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Good For Young Ages (under 7)
Section One: Featured Tales (Alphabetical by contributor)
From Alton Chung
The Old Man Who Made The Trees Blossom
From Sheryl Ann Karas
Silver Fir Cones
From Margaret Read MacDonald
Mikku and the Trees
From Anne Pellowski
Why Trees Whisper
From Anne Pellowski
Why Plants Have Human Characteristics
From Neppe Pettersson
When the Bemböle People Went to Get Logs
From Peninnah Schram
Honi and the Carob Tree
From Cristy West
Lady in White
Section Two: Links (Alphabetical by title)
(Some links may no longer be active)
Baucis and Philemon (Two Links)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
www.thanasis.com/store/baucis.htm
Enchanted Apple Tree (French)
www.civprod.com/storylady/stories
Forest Tale: Traditional Tale with an Australian Flavour
www.storyteller.net/stories/text/17
How Coyote Stole Fire (Native American/Crow)
216.239.39.100
Little Tree Who wished for Different Leaves
www.civprod.com/storylady/stories/LittleTree.htm
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
The Peddler of Swaffham www.soulard.com/renaissance/holiday99/kids.html
Secret Heart of the Tree (Africa)
www.wisdomtales.com/id15.htm
The Tree that Bore Rice Cakes (Korea)
www.korea-np.co.jp
Why Evergreens Keep Their Leaves (Native American/ Cherokee)
www.loe.org/archives/971219.htm
Why Evergreens Keep Their Leaves
(Africa; posted in audio form)
www.oddsbodkin.com
Environmental Stewardship
Section One: Featured Tales (Alphabetical by contributor)
From Odds Bodkin
The Blossom Tree
From Moyra Caldecott
Invisibility
From Alida Gersie
The Magic Pear Tree
From Sheryl Ann Karas
Silver Fir Cones
From Margaret Read MacDonald
Mikku and the Trees
From Jack Maguire
Fearing the Wind
From Erica Helm Meade
The Sesame Seed and the Date Palm Tree
From Elizabeth Murray
The Dreaming Tree
From Mary Oak O'Kane
Of Greed and Measure
From Anne Pellowski
Why Trees Whisper
From Anne Pellowski
Why Plants Have Human Characteristics
From Neppe Pettersson
When the Bemböle People Went to Get Logs
From Peninnah Schram
Honi and the Carob Tree
From Cristy West
Lady in White
Section Two: Links (Alphabetical by title)
(Some links may no longer be active)
Angry Forest (Transylvanian)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
Brave Little Parot (India)
www.healingstory.org
Forest Tale: Traditional Tale with an Australian Flavour
www.storyteller.net/stories/text/17
How Coyote Stole Fire (Native American/Crow)
216.239.39.100
Legend of the Flute (Native American/Brule Sioux)
www.zicahota.com/Lores/Legend_of_the_Flute.html
Legendary Canoe-making (Laka's canoe) (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/hlog10.htm
Rhoecus and the Dryad (Greek)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Secret Heart of the Tree (Africa)
www.wisdomtales.com/id15.htm
Why Artapudapuda Hides Away
www.yidaki.com.au
Wood Fairy (Czechoslovakia)
www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/wood.html
Wonder Tales/Fairy Tales
Section One: Featured Tales (Alphabetical by contributor)
From Odds Bodkin
The Blossom Tree
From Alton Chung
The Old Man Who Made The Trees Blossom
From Moyra Caldecott
The Woman Who Was Turned Into a Tree
From Moyra Caldecott
Invisibility
From Fred Hageneder
Moan and the Willow
From Sheryl Ann Karas
The Singing Fir Tree
From Sheryl Ann Karas
Silver Fir Cones
From Daniel A. Kelin, II
Demon Girls of Ujae
From Caren Loebel-Fried
The Gift of Kü
From Jack Maguire
Fearing the Wind
From Elizabeth Murray
The Dreaming Tree
From Laura Simms
The Golden Tree
From Fran Stallings
Orosu
From Beth Vaughan
Harper in Fairyland
From Cristy West
Lady in White
From Cristy West
The Woodcarver's Gift
From Diane Wolkstein
The Magic Orange Tree
Section Two: Links (Alphabetical by title)
(Some links may no longer be active)
Bamboo Princess (Japan) (3 links)
mhtml.ulis.ac.jp/~myriam
www.rice.edu/projects
www.blackmask.com/books54c
Brave Little Parot (India)
www.healingstory.org
The Buffalo Boy and the Banyan Tree (Vietnam)
www.thingsasian.com
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
Enchanted Canary (Holland)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Flowering Tree (India)
www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030
Gift of Kü (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
Indian Cinderella (Native American/Micmac) (3 links)
www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/cinder3.html
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
hazel.forest.net
Juniper Tree (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu
King and the JuJu Tree Africa/ Southern Nigeria
www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn30.htm
Lau Ka Ie Ie (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com
Legend of the Bread Fruit Tree (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hloh/hloh08.htm
Legendary Canoe-making (Laka's canoe) (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/hlog10.htm
Magic Tree Trunks (Iceland)
hazel.forest.net
Man and the Oak (Native American/Sioux)
www.sacred-texts.com/nam/indexfr.htm
Melusina (Germany)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/melusina.html
Mishosha or The Enchante4d Sugar-Maple (Native American/Chippewa)
www.mainlesson.com
Old Woman in the Wood (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/093.txt
Pomegranate Queen (India)
texts.cdlib.org
Red Watarah
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/waratah/text.htm
(there are also audio and video versions of this story at this museum-sponsored site)
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
Tree Trunk for a Boat (India)
www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030
Twelve Dancing Princesses
www.surlalunefairytales.com/twelvedancing/stories
Willow Wife
www.pitt.edu
Wood Fairy (Czechoslovakia)
www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/wood.html
Scary/ghostly
Section One: Featured Tales (Alphabetical by contributor)
From Rafe Martin
Green Willow
From Cathy S. Mosley
The Green Huntsmen
From Fran Stallings
Orosu
Section Two: Links (Alphabetical by title)
(Some links may no longer be active)
Angry Forest (Transylvanian)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
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
Hertha Lake (German)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/hertha.html
Juniper Tree (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu
Melusina (Germany)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/melusina.html
Rhoecus and the Dryad (Greek)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Willow Wife
www.pitt.edu
Healing/Consolation
Section One: Featured Tales (Alphabetical by contributor)
From Odds Bodkin
The Blossom Tree
From Moyra Caldecott
The Woman Who Was Turned Into a Tree
From Alton Chung
The Old Man Who Made The Trees Blossom
From Woody Fern
The Punahou Spring
From Fred Hageneder
Moan and the Willow
From Alida Gersie
The Woodcutter and Death
From Sheryl Ann Karas
Silver Fir Cones
From Sheryl Ann Karas
The Singing Fir Tree
From Caren Loebel-Fried
The Gift of Kü
From Jack Maguire
Fearing the Wind
From Rafe Martin
Green Willow
From Erica Helm Meade
Why Death is Like the Banana Tree
From Erica Helm Meade
The Sesame Seed and the Date Palm Tree
From Mary Oak O'Kane
Of Greed and Measure
From Laura Simms
The Golden Tree
From Fran Stallings
Orosu
From Cristy West
The Woodcarver's Gift
From Diane Wolkstein
The Magic Orange Tree
Section Two: Links (Alphabetical by title)
(Some links may no longer be active)
Baucis and Philemon (Two Links)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
www.thanasis.com/store/baucis.htm
Brave Little Parot (India)
www.healingstory.org
Cedar Tree Legend
www.zicahota.com/Lores/Legend_of_the_Cedar_Tree.html
Cherry Tree of the Sixteenth Day ("Jiu-Roku-Zakura")(Japan)
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kwaidan/kwai14.htm
Death of Cyparissus (Greek)
www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk
Enchanted Apple Tree (French)
www.civprod.com/storylady/stories
Flowering Tree (India)
(Timed out Error 408 Jan 19 Jan 28)
www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030
How the Watarah Became Sweet (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
How the Watarah Was Made (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
Indian Cinderella (Native American/Micmac) (3 links)
www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/cinder3.html
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
hazel.forest.net
Isis, Osiris and the Tamarisk Tree (Egypt)
www.theamazinginstitute.org
Juniper Tree (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu
Krishna and the Parijatak tree (India)
members.aol.com/parijata/parijata2.html
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 the Coconut Tree (Guam)
ns.gov.gu/coconut.html
Legend of the Flute (Native American/Brule Sioux)
www.zicahota.com/Lores/Legend_of_the_Flute.html
Legend of Ohia and Lehua (Hawaii)
library.thinkquest.org
(This site includes horticultural details of plant)
Man and the Oak (Native American/Sioux)
www.sacred-texts.com/nam/indexfr.htm
Melusina (Germany)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/melusina.html
Old Woman in the Wood (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/093.txt
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
Pomegranate Queen (India)
texts.cdlib.org
Red Watarah
www.dreamtime.net.au/waratah/text.htm
(there are also audio and video versions of this story at this museum-sponsored site)
Tawalpin and Kowinka (Australia)
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
Tree of Sorrow (India)
www.hinduonnet.com
members.aol.com/parijata/parijata2.html
Tree That Absorbed Tears (Romania/ Jewish)
laurasimms.com/TreeTears.html
Ubazakura or The Cherry Blossom Nurse (Japan)
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kwaidan/kwai05.htm
Why Artapudapuda Hides Away
www.yidaki.com.au
Why Evergreens Keep Their Leaves (Danish)
www.rickwalton.com/folktale/bryant63.htm
Why Flowers are Fragrant (Native American/ Sioux)
www.zicahota.com/Lores
Willow Wife
www.pitt.edu
Humor
Section One: Featured Tales (Alphabetical by contributor)
From Alton Chung
The Old Man Who Made The Trees Blossom
From Alida Gersie
The Woodcutter and Death
From Alida Gersie
The Magic Pear Tree
From Priscilla Howe
Nasrudin and the Trees: Seven Tales
From Erica Helm Meade
The Sesame Seed and the Date Palm Tree
From Neppe Pettersson
When the Bemböle People Went to Get Logs
Section Two: Links (Alphabetical by title)
(Some links may no longer be active)
Forest Tale: Traditional Tale with an Australian Flavour
www.storyteller.net/stories/text/17
The Tree that Bore Rice Cakes (Korea)
www.korea-np.co.jp
Woman and the Pear Tree (Italian)
www.pitt.edu/~dash
Myths
Section One: Featured Tales (Alphabetical by contributor)
From Moyra Caldecott
Invisibility
From Woody Fern
The Punahou Spring
From Caren Loebel-Fried
The Gift of Kü
From Elizabeth Murray
The Dreaming Tree
From Mary Oak O'Kane
Of Greed and Measure
From Anne Pellowski
Why Plants Have Human Characteristics
From Fran Stallings
Orosu
From Cristy West
The Woodcarver's Gift
Section Two: Links (Alphabetical by title)
(Some links may no longer be active)
Atalanta and Hippomenes - 2 links (Greece)
www.thanasis.com/store/atalanta.htm
www.users.globalnet.co.uk
The Buffalo Boy and the Banyan Tree (Vietnam)
www.thingsasian.com
Baucis and Philemon (Two Links)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
www.thanasis.com/store/baucis.htm
Cedar Tree Legend
www.zicahota.com/Lores/Legend_of_the_Cedar_Tree.html
Creation Myth, Bushmen (San peoples of Africa)
www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_14.html
Creation Myth, Iroquois
www.dreamscape.com/morgana/oberon.htm
Daphne and Apollo (Greek)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Death of Cyparissus (Greek)
www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk
First Pine Trees (Native American/Micmac)
www.mainlesson.com
Gift of Kü (Hawaii)
www.carenloebelfried.com/read.html
Heracles and the Golden Apples of Hesperides - 2 links (Greece)
www.steliart.com
homepage.mac.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 the Watarah Became Sweet (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
How the Watarah Was Made (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
Hunting the Great Bear (Native American/ Iroquois--explains autumn color)
www.earthbow.com/native/iroquois/hunting.htm
Inannna and the Huluppa Tree (Sumerian) Two Versions
www.piney.com/BabHulTree.html
www.jelder.com/mythology/huluppa.html
Indian Cinderella (Native American/Micmac) (3 links)
www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/cinder3.html
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
hazel.forest.net
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
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
Lau Ka Ie Ie (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com
Legend of the Coconut (Hawaii)
www.coffeetimes.com/coconut.htm
Legend of the Coconut Tree (Guam)
ns.gov.gu/coconut.html
Legend of the Flute (Native American/Brule Sioux)
www.zicahota.com/Lores/Legend_of_the_Flute.html
Legend of Ohia and Lehua (Hawaii)
library.thinkquest.org
(This site includes horticultural details of plant)
Odin and Yggdrasil and the Discovery of Runes:
www.nordzeit.de/odinreng.htm
Pele's Tree (Hawaii)
library.thinkquest.org
Pomona and Vertumnis (2 links) (Greece)
ancienthistory.about.com
homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Vertumnus.html
Red Watarah
www.dreamtime.net.au/waratah/text.htm
(there are also audio and video versions of this story at this museum-sponsored site)
Rhoecus and the Dryad (Greek)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Romarishi's Sacred Tree (India)
beaskund.helloyou.ws/askbaba/stories/s1049.html
Seven Dancing Brothers (Cherokee)
www.sacred-texts.com
Seven Dancing Brothers (or sisters) (Native American/Iroquois)
www.askeric.org/Virtual
Story of Colors, The Ceiba Tree (Latin American - Mexican)
www.angelfire.com/biz2/nanasbooks/especial.html
Tawalpin and Kowinka (Australia)
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
Tree of Sorrow (India)
www.hinduonnet.com
members.aol.com/parijata/parijata2.html
Trushanka and the Origin of the Coconut (India)
www.gurjari.net
Why Evergreens Keep Their Leaves (Native American/ Cherokee)
www.loe.org/archives/971219.htm
Why Evergreens Keep Their Leaves (Danish)
www.rickwalton.com/folktale/bryant63.htm
Why Evergreens Keep Their Leaves (Mongolian)
www.geocities.com/Athens
Why Flowers are Fragrant (Native American/ Sioux)
www.zicahota.com/Lores
Why Kava Drinkers have Rough Skin (Samoa)
www.choohoo.com/wkdhrs.htm
Why Leaves Have Colors (Native American/Wyandotte)
www.zicahota.com/Lores
Parables/wisdom tales
Section One: Featured Tales (Alphabetical by contributor)
From Odds Bodkin
The Blossom Tree
From Moyra Caldecott
Invisibility
From Alton Chung
The Old Man Who Made The Trees Blossom
From Alida Gersie
The Magic Pear Tree
From Alida Gersie
The Woodcutter and Death
From Priscilla Howe
Nasrudin and the Trees: Seven Tales
From Sheryl Ann Karas
The Singing Fir Tree
From Margaret Read MacDonald
Mikku and the Trees
From Jack Maguire
Fearing the Wind
From Erica Helm Meade
Why Death is Like the Banana Tree
From Erica Helm Meade
The Sesame Seed and the Date Palm Tree
From Mary Oak O'Kane
Of Greed and Measure
From Anne Pellowski
Why Trees Whisper
From Anne Pellowski
Why Plants Have Human Characteristics
From Peninnah Schram
Honi and the Carob Tree
From Cristy West
Lady in White
Section Two: Links (Alphabetical by title)
(Some links may no longer be active)
Baucis and Philemon (Two Links)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
www.thanasis.com/store/baucis.htm
The Buffalo Boy and the Banyan Tree (Vietnam)
www.thingsasian.com
Cedar Tree Legend
www.zicahota.com/Lores/Legend_of_the_Cedar_Tree.html
How Coyote Stole Fire (Native American/Crow)
216.239.39.100
How the Watarah Became Sweet (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
How the Watarah Was Made (Australia)
www.yidaki.com.au
King and the JuJu Tree Africa/ Southern Nigeria
www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn30.htm
Legend of the Bread Fruit Tree (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hloh/hloh08.htm
Legend of the Flute (Native American/Brule Sioux)
www.zicahota.com/Lores/Legend_of_the_Flute.html
Little Tree Who wished for Different Leaves
www.civprod.com/storylady/stories/LittleTree.htm
Man with the Coconuts (Phillipines)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/philippines.html
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
Proud Oak (Greek/Aesop fable)
etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin
Red Watarah
www.dreamtime.net.au/waratah/text.htm
(there are also audio and video versions of this story at this museum-sponsored site)
Secret Heart of the Tree (Africa)
www.wisdomtales.com/id15.htm
Unfruitful Tree (English)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Why Artapudapuda Hides Away
www.yidaki.com.au
Why Kava Drinkers have Rough Skin (Samoa)
www.choohoo.com/wkdhrs.htm
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