DUTCH INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLING CENTRE

STORY SPARKLES

A story a day, to keep the cobwebs away!

These are some of our favourite short stories that we have gathered from communities across the globe. Enjoy!

The Two Frogs - A Japanese folk tale

The Strawberry Story – A Cherokee story

Buttering the Bread – from ‘The Wise Men of Chelm and their Merry Tales’ by Solomon Simon, Poland

The Pig and the Peacock – Les Fables De La Fontaine, France

Don’t shake hands with everybody – The Cow-Tail Switch and other West African Stories by Harold Cour

Creation Story - Send in by Kathleen van der Weerd

The bird in the forest - A Jataka Tale from India

Hanging from a cliff - A Zen Tale from Japan

Fire in the trees – a Native American Story

Three fish in a lake – a Persian story by Rumi

An old dog in the Jungle – an African Tale of Wit & Wisdom

Soup stone – a Global Tale - with thanks to Desirée van Keulen

The Rabbi and the Monastery – a Hasidic story

The Little Gnome who had to stay home – by Susan Perrow, Australia

The Father And His Sons - a Fable by Aesop, Greece

The sleepy Samurai – a Japanese Tale

The Legend of the Dreamcatcher – a Lakota story, North-America

Birth of the Butterflies - an Aboriginal Dreamtime story by Michael J Connolly/Munda-gutta Kulliwari

The Story of the Phoenix – from Greek mythology

The Storyteller - Extracted from Jan Swagerman’s “The Death of the Storyteller, the end of HIS story