Mythology and Folklore

 there was a table in front of the house with the hatter and the hare, and the dormouse was resting on a cushion  all 3 were at one end of the table so alice sat down at the other end  alice started arguing with the hare and the hatter about various things  she told the hatter it was weird that his watch didn't say the time, and he said it was because it stays the same time for so long  alice could not figure out the riddle that the hare asked her so she told him to do something better with his time  he said that time would do anything with the clock if they asked, like freeze or speed up time  time had to stop changing the clock because the queen ordered his execution  they grew tired of talking about the time so they had the dormouse tell them a story  alice kept interrupting the dormouse's story  they were being rude so she left and came across a tree with a door  it brought her back to the original room and she unlocked the door...

 alice was sitting on the riverbank bored with her sister one day  a rabbit ran by saying it was going to be late the rabbit went down a rabbit hole and she followed it, falling down a tunnel  she fell very slowly and passed many objects on her way down she fell upon a pile of leaves and got up, seeing the rabbit sprint down another tunnel and going after it  she came upon a bunch of locked doors and then a tiny key that opened a tiny door she couldn't fit through the tiny door and when she turned around there was a drink that turned her very small she tried to go through the door but forgot the key on the table and couldn't reach it  there was a thing with cake on the floor that she ate and expected to change size, but she didnt she grew to nine feet tall and couldn't find anything else to eat so she could shrink when she was tall she saw a catepillar on top of a mushroom smoking hookah that asked her who she was and she said she didn't know  he had an att...

 sir galahad went four days with no adventure until he came across a white abbey he went in the abbey and knights took him in and led him to a chamber where they told him that there was a shield which if you put it around your neck you would be dead on 3 days or find mischief  another knight bore it first and then died in a battle with another knight the knight gave the shield to a squire and said that only sir galahad could bear it  galahad bore the shield and went to a cemetery and lifted a stone, where there was a body and a bad smoke. he took a body out of the grave since he was not a Christian  he healed wounds and chased away bad knights and set free maidens sir lancelot came across a stone cross and a chapel which had an altar in it  he could not enter so he went to sleep  he had a dream that two palfreys came across a sick knight and he begged them to heal him the holy grail appeared and he prayed to it and it healed him of his sins the knight proph...

in britian, after uther pendragon died, every knight wanted to be king  the country became worse and worse and filled with evil merlin the magician went to the archbishop of Canterbury and agreed that the lords and gentlemen of britian would meet at the great church on Christmas day  at the church there was a large sword that said whoever pulled it out of the stone would be king  many people tried but were not able to pull it from the stone, so they had a tournament on new years day  sir kay, ector, and Arthur arrived to the tournament but forgot his sword so arthur went to get it  when he got to the house it was locked, so he went to the sword in the stone to pull it and gave it to sir kay  arthur told sir ector he pulled it so he was called the rightful king  his father said he was the son of uther pendragon and he was meant to be king  the people were reluctant to accept him since he was a common man, but every time they tried to contest it, he...

  Rabbit and Panther a rabbit wanted to build a lodge so that people would think he's a great medicine man  rabbit went to the top of a hill and build a wigwam and began to dance panther found rabbit's trail and hid to watch him and his wife rabbit sang a song that said he would never be caught by panther and went to hunt panther waited for him to return and sprung on him and ate him  Why Deer Never Eat Men rabbit asked bear what he wanted for food and he said acorns and fruit rabbit asked fish hawk what he wanted and he said the sucker, so he dove above the river and ate him  rabbit asked wolf what he wanted and he said deer, so he chased him with his robe on and could not catch him, but when he took it off he caught him and ate him  deer wanted to eat indians but they were too powerful, so he took his ribs and made them look like tusks. the indian still caught and ate him  since he was caught, the rabbit said they could only live on grass and twigs  ...

  The Earth Maker when the earth maker became conscious, he cried because he saw nothing  he took some of the substance he was sitting on and made earth, but it was loud and bare  he made a man and called it tortoise, then made two legged walkers  he sent tortoise to protect the world from evil spirits, but tortoise came to earth and made war so he took him back  next the earth maker sent hare, and the hare made the two legged walkers immortal the hare thought his grandmother was evil, and she heard him thinking that  they got up and started to go around the earth, and hare's grandmother told him not to look back  he did so anyway, and everything caved in  they went to the edge of the fire that surrounds earth  Creation the creator initially created the earth to be underwater and created fish first he realized he had no land for humans, so he pulled up some of the earth out of the water by the crawfish he created humans, called the Chitimacha...

  The Calamus Root brer rabbit avoids brer fox, but brer fox stopped him one day because brer bear told him that him and brer rabbit needed to be friends brer rabbit suggests they have dinner, so brer fox agrees and brer rabbit prepares for it  brer fox never showed up to dinner, so brer rabbit looks out the door and sees brer fox hiding outside  Mr mink told brer rabbit that brer fox was sick last night but that brer rabbit should go to his house for dinner brer rabbit goes to his house and brer fox looked very weak. there was no dinner on the table, just a pan and carving knife brer rabbit ran and brer fox never caught him The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story after brer rabbit ran, brer fox set up a trap called a tar baby  brer rabbit talked to the tar baby and it didn't speak back, so he said he was going to fix his attitude  he punched the tar baby and couldn't pull away brer fox came and laughed at brer rabbit stuck in the tar Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace brer possum...

 the dragon king and the princes of the dead sat before the lord of the heavens and presented their complaints about sun wu kung  the lord of the heavens ordered a god to take him prisoner  the god said that he was born of pure powers and that the king should issue an order for him to come and be forgiven of his sins, and if he doesn't, he would be punished with no mercy the god descended and gave him his order, so sun wu kung obliged and mounted a cloud to heaven sun wu kung was moving so fast that the god was left behind, but caught up and let him into the heavenly gates he did not show respect to the lord so everyone wanted him to be punished, but the lord excused him  the lord appointed him to be the stablemaster of the heavenly steeds, so he attended his duties with zeal sun wu kung asked what his position was ranked, and his friend told him it was not  he grew angry and beat out of heaven with his iron rod and went home  he was given an imperial robe ...

on a place called the moutains of flowers and fruits, there was a rock that held all the power of the earth out of this rock came a stone egg that birthed a stone ape, which had golden streams from his eyes that reached heaven  the lord of the heavens was frightened and sent out two gods to find out what happened, who reassured him that it was just from the magic rock  the ape grew up and played with other apes in the valley, until one day they came across a waterfall they said whoever could go through the waterfall without injury would be king, so the stone ape tried he found an iron bridge with a tablet that stated that they had found the heavenly cave, they all went there and everything was made of stone, and the stone ape was named king  300 years passed, and one day the king of the apes was sitting with his friends when he began to weep at the fear of death  the old ape told him that buddhas are exempt from death, and the king of the apes said that he would go t...

  Fayiz and the Peri Wife a man named fayiz went to the forest to play his flute and a beautiful maiden sat beside him they fell in love and went to her house in the woods, but she would not tell him who she was they get married on the condition that if he is faithful he will be happy, and if he isn't he will spend his life in trouble and never see her again  they had two sons and they were peri, so she told the husband to keep her secret the husband cried out to peri as he wanted to go home, and the wife told him not to  he went home and saw his family, and his wife asked him where he gained all his wealth he told his wife she was a peri or else she would put their sons adrift  she flew away as a pigeon and never wanted to see him again. he went back to the forest but could not find her he went looking for her but never saw her again, and cast off his first wife and sons The Hemp Smoker's Dream there once was a man who smoked hemp and had his head shaved and was so ...

  The Wolf and the Goat there was a goat with 4 sons; alil, balil, black eyes, and ginger stick the goat left to get grass and said that she would be back so dont let anyone in, and if they said it was their mother tell them to stick their hand in the door to see if it was red the wolf heard this and dyed its hand red with henna, and stole 3 of the children black eyes was not stolen and told his mother what happened when she got back they go to the goats house and pour ashes in the chimney, and the goat challenges the wolf to a fight the goat got a gift so that her horns could be sharpened for battle, and the wolf only got a gift of air the wolf gave the gift of air to the dentist so he pulled his teeth and replaced them with cotton  the wolf and goat drank water in the river before the fight, and jumped the stream the wolf was too swollen with water to jump so he fell in, and the sheep killed him  the sparrow never got home The City of Nothing In The World in the town of...

 rama and his accompaniment build a 4 bedroom hut in the forest and lived peacefully for 13 and a half years a rakshasa woman named surpanakha fell in love with rana and disguised herself as a beautiful woman to seduce him  rama would not leave sita so he said that she should marry his brother instead. she did not want this so she tried to kill sita and he cut off her ears and nose she went to her brother to show him what happened, and she ordered that he bring sita to her he sent 14 rakshasas to the forest, but rama killed them all. her brother wants to kill rama rama defeats an army of rakshasas, including surpanakha's brother  surpanakha went to the demon god ravana and told him what happened, so he agreed to bring sita in his chariot  ravanas brother maricha took the form of a beautiful deer which sita saw and wanted rama goes to kill the deer for her, and lakshmana said that rakshasas can take the form of deer rama killed the deer and it called out to sita in ra...

 Valmiki the poet was by the river when he heard the cries of a heron, and he spilled his emotions in metrical speech, birthing the sloka metre the god Brahma came towards Valmiki and told him to celebrate the story of Rama in this metrical speech  there were two kingdoms in Hindustan  kosala was ruled by dasaratha who was the father of rama mithila was ruled by janaka who was the father of sita dasaratha ruled a beautiful kingdom but was sad because he did not get a son from any of his three queens, so he resolved to perform a horse sacrifice so the gods would grant him an heir kausalya the chief queen slayed the horse, and the queens tended to the horse offerings were brought to the gods, and they promised that four sons would be born to dasaratha vishnu became the four sons of dasaratha rama was the most beautiful of the four sons one night rama would not stop crying until he was given a mirror, and everyone believe he had obtained the moon  Vishwamitra visited th...

 God made man and woman and ordered them to replenish the earth, and filled the earth with food for them to eat God created the earth for 6 days and rested on the seventh God created a garden in Eden where he planted the man to watch it and ordered him to eat from every tree but the tree of good and evil  the man adam named every creature in earth as God brought them to him God put a deep sleep on adam and took his rib then closed the flesh so he could make womankind the man and woman were companions and were both naked in the garden of Eden  a serpent came to the garden and asked eve if they could eat from any tree in the garden, and she said any tree but the one in the middle  the serpent told her that if they ate from it they'll be fine, god doesn't know if they'll die, and if they eat from it they'll be gods  adam and eve ate the apples and immediately became aware they were naked, so they clothed themselves adam and eve admitted that the serpent told them t...

A group of robbers steals young women from rich families to take for ransom  the robbers steal a woman and take her to their cave where she cries all night an old woman begins to talk to her, and the young woman tells her that they stole her on her wedding day  the old woman tells her a story to comfort her there were a king and queen with three daughters, two of which who were beautiful and one who was extraordinarily gorgeous, and her name was Psyche the third daughter was so beautiful that people would come from all over to appreciate her beauty and were no longer visiting shrines to Venus  Venus, who is angry and jealous, sends her son Cupid to punish her, as he is known for doing harm  he curses Psyche to only choose the most wretched of men  All suitors found Psyche extraordinarily beautiful, but nobody wanted to marry her The king consults Apollo, and he prophecizes that a winged creature is leading her to a fatal marriage  The king and queen weep fo...

this story likely takes place in a medieval or village time setting, in a rural part of a country (the mother has to go to the next village to get the items)   the mother goes in to the city to buy items for her 3 daughters  two of the daughters seem to be very materialistic, but the third daughter is very selfless the mother grabs the items for the two daughters, but the load is too heavy and she cannot make it back to their home the mothers gets lost in the forest and stumbles upon a palace, realizing she has forgotten the roses for her third daughter  she arrives at the palace, where there's a garden of the most beautiful roses she had ever seen the mother cuts the roses and is met by a basilisk that tells her that she must promise her daughter or he will cut her to pieces  the daughter accepts and is forced to breastfeed the basilisk  the basilisk says she must marry him, so she accepts  the basilisk forces her to cut off his head, and when she doe...

Choose from CLASSICAL and/or BIBLICAL units for Weeks 3 and 4. Week 3: Adam and Eve Week 4: Noah Choose from MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6. Week 5: Ramayana Week 6: Ancient Egypt Choose from ASIAN and/or AFRICAN units for Weeks 7 and 9. [Week 8 is review week.] Week 7: Japanese Mythology   Week 9: Chinese Fairy Tales  Choose from NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11. Week 10: Cherokee Myths   Week 11: Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes  Choose from BRITISH and/or CELTIC units for Weeks 12 and 13. Week 12: Robin Hood  Week 13: Celtic Fairy tales  Choose from  EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15. Week 14: Brothers Grimm (Hunt) Week 15: Grimm (LibriVox)      I'm particularly excited to be able to read Native American Mythology since I'm part Chickasaw! I wish there would have been an option to read a bit more about stories of Greek Gods and Goddesses, but it's a topic I'm familiar with s...