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Long long time ago
The definitive story website for everyone. Fables, folktales, fairytales,
myths and more from around the world.
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Myths of the Yoruba — Long long time ago
Myths of the Yoruba
The Yoruba people live in south-western Nigeria. At one time, they were organised into several kingdoms, each ruled by the
oba or king. Traditionally, they believed in almost fou...
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Siddhartha and the Swan — Long long time ago
Retold by Rohini Chowdhury
More than two thousand five hundred years ago, the Sakya king Sudhodhana ruled over the kingdom of Kapilavastu, on the borders of what is now Nepal. King Sudhodhana and his ...
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Hunahpu and Xbalanque — Long long time ago
, the Council Book of the Quiche Maya people of Guatemala. The Popol Vuh
was written by the Quiche lords after the Spanish conquest of Central America to preserve as much of their tradition, history ...
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Myths — Long long time ago
During the 15th and early 16th centuries, Central America was dominated by the culture and civilisation of a people known to us as the Aztecs. The Aztecs had many gods and goddesses, who, they believe...
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Molly Whuppie — Long long time ago
Collected and retold by Joseph Jacobs
Once upon a time there was a man and a wife had too many children, and they could not get meat for them, so they took the three youngest and left them in a wood. ...