📖✨🐉 Fables, Fairy-Tales, and Folklore: Stories from around the World

📚 About our Sessions

Please read the stories listed below before attending. For every story we will start with summarizing the story so that we have it fresh in our minds. We will share our opinions about the story, which parts we liked and which we didn't like, and we will discuss any and all aspects of the story and the writing.

After the discussion feel free to stick around, socialize, and make new friends☕

📖 About this Session

Fables, fairy-tales, and folklore are known around the world and are some of the oldest stories in the book. Often, these stories are told, retold, written down, adapted, extended or otherwise puzzled together. As such, none of the authors mentioned here are the "real" authors -- they are merely those that wrote down this specific version.

🦊🐃Coyote and the Buffalo -- A story from Okanogan storytellers, retold by Mourning Dove (the pen name of Christine Quintasket) -- 1387 words

🦅🔥🐺The Tale of Iván Tsarévich, the Bird of Light, and the Grey Wolf -- Russian fairy tale, told by Alexander Afanasyev -- 4193 words

🪶👰‍♀️Tsuru Nyōbō ("Crane Wife") -- Japanese folktale, no author known -- 674 words

🌊🏰The Drowned Lands of Saefthinge -- Dutch/Flemish folktale, no author known -- 1240 words

👑🌑The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld -- Sumerian myth, in a translation/adaption by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer -- 2976 words