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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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

Yggdrasil
www.pantheon.org/articles/y/yggdrasil.html


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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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