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November 10. Story of the Day: The Kitul Seeds

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From Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon by H. Parker, volume 1, 26. You can read about Kitul (Kithul) plants at  Wikipedia . This is ATU 1430...

November 9. Story of the Day: Bedbug.

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This song comes from  Negro Folk Rhymes by Thomas Talley. It's a fun list of bugs, not exactly a chain tale, but definitely a fun lis...

November 8. Story of the Day: The Cat and the Mouse

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This story comes from  Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane. This is classified as ATU 2023. Little Ant Marries . Looking fo...

November 7. Story of the Day: Stupid's Cries

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This story comes from  More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs. It is an example of  ATU Tale Type 1696 . Looking for more stories?...

November 6. Story of the Day: Bremen Town-Musicians

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From Household Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Margaret Hunt. This is ATU 130 Bremen Town Musicians . With the accumulati...

November 5. Story of the Day: The Sprightly Tailor

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This is from Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, with illustrations by john Batten. This is one of those stories with a series of body p...

November 4. Story of the Day: The Jackal and the Cat

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From  Indian Fairy Tales  by Maive Stokes. This story is told as a note to the story of The Cat Which Could Not Be Killed . This is classi...

November 3. Story of the Day: Sparrow's Revenge

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This story comes from  The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India by William Crooke and W. H. D. Rouse, with illustrations by W. H. Robi...

November 2. Story of the Day: Hunting of the Wren

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This story comes from the Journal of the Folk-Song Society . Additional versions, plus the music, online at Hathi . This is Roud 236. It...

November 1. Story of the Day: Oh! come out, nanny-goat!

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This comes from an old booklet by George Alexander Kohut: Some Passover rhymes and their parallels . This is an example of  ATU 2030. The...

October 30. Story of the Day: A Man of Words

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This version of the traditional rhyme comes from  Negro Folk Rhymes by Thomas Talley. This is Roud 19103 : A Man of Words. You can compar...

October 28. Story of the Day: Keys of Canterbury,

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This version of the song comes from  The Nursery Rhyme Book edited by Andrew Lang. It is classified as  Roud 573: Keys of Canterbury . ...

October 27. Story of the Day: Sneezes

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This story comes from  The Nursery Rhymes of England by James Orchard Halliwell. It is an example of ATU 2012 Days of the Week . Look...

October 25. Story of the Day: The Paila and the Paili

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This story comes from  Indian Folk Tales by E. M. Gordon. The classification is TMI Z39.8. Small grain-measure runs away . Looking for...

October 24. Story of the Day: Brahmana's Kitten

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This story comes from  Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon by H. Parker, volume 2: 171. It's an example of  ATU 2031. Stronger and Stronge...

October 23. Story of the Day: Vessel of Butter

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This story comes from  Indian Nights by Charles Swynnerton. This is just one incident in "The Story of Lull, The Idiot." This i...

October 22. Story of the Day: Valiant Blackbird

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This story comes from  The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India by William Crooke and W. H. D. Rouse, with illustrations by W. H. Robi...

October 20. Story of the Day: The Old Witch

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This story comes from  More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by John Batten. I have not found the ATU type for this stor...