Dr. LaMay's Folklore Stories
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Type of Story
Fables
Stories in which animals speak
The Bachelors and the Python (Central Africa)
Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby: An Uncle Remus myth (United States)
Coyote and the Stars (Western Native America)
The Grey Horse and the Widow's Daughters (British Isles)
How Anansi the Spider Came to Know All Tales (Africa)
How Crab Tricked Rabbit, a Mayan myth (Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala)
How Thar Came 2 Be Buffler in Montany: a Cante Fable by Horse Apple (Western United States)
How the Cherokee Got Fire (United States)
The Magpie and the Bell (Korea)
The Origin of Death (South Africa)
The Selkie (Celtic)
A Tigress Witch (Taiwan)
The Two Frogs (Japan)
Fairy Tales
Tales featuring fairies
The Wood Fairy (Central Europe)
Legends
Improvable stories with an historical context
Casey Jones (Unites States)
The Eagle Clutching the Snake (Mexico)
John Henry (Southeastern United States)
Paul Bunyon, the Giant Lumberjack: A Tall Tale (Northern North America)
Pecos Bill (American Southwest)
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (A King Arthur Tale of the British Isles)
Myths
Aesop's: The Slave and the Lion
Beowulf (Denmark)
Greek Creation Myth (Greece)
Hunting the Great Bear, an Iroquois Legend (United States)
Kokopelli (Southwestern Untied States and Mexico)
Living Water (Central Asia)
Oisin (pronounced O'Sheen) and Niam (Celtic)
Origin of the Aztec Gods and World (Mexico)
The Pumpkin and the Jar (Phillipines)
The Two Frogs (Japan)
Urashima the Fisherman (Japan)