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To date the folktales are available on the following topics. Seeing the topics you might remember some folktales, but when you read the book you will be surprised to know that how come that so many folktales are available on this topic. Against every title two figures are given in parentheses. The first one denotes the number of the stories of the book and the second one denotes the number of the pages (A4 size) of the book. Some of the books are available on Internet for readers to read. Click on them and enjoy reading them and tell them to as many people as you can. Please do comment about them on the E-Mail address given below. Thanks.

Animals Guided (14/234)
Folktales in which animals helped people to achieve their objectives.

Animal Language (12/158)
Stories in which people understand animals' language, but then what happens to them.

Animal People
This book contains the folktales in which human and animals are exchanged with each other in their form.

Bear (15/122)
Many stories related to bear.

Boons (11/138)
It contains a few stories about thieves found in folktales.

Buffalo (5/64)
Buffalo is a very important animal of Native American tribes.

Children on Condition (8/116)
Here are some folktales got their children on odd conditions. Had they pass through those conditions or they overcame them.

Chipmunk  (12/168)
Chipmunk, Skunk stories from North American Indians.

Christianity-1 (30/280)
Christianity-2 (22/194)
These books contains folktales in which even a glimpse of Christianity has been found. Christianity-1 contains tales from Italy and the Christianity-2 contains the tales from the other countries of the world.

Come and Eat  (5/44)
This book contins those stories in which somebody has invited his/her friend for food and then put such conditions that he/she could not not eat it.  These stories teach children that it is very bad on their part that they should behave like this. They should always respect their guest whether invited or even uninvited.

Copying-1 (14/148)
Copying-2 (21/240)

These books contains the folktales in which one gets something by his kindness or chance, then the other one copies him and gets hurt or destroyed. There are 31 stories here but surprisingly enough there is no story which shows any good results of copying.

Crab (8/82)
Folktales about crab.

Curses-1 (12/152) - This book gives an idea of the types of curses used in Italy.
Curses-2 (10/174) - This book gives an idea of the types of curses used in other European countries.
Curses-3 (8/108) - This book gives an idea of the types of curses used in other countries of the world..

Death  (15/138) - All stories of this book are related to death.

Division (10/80) - Folktales about Division, interesting and intelligent

Famine-1 (20-218) - Famine is a common phenomenon of Africa. Many tales go around it.

Fish (20/218) - Folktales related to fish.

Fools  (
As intelligent people are found everywhere, there is no dearth of fools too. Some folktales of fools.

Frogs
This book contains the folktales which go around frog

Fruits-1-Apple/Oranges   (18/208)
Fruits-2-Others - Pear, Fig etc (22/260)
Contain folktales around fruits

Ghosts (14/144)
Some Ghost folktales.

Go Together (21/218)
This collection contains tales in which animals or people just go together to give him compnay.

Grass  (7/88)
Jab Ghaas Ne Zindagi Di (When Grass Brought Life)

Half Things  (7/92)
In these stories the hero of the story is half. How does he do in life?

Help  (14/218)
Madad Karo Meetha Phal Paao (Help Others Help Yourself)

Humor-1  (30/196)
Humor-2  (10/140)

Not only above mentioned kinds of tales are found in various countries, some are humorous too. Some of these tales have been put together here for you just to laugh....

I Will Eat You  (17/116)
What happens if you save somebody's life and then he says "I Will Eat You" or even without saving his life he says "I Will Eat You".

I Will Not Marry  (8/86)
What happens to those girls who are choosy and are not satisfied with anybody. They always pick one or the other shortcoming in every man.

Instruments  (19/190)
Instruments are  an important part of music, and music is also on of the most important parts social life. There are many tales related to it - Drum, Flute, Others.

Intelligent Animals-1  (12/80) -
Contains stories of intelligent animals in which animals have shown their intelligence and wisdom.

Intelligent Men  (24/188)
Contains folktales in which men have shown their intelligence and wisdom to save themselves.

Intelligent Women-1  (20/252)
Contains folktales in which women have shown their intelligence and wisdom to save themselves.

Jack  (13/184) - There are many stories of Jack. A collection of stories about Jack.

Jackal  (9/66)
Contains folktales of intelligence and foolishness of Jackal

Jo Hona Tha Hua  (19-252)
Time is mighty, Destiny is all powerful, Whatever has to happen has to happen. Here are some folktales and myths which prove these sayings.

Ju Ju in Nigeria-1  (15/166)
Ju Ju is a kind of Tona Totka in Nigeria, Africa. Read some folktales about its use in Nigeria.

Justice  (22/178) -  Stories of justice.

Lion ( 32/184)
Lions' tales start from the infanthood of a child. They are told and heard all the time and everywhere in the world.  Here are some more to them. Read some exclusive lion tales here.

Loki
This book contains tales about Loki, the trickster character of many Norse countries' folktales.

Monkey
All love monkey stories as he always plays tricks and make people laugh. But there is something more about him...

Marriage on Condition  (16/222)   
Some times marriages are performed on condition that id the candidate will such and such condition the girl will marry him. Here are such stories in which you will be astonished to read various conditions.

Odd Marriages-1-Africa (11/100)
Odd Marriages-2-World (13/144)

Two books have been prepared documenting various folktales related to the odd marriages - marriage between a human being and an animal. Its 1st part lists the such folktales from Africa and the 2nd part gives such tales from all over the world. Its 1st part  Odd Marriages: Folktales from Africa-1  is available free to read on Scribd, but this one is the latest one.

Old Women-1 (7/114),
Old Women-2 (4/160)

Some folktales about the mischievousness of old women in the world.

Parrot (12/2300
Some folktales about parrots.

Popular Folktales-2 (15/222)
A nice collection of popular tales from the World.

Powers-1 (11/136)
Folktales about the special powers people had.

Rabbit in Africa  (24/230)
Rabbit in the World  (18/160)
Folktales of cunning rabbit in Africa and the world.

Rakshas-1  (15/222)
Folktales of Rakshas, Demons, Witches,

Riddles-(12/146)
Some folktales with riddles

Satan-1 (20/204)
Stories related to Satan from America, Asia and Europe.

Scarecrows (10/94)
Do you know scarecrows? Scarecrow means which scares the crows (or practically all birds) from eating grains in the field. This gives you a few folktales about using scarecrows.

Search Spouse-1 (10/184)
Contains folktales in which one spouse is lost and the other goes in search of him/her.

Sleeping in Your Room (8/140)
Folktales in which people have insisted to sleep in their partners' room.

Soul Somewhere Else-1 (8/120)
Soul Somewhere Else-2 (10/250)
These books contain folktales
in which people's souls live not in their body but somewhere else. Normally it happens with demons not with people but sometimes it happens with the people. Read how such demons or people were killed and saved.

Spinning in Folktales (14/168)
Some interesting folktales about sewing, embroidering, knitting and spinning.

Sun Moon (24/206)
Some folktales of the Sun and the Moon.

Thieves (19/250)
Lists folktales about thieves all over the world.

Three
This book contains the folktales where many things happen three times. It is really surprising to know that so many folktales are out there related to this number.... Three number is an important number in many cultures. There are many folktales which relates things or events in the sequence of three. It is really surprising to see that so many folktales are out there related to this number.
Book 1 - Its first book contains only those folktales where Number 3 appears in their titles, such as Three Mice, Three Bears, Three Hares etc.
Book-2 - Its second book contains those folktales in which there is no mention of 3 in any of the titles of the folktales, but inside many things are there 3 or the incidents have occurred 3 times.

Throwing Things Back (11/146)
Read some folktales as what happens when somebody throws something back.

Tortoise-1 - (17/152)
Tortoise-2 - (21/158)
T
ortoise is a very popular animal of the world, easpecially of African countries. Here are some interesting stories of tortoise.

Tree Planting (7/136)
Some folktales in which one plants a tree for his life. If it is hurt then people back home should know that he is in trouble.

Varis (10/128)
How the Varis (heir) was found or searched.

Vegetables
Contains the folktales related to vegetables, for example yam, beans, pumpkin, cucumbers etc.
Vegetables-1 (Pumpkin)
Vegetables-2 (Beans, Yam, Cucumbers)
Vegetables-3 (Others)

Weather (14/116)
Some folktales about weather

What Should I Bring For You  (12/180)

Why-1 (30/162),
Why-2 (23/160),
Why-3 (13/102)
Three books in Why series "Why Is It So?" (Aisa Kyon Hota Hai)

Wish-1 (16/212)
What kind of wish were made and granted, then how they were used - an interesting collection of folktales.

 

 

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