Location:
Nashville, TN
Description:
What is Family Folktales? Think of it as story time on demand. Whether you're running errands, trying to make dinner, or getting little someones ready for bed, you can listen to a story or two. The stories may be new to you or old favorites. They may even be different, possibly gorier, versions of those stories you now share with your children. Listen, wherever you get podcasts.
Language:
English
Episodes
Little Thumb
3/26/2025
A poor woodcutter and his wife are unable to feed their children and decide to abandon them deep in the forest. Little do they know how clever their youngest child will prove to be!
The Steel Cane
3/19/2025
An old woman adopts a boy whose parents have died, but he is rude and lazy rather than industrious and helpful. Unable to get him to change his ways, she turns him into an ass. Will he finally become the good worker she hoped him to be?
The Thanksgiving of the Wazir
3/12/2025
Two quarrelling rulers with a shared border agree that anyone crossing from one country to the other should be subject to punishment. After one of these rulers imprisons his own wazir for a perceived slight, he rides off alone and accidentally crosses the border into the neighboring country, where he is taken into custody and sentenced to die. Will he or the wazir ever walk free again?
Duration:00:10:39
Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida
3/5/2025
Two young royals are raised without any attempt to stretch them beyond their natural inclinations, so that neither one would be a suitable ruler. With the help of a little magic, might one – or both! – of them develop into a suitable ruler?
The Shirt Collar
2/26/2025
A vain and boastful shirt collar tells tales of his romances.
Duration:00:07:04
The Fairy of the Dawn
2/19/2025
An emperor with three sons has one laughing eye and one weeping eye. After telling one of his three sons that only water from the well of the Fairy of the Dawn will heal his eyes, the sons set off, one at a time, on their quest. Will any of them return home?
Duration:01:00:43
The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther
2/12/2025
After a jackal outsmarts a dove and eats one of her fledglings, the jackal attacks the heron who helped the dove. Hoping to save his own life, the heron shows the jackal where to find the panther’s lair. Will the jackal outsmart the panther too, or be punished for his evil ways?
Duration:00:11:13
The White Dove
2/5/2025
A prince is taken by a witch to settle a debt and given impossible tasks to complete; only with the assistance of a white dove (actually an enchanted princess) can he complete them. Will the pair find a way to escape the witch?
Duration:00:16:40
The Troll's Daughter
1/29/2025
While serving a troll for tree years a young man meets and falls in love with the troll’s daughter, who lives in a glass palace under the sea. Can the two devise a successful plan to outwit the troll and live happily ever after?
Duration:00:22:36
The Seven-Headed Serpent
1/22/2025
Shipwrecked sailors are forced to promise yearly human sacrifices to appease a terrible serpent with seven heads. How will the childless king and queen bring an end to the deaths?
Duration:00:12:09
How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves
1/15/2025
A boy boasts of how he will kill a wolf; how will he react when he thinks a wolf is near?
Duration:00:17:33
The Nightingale
1/8/2025
When an emperor learns of a nightingale who sings beautifully in his garden, he makes the bird a guest of his court. When the emperor receives a mechanical nightingale as a gift he forgets about the real one, who takes the opportunity to escape the palace. But when the emperor is taken ill, can his mechanical bird comfort him?
Duration:00:23:19
Andras Baive
1/1/2025
A town’s champion, the swiftest, strongest man in the area, hears of someone even swifter and stronger – one Andras Baive. Determined to prove his superiority, the champion challenges Baive. Who will prove victorious?
Duration:00:13:00
The Child Who Came From an Egg
12/25/2024
A childless queen has a daughter and son using magical means. After her death and the king’s remarriage, the children are separated – from their father and each other. Will the Princess Dotterine find the life of comfort she was born to, or live a life in service to others?
Duration:00:24:43
The Story of a Very Bad Boy
12/18/2024
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me,” goes the old saying. What will happen when Antoine – or Toueno-Boueno, as people call him – tries repeatedly to fool three brothers?
Duration:00:15:46
How Ball-Carrier Finished His Task
12/11/2024
Ball-Carrier has taken a wife, but when he becomes very ill he gives his wife instructions on how he is to be laid to rest. How will his family manage without his hunting?
Duration:00:17:38
Ball-Carrier and the Bad One
12/4/2024
A boy is lured to a witch’s home by a magic ball and then fasts for weeks until he has received the gifts of all the good spirits. Finally he is ready for the quest the witch has in mind – but will he succeed?
Duration:00:19:46
Schippeitaro
11/27/2024
Who is Schippeitaro? And will he be able to defeat the Spirit of the Mountain, freeing a community from providing a human sacrifice every year?
Duration:00:08:44
The Magician's Horse
11/20/2024
A prince who has taken work with a magician escapes with the magician’s talking horse. Will the horse give the prince sage advice, or lead him right into trouble?
Duration:00:22:02
Trusty John
11/13/2024
A dying king entrusts his son to the care of his servant, Trusty John. After helping the new king to secure a bride, how far will John go to serve the King?
Duration:00:23:29