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