PODCAST

Family Folktales

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.

kids & family

All Episodes

The Steel Cane

Family Folktales ·

2025/03/19

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

Family Folktales ·

2025/03/12

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?

The Thanksgiving of the Wazir

Family Folktales ·

2025/03/12

Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida

Family Folktales ·

2025/03/05

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?

Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida

Family Folktales ·

2025/03/05

The Shirt Collar

Family Folktales ·

2025/02/26

A vain and boastful shirt collar tells tales of his romances.

The Shirt Collar

Family Folktales ·

2025/02/26

A vain and boastful shirt collar tells tales of his romances.

The Fairy of the Dawn

Family Folktales ·

2025/02/19

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?

The Fairy of the Dawn

Family Folktales ·

2025/02/19

The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther

Family Folktales ·

2025/02/12

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?

The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther

Family Folktales ·

2025/02/12

The White Dove

Family Folktales ·

2025/02/05

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?

The White Dove

Family Folktales ·

2025/02/05

The Troll's Daughter

Family Folktales ·

2025/01/29

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?

The Troll's Daughter

Family Folktales ·

2025/01/29

The Seven-Headed Serpent

Family Folktales ·

2025/01/22

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?

The Seven-Headed Serpent

Family Folktales ·

2025/01/22

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?

How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves

Family Folktales ·

2025/01/15

A boy boasts of how he will kill a wolf; how will he react when he thinks a wolf is near?

How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves

Family Folktales ·

2025/01/15

A boy boasts of how he will kill a wolf; how will he react when he thinks a wolf is near?

The Nightingale

Family Folktales ·

2025/01/08

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?

571 results

Family Folktales

All Episodes

Similar Podcasts

Tale Teller Kids™

Sarnia de la Mare

米克馬故事坊

咪萊

Imagination Station

Imagination Station

Die Pferde sind nicht das Problem - und du bist nicht zu blöd. Der Aha-Podcast für Pferdemenschen

Silke Jahn & Maren Diehl

Hanna fragt Papa - Der Podcast für neugierige Kinder und Eltern

Hanna und Thomas Schamberger