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Note: Tales for each tree type are listed so that Featured Tales precede story links, with contributor's name followed by story title. Links are alphabetical by title.
Apple
From Beth Vaughan
Harper in Fairyland
Atalanta and Hippomenes - 2 links (Greece)
www.thanasis.com/store/atalanta.htm
www.users.globalnet.co.uk
Enchanted Apple Tree (French)
www.civprod.com/storylady/stories
Heracles and the Golden Apples of Hesperides - 2 links (Greece)
www.steliart.com
homepage.mac.com
Peddler of Swaffam (2 links)
www.soulard.com
www.pitt.edu/~dash
Pomona and Vertumnis (2 links) (Greece)
ancienthistory.about.com
homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Vertumnus.html
Silver Plate and the Transparent Apple (Russian)
www.pitt.edu/~dash
Unfruitful Tree (English)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Ash
Crooker (British)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
Yggdrasil
www.pantheon.org/articles/y/yggdrasil.html
Aspen
Indian Cinderella (Native American/Micmac) (3 links)
www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/cinder3.html
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
hazel.forest.net
Bamboo
Bamboo Princess (Japan) (3 links)
mhtml.ulis.ac.jp/~myriam
www.rice.edu/projects
www.blackmask.com/books54c
Banana
From Erica Helm Meade
Why Death is Like the Banana Tree
Banyan
The Buffalo Boy and the Banyan Tree (Vietnam)
www.thingsasian.com
Beech
Hertha Lake (German)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/hertha.html
Birch
From Margaret Read MacDonald
Mikku and the Trees (Birch is one of several trees mentioned)
From Cristy West
Lady in White
Silver Plate and the Transparent Apple (Russian)
www.pitt.edu/~dash
Wood Fairy (Czechoslovakia)
www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/wood.html
Blossom/Flowering Tree
From Odds Bodkin
The Blossom Tree
Why Flowers are Fragrant (Native American/ Sioux)
www.zicahota.com/Lores
Breadfruit
From Caren Loebel-Fried
The Gift of Kü
Gift of Kü (Hawaii)
www.carenloebelfried.com/read.html
Legend of the Bread Fruit Tree (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hloh/hloh08.htm
Carob
From Peninnah Schram
Honi and the Carob Tree
Cedar
From Fran Stallings
Orosu (Sugi is Japanese cedar)
From Cristy West
The Woodcarver's Gift
Dream of Akinosuke (Japan)
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kwaidan/kwai15.htm
Legend of the Flute (Native American/Brule Sioux)
www.zicahota.com/Lores/Legend_of_the_Flute.html
Cherry
From Alton Chung
The Old Man Who Made The Trees Blossom
From Priscilla Howe
Nasrudin and the Trees: Seven Tales
From Margaret Read MacDonald
Mikku and the Trees (cherry one of several trees)
Cherry Tree of the Sixteenth Day ("Jiu-Roku-Zakura")(Japan)
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kwaidan/kwai14.htm
Ubazakura or The Cherry Blossom Nurse (Japan)
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kwaidan/kwai05.htm
Coconut
Legend of the Coconut (Hawaii)
www.coffeetimes.com/coconut.htm
Legend of the Coconut Tree (Guam)
ns.gov.gu/coconut.html
Man with the Coconuts (Phillipines)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/philippines.html
Trushanka and the Origin of the Coconut (India)
www.gurjari.net
Cotton
Tawalpin and Kowinka (Australia)
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
Cypress
Death of Cyparissus (Greek)
www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk
Dreaming Tree/ Trees Appear in Dreams
From Woody Fern
The Punahou Spring
From Elizabeth Murray
The Dreaming Tree
From Laura Simms
The Golden Tree
From Cristy West
The Woodcarver's Gift
Dream of Akinosuke (Japan)
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kwaidan/kwai15.htm
Creation Myth, Iroquois
www.dreamscape.com/morgana/oberon.htm (second entry on this page)
Enchanted Canary (Holland)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Peddler of Swaffham (Two links)
www.soulard.com/renaissance/holiday99/kids.html
www.pitt.edu/~dash
Twelve Dancing Princesses (France)
www.surlalunefairytales.com/twelvedancing/stories
Evergreen Trees
(see, too, entries for cedar, cypress, fir, juniper, pine)
The Thunder Oak (Scandanavia)
www.rickwalton.com/folktale/holid093.htm
(Tale appears after "The Three Purses")
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
An Audio version of this tale by Odds Bodkin at
www.oddsbodkin.com
Fir
From Sheryl Ann Karas
The Singing Fir Tree
From Sheryl Ann Karas
Silver Fir Cones
Little Tree Who wished for Different Leaves
www.civprod.com/storylady/stories/LittleTree.htm
Forest
From Moyra Caldecott
Invisibility
From Margaret Read MacDonald
Mikku and the Trees
From Anne Pellowski
Why Trees Whisper
From Neppe Pettersson
When the Bemböle People Went to Get Logs
Angry Forest (Transylvanian)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
Forest Tale: Traditional Tale with an Australian Flavour
www.storyteller.net/stories/text/17
Old Woman in the Wood (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/093.txt
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (British/Celtic)
www2.h-net.msu.edu
Tree That Absorbed Tears (Romania/ Jewish)
laurasimms.com/TreeTears.html
Hulappa Tree
Inannna and the Huluppa Tree (Sumerian) Two Versions
www.piney.com/BabHulTree.html
www.jelder.com/mythology/huluppa.html
Hala
From Woody Fern
The Punahou Spring
Ju Ju Tree
King and the JuJu Tree Africa/ Southern Nigeria
www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn30.htm
Jungle
Brave Little Parrot (India)
www.healingstory.org
Legendary Canoe-making (Laka's canoe) (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/hlog10.htm
The Sleeping Tree (Brazil)
www.treelink.org
Juniper
Juniper Tree (Germany)
www-2.cs.cmu.edu
Kadamba
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
Kava
Why Kava Drinkers have Rough Skin (Samoa)
www.choohoo.com/wkdhrs.htm
Kio
From Daniel A. Kelin, II
Demon Girls of Ujae
Koa (Mahogany)
Legendary Canoe-making (Laka's canoe) (Hawaii)
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/hlog10.htm
Laurel
Daphne and Apollo (Greek)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Maple
From Margaret Read MacDonald
Mikku and the Trees (maple one of several trees mentioned)
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
Mishosha or The Enchanted Sugar-Maple (Native American/Chippewa)
www.mainlesson.com
Mango
Secret Heart of the Tree (Africa)
www.wisdomtales.com/id15.htm
Mangrove
Tawalpin and Kowinka (Australia)
expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us
Oak
From Priscilla Howe
Nasrudin and the Trees: Seven Tales
From Mary Oak O'Kane
Of Greed and Measure
Baucis and Philemon (Greece) (Two Links)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
www.thanasis.com/store/baucis.htm
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
Man and the Oak (Native American/Sioux)
www.sacred-texts.com/nam/indexfr.htm
Rhoecus and the Dryad (Greek)
etext.lib.virginia.edu
The Thunder Oak (Scandanavia)
www.rickwalton.com/folktale/holid093.htm
(Tale appears after "The Three Purses")
Proud Oak (Greek/Aesop fable)
etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin
Ohia
Legend of Ohia and Lehua (Hawaii)
library.thinkquest.org
(This site includes horticultural details of plant)
Olive
From Priscilla Howe
Nasrudin and the Trees: Seven Tales
Orange
From Diane Wolkstein
The Magic Orange Tree
Enchanted Canary (Holland)
etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/LanRedF.html
Palm
From Erica Helm Meade
Why Death is Like the Banana Tree
Parijatak
Krishna and the Parijatak tree (India)
members.aol.com/parijata/parijata2.html
Tree of Sorrow (India)
www.hinduonnet.com
members.aol.com/parijata/parijata2.html
Pear
From Alida Gersie
The Magic Pear Tree
Woman and the Pear Tree (Italian)
www.pitt.edu/~dash
Pine
First Pine Trees (Native American/Micmac)
www.mainlesson.com
Melusina (Germany)
www.pitt.edu/~dash/melusina.html
Seven Dancing Brothers (Cherokee)
www.sacred-texts.com
Seven Dancing Brothers (or sisters) (Native American/Iroquois)
www.askeric.org/Virtual
Pomegranate
Pomegranate Queen (India)
texts.cdlib.org
Tamarisk
Isis, Osiris and the Tamarisk Tree (Egypt)
www.theamazinginstitute.org
Watarah
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
(Also, there are audio and video versions of this story at this museum-sponsored site)
Wida Tree
Why Artapudapuda Hides Away
www.yidaki.com.au
Willow
From Fred Hageneder
Moan and the Willow
From Rafe Martin
Green Willow
Willow Wife (Japan)
www.pitt.edu
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