'folktales' yielded 10 matches.
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- Understanding a Billion Everyone is talking about spending billions of dollars to save the economy but how much is a billion? We all know how to count to 100. We count by 10's, 5's and 2's but when the numbers get higher it becomes more and more difficult to comprehend jus...
- Fairy Tales One of my favorite types of stories growing up were fairy tales. And why not? Children have vivid imaginations which allow them to be swept away in the magic of the story. Even before I was reading, I would look at the pictures and make up my own sto...
- John Henry Legend - The Ballad of John Henry This lens is about all things concerning the legend of John Henry. There is little doubt that there exists two John Henrys. One is the real man, and there were several slaves which bore his name which could have been the historical John Henry. Howeve...
- I love Yiddish! I give myself a challenge At the end of 2005, with my son off at college and an empty nest in front of me, I decided to take up some new challenges. Since I sing and fiddle with a klezmer band, and have been singing for local Holocaust Remembrance...
- Yiddish tales from Scott Davis, the Jewish Storyteller I've known Scott Davis for many years and have translated Yiddish stories, memoirs, and letters for him. He's executive producer of WUNC-TV, the public tv station here in Chapel Hill NC, but he also loves to research, re-imagine, and perform stories...
- Black Shuck Black Shuck or Old Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is said to roam the Norfolk, Essex and Suffolk coastline. He is sometimes known as the 'Doom Dog'.
- Elmendorf Beast The Elmendorf Beast is the name given to a strange creature discovered in South Texas.
- Noadi: Biography Noadi is the alter ego of fantasy artist Sheryl Westleigh. She creates detailed sculpture in polymer clay and mixed media. Everything from satyrs and mermaids to turtles and octopuppies.
- Priscilla Howe, Storyteller I'm a full-time professional storyteller. Nope, I don't read stories, I tell them. What kind? Folktales, stories from books, my own stories. For whom? For listeners of all ages--of course, the stories I tell to preschoolers are completely different f...
- African Folklore African folk tales, myths and legends
