Folk tales of the world and tales by authors
Every tale has come from somewhere: one was told for centuries in Ukrainian villages, another was written down by the Brothers Grimm, a third was invented by Andersen himself. Here you will find all the peoples and authors whose tales we retell in our own words, from Aesop and the Indian Panchatantra to Ivan Franko and Oscar Wilde. Choose a source to see all its tales on the site and to learn a little more about it.
Ukraine
- Ukrainian folk tales 10 stories
- Ivan Franko 4 stories
Germany
- The Brothers Grimm 13 stories
- E. T. A. Hoffmann 1 story
- Wilhelm Hauff 1 story
Denmark
- Hans Christian Andersen 12 stories
United Kingdom
- Rudyard Kipling 3 stories
- Joseph Jacobs 3 stories
- Charles Dickens 1 story
Greece
- Aesop 3 stories
Japan
- Japanese folk tales 3 stories
Norway
- Asbjørnsen and Moe 3 stories
Ireland
- Oscar Wilde 2 stories
Czechia
- Božena Němcová 1 story
France
- Charles Perrault 2 stories
Ghana
- Ashanti folk tales 1 story
India
- The Panchatantra 1 story
Nigeria
- Folk tales of Southern Nigeria 1 story
United States
- Cherokee folk tales 1 story
- Florence Holbrook 1 story
Italy
- Carlo Collodi 1 story
Syria
- One Thousand and One Nights 1 story
Finland
- Zacharias Topelius 1 story
Poland
- Polish legends 1 story
Spain
- Luis Coloma 1 story