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Note: Tales for each country are listed so that Featured Tales precede story links, with contributor's name followed by story title. Links are alphabetical by title. There are also some larger grouping ("British Isles," "Europe," "Middle East", "Pacific Islands") which are cross-listed in several smaller geographical categories. Native American Tales are a separate grouping and include tales from Canada and the US. Jewish tales are also cross-listed by country.
Africa
From Moyra Caldecott
The Young Man, The Lion, and the Yellow-
Flowered Zwart-Storm Tree
From Moyra Caldecott
The Woman Who Was Turned Into a Tree
From Erica Helm Meade
Why Death is Like the Banana Tree
From Erica Helm Meade
The Sesame Seed and the Date Palm Tree
Creation Myth, Bushmen (San Peoples of Africa)
www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_14.html
Isis, Osiris and the Tamarisk Tree (Egypt)
www.theamazinginstitute.org
King and the JuJu Tree Africa/ Southern Nigeria
www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn30.htm
Name of the Tree (Africa; posted in audio form)
www.oddsbodkin.com
Secret Heart of the Tree (Africa)
www.wisdomtales.com/id15.htm
Why the Lion Stopped Eating Fruits (Africa)
www.dimdima.com/grandma/index.htm
Woodcutter of Gura (Africa)
www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/gura.html
Australia
Forest Tale: Traditional Tale with an Australian Flavour
www.storyteller.net/stories/text/17
How the Watarah Became Sweet (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
How the Watarah Was Made (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
Red Watarah (Australia)
www.dreamtime.net.au
(there are also audio and video versions of this story at this museum-sponsored site)
Tawalpin and Kowinka (Australia)
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
Why Artapudapuda Hides Away
www.yidaki.com.au
Bavaria
From Cathy S. Mosley
The Green Huntsmen
Brazil
From Elizabeth Murray
The Dreaming Tree
Sleep Tree (Brazil)
www.treelink.org
British Isles
From Fred Hageneder
Moan and the Willow
From Beth Vaughan (Celtic)
Harper in Fairyland
Crooker (British)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
The Peddler of Swaffham
www.pitt.edu/~dash
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (British/Celtic)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
Unfruitful Tree (English)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Celtic
From Fred Hageneder
Moan and the Willow
From Cathy S. Mosley
The Green Huntsmen
From Beth Vaughan
Harper in Fairyland
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
www2.h-net.msu.edu
Czechoslovakia
From Cristy West
Lady in White
England
Crooker (British)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
The Peddler of Swaffham www.soulard.com/renaissance/holiday99/kids.html
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (British/Celtic)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
Unfruitful Tree (English)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
China
From Alida Gersie
The Magic Pear Tree
God Who Bungled (Chinese) www.dimdima.com/grandma/index.htm
Denmark
Why Evergreens Keep Their Leaves (Danish)
www.rickwalton.com/folktale/bryant63.htm
Why Evergreens Keep Their Leaves
An Audio version of this tale by Odds Bodkin at
www.oddsbodkin.com
Egypt
From Erica Helm Meade
The Sesame Seed and the Date Palm Tree
Isis, Osiris and the Tamarisk Tree (Egypt)
www.theamazinginstitute.org
Europe
(various countries also listed separately)
From Sheryl Ann Karas
The Singing Fir Tree
From Sheryl Ann Karas
Silver Fir Cones
From Margaret Read MacDonald
Mikku and the Trees
From Cathy S. Mosley
The Green Huntsmen
From Mary Oak O'Kane
Of Greed and Measure
From Anne Pellowski
Why Trees Whisper
From Neppe Pettersson
When the Bemböle People Went to Get Logs
From Cristy West
Lady in White
Angry Forest (Transylvanian)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
Baucis and Philemon (Greece) (Two Links)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
www.thanasis.com/store/baucis.htm
Enchanted Apple Tree (French)
www.civprod.com/storylady/stories
Enchanted Canary (Holland)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Erysichthon Myth (Greece) (E. fells Ceres Sacred Oak; Ceres sends famine to E; the Fate of E. and his Daughter Maestra)
www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk
Hertha Lake (German)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/hertha.html
Juniper Tree (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu
Magic Tree Trunks (Iceland)
hazel.forest.net
Melusina (Germany)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/melusina.html
Old Woman in the Wood (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/093.txt
The Peddler of Swaffham www.soulard.com/renaissance/holiday99/kids.html
Rhoecus and the Dryad (Greek)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Silver Plate and the Transparent Apple (Russian)
www.pitt.edu/~dash
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (British/Celtic)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
Twelve Dancing Princesses (France)
www.surlalunefairytales.com/twelvedancing/stories
Why Evergreens Keep Their Leaves (Danish)
www.rickwalton.com/folktale/bryant63.htm
Finland
From Neppe Pettersson
When the Bemböle People Went to Get Logs
France
Enchanted Apple Tree (French)
www.civprod.com/storylady/stories
Twelve Dancing Princesses (France)
www.surlalunefairytales.com/twelvedancing/stories
Germany
From Sheryl Ann Karas
Silver Fir Cones
Juniper Tree (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu
Hertha Lake (German)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/hertha.html
Melusina (Germany)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/melusina.html
Old Woman in the Wood (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/093.txt
Greece
From Mary Oak O'Kane
Of Greed and Measure
Atalanta and Hippomenes - 2 links (Greece)
www.thanasis.com/store/atalanta.htm
www.users.globalnet.co.uk
Baucis and Philemon (Greece) (Two Links)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
www.thanasis.com/store/baucis.htm
Daphne and Apollo (Greek)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Death of Cyparissus (Greek)
www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk
Erysichthon Myth (Greece) (E. fells Ceres Sacred Oak; Ceres sends famine to E; the Fate of E. and his Daughter Maestra)
www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk
Heracles and the Golden Apples of Hesperides - 2 links (Greece)
www.steliart.com
homepage.mac.com
Pomona and Vertumnis (2 links) (Greece)
ancienthistory.about.com
homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Vertumnus.html
Rhoecus and the Dryad (Greek)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Proud Oak (Greek/Aesop fable)
etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin
Haiti
From Diane Wolkstein
The Magic Orange Tree
Hawaii
From From Daniel A. Kelin, II
Demon Girls of Ujae
From Caren Loebel-Fried
The Gift of Kü
Gift of Kü (Hawaii)
www.carenloebelfried.com/read.html
Lau Ka Ie Ie (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com
Legend of the Bread Fruit Tree (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hloh/hloh08.htm
Legend of the Coconut (Hawaii)
www.coffeetimes.com/coconut.htm
Legend of Ohia and Lehua (Hawaii)
library.thinkquest.org
(This site includes horticultural details of plant)
Legendary Canoe-making (Laka's canoe) (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/hlog10.htm
Holland
Enchanted Canary (Holland)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Iceland
Magic Tree Trunks (Iceland)
hazel.forest.net
India
From Jack Maguire
Fearing the Wind
From Laura Simms
The Golden Tree
Brave Little Parrot (India)
www.healingstory.org
Krishna and the Parijatak tree (India)
members.aol.com/parijata/parijata2.html
Krishna and Kalpatura Tree ("Wish-fulfulling Tree")
www.angelfire.com/ms/krishnapage/bk321.html
Krishna, the Gopi girls and the Kadamba Tree ("Chir-Harana" or "Vastraharan Lila")
www.exoticindiaart.com/product/DC90/
www.asianart.com
Krishna subdues the serpent Kaliya (India)
www.is.svitonline.com/anatolik/krshn03.htm
(abbreviated story, painting) www.krsnabook.com/ch16.html
Krishna, Yashoda and the Mouthful of Fruit
ompage.net/ChristKrishna/krishna.htm
Origin of the Coconut Tree (India)
www.dimdima.com/grandma/index.htm
(Locate story title in story index)
Romarishi's Sacred Tree (India)
beaskund.helloyou.ws/askbaba/stories/s1049.html
Tree of Sorrow (India)
www.hinduonnet.com
members.aol.com/parijata/parijata2.html
Trushanka and the Origin of the Coconut (India)
www.gurjari.net
Ireland
From Fred Hageneder
Moan and the Willow
Italy
Enchanted Pear TreeJapan
From Alton Chung
The Old Man Who Made The Trees Blossom
From Rafe Martin
Green Willow
From Fran Stallings
Orosu
Bamboo Princess (Japan)
www.blackmask.com/books54c
Cherry Tree of the Sixteenth Day ("Jiu-Roku-Zakura")(Japan)
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kwaidan/kwai14.htm
Dream of Akinosuke (Japan)
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kwaidan/kwai15.htm
Nature's Beauty (Japanese/zen)
www.rider.edu/users/suler/zenstory/nature.html
Origin of the Trees (Japan/Okinawa)
www.jahitchcock.com/folktale.html
Red Bud Tree (many cultures, oral tradition, originally a Jataka tale from India)
(other versions posted online as "The Whatnot Tree"; "People Who Saw the Judas Tree")
www.mainlesson.com
Ubazakura or The Cherry Blossom Nurse (Japan)
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kwaidan/kwai05.htm
Willow Wife (Japan)
www.pitt.edu
Jewish
From Peninnah Schram
Honi and the Carob Tree
From Laura Simms
The Golden Tree
Tree That Absorbed Tears (Romania/ Jewish)
laurasimms.com/TreeTears.html
Korea
Madagascar
From Erica Helm Meade
Why Death is Like the Banana Tree
Middle East
From Priscilla Howe
Nasrudin and the Trees: Seven Tales
From Peninnah Schram
Honi and the Carob Tree
Inannna and the Huluppa Tree (Sumerian) Two Versions
www.piney.com/BabHulTree.html
www.jelder.com/mythology/huluppa.html
Tree That Absorbed Tears (Romania/ Jewish)
laurasimms.com/TreeTears.html
Native American
From Anne Pellowski
Why Plants Have Human Characteristics
From Cristy West
The Woodcarver's Gift
Cedar Tree Legend (Native American)
www.zicahota.com/Lores/Legend_of_the_Cedar_Tree.html
Creation Myth, Iroquois
www.dreamscape.com/morgana/oberon.htm
First Pine Trees (Native American/Micmac)
www.mainlesson.com
How Coyote Stole Fire (Native American/Crow)
www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/hcsf.html
www.ilhawaii.net
coloradokickin.com/earth/dw006.html
www.angelfire.com/ma3/mythology/coyotefire.html
How Maple Sugar Came (Native American/Salteaux)
www.mainlesson.com
Hunting the Great Bear (Native American/ Iroquois--explains autumn color)
www.earthbow.com/native/iroquois/hunting.htm
Indian Cinderella (Native American/Micmac) (3 links)
www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/cinder3.html
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
hazel.forest.net
Legend of the Flute (Native American/Brule Sioux)
www.zicahota.com/Lores/Legend_of_the_Flute.html
Man and the Oak (Native American/Sioux)
www.sacred-texts.com/nam/indexfr.htm
Mishosha or The Enchante4d Sugar-Maple (Native American/Chippewa)
www.mainlesson.com
Seven Dancing Brothers (Cherokee)
www.sacred-texts.com
Why Evergreens Keep Their Leaves (Native American/ Cherokee)
www.loe.org/archives/971219.htm
Why Flowers are Fragrant (Native American/ Sioux)
www.zicahota.com/Lores
Why Leaves Have Colors (Native American/Wyandotte)
www.zicahota.com/Lores
Mexico
Story of Colors, The Ceiba Tree (Latin American - Mexican)
www.angelfire.com/biz2/nanasbooks/especial.html
Nepal
From Alida Gersie
The Woodcutter and Death
Pacific Islands
(Australia, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Philippines, Samoa, )
From Caren Loebel-Fried
The Gift of K&#uuml;
From Daniel A. Kelin, II
Demon Girls of Ujae
Bones of Djulung (Phillipines/Pacific region...)
www.classicreader.com
Gift of Ku (Hawaii)
www.carenloebelfried.com/read.html
How the Watarah Became Sweet (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
How the Watarah Was Made (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
Lau Ka Ie Ie (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com
Legend of the Bread Fruit Tree (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hloh/hloh08.htm
Legend of the Coconut (Hawaii)
www.coffeetimes.com/coconut.htm
Legend of Ohia and Lehua (Hawaii)
library.thinkquest.org
(This site includes horticultural details of plant)
Legendary Canoe-making (Laka's canoe) (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/hlog10.htm
Man with the Coconuts (Philippines)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/philippines.html
Red Watarah (Australia)
www.dreamtime.net.au
(there are also audio and video versions of this story at this museum-sponsored site)
Tawalpin and Kowinka (Australia)
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
Why Artapudapuda Hides Away (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
Why Kava Drinkers have Rough Skin (Samoa)
www.choohoo.com/wkdhrs.htm
Philippines
Bones of Djulung (Phillipines/Pacific region...)
www.classicreader.com
Man with the Coconuts (Philippines)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/philippines.html
Russia
Silver Plate and the Transparent Apple (Russian)
www.pitt.edu/~dash
Samoa
Why Kava Drinkers have Rough Skin (Samoa)
www.choohoo.com/wkdhrs.htm
Scandanavia
The Thunder Oak (Scandanavia)
www.rickwalton.com/folktale/holid093.htm
(Tale appears after "The Three Purses")
Switzerland
From Sheryl Ann Karas
The Singing Fir Tree
Tibet
From Odds Bodkin
The Blossom Tree
Vietnam
The Buffalo Boy and the Banyan Tree
www.thingsasian.com
Zimbabwe
From Michael McCarty
The Strange Creature
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