THE starting place for exploring Urban Legends and Folklore on the Web: Internet hoaxes, rumors, urban legends, myths and folklore debunked.

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Free Fairytales, Folk Tales, and Play Scripts - all with positive messages for kids! Courtesy of the friendly Whootie Owl. Stories are "Kid-tested" before a live audience to ensure the tales will delight kids while nourishing their hearts and minds. Illustrated by children.

History of hoaxes from the middle ages to the present.

Connecting local, regional and national cultural resources and classrooms.

Oban the Knowledge Keeper's tales of Animals Myths and Legends. Read amazing stories, solve puzzles, play games, meet a dragon and help save a world. Send Oban your story. You could win a prize or have your story published on our site. Find out how Oban the Knowledge Keeper needs our myths and legends to save his world ...

Folklore and Legends will take you on an exciting journey through time and tale! Not just with the gods and goddesses but also with the some of living things from mythology like flowers animals water things that are still with us today! - Literature World Cultures ...

Dave's Web of Lies ...

Marvels & Tales is a peer-reviewed journal of fairy-tale studies. International and multidisciplinary in orientation, the journal publishes scholarly work dealing with the fairy tale in any of its diverse manifestations and contexts.

People Tell Lies. This international magazine chronicles the real lies that infiltrate our real lives. Lies that Women Tell Men and Lies that Men Tell Women. Lies from all peoples and all cultures. Some are funny and some are sad. All are real.

The Bunk Stops Here. Hoax, Fraud, Scam, and Misinformation resources ...

World tales retold by award-winning author Aaron Shepard, plus some originals.

The primary focus of the Community Learning Network (CLN) is to help K-12 teachers integrate Information Technology into their classrooms. This CLN menu page provides links to English curricular resources and instructional materials (lesson plans) in the specific topic of stories and fairy tales ...

Animal Symbolism in Celtic Mythology A paper for Religion 375 at the University of Michigan by Lars Nooden, 22 November 1992 Animals in Celtic and Welsh mythology are tied in with fertility and vitality, because they are living, moving, and growing. They also provide vitality and continued life for the tribes through their meat, skins, and bones. In addition, they are a connection to the realm ...

Jewish Folklore in Israel ...

Old Norwegian fairy tales and some more tales.

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Newfoundland and Labrador E-zine ...

A collection of Urban Legends, modern myths and American folklore ...

Legends and myths about Walt Disney, the Walt Disney Company, and Disney films and theme parks.

Frog Fables and Parables A fable is a very short story which is meant to illustrate a point or teach us a lesson. Usually, but not always, fables are stories about animals that talk like people. The lesson that a fable teaches us is called a moral. A parable means something similar. It is usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle. Many common ...

Urban Folklore Urban folklore is the often hilarious, always engaging, occasionally bizarre, and almost-always-with-a-moral stories that we've all heard, known, and shared as part of our daily lives. They run the gamut of simple ghost stories told around a campfire or slumber parties to rumors of industrial and governmental conspiracies and coverups. Their study provides us with insights into ...

New: Call for Papers & Creative Work Welcome Beast Fable Society at Truman State University, Kirksville The Beast Fable Society is an international community of writers, scholars, critics, translators, teachers, and students whose shared purpose is to promote creative, scholarly, and professional activities related to the beast fable and its sister genres in all languages and periods, through ...

Search FAQs - Show References Search Subject/Archive Names Search Article Headers Folklore FAQ folklore-faq/part1 Subject: alt.folklore.urban Frequently Asked Questions Maintainer: mercymercymercy@nardis.com (Terry Chan) Last Posted: 7 Feb 1997 06:57:55 GMT Last-modified: 96/7/30 Version: 2.50 folklore-faq/part2 Subject: alt.folklore.urban Frequently Asked Questions Maintainer: ...

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Animal Brides Folktales of Aarne-Thompson Type 402 and Related Stories translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman 1999 Return to: Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts. Animal Brides and Animal Bridegrooms: an index page of folktales about marriage with a beast. Contents Chonguita the Monkey Wife (Philippines) The Frog Maiden (Burma) The Dog Bride (India) The Cat Who Became a Queen (India) ...

Looking for an adventure or short story for children Read various fairy or folk tales including Ali Baba, Mother Goose, Robinson Crusoe...These versions have pictures and come right out of a children story book ...

Animal Brides and Animal Bridegrooms Tales Told by North American Indians selected and edited by D. L. Ashliman copyright 1998 Return to: Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts Contents The Bear Who Married a Woman (Tsimshian) The Girl Who Married the Crow (Thompson ) The Woman Who Became a Horse (Thompson ) The Woman Who Became a Horse (Skiki Pawnee) The Bear Woman (Okanagon) The Fish Man ...

Animals in Exile Folktales of Aarne-Thompson type 130 translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman 1999-2001 Contents The Bremen Town Musicians (Germany) The Choristers of St. Gudule (Flanders) The Robbers and the Farm Animals (Switzerland) The Story of the White Pet (Scotland) The Bull, the Tup, the Cock, and the Steg (England) Jack and His Comrades (Ireland) How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, ...

The consuming fire that is klapTor A page dedicated to the perpetuation of fear and respect of the one true god--klapTor the Reptile man.

Why the Bat has Wings Retold from a legend of the Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma Long ago, the animals challenged the birds to a ball game. Bear was captain of the animals. On the way to the game he tossed great logs into the air to show his strength. Deer ran alongside to show off his speed. Eagle was captain of the birds. Hawk and Falcon, both swift in flight, joined the team. But secretly, the ...

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