151 Stories Around The World

An owl and an elephant lived in a forest. They both were best friends. One evening, the elephant while looking for food, blundered into a gathering of demons. On seeing the elephant, the demon-king started shouting, “It’s him!” “Who is he?” asked his attendants. “Last night, I dreamt I ate an elephant; it looked remarkably […]

In the olden times, when it was the fashion for gentlemen to wear swords, the Laird of Balmachie went one day to Dundee, leaving his wife at home ill in bed. He encountered fairies which carried his wife in bedclothes.They disappeared on seeing him. He placed her on the horse before him, and, arrived safely

In ancient times, there lived an orphan peasant boy named Syahdan in Sumatra Island. Syahdan had to do farming and fishing. One day, he was fishing a very beautiful fish. The colour was golden yellow. So holding, the fish turned into a beautiful princess. Because a human touched, it turned into a princess. Fascinated by

Once, a couple of Japan, after spending many years without any child started musing that why God brought this catastrophe to them. They so intensely longed of children that even a little inch-sized child could dispense merriment in their life. And they were blessed with a little-sized son as they wished, he was named Issun

Long ago, the lion was the only animal with a tail. One day, he decided that each animal should have a tail like him. So, he got tails made for all the animals in his kingdom. When he found all the task done, all his subjects were summoned to his cave to their respective tails.

A long, long time ago, there lived two brothers in a village. They both were very poor. The elder brother had a little more than the other one. He had a larger family to support than the younger brother. One autumn, they harvested their grain, but the elder one was worried about his younger brother,

Two hundred years ago, there was a princess named May Yee. She was born in Malaysia. She wanted to get married to a young man, but he was very poor. Her mother was very angry because she wanted to marry the poor young man. Her mother said, “Are you sure you want to get married

Two travellers were on a long journey through the countryside. They were walking along a track, they suddenly spotted a great bear ambling towards them. The first traveller climbed up the first tree and hid amongst the high branches. The second one dropped his bags and fell to the ground, pretending to be dead. He’d

When somebody over-rates himself, he is often warned: “Don’t be a mantis trying to stop a chariot.” The saying comes from a legend dated back to the spring and autumn period. One day, the King of Qi went out for hunting. The carriages were going along, when suddenly a mantis stood in the middle of

A dispute arose among a number of animals, namely the wolf, the fox, the cat and the hare. Unable to settle matters by themselves, they summoned the bear to act as judge. Everyone said, he had a hundred or thousand ways to escape. Only the cat said she had only one way to escape.Then the

Once in autumn, a hedgehog and a fox ran into each other. The fox said to the hedgehog, “Come with me to the vineyard to steal some grapes.” The hedgehog answered, “No, I am afraid of the traps they have set out there.” The fox said, “Have no fear. You’ll come to no harm, because

Euphemia was the daughter of King Atlas and the grand-daughter of the great god Jupiter. She was more beautiful than her fifteen sisters, though they were all lovely. She decided to come down to earth. Now in the island of Seven Cities there lived a rich and venerable Christian prince. He adopted Euphemia as his

Long ago, there lived a man who employed a boy named Peter to take care of his pigs. One day, a man came up to Peter and said, “Sell me these seven pigs.” Peter sold six pigs and buried the ears and tails of pigs in sand and called his master. His master ran. There,

Prince Llewelyn had a favourite dog, greyhound named Gellert that had been given to him by his father-in-law, King John. He was as gentle as a lamb at home but a lion in the chase. One day, Llewelyn went to the chase and blew his horn in front of his castle to call Gellert but

In the olden days, an enormous man lived with the other members of the Inuit tribe in a village. He was so tall that he could straddle the inlet, and ate the whole whale just as other men ate a small fish. One day, all the natives were having a hard time to hold and