18 Sep 2026

A retelling of the Japanese folktale about a crane who becomes a woman, and the husband whose curiosity destroys everything she wove for him.

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05 Sep 2026

Anansi stories traveled from Ghana to Jamaica to the American South, and the spider's real trick was never his schemes — it was his survival.

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30 Aug 2026

From Mesopotamia to India to the American Southwest, flood myths appear everywhere. The shared motif is not proof of a single event — it is proof of a shared fear.

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14 Sep 2026

The Russian witch in the chicken-legged house has been flattened into a Halloween caricature. In the old stories, she was something stranger: a gatekeeper.

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06 Sep 2026

A girl gets into a car, asks to be taken home, and disappears before the driver reaches the door. The story is older than the automobile.

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01 Sep 2026

The selkie story is often told as a romance, but at its heart it is a tale about who gets to keep their freedom — and who is expected to give it up.

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09 Sep 2026

Long before zombie movies, the 'grateful dead' was a folk motif about a stranger who repays a burial — and it shows up in cultures from Iceland to India.

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10 Sep 2026

The Brothers Grimm tale about a boy who cannot feel fear is usually read as comedy — but it may be the strangest and most honest story they ever collected.

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26 Sep 2026

One of China's most beloved legends is a love story between a woman who is also a snake and a man who does not know it — and it asks what it really means to be human.

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16 Sep 2026

From Norse gods to Native American coyote tales, the trickster is the most durable character in world folklore — and the one who tells us the most about ourselves.

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13 Sep 2026

A retelling of the Japanese folktale about a crane who becomes a woman, and the husband whose curiosity destroys everything she wove for him.

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23 Sep 2026

Anansi stories traveled from Ghana to Jamaica to the American South, and the spider's real trick was never his schemes — it was his survival.

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