Ten Favourite Fairytales

 

1

"Brother and Sister" (Germany),

www.storytellinginstitute.org/331.pdf

 

2

"The Twelve Windows" (Germany),

www.storytellinginstitute.org/332.pdf

 

3

"Mother Hulda" (Germany),

www.storytellinginstitute.org/333.pdf

 

4

"The Young Woman at the Pond" (Germany).

 

Written starting at the beginning of the story,

https://storytellinginstitute.org/334a.pdf .

 

Written starting in the middle of the story,

https://storytellinginstitute.org/334b.pdf .

 

5

"The Handless Maiden" (Germany),

https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm031.html .

With a wonderful written commentary,

and a related video recording .

A translation and a commentary from

another scholar are here.

 

6

"King Thrushbeard" (Germany),

www.storytellinginstitute.org/341.pdf

 

7

"The Fish Brother" (Tamil Nadu, India),

www.storytellinginstitute.org/336.pdf

 

8

"A Flowering Tree" (Karnataka, India),

www.storytellinginstitute.org/337.pdf

 

9

"The Bear on the Mountain" (Himalayas),

www.storytellinginstitute.org/335.pdf

 

10

"The Bird who had a Broken Wing" (Source unknown),

www.storytellinginstitute.org/339.pdf

 

 

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Notes on Fairy Tales,

www.storytellinginstitute.org/340.pdf

 

 

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An episode of an Epic that has some Fairytale

qualities –

 

"Shakuntala" (An episode of the Mahabharata) (India),

www.storytellinginstitute.org/338.pdf