225-Egyptian folklore: Kitchen Nightmare
The Egyptian folktale of a young woman who's not messing around. After fleeing her home, she only sees one way to live free: become a monster that haunts the wild.
204-Russian folklore: Get in the Bag
A story from Russia about a soldier with some biscuits who fights demons, heaven, and yes, death herself.
186-Grimm: Don’t Be Weird
A story from the Grimm brothers about three down-on-their-luck soldiers who get everything they could ever dream of and then do their absolute best to lose it.
173-Tunisian Folklore: Fortune
Fortune favors the bold. Or people willing to put up with a terrible decade. Or the best liars.
172-Norwegian Folklore: Adventure!
The story of the master thief from Norway.
166-Grimm Brothers: The Dark Forest
Two (originally children's) tales that underscore the shocking brutality of the world in which these stories were told.
163-Hansel and Gretel: Crumble
The wonderfully ridiculous and surprisingly human original story of Hansel and Gretel
156-Italian Folklore: Clever Girl (ad-free)
Two stories, one from Italy, one from England. In the one from italy, Costanza is born which would usually be pretty great...except her parents are already in retirement and have given everything away to her older sisters, so she sets out on her own in the wild medieval world. The second story is Molly Whuppie, whose [...]
156-Italian Folklore: Clever Girl
The stories of Costanza/Costanzo, the youngest daughter of the king of Thebes, who sets out to find her way in the world, and Molly Whuppie, the young orphan girl who battled giants.
155-Fairy Tales: The Pearl
Two examples of terrible parenting from the fairy tales of Scandinavia and Naples