This is slightly off-topic, but I thought it would be of interest to some of us in this community, as crows feature frequently in fairy tales and mythology.

David Dietle at Cracked.com has an article called 6 Terrifying Ways Crows Are Way Smarter Than You Think, which is mostly about recent scientific research on the birds, but Aesop does get a ( Read more... )

(This story about stories seems particularly apt for this community.)

All Stories are Anansi'sIn the beginning, all tales and stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. But Kwaku Anansi, the spider, yearned to be the owner of all the stories known in the world, and he went to Nyame and offered to buy them ( Read more... )

Hi guys! I just wanna share with you all a book of folktales and fables that I grew up with. This book used to scare the bejeezus out of me, because of the illustrations and the bizarre stories. Yep, folktales can be traumatizing. But now that I've matured (somewhat), I am able to appreciate this beautiful book for the artwork that it is, and I ( Read more... )

This is too cute! Incorporates a few different African tales and characters for a mini-safari adventure. Thanks to king_laugh for pointing it out!

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So I was scrolling through my comic feeds, and got to the newest PvPonline, where they have some lovely guest art by Karl Kerschl. And I certainly had to stop and take note when I saw what the comic was about!


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I have just posted some tales and folklore about foxes on www.badwitch.co.uk

One of my favourite fox tales, that someone else mentioned recently, is Lady Into Fox. I was wondering if anyone knows where the text of the story can be found online - it would save me buying another copy of the book because I appear to have lost my old copy.

In response to Sunuvapreecher,,,
Because Cherokee tradition doesn't lend our people to recording our tales in writing (although we have some collections), they are hard to find but well worth the read.

Also, many Native American stories are more obscure.

One Cherokee tale that comes to mind is the legend of how Spider brought Fire.   Another may ( Read more... )

I can't imagine that there are many people in this crowd who aren't at least familiar with the work of Neil Gaiman, but while we're on the topic of Tricksters and all their mischief, I thought I would point out two of my favorites of his. (Although I don't think I have such a thing as an un-favorite, when it comes to Gaiman ( Read more... )

Okay, I admit it, I haven't been working very hard. I googled "trickster" and this was practically the first thing that came up.

However, I did get that far, and this is a great resource if you're looking into trickster tales.

And they do suggest that I "steal this webpage," so I see no harm in passing it along.

Fool's ParadiseThey've got ( Read more... )

I've just been fiddling around a bit online and I found some Anansi resources... for kids... stories and coloring pages ( Read more... )