Folktales

Folktales is a general term for different varieties of traditional narrative. The telling of stories appears to be a cultural universal, common to basic and complex societies alike. Even the forms folktales take are certainly similar from culture to culture, and comparative studies of themes and narrative ways have been successful in showing these relationships. Also it is considered to be an oral tale to be told for everybody.

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The Little Match-Seller
The Christmas lights rose higher and higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky...
Festival > Christmas
New York > USA
 

Grandmother
Grandmother is very old, her face is wrinkled, and her hair is quite white; but her eyes are like two stars...
Festival > Mothers Day
New Delhi > India
 

The Story of a Mother
The little child had dozed off to sleep for a moment, and the mother, seeing that the old man shivered with the cold...
Festival > Mothers Day
 

The Banjaran Mother
Rajasthani Folktales: somewhere in Rajasthan there lived a nomad who owned a big herd of sheep, goats and oxen...
Festival > Mothers Day
Jaipur > India
 

Banasura
Indian popular folktale for children - Banasura : Banasura was a devotee of Lord Shiva. He once worshipped Shiva with such devotion that Shiva himself appeared before him and said...
Moral > Inspirational
New Delhi > India
 

Kal Kisne Dekha Hai!  - Hindi
Story from Hitopadesh...
Moral > Hitopadesh
New Delhi > India
 

The Dolls' Christmas Party
It was the week before Christmas, and the dolls In the toy-shop played together all night. The biggest one was from Paris.
Festival > Christmas
 

Mama's Happy Christmas
The little Wendell children that they would have a very sad Christmas. Mama had been very ill.
Festival > Christmas
New Delhi > India
 

Christmas in the Alley
Christmas Day an' I clean forgot all about it,
Festival > Christmas
London > United Kingdom
 

Fir Tree
Out in the woods stood a nice little Fir-tree. The place he had was a very good one the sun shone on him as to fresh air.
Festival > Christmas
Mumbai > India