Man with the Coconuts
www.pitt.edu/~dash/philippines.html
Continue reading →Category Archives: Parables/Wisdom Tales
Little Tree Who Wished for Different Leaves
www.civprod.com/storylady/stories/LittleTree.htm
Continue reading →Legend of the Flute
http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/The_Legend_Of_The_Flute-Sioux.html (Brule Sioux)
Continue reading →Legend of the Cedar Tree
http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/articles/cedar.htm
Continue reading →Legend of the Bread Fruit Tree
www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hloh/hloh08.htm
Continue reading →King and the JuJu Tree Africa
www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn30.htm (Southern Nigeria)
Continue reading →Baucis and Philemon
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu www.thanasis.com/store/baucis.htm
Continue reading →Why Trees Whisper
Estonian Legend Retold by Anne Pellowski In the early days of earth, not long after the trees were created and humans were forced to leave Paradise to work, a man went out to the forest to cut wood. The first … Continue reading →
Why Plants Have Human Characteristics
Iroquoian Myth Retold by Anne Pellowski Before the earth was created there was a land above the sky. Certain beings, men and women with human characteristics but not entirely human, lived among the sky people. These beings grew so numerous … Continue reading →
Why Death is Like the Banana Tree
A Tale from Madagascar As Retold by Erica Helm Meade God wanted the first man and woman to be able to choose the kind of death they would have. One day he asked, “Would you prefer to die like the … Continue reading →