The Man with the Coconuts.
3. The Boy Who Became a Stone.
4. Dogedog.
5. The Carabao and the Shell.
5. The Pied Piper of Hameln. The legend of a magic rat
catcher, who -- when cheated out of his wages -- steals

the town's children. Also included at this site are

related legends from other towns.
1. The Children of Hameln (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm).
2. The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story (Robert
Browning).
3. The Rat Catcher (Charles Marelles).
4. The Rat Catcher (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
5. Hurdy-Gurdy Player Abducts Children (A. Kuhn and W.
Schwartz).
6. The Rats in Neustadt-Eberswalde (J. D. H. Temme).
7. The Dancing Children of Erfurt (J. G. Th. Grsse).
8. The Expulsion of Rats from the Island of Ummanz (A
Haas).
9. The Rat Hunter (Denmark).
10.

The Rat Catcher of Magdalenagrund (Austria).

11.

The Pied Piper of Newtown [Franchville] (England).

12.

Avicenna and the Mouse Plague at Aleppo (Syria).

6. Playing Dead. Folktales of type 1, in which a trickster

dupes his victim by feigning death.
1. Reynard Steals Fish (Europe).
2. Two Foxes Steal Herrings (Scotland).
3. The Fox and the Lapp (Lapland).
4. Mr. Fox Goes a-Hunting, but Mr. Rabbit Bags the Game
(African-American).
5. How Brother Fox Was Too Smart (African-American).
6. The Fox (Palestine).

7. Mantharaka's Rescue (India).

7. The Plaisham. A folktale from Donegal, Ireland, told by
Seumas MacManaus. A type 571B ("Himp-Hamp")
story, this tale tells how a hapless husband deals with a
conspiracy between his wife and two other men to get
him out of the way.
8. Plowman.
Dishonest Plowman Legends. Folktales about plowmen
who encroach upon their neighbors' fields, with
uncanny consequences.
1. Jrle Knix (Germany).
2. The Dishonest Plowman (Germany).
3. The Seven Steps (Germany).
4. Land Plowed Away (Germany).
5. Punishment for Removing Land-Marks (Denmark).
9. The Pot That Died. Folktales of type 1592B, in which a
trickster steals a pot by convincing its owner that it has
died.
1. Nasreddin Hodja Borrows a Cauldron (Turkey).
2. The Cogia Borrowed a Cauldron (Turkey).
3. The Cauldron That Died (Palestine).
10.
The Princess and the Pea. Folktales of type 704
about the search for a sensitive wife.
1. The Princess on the Pea (Denmark, Hans Christian
Andersen).
2. The Most Sensitive Woman (Italy, Christian Schneller).
3. The Delicate Wives of King Virtue-Banner: Which Is the
Most Delicate? (India, Twenty-Two Goblins).

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Rain or Sunshine? Fables from Aesop and Turkey.

1. The Father and His Two Daughters (Aesop).
2. Nasreddin Hodja and His Two Daughters (Turkey).

The Rabbit Herd, folktales of type 570.

1. The Rabbit Herd (Europe).
2. The Hare Herder (Germany).
3. The Green Fig (Germany).
4. The King's Hares (Norway).
5. Jesper the Hare Herder (Denmark).
6. The Flute (Poland).
7. The Magic Fife (Ukraine / Russia).
8. Bibliography of additional tales.

Rapunzel and other folktales of type 310.

1. Rapunzel, the Grimm brothers' version of 1857.
2. Rapunzel, a comparison of the Grimm brothers'
versions of 1812 and 1857.
3. Parsley [Petrosinella] (Italy, Giambattista Basile).
4. The Fair Angiola (Italy).
5. Prunella (Italy).

6. Persinette (France, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La

Force).
7.

Parsillette (France).

8.

Blond Beauty (France).

9. Juan and Clotilde (Philippines).

Rat. See Mouse.
Red Riding Hood and other tales type 333.
1. Little Red Riding Hood (Charles Perrault).
2. Little Red Cap (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
3. Little Red Hood (Germany/Poland).
4. Little Red Hat (Italy/Austria).
5. The False Grandmother (France).
6. The True History of Little Golden-Hood (Charles
Marelles).
7. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (Beatrix Potter).
Revived from Apparent Death by a Grave-Robber. Folktales
of type 990, in which a person in a trance is buried by
mistake, but is "brought back to life" when a grave-robber
tries to steal a piece of jewelry from the supposed corpse.
1. A Sign from God (Germany).
2. A Terrible Experience (Scotland).
3. Buried in a Trance (Scotland).
4. A Ghoul-Like Deed (England).
5. Lady Restored to Life (England).
6. Lady Mount Edgcumbe Buried Alive (England).
Rgsula. The Lay of Rig from the Poetic Edda.

 The Robber Bridegroom and other folktales of type 955.

Women are threatened with murder, even cannibalism, by
wicked suitors.
1. The Robber Bridegroom (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm, versions of 1812 and 1857).
2. The Robber's Bride (Germany).
3. The Sweetheart in the Wood (Norway).
4. The Story of Mr. Fox (England).
5. The Oxford Student (England).
6. The Girl Who Got Up a Tree (England).
7. Bloody Baker (England).
8. Bobby Rag (England).
9. Captain Murderer (England, Charles Dickens).
10.

Laula (Wales).

11.

The History of Mr. Greenwood (Scotland).

12.

The Cannibal Innkeeper (Romania).

13.

Greenbeard (Lithuania).

14.

Sulasa and Sattuka (India, The Jataka).

Rbezahl Is Entertained by Musicians. A legend from Silesia

by Johann Prtorius (also spelled Praetorius, a pseudonym
for Hans Schultze, 1630-80).
The Runaway Pancake and other tales of type 2025.
1. The Pancake (Norway).
2. The Runaway Pancake (Germany).
3. The Thick, Fat Pancake (Germany).
4. Dathera Dad (England).

5. The Wonderful Cake (Ireland).

6. The Wee Bunnock (Scotland [Ayrshire]).
7. The Wee Bannock (Scotland [Dumfriesshire]).
8. The Wee Bannock (Scotland [Selkirkshire]).
9. The Fox and the Little Bonnach (Scotland).
10.

The Gingerbread Boy (USA).

11.

The Johnny-Cake (USA).

12.

The Little Cakeen (USA).

13.

The Devil in the Dough-Pan (Russia).

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Saint George.
o Saint George and the Dragon. An index page for the
legendary saint, including the story "Mar Jiryis (Saint
George) and the Dragon" from Palestine.
o

The Legend of Saint George, abstracted from The

Golden Legend; or, Lives of the Saints.

o The Legend of Saint George as recorded by S. BaringGould.

o Saint George Ballads from Thomas Percy's Reliques of
Ancient English Poetry.
1. The Birth of St. George.

2. St. George and the Dragon.

o Saint George Legends from Northern Europe.
1. Lindorm Legend (Mecklenburg).
2. Saint George (Mansfeld).
3. The Dragon (Baden).
4. The Lindorm (Lusatia).
5. Saint George and the Uffington White Horse
(England).
Salt.
o Love Like Salt. Contests between sisters as to which
one loves her father the most.
1. To Love My Father All (from The Tragedy of King
Lear by William Shakespeare).
2. Cap o' Rushes (England).
3. Sugar and Salt (England).
4. The Dirty Shepherdess (France).
5. As Dear as Salt (Germany).
6. The Most Indispensable Thing (Germany).
7. The Necessity of Salt (Austria).
8. The Value of Salt (Italy).
9. Like Good Salt (Italy).
10.

Water and Salt (Italy).

11.

The King and His Daughters (Pakistan).

12.
The Princess Who Loved Her Father Like Salt
(India).

13.
The Goose-Girl at the Well (Germany, Jacob
and Wilhelm Grimm).
14.

Ass's Skin (Variant, Basque).

o Why the Sea Is Salty. Folktales of type 565.

1. Frodi's Mill (Iceland).
2. Why the Sea Is Salt (Norway).
3. The Coffee Mill Which Grinds Salt (Denmark).
4. Why Sea Water Is Salty (Germany).
Scandinavia.
o Project Runeberg. An encyclopedia and library of classic
nordic literature and art, including many folklore and
mythology texts (for the most part in the Scandinavian
languages).
o Norwegian Folk Tales. Compiled by Tormod Kinnes.
o Scandinavia and Finland: A Digital Library of Folklore,
Folktales, and Fairy Tales.
Scotland.
Folklore, Folktales, and Fairy Tales from Scotland, a library of
books digitized by books.google.com and others.
The Scorpion and the Tortoise and other tales about
unnatural partnerships.
o

The Scorpion and the Tortoise (Bidpai).

o The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk (Aesop).
o The Frog and the Rat (Jean de La Fontaine).

2. Self Did It. Fairy legends of type 1137. These stories are
reminiscent of the encounter between Odysseus (Ulysses)
and the Cyclops Polyphemus.
o

My Ainsel (Northumberland, England).

o My Own Self (Sunderland, England).

o The Miller and the Ourisk (Scotland).
o The Story of Tam M'Kechan (Scotland).
o Mysel' i' da Mill (Shetland Islands, Scotland).
o A Donegal Fairy (Ireland).
o Legends of the Mill: The Beggar Woman and the Fairy
(Norway).
o Issi Teggi (Self Did It) (Estonia).
o The Fairy in the House (Basque).
3. The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces and other tales of
type 306.
o

The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces (Germany,

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
o The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces (Germany,
Georg Schambach and Wilhelm Mller).
o The Princess with the Twelve Pair of Golden Shoes
(Denmark, Svend Grundtvig).
o The Invisible Shepherd Boy (Germany/Hungary).
o The Midnight Dance (Russia).
o The Three Girls (Gypsy [Slovak, Moravian, and
Bohemian]).
o The Seven Iron Slippers (Portugal).
o The Twelve Dancing Princesses (France/Belgium).
o The Slippers of the Twelve Princesses (Romania).
o Dorani (Punjab).
o Hildur, the Queen of the Elves (Iceland).

4. The Silence Wager. Tales of type 1351, in which stubborn

individuals (typically husband and wife) attempt to settle a
dispute by seeing who can go the longest without speaking.
o

The Husband and the Wife Who Made a Wager as

to Who Would Eat the Pancake (India / China).
o The Beggar and the Five Muffins (India).
o Story of the Third Brahman (India).
o The Farmer, His Wife, and the Open Door (Pakistan).
o The Opium Eaters and the Open Gate (Turkey).
o

The Hashish Eater and His Bride (Egypt).

o Sennuccio and Bedovina (Italy).

o The Wager (Italy).
o The Porridge Pot (Flanders).
o The Obstinate Shoemaker (Denmark).
o Johnie Blunt (Scotland, Robert Burns).
o The Barring of the Door (Scotland).
o

Gutmann und Gutweib (Johann Wolfgang von

Goethe -- in German).

5. Singing Bones. Folktales of type 780 about murder victims,

whose body parts literally sing out for justice.
The Singing Bone (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).

o The Singing Bones (French Louisiana).

o

Under the Green Old Oak-Tree (Antigua).

o The Griffin (Italy).

o The Dead Girl's Bone (Switzerland).

o The Little Bone (Switzerland).

o Binnorie (England).
o Murder Will Out (Iceland)
o The Silver Plate and the Transparent Apple (Russia).
o Little Anklebone (Pakistan).
o The Magic Fiddle (India).
6. Slavic and Other Eastern European Folk and Fairy Tales. A
digital library.
7. Sleeping Beauty. Tales of type 410.
o

Sun, Moon, and Talia (Giambattista Basile).

o The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Charles Perrault).
o Little Briar-Rose, version of 1812 (Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm).
o Link to The Glass Coffin (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).

8. Sleeping Hero Legends. Migratory legends and folktales of

type 766 about heroes who, instead of dying, lie asleep
awaiting a time of special need when they will rise up and
defeat their nations' enemies.
o

Geroldseck (Germany).
o Frederick Barbarossa in Kyffhuser Mountain
(Germany).
o Emperor Karl at Nrnberg (Germany).
o Emperor Karl in Untersberg Mountain (Austria).
o King Karl and His Army in Odin's Mountain (Germany).
o Emperor Heinrich [Henry the Fowler] in Sudemer
Mountain (Germany).

o The Three Tells (Switzerland).

o Holger the Dane Under Kronborg (Denmark).
o Holger Danske (Denmark).
o The Knights of llaberg (Sweden).
o The Sleeping Warriors (England/Wales).
o Sleeping Warriors (Wales).
o The Cave of the Young Men of Snowdonia (Wales).
o The Hunter and His Hounds (England).
o King Arthur at Sewingshields (England).
o King Arthur in Freebrough Hill (England).
o Richmond Castle (England).
o The Wizard of Alderley Edge (England).
o Then There Are Yet Men in the Isle of Man (Isle of Man).
o The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla (Ireland).
o Thomas the Rhymer (Thomas of Erceldoune)
(Scotland).
o The Smith's Rock in the Isle of Skye (Scotland).
9. Snake and Serpent Husbands. Tales of type 433C and similar
stories.
o

The Enchanted Brahman's Son (India, The

Panchatantra).
o

Muchie-Lal (India).

The Snake Prince (India).

The Caterpillar Boy (India).

o The River Snake (India).

o
o

The Snake Who Became the King's Son-in-Law

(Romanian-Gypsy).
The Serpent (Italy, Il Pentamerone).

o The Water Snake (Russia).

o The Snake and the Princess (Russia).
o Transformation into a Nightingale and a Cuckoo
(Russia)
o The Girl and the Snake (Sweden).
o King Lindorm (Denmark).
o The Silk Spinster (Germany).
o The Snake (Germany).
o The Serpent (Germany).
o Oda and the Snake (Germany).
10.
The Snow Child. Tales of type 1362, and related stories
about questionable paternity.
o

The Snow Child (Europe).

o Modus Liebinc (Latin, from a tenth-century manuscript).
o The Child of Snow (France, Les cent nouvelles
nouvelles).
o The Ice Child (Germany, Johannes Pauli).
o Der Eyszapf (Germany, Hans Sachs).
o The Snow Child (England, Thomas North).
o A Twelve-Month Child (Italy, Poggio Bracciolini).
o Ten Cradles (England, John Taylor).

11.
The Snow Maiden. Tales of type 703*, featuring a
mysterious maiden, apparently made of snow.
The Snow Maiden (Russia).

o The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle (Nathaniel

Hawthorne).
o The Snow Daughter and the Fire Son (Bukovina).
o Yuki-Onna (Japan).
12.
The Snow, the Crow, and the Blood. A Folktale from
Donegal, Ireland, told by Seumas MacManus. This traditional
story of a young man's quest for the perfect bride includes
motifs found in many folktales: A greatful dead man as, a
wild man as helper, threatening giants, magic items (cloak,
purse, and sword) and a beautiful, but haughty -- even
demonic -- princess.
13.
o

Snow White. Tales of type 709.

Little Snow-White, version of 1812 (Germany, Jacob and

Wilhelm Grimm).
o Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree (Scotland).
o The Young Slave (Italy, Giambattista Basile).
o Maria, the Wicked Stepmother, and the Seven Robbers
(Italy).
o The Crystal Casket (Italy).
o The Death of the Seven Dwarfs (Switzerland).

14.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Folktales of type 325* and
migratory legends of type 3020.
o

Eucrates and Pancrates, the Egyptian Miracle Worker

(Assyria, Lucian).
o Goethe's ballad "Der Zauberlehrling." The original
German text with English translations.

o Magic Book (Germany).

o The Book of Magic (Russia).
o The Master and His Pupil (England).
o The Schoolmaster at Bury (England).
o The Farmer's Wife of Deloraine (Scotland).
o Mass John Scott (Scotland).
o The Magic Whistle (Iceland).
15.
Specter Bridegroom Legends. Stories of type 365 about
long-absent bridegrooms who suddenly return to their
fiances. Are they still mortal humans, or are they ghosts?
o

Sweet William's Ghost (Thomas Percy, Reliques of

Ancient English Poetry).
o The Specter Bridegroom (England).
o The Lovers of Porthangwartha (England).
o The Deacon of Myrk (Iceland).
o The Abbess and the Devil (from the unpublished papers
of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
o The Lover's Ghost (Hungary).
o Notes and Bibliography (including sources for additional
versions of this folktale type in the English and the
German languages).

16.
Stages of Life. Tales of type 173 (828), plus a Talmudic
treatise and a Shakespeare monologue.
o

The Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the Dog (Aesop).
o The Duration of Life (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm).
o Man and His Years (Romania, M. Gaster).

o The Seven Stages of Human Life (Talmud).

o The Seven Ages of Man (William Shakespeare).
17.
Stone Monument Legends. Legends about ancient
alters, graves, megaliths, menhirs, mounds, pictographs,
runestones, picture stones, standing stones, and other such
prehistoric monuments.
o

The Standing Stones of Stenhouse (Orkney Islands, Sir

Walter Scott).
o The Stone of Odin (Orkney Islands, G. F. Black).
o The Temple of the Moon, the Temple of the Sun, and
Wodden's Stone (Orkney Islands, G. F. Black).
o Druidical Circles and Monoliths (Scotland, Walter
Gregor).
o Olav's Mound and the Raised Stone at Slugan
(Scotland, Lord Archibald Campbell).
o The Gnoll Fairy Stone (Wales, J. O. Westwood).
o Merlin Transports the Giant's Dance [Stonehenge] from
Ireland to England (England, Geoffrey of Monmouth).
o The White Cow of Mitchell's Fold (England, Charlotte
Sophia Burne and Georgina F. Jackson).
o The Merry Maidens (England, Daniel Bowen Craigue).
o The Rollright Stones (England, James Orchard HalliwellPhillipps).
o Legend of the Rollright Stones (England, Edwin Sidney
Hartland).
o Table-Mn: The Saxon Kings' Visit to the Land's End
(England, Robert Hunt).
o King Arthur's Stone (England, Robert Hunt).
o The Witches of the Logan Stone (England, Robert Hunt).

o How to Become a Witch (England, Robert Hunt).

o Giants in Denmark (Saxo Grammaticus).
o Gloshed's Altar (Sweden, Herman Hofberg).
o The Frau Holle Stone (Germany, J. W. Wolf).
o The Giant's Stone near Zschen (Germany, Karl
Lyncker).
o The Stone of Stolzenhagen (Germany, J. D. H. Temme).
o The Seven Stones of Morin (Germany, J. D. H. Temme).
o The Adam's Dance of Wirchow (Germany, J. D. H.
Temme).
o The Hun Graves at Zssow (Germany, J. D. H. Temme).
o Photographs related to the above legends:
1. Dolmens in Denmark.
2. Runestones and Picture Stones from Scandinavia.
o Stone Soup. Folktales of type 1548, in which a trickster
convinces his victim that he can make soup from a
stone or a nail.
o "Boil stones in butter, and you may sip the broth." -English proverb.
o Stone Soup (Europe).
o The Clever Pilgrim (Switzerland/Germany).
o The Old Woman and the Tramp (Sweden).
o Limestone Broth (Ireland).
o A Pot of Broth (Ireland, W. B. Yeats).
o Stone Soup (United States of America).

2. Straightening a Curly Hair. Folktales of type 1175, in

which a demon is defeated because he cannot
straighten a curly hair.
o The Brahmarkshas and the Hair (India).
o Tapai and the Brahman (India).
o The Devil and the Farmer (England).
o Tricking the Devil (Germany).
3. Straw, Bean, and Coal, and other fables of type 295.
Three unlikely traveling companions suffer mishaps
when they try to cross a body of water.
o Straw, Coal, and Bean Go Traveling (Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm, 1812).
o Straw, Coal, and Bean (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm,
1837).
o Mouse, You Go First! (Switzerland).
o Someone's Misfortune, Someone's Ridicule (Poland).
4. The Strong Boy. Folktales of type 650A.
o The Young Giant (Germany).
o The Hairy Boy (Switzerland).
o Fourteen (Basque).
o The Bear's Son (Serbia).
o The Strong Man (India).
o The Story of Carancal (Philippines).
5. Suitors.
The Entrapped Suitors, tales of type 1730.
o The Lady and Her Five Suitors (1001 Nights).

o The Entrapped Suitors (Europe).

6. Sun, Moon and Star Legends.
o The Night Raven or Eternal Teamster (Germany). A
legend about the Big Dipper.
7. Superstitions. European supernatural beliefs, gleaned
from various 19th-century sources, including Jacob
Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie.
8. Swan Maidens. Folktales of type 400*.
o The Swan Maidens (reconstructed from various
European sources by Joseph Jacobs).
o The Swan Maiden (Sweden, Herman Hofberg).
o The Three Swans (Germany, Ernst Meier).
o The Story of the Swan Maiden and the King (Romania,
M. Gaster).
o The Golden Apple Tree and the Nine Peahens (Serbia,
Csedomille Mijatovies).
o The Feathery Robe (Japan).
o Prince Bairm and the Fairy Bride (Pakistan, Charles
Swynnerton).
o The Tale of the Adventures of Hasan of Basrah (1001
Nights).

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The Tail-Fisher. Fables of type 2, in which an animal loses his

tail by attempting to use it as a fishing lure.

1. Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed (Norway).

2. How the Wolf Lost His Tail (Scotland).
3. Reynard and Bruin (Europe).
4. Why the Bear Has a Stumpy Tail (Flanders).
5. The Hare and the Fox (Germany).
6. The Wolf's Unfortunate Fishing Trip (Germany/Poland).
7. How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail (USA).
8. The Frozen Tail (USA).
9. Fox and Wolf (American Indian).
10.

Why Rabbit Has a Short Tail (Antigua).

11.

Links to additional tales.

The Tailor in Heaven. Folktales of type 800.

1. How a Tailor Came to Heaven and Threw Our Lord
God's Footstool at an Old Woman (Germany, Jrg
[Georg] Wickram).
2. The Tailor in Heaven (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm).
3. The Tailor in Heaven (Germany, Ernst Meier).
4. A Spanish Cavalryman (Switzerland, Otto
Sutermeister).
Taming a Shrewish Wife. Folktales of type 900, reminiscent
of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare.
1. Cannetella (Italy, Giambattista Basile).
2. The Crumb in the Beard (Italy).
3. King Thrushbeard (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm).

4. Haaken Grizzlebeard (Norway, Peter Christen

Asbjrnsen and Jrgen Moe).
5. Greyfoot (Denmark).
6. Peter Redhat (Denmark, Evald Tang Kristensen).
7. The Haughty Princess (Ireland, Patrick Kennedy).
8. The Hunchback (Spain, Fernan Caballero).
Tannhuser, the legend of the medieval German knight who
found refuge in the Mountain of Venus with the pagan
goddess of love.
The Tar-Baby, tales of types 175 and 1310A.
1. The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story (USA, Joel Chandler
Harris).
2. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox (USA, Joel
Chandler Harris).
3. Buh Wolf, Buh Rabbit, an de Tar-Baby (USA).
4. Playing Godfather: Tar-Baby: Mock Plea (USA).
5. The Rabbit and the Frenchman (Native American,
Biloxi).
6. Coyote and Pitch (Native American, Shasta).
7. B' Rabby an' B' Tar-Baby (Bahamas).
8. The Story of a Dam (South Africa, Hottentot).
9. How Prince Five-Weapons Fought the Ogre Hairy-Grip
(India, Jataka Tales).
10.
The Demon with the Matted Hair (India, Jataka
Tales, retold by Joseph Jacobs).
11.

The Jackal and the Chickens (India).

12.
The Farmer, the Crocodile, and the Jackal
(Pakistan).

13.

King Robin (Spain/Portugal).

14.
The Monkey and Juan Puson Tambi-Tambi
(Philippines).
Tatterhood, a type 711 tale from Norway about twin girls.
The ugly one (our heroine) is spunky and resourceful; the
beautiful one is uninteresting.
Thangbrand the Priest Goes to Iceland. An account of a manslaying Christian missionary's attempts to convert Icelandic
heathens, taken from the Heimskringla of Snorri Sturluson.
Thor.
1. Thor and the Midgard Serpent, a story abstracted
from The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson.
2. Thor's Hammer in the Alps. A superstition recorded in
1897.
o Three Billy Goats Gruff. Folktales of type 122E.
1. Three Billy Goats Gruff (Norway).
2. The Three Goats (Poland/Germany).
3. How the Goats Came to Hessen (Germany).
2. Three Little Pigs. Folktales of type 124.
1. The Story of the Three Little Pigs (England).
2. The Three Little Pigs (England).
3. The Fox and the Pixies (England).
4. The Fox and the Geese (England).
5. The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf (African-American, Joel
Chandler Harris).
6. The Story of the Pigs (African-American, Joel Chandler
Harris).

7. How Come the Pigs Can See the Wind (North Carolina,
USA).
8. Little Pig and Wolf (Virginia, USA).
9. The Three Goslings (Italy).
3. Three Magic Gifts. In these type 563 tales the first two
gifts are stolen, but then recovered by the third one,
typically a magic stick that beats the thief until he
admits his guilt and gives back the stolen items.
1. The Story of the Ogre (Italy, Giambattista Basile).
2. The Ass That Lays Money (Italy).
3. Table-Be-Set, Gold-Donkey, and Cudgel-out-of-the-Sack
(Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
4. The Lad Who Went to the North Wind (Norway, Peter
Christian Asbjrnsen and Jrgen Moe).
5. The Wish Rag, the Gold-Goat, and the Hat Soldiers
(Austria).
6. The Good-for-Nothing (Georgia).
7. The Adventures of Juan (Philippines).
4. Three-Ring Parable. Folktales of type 920E.
1. Melchizedek Avoids a Trap (abstracted from Giovanni
Boccaccio's Decameron).
2. Of the Triple State of the World (Gesta Romanorum).
3. The Parable of the Three Rings (abstracted
from Nathan der Weise, a drama by Gotthold Ephraim
Lessing).
5. Thrym's Lay from the Poetic Edda. The Norse god Thor
recovers his stolen hammer Mjlnir from the giant
Thrym.
6. Thunderbolts. Legends and superstitions concerning
belemnites (fossils known variously as thunderbolts,

thunder-arrows, thunder-stones, devil-fingers, elf-bolts,

fairy-arrows, toad-stones, cross-stones, and starstones).
7. Tikki Tikki Tembo. A chain tale from China about a boy
with an enormously long name.
8. The Tongue-Cut Sparrow. A traditional Japanese fairy
tale (similar to type 480), as translated or retold by:
1. David Brauns (1885).
2. William Elliot Griffis (1880).
3. A. B. Mitford (1890).
4. Yei Theodora Ozaki (1903).
5. Teresa Peirce Williston (1904).
6. Lafcadio Hearn (1918).
9. Tortoise
1. The Tortoise That Wanted to Fly, fables of types 225
and 225A.
Type 225
1. An Eagle and a Tortoise (Aesop or Anianus).
2. The Tortoise and the Eagle (Aesop).
3. The Turtle and the Eagle (Leo Tolstoy).
4. When Mr. Terrapin Went Riding in the Clouds
(USA).
Type 225A
1. The Talkative Tortoise (India, The Jataka
Tales).
2. The Disobedient Tortoise (India, The
Panchatantra).

3. The Tortoise and the Two Swans (India, The

Kath Sarit Sgara).
4. The Tortoise and the Birds (Aesop).
5. The Tortoise and the Two Ducks (Jean de La
Fontaine).
2. The Tortoise and the Hare and Other Races between
Unequal Contestants. Folktales of types 275, 275A,
275B, 275C, 275C*, and 1074.
A Hare and a Tortoise (Aesop, translated by Sir
Roger L'Estrange).
The Hare and the Tortoise (Aesop, translated by
Samuel Croxall).
The Hare and the Tortoise (Aesop, translated by
George Fyler Townsend).
The Hare and the Tortoise (Aesop, retold by Joseph
Jacobs).
The Hare and the Tortoise (Aesop, retold by
William Alexander Clouston).
The Hare and the Tortoise (Aesop, translated by V.
S. Vernon Jones).
The Hare and Tortoise (Jean de La Fontaine).
The Fox and the Snail (Switzerland).
The Frog and the Snail (Netherlands).
The Fox and the Crab (Germany).
The Hare and the Hedgehog (Germany).
Why Does the Buffalo Walk Slowly and Tread
Gently? The Race of the Buffalo and the Hare
(Romania).

 How the Hedgehog Ran the Devil to Death

(England).
Mister Rabbit Finds His Match at Last (African
American).
Keeping Pace (African American).
The Race (African American).
Two Fast Runners (American Indian -- Blackfeet).
The Race (American Indian -- Pueblo).
Turtle's Race, two versions (American Indian -Ojibwa).
The Race Between Turtle and Frog (American
Indian -- Sanpoil).
The Tortoise and the Stag (Brazil).
The Snail and the Deer (Philippines).
Carabao and the Shell (Philippines).
An Unequal Match; Or, Why the Carabao's Hoof Is
Split (Philippines).
The Crane and the Crab (Fiji).
The Butterfly and the Crane (Fiji).
The King Crow and the Water Snail (Malaya).
The Frog and the Wild Hog (Madagascar).
Tortoise in a Race (West Africa).
The Elephant and the Ants (India).
Old Nick and the Girl (Sweden).
The Hare and the Tortoise [1] (Ambrose Bierce).

 The Hare and the Tortoise [2] (Ambrose Bierce).

o Trading.
1. Trading Away One's Fortune. Folktales of type 1415.

Hans in Luck (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm

Grimm).
The Story of Mr. Vinegar (England, James Orchard
Halliwell-Phillipps).
Gudbrand on the Hillside (Norway, Peter Christen
Asbjrnsen and Jrgen Moe).
What the Old Man Does Is Always Right (Denmark,
Hans Christian Andersen).

2. Trading Places. Folktales of types 85 and 1408, in which

family members exchange jobs with disastrous results.

The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage (Germany,

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
The Husband Who Was to Mind the House
(Norway, Peter Christen Asbjrnsen and Jrgen
Moe).
There Was an Old Man, Who Lived in a Wood
(England, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps).
The Old Man Who Lived in a Wood (England, Sarah
Hewett).

3. Trading Up (1). Folktales of type 170A.

The Rat's Wedding (Northern India).

The Monkey with the Tom-Tom (Southern India).
The Story of a Monkey (Philippines).

4. Trading Up (2). Folktales of type 1655.

The Dead Mouse (The Jataka).

 All Change (Europe).

The Sexton's Nose (Italy).
With One Centavo Juan Marries a Princess
(Philippines).
How the King Recruited His Army (AfricanAmerican).
The Boy Who Was Called Thick-Head (Native
American).
The Story of Hlakanyana (Kaffir -- South Africa).
o Travel.
Folktales for Travelers. Stories of people and animals
who try their luck away from home.
1. The Traveler and the Farmer (North America).
2. The Two Travelers and the Farmer (North America).
3. The Two Frogs (Japan).
4. The Talkative Tortoise (The Jataka Tales, India).
5. The Tortoise That Refused to Leave Home (The Jataka
Tales, India).
6. The Dog That Went Abroad (The Panchatantra, India).
7. The Man Who Became Rich through a Dream (1001
Nights).
8. The Pedlar of Swaffham (England).
9. The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (Aesop).
10.

The Town Mouse and the Field Mouse (Romania).

11.

The Citizen of the World (Jewish).

2. Treasure Finders Murder One Another. Folktales of type

763.

1. Vedabbha-Jataka: Misguided Effort (India, The Jataka).

2. The Reward of Covetousness (India).
3. The Punishment of Avarice (Tibet).
4. Jesus and the Three Blocks of Gold (Arabic).
5. Story of the Three Men and Our Lord Jesus (1001
Nights).
6. The Merchant and the Two Sharpers (1001 Nights).
7. The Pardoner's Tale (abstracted from The Canterbury
Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer).
8. The Hermit and the Three Ruffians (Italy).
9. The Three Crosses (Germany).
3. Trickster Wives and Maids. Folktales of type 1741, in
which a woman convinces a guest that her husband (or
employer) wants to cut off his ears (or worse!).
1. The Woman Who Humored Her Lover at Her Husband's
Expense (1001 Nights).
2. Clever Gretel (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
3. The Good Husband and the Bad Wife (India).
4. Tristan and Isolde, a Celtic legend as recorded by
Gottfried von Strassburg and Thomas of Britain, and
retold by D. L. Ashliman.
5. Twigmuntus, Cowbelliantus, Perchnosius. A Swedish
folktale of type 1641C about a simple lad who
confounds a group of scholars by pretending to know
Latin.
6. Two Travelers: Truth and Falsehood. Tales of type 613
about good and evil.
1. Dharmabuddhi and Ppabuddhi (India).
2. The Two Peasants (Sri Lanka).

3. The Two Brothers (Tibet).

4. The Heathen and the Jew (Jewish).
5. True and Untrue (Norway).
6. The Two Travelers (Germany).
7. The Travels of Truth and Falsehood (Hungary).
8. The Grateful Beasts (Hungary).
9. Honesty and Dishonesty (Russia).
10.

Justice or Injustice? Which Is Best? (Serbia).

11.

The Two Brothers (Georgia).

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Underground People Disturbed by Farm Waste. Migratory

legends of type 5075.
1. Raginal (Denmark).
2. The Young Lady of Hellerup (Sweden).
3. Sir Godfrey Macculloch and the Fairies (Scotland).
4. The Tulman (Scotland).
5. Why Deunant Has the Front Door in the Back (Wales).
6. Why the Back Door Was Front (Wales).
7. The Underground People in Stocksee (Germany).
8. The Stallion and the Underground People (Germany).

9. Underground People beneath the Horse Stall

(Germany).
10.

A Horse Stall Is Moved (Germany).

Unfinished and Endless Stories. Folktales of types 2250,

2251, 2260, 2271, 2300, and 2301.
1. Three Wise Men of Gotham (England).
2. The Tail (Scotland).
3. The Chest With Something Rare In It (Norway).
4. The Little Story (Poland).
5. The Golden Key (Germany).
6. Jack a Nory (England).
7. Mary Morey (USA).
8. The King and His Storyteller (Petrus Alphonsi, Disciplina
Clericalis).
9. The Narrow Bridge (Germany).
10.

The Story That Never Ends (Czechoslovakia).

11.

A Storyteller of Messer Azzolino (Italy).

12.

The Treasure (Italy).

13.

The Shepherd (Italy).

14.

The Endless Tale (England).

15.

Sancho's Story from Cervantes' Don Quixote.

Ungrateful Heirs. Folktales of type 982 in which old people

trick their ungrateful children into caring for them.
1. How the Wicked Sons Were Duped (Kashmir).
2. A Clever Stratagem (Sri Lanka).

3. How the Daughter-in-Law Got the Coins (Sri Lanka).

4. The Ungrateful Sons (England).
5. The Cudgel on the Gate at Jterbog (Germany).
The Ungrateful Son. A folktale of type 982D by Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm about the consequences of neglecting one's
aging parents.

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Vampire and Ghost Stories from Russia

1. The Coffin Lid
2. The Two Corpses
3. The Soldier and the Vampire
4. The Shroud
5. The Dog and the Corpse
6. Links to related sites
Vienna, Austria
The Weathercock on Saint Stephen's Cathedral, an Austrian
legend about a prisoner's miraculous escape.
Volsung Saga.
The Saga of the Volsungs: A Summary.

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Wales
Folklore, Folktales, and Fairy Tales from Wales, a library of
books digitized by books.google.com and others.
The Wandering Jew. Legends of type 777.
1. The Wandering Jew (from Reliques of Ancient English
Poetry).
2. Shoemakers Are a Poor Slobbering Race (England).
3. The Wandering Jew (retold by Horace E. Scudder).
4. The Jerusalem Showmaker, or Wandering Jew, in Jutland
(Denmark).
5. The Story of Judas (Italy).
6. Malchus at the Column (Italy).
7. Wodan as the Wandering Jew (Germany).
8. Buttadeu (Italy).
9. The Lost Jew (Germany).
10.

The Eternal Jew on the Matterhorn (Switzerland).

11.
The Wandering Jew on the Grimsel Pass
(Switzerland).
12.

The Mysterious Stranger (England).

War between the Village Animals and the Forest Animals.

Fables of type 103.
1. Old Sultan (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
2. The Dog and the Wolf (Bohemia, Theodor Vernaleken).
Water Spirit Legends 1. Stories about mermaids, nixies, and
other supernatural creatures who live in the water.
1. Yorkshire Legends and Traditions of Wells (England).

2. Water Demons (Scotland).

3. Holy Lake near Neuhoff (Germany).
4. Brother Nickel (Germany).
5. Lorelei (Germany).
6. The Merrow (Ireland).
7. The Water Snake (Russia).
8. Melusina.
9. Mermaid Wives.
Water Spirit Legends 2. Folktales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther
type 934K (also categorized as Christiansen migratory
legends type 4050).
1. The Hour Is Come but the Man Is Not (Wales).
2. The Man with the Green Weeds (Wales).
3. The Doomed Rider (Scotland).
4. The Hour Is Come, but Not the Man (Denmark).
5. The Hour Is Here (1) (Germany).
6. The Hour Is Here (2) (Germany).
7. Water Will Have Its Sacrifice (Germany).
8. Time Is Up (Austria/Italy).
Weather and Climate Legends.
1. The Thousand Years of Cold Are Coming (Italy/Austria,
Joh. Aug. Ernst Khler).
2. The Eternal Jew on the Matterhorn (Switzerland, Jacob
and Wilhelm Grimm).
3. Aid and Punishment (Switzerland, Rudolf Mller).

 Weinsberg, Germany.
The Women of Weinsberg and other legends of type 875*.
1. The Women of Weinsberg (Germany).
2. Weibertreue Castle (Germany).
3. A City Is Captured, from Which the Women Carry Their
Husbands and Children (Germany).
4. The Siege of Gelsterburg Castle (Germany).
5. The Siege of Weidelburg Castle (Germany).
Werewolf Legends from Germany.
1. Anonymous.
The Morbach Monster.
2. Asmus, F. and Knoop, O.
The Werewolf.
A Woman Transforms Herself into a Werewolf.
The Werewolf of Alt-Marrin.
3. Bartsch, Karl.
Fox Hill near Dodow.
Werewolves.
The Werewolf of Klein-Krams.
The Werewolf of Vietlbbe.
A Witch as Werewolf.
4. Boren, George (London Chapbook of 1590).
The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter.
5. Colshorn, Carl and Theodor

 The Werewolf.
6. Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm.
Werewolves.
Werewolf Rock.
The Werewolves Advance.
7. Haas, A.
The Werewolf of Jarnitz.
8. Kuhn, Adalbert.
Werewolf.
9. Kuhn, A., and Schwartz, W.
The Bxenwolf.
The Werewolf Belt.
The Werewolf Wife.
10.

Lyncker, Karl.
The Werewolf.
The Werewolf: Another Legend.
The Peasant and the Werewolf.
The Bxenwolf.

11.

Mllenhoff, Karl.
The Werewolf of Hsby.

12.

Schppner, Alexander.
The Wolf Stone.

13.

Temme, J. D. H.

 The Werewolves in Greifswald.

The Werewolf near Zarnow.
Werewolves in Pomerania.
The Werewolf in Hindenburg.
14.

Link to a werewolf tale from Croatia: The She-Wolf.

15.
Link to a werewolf story from Luxembourg: The
Werewolf of Bettembourg.
16.
Link to a werewolf story from Slovakia: The
Werewolf's Daughter.
What Should I Have Said (or Done)? Folktales of type 1696.
1. Going Traveling (Germany).
2. What You Deserve (Germany).
3. Silly Matt (Norway).
4. Stupid's Mistaken Cries (England).
5. The Forgetful Boy (England/USA).
6. Lazy Jack (England).
7. Jock and His Mother (Scotland).
8. I'll Be Wiser the Next Time (Ireland).
9. The Fool's Good Fortune (Georgia).
10.

A Stupid Boy (Kashmir).

Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892).

Folklore Ballads of John Greenleaf Whittier.
1. The Norsemen.
2. The Brown Dwarf of Rgen.
3. The Changeling.

4. Kallundborg Church.
Widows in (Short-Lived) Mourning. Folktales of types 65,
1350, 1352*, and 1510.
1. Mrs. Fox's Wedding (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm).
2. Chuang-tzu and His Wife (China).
3. Zadig's Nose (France, Voltaire).
4. The Widow of Ephesus (Rome, Petronius).
5. A Widow Digs Up Her Deceased Husband and Hangs
Him on the Gallows (Germany, Conrat Purselt).
6. Wooden Johannes (Germany, Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof).
7. He That's Dead Can Do No Hurt (Ireland, J. M. Synge).
8. The Devoted Widow (USA, Ambrose Bierce).
Wife.
1. An Adulterous Wife Locks Her Husband Out of Doors,
folktales of type 1377.
Dschoha's Wife Locks Him Out (from the Arabic).
The Unfaithful Wife (India).
The Ancient Knight Who Married a Beautiful Young
Wife (The Seven Wise Masters).
Tofano Shuts His Wife Out of Doors (Giovanni
Boccaccio, The Decameron).
A Tyrannical Husband (England).
The Well (Petrus Alfonsi, The Disciplina Clericalis).
2. The Contrary Wife, tales of type 1365A, 1365B, and
1365C.

Of a Woman Who Persisted in Calling Her Husband

Lousy (Italy).
Of One Who Sought His Wife Who Had Drowned in
a River (Italy).
Scissors They Were (Italy).
Scissors (Europe).
Of Hym That Sought His Wyfe against the Streme
(England).
How Madde Coomes, When His Wife Was
Drowned, Sought Her against the Streame
(England).
The Woman Who Called Her Husband a LousePincher (Germany).
The Woman Drowned (Jean de La Fontaine).
The Contrary Woman (Norway).
Mary, Mary, So Contrary! [The Pig-Headed Wife]
(Finland).
Scissors or Knife? (Russia).
The Contrary Wife (Spain).
The Baneyrwal and His Drowned Wife (Pakistan).

3. The Falsely Accused Wife, a tale of type 882.

4. The Wife Who Could Not Keep a Secret and other
folktales of type 1381. A man finds a treasure, but
nearly loses it because of his talkative wife.

How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the

Water (Ukraine).
The Found Money (Netherlands).
The Treasure (Denmark).

 The Iron Chest (Germany).

How a Woman Could Not Keep a Secret (India).
The Wife Who Could Not Keep a Secret (India).
Link to Of Women, Who Not Only Betray Secrets,
but Lie Fearfully, a folktale of type 1381D from
the Gesta Romanorum.
o Wild Huntsman Legends. Some of these widely
disseminated tales may be survivals of stories about
Odin (also known as Wodan or Wuotan) from Germanic
mythology.
1. King Herla (England).
2. The Wild Huntsman (England).
3. The Devil and His Dandy-Dogs (Cornwall).
4. Dando and His Dogs (Cornwall).
5. The Wild Hunt (Netherlands).
6. The Wild Huntsman's Present (Netherlands).
7. The Eternal Huntsman of Wynendael (Netherlands).
8. Wod, the Wild Huntsman (Germany).
9. The Wild Huntsman and the Mine-Monk (Germany).
10.
The Night Huntsman at the Udarser Mill
(Germany).
11.

Lwenberg: The Wild Hunt (Germany).

12.

Odin the Hunter (Denmark).

13.

Odin the Hunter (Denmark).

14.

The Wild Huntsman on Buller Mountain (Poland).

15.

The Wild Huntsman (Bohemia).

16.
The Wild Hunt near Schwarzkosteletz (Kostelec
nad ernmi lesy) (Bohemia).
17.

Links to additional texts.

2. Will-o'-the-Wisp: Ignis Fatuus. Legends about fiery

fairies.
1. The Will-o'-the-Wisp (Scotland)
2. The Ellylldan (Wales).
3. The Origin of the Jack-o'-Lantern (Wales).
4. The Jack o' Lantern (Denmark).
5. Will-o'-the-Wisps (Netherlands).
6. Jack o' Lanterns Baptized (Netherlands).
7. The Will-o'-the-Wisp (Germany/Poland)
8. Will-o'-the-Wisps with Long Legs (Germany)
9. Will-o'-the-Wisps Banned with a Curse (Germany)
10.

Godorf: The Will-o'-the-Wisp (Germany).

11.

Links to additional texts.

3. Wind and Sun. Fables of type 298, in which the wind

and the sun dispute about which of them is more
powerful, plus a related African-American tale.
1. The Wind and the Sun (Aesop).
2. Phbus and Boreas (Jean de la Fontaine).
3. The Wind and the Sun (India).
4. The North Wind and the Sun (Ambrose Bierce).
5. Brer Rabbit Treats the Creatures to a Race (Joel
Chandler Harris).
4. Witchcraft.

1. The Witch That Was Hurt. Migratory Legends of Type

3055.

The Miller Boy and the Cat (Austria, Ignaz and

Joseph Zingerle).
The Witch as Cat (Bohemia, Josef Virgil
Grohmann).
The Witch (Germany, J. G. Th. Grsse).
The Haunted Mill (Germany, Karl Gander).
Trudd as Cat (Germany, Karl Reiser).
The Girl Who Transformed Herself into a Hare
(Germany, A. Haas).
Witch as Hare (Germany, Bernhard Baader).
Witch as Goose (Germany, Bernhard Baader).
Witch as Fox (Germany, Karl Reiser).
A Witch Is Recognized (Germany, J. W. Wolf).
A Witch Is Recognized (Germany, A. Kuhn and W.
Schwartz).
A Witch Burnt (Netherlands, Benjamin Thorpe).
Witches as Cats in Manternach (Luxembourg, N.
Gredt).
The Blacksmith's Wife of Yarrowfoot (Scotland,
George Douglas).
The Farmer and the Witch (Scotland, Eve Blantyre
Simpson).
The Black Dog (Shetland Islands, G. F. Black).
The Severed Hand (Norway, Peter Christian
Asbjrnsen).

 Witch and Hare (England, Edwin Sidney Hartland).

The Weaver's Wife and the Witch (England, Sidney
Oldall Addy).
The Shot Hare (Wales, D. E. Jenkins).
The Two Cat Witches (Wales, William Elliot Griffis).
The Witch Hare (Ireland, William Butler Yeats).
Witches (Ireland, Patrick Bardan).
The Old Hare (Ireland, D. Knox).
The Woman-Cat (USA, Elsie Clews Parsons).
2. Witchcraft Legends.

The Witches' Revenge (Germany, J. G. Th. Grsse).

Frau Trude (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
Two Eyes Too Many (Germany, Carl and Theodor
Colshorn).
The Witch of Treva (England, Robert Hunt).
Ridden by a Witch (Germany, August Ey).
The Dark Daughter of the Norse King (Scotland,
John Gregorson Campbell).
The Witches' Excursion (Ireland, Patrick Kennedy).
The Trip to the Brocken (Germany).
The Witch Ride (Germany, Adalbert Kuhn).

o Wolves in Aesop's Fables.

o Woman
The Old Woman as Devil's Helper. Folktales of type
1353, in which the devil recruits an old woman to sow
discord in a happy marriage.

1. The Devil's Tyranny Against a Married Couple

(Germany, Martin Luther).
2. An Old Woman Worse Than the Devil (Germany, Karl
Bartsch).
3. Katie Grey (Sweden, G. Djurklo).

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