Listen Here Watch Here THE GOOD LITTLE SERVANT Once there was a gentleman who was very rich and very good. His wife always pretended to be sick and needed all kinds of extraordinary remedies, which her husband had to go and get for her. The woman did that to get her husband out of the way and so she could squander his money.

Listen Here Watch Here The Adventures of Two Thieves and of their Sons Part I Once upon a time, two thieves lived in a village. As they were well-known as thieves, every theft in the village was blamed on them, whether they did it or not; so they left the village, and resolved to support themselves by honest labour. They were both employed by a homeowner; the one had to tend a cow, and the other to water a champaka plant.

Listen Here Watch Here The Klabautermann Some sailors believe in a ship spirit, the Klabautermann. In English, we would call it a goblin of sorts. The following is said of them: If a mother slays her child and buries them beneath an oak tree, and if one day the planks from this tree are used to build a ship, then the soul of the dead child that turns into the ship gremlin.

Listen Here Watch Here Shokuninki Once, when Musō Kokushi, a priest of the Zen sect, was journeying alone through the province of Mino, he lost his way in a mountain-district where there was nobody to direct him. For a long time he wandered about helplessly; and he was beginning to worry about finding shelter for the night, when he saw, on the top of a hill lighted by the last rays of the sun, one of those little hermitages, called…

Listen Here Watch Here “DEAD OR ALIVE” In the following case the ghost kept its promise to appear—doing so, to all appearances, in spite of great obstacles. The incident is reported in Mr. W. T. Stead’s Real Ghost Stories, pp. 205-8: “The following incident occurred to me some years ago, and all the details can be substantiated. The date was August 26, 1867, at midnight.

Listen Here Watch Here The Invisible Hand The following account was sent to the Ghost Hunter Society. Ghosts are usually seen; sometimes they are heard; but they are very rarely felt. The account which follows is an example of the latter class, in which the ghost was not only seen, but felt. After saying that she was visiting a friend of hers when the event occurred, the narrator proceeds:

Listen Here Watch Here THE OLD MANSION Down on the Jersey Shore, that narrow strip of sand which stretches along the New Jersey coast from Barnegat Inlet on the north to Little Egg Harbor Inlet on the south are many a holiday maker. The summer traveler at one of the numerous resorts, may, in wandering over the sand dunes just across the bay from the village of Manahawkin, stumble over some charred timbers or vestiges of crumbling chimneys, showing that once, years back, a human habitation has stood there.

Listen Here Watch Here THE FRIEND OF THE DEVIL A Story of the Islands in the Bay of Angra Once upon a time there was a handsome Flemish youth who came to the island of Fayal. His name was Fernão de Hutra. He fell in love with a beautiful nun in the convent of the Gloria in the city of Horta.

Listen Here Watch Here THE MAIDEN OF THE SEA There was an old woman and her son who lived on the seacoast. She used to cast a loaf of bread into the sea every morning. One day she said to her son: “My son, I am getting old, and I feel that I shall soon die. Listen to my advice, and every morning cast a loaf of bread into the sea.”

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Listen Here Watch Here The Bird of Sorrow In very remote times, there lived a Padishah. His daughter was so fond of her nanny, that she scarcely ever left her side. One day, seeing the nanny deep in thought, the Sultana asked: "What are you thinking of?" "I’m sad," answered the nanny. "What is sadness?" asked the Sultana; "I want it, too." …

Listen Here Watch Here ELEVENTH EVENING "You are late tonight, my grandchildren," grumbles the good old wife of Smoky Day, as she stands in front of her low doorway, peering under the folds of her dark blanket at the little toiling figures slowly coming nearer, and the many twinkling lights across the snow. "My mother gave a feast today," murmurs Tanagela, in her soft voice.

Listen Here Watch Here Rabbit And The Grain Buyers Once, long ago, when the Indians lived in Canada before the white men came, Rabbit was very lazy. He had worked long for Glooskap, the great ruler of the people, as a forest guide, but his hard work was not appreciated or rewarded. He saw all the other animals idling their time away, relaxing all day long, and doing nothing but filling their bellies with food, and sleeping all afternoon in the warm sunshine.

Listen Here Watch Here How the First Head was Taken Ifugao One day, the Moon, who was a woman named Kabigat, sat out in the yard making a large copper pot. The copper was still soft and pliable like clay, and the woman squatted on the ground, with the heavy pot against her knees while she patted and shaped it.

Listen Here Watch Here The Statue of St. Anthony In a small town, there lived a shoemaker who had a beautiful daughter. One day, she saw a young man enter the house next to hers, and soon, she fell in love with him. She asked the old cook what she could do to make this young man fall in love with her.

Listen Here Watch Here The King Of The Sparrows The Korean children wake up every morning to the twittering of sparrows. These little birds build their nests on the roofs and along the eaves. The people plant melons, gourds, and mock orange seeds along the sunny sides of their houses in spring time. All through the summer, and until late autumn, the walls and roofs are covered with the thick green leaves.

Listen Here Watch Here The Goblin Of Adachigahara Long, long ago there was a large plain called Adachigahara, in the province of Mutsu in Japan. This place was said to be haunted by a cannibal goblin who took the form of an old woman. From time to time many travelers disappeared and were never heard of more, and the old women round the charcoal braziers in the evenings, and the girls washing the household rice at the wells in the mornings, whispered dreadful stories of how the missing folk had been lured to the goblin’s cottage and devoured, for the goblin lived only on human flesh.

Listen here Watch Here THE BUNNIAH’S WIFE AND THE THIEF A Bunniah, or merchant, lying awake one night, saw a thief enter the room. So he whispered to his wife: “Wife, wife, a thief is in the room; what are we to do?” Now his wife was a very clever woman, and she replied: “Why are you waking me? I was having such a fine dream.”

Listen here Watch Here Conkiajgharuna (Georgian Cinderella) There was and there was not, there was a miserable peasant. He had a wife and a little daughter. So poor was this peasant that his daughter was called Conkia gharuna (the little girl in rags). Some time passed, and his wife died. He was unhappy before, but now a greater misfortune had befallen him.

Listen Here Watch Here The Curse of the Guava Although it is hard to believe, one of the greatest environmental threats to the Galapagos Islands is a plant that seems harmless, a sweet and fragrant fruit: the guava. While in other tropical zones it is a valued crop, on those enchanted isles it is an aggressive and harmful pest, almost impossible to eradicate.

Listen Here Watch Here Strike but Hear Once upon a time there reigned a king who had three sons. One day his subjects came to him and said, “O incarnation of justice! The kingdom is infested with thieves and robbers. Our property is not safe. We pray your majesty to catch hold of these thieves and punish them.” The king said to his sons, “O my sons, I am old, but you are all in the prime of manhood.

Listen Here Watch Here THE LABORER AND HIS MASTER The Story of a Man Who Outfitted Another Once upon a time, there was a laborer who said to his master: "It is time to plant the fields." "Very well," said his master. "The part which grows above the ground shall be mine and you shall have in payment for your labor the part which grows below the ground."

Listen Here Watch Here The Poor Widow’s Son Once upon a time there was a King who had a daughter who was quite beautiful. When she was ready to marry, the King sent heralds inviting all the young men of his realm to come to court, so that the princess could pick her future spouse. On the appointed day, all the young men of the country passed before the Princess, who was standing with a golden apple in her hand, that she would throw at her chosen one.

Listen Here Watch Here THE DUEL BETWEEN ELEPHANT AND SPARROW  In a dense bit of jungle lived a sparrow and his wife, who had built their nest on the branch of a tamal tree, and in the course of time a family appeared. Now, one day, a jungle elephant with spring fever was distressed by the heat, and walked beneath that tamal tree in search of shade.