This folktale from Germany tells about a cook who has to trick her master and his dinner guest when she “accidentally” eats the two hens she was cooking for dinner. Professional Minnesota Storyteller Kevin Strauss tells this story. You can learn more about Kevin’s storytelling at http://www.NatureStory.com
This folktale from Romania tells about a young woman who has to dress as a man and serve as a knight in the Sultan’s army for a year and a day. But if they discover that she’s a woman, she will lose her life. Professional Minnesota Storyteller Kevin Strauss tells this story. You can learn more about Kevin’s storytelling at http://www.NatureStory.com
This folktale from Russia tells about a girl must rescue her younger brother from the witch Baba Yaga and her black geese. Professional Minnesota Storyteller Kevin Strauss tells this story. You can learn more about Kevin’s storytelling at http://www.NatureStory.com
Continue reading →This folktale from Germany tells about a woman who has to trick the devil in order to rescue her foolish husband. Professional Minnesota Storyteller Kevin Strauss tells this story. You can learn more about Kevin’s storytelling at http://www.NatureStory.com
Continue reading →This folktale from Scotland tells about a brave woman who overcomes problems and a windmill goblin. Professional Minnesota Storyteller Kevin Strauss tells this story. You can learn more about Kevin’s storytelling at http://www.NatureStory.com
This folktale from England tells about a girl who has to overcome robbers who use magic to keep people asleep. Professional Minnesota Storyteller Kevin Strauss tells this story. You can learn more about Kevin’s storytelling at http://www.NatureStory.com
This workshop, by Professional Storyteller Kevin Strauss, helps storytellers, teachers, naturalists, and parents create more interesting and effective animal characters in their tales by using voice, body language, facial, expressions, and “animal headology” to help you think, sound, and act … Continue reading →
Deer thinks his antlers are beautiful and his legs are ugly, until he has to escape from a hunter in this Aesop’s Fable from Greece.
Continue reading →Bear loves to eat fish. So when Fox tells him how to catch his own fish, Bear runs right out to try it. Find out what happens next in this folktale from Norway.
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