folklore

A grandmother explains to her listeners why in their village on the side of a volcano the men live in square houses and the women in round ones.

A beautiful girl with extraordinarily long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

Presents ten traditional stories from different cultures and countries around the world.

Retells the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the same.

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.

Retells the tale of the teeny-tiny woman who finds a teeny-tiny bone in a churchyard and puts it away in her cupboard before she goes to sleep.

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat outwits an evil giant.

Henny Penny and her friends are on the way to tell the king the sky is falling when they are outwitted by the fox.

The Gingerbread Boy eludes the hungry grasp of everyone he meets until he happens upon a fox more clever than he.