Stories Arranged by Continent of Origin

Stories like to travel, and can be hard to pin down. Nevertheless here is an alphabetical listing of stories by approximate country and continent of origin. To hear each story, click on the titles below.

Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ Creation Story and Interview with Michelle Seneca 
The Man Who Became a Wolf (Chipewayan, Athabasca)
The Name (Haiti)
The Oldest Boy (Inuit) Told by Walton Stanley 

The Birth of Athena (Ancient Greece)
The Birth of Taliesin (Wales)
Caedmon's Hymn (England)
"The Curse of Macha" told by Clare Murphy (Ireland)
"The Fox Woman" told by Danny Deardorff (Siberia)
The Handless Maiden (Germany)
Elena the Wise (Russia)
Freya and the Building of the Wall of Asgard (Scandinavia)
The Golden Tree (The Caucasus)
Into the Underworld with the Luckiest Boy Alive (Germany)
King Powell and Lady Rhiannon (Wales)
The Mabinogion (Selected Stories) (Wales)
Maria Morevna (Russia)
Merlyn Frees the Dragons (Wales)
The Norse Creation Myth (Scandinavia)
Odin and the Well of Wisdom (Scandinavia)
Odin and the Well of Wisdom Re-visited (Scandinavia)
Orpheus, Midas and the Goat-Man in the Garden (Rome)
Orpheus and Eurydice (Ancient Greek)
Proteus, the Changing Man of the Sea (Ancient Greek)
Rags and Leaves (Italy)
Rapunzel (Germany)
She Climbs Antlers by Starlight (Georgia)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (England)
​Sleeping Beauty (France)
The Three Wishes (England)
The Water of Life (Germany)
The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell (England)
The Woman of the Sea (Scotland)
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Anansi and the Box of Stories (Ghana)
Gilgamesh, an Epic in Three Parts (Ancient Mesopotamia)
The Poor Man Who Became Rich Again in a Dream (Middle East)
Stories from the Collection Known as "The Arabian Nights" (Middle East)
The Wise Tales of Nasruddin the Fool (Middle East)
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The Four Magic Bowls (India) 
The Four 

Greg Willis (temple and jungle)
Yangshuo countryside, China