Fairy tales, fables and folk tales

Okteondon and His Uncle, The Planter, or, Winter Delaying Spring

Jeremiah Curtin
Native AmericanNorth American

Intermediate

24 min read

OKTEONDON lived in the woods with his uncle HAIENTHWÛS. The young man lay fastened under the roots of an elm tree which grew through his uncle’s bark house. When very small, his uncle had hidden him there so nobody could carry him off. There were persons in the South who came North to steal the […]

The Alligator's Fruit

Mabel Cook Cole
Philippine

Intermediate

1 min read

Two women went to gather some wild fruit from a vine which belonged to the alligator. “You must be careful not to throw the rind with your teeth marks on it where the alligator can see it,” said one of the women to the other as they sat eating the fruit. But the other woman […]

The Buccaneer

Charles Skinner
North American

Advanced

4 min read

Among the natives of Block Island was a man named Lee. Born in the last century among fishermen and wreckers, he has naturally taken to the sea for a livelihood, and, never having known the influences of education and refinement, he is rude and imperious in manner. His ship lies in a Spanish port fitting […]

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