Stories, Tales, Myths, and Legends

This episode is a story from 1897 written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and is titled "A Case of Trespass." She was in her early twenty's when it was published. L.M. Montgomery went on to publish over 500 short stories and poems and is most famous for the Anne of Green Gables series.

"A little whimsy, now and then, makes for good balance. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere, Bot only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way..." ~Science Fiction Stories introduction to Philip K. Dick's "The Eyes Have It."

The short story in this episode  was published by the San Fransisco Examiner in 1890. The author is Ambrose Bierce and the story is titled “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

This episode covers two short stories that are titled "The Star and the Lily." Published nearly four decades apart, each story covers a unique cosmology as they unfold. One explains why we find water lilies where they are, the other explains why garden lilies bloom when they do.

This episode is myth from antiquity retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It comes from his “Wonder Book” and is titled “The Paradise of Children.” You may have heard of Pandora's box, this myth is where that idiom originates.

This tale is from a translation from Charles Perrault’s original French version of his 1697 book “Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals: more commonly known as Tales of Mother Goose and is titled “the Master Cat; or Puss in Boots.

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This Persian fairy tale comes from a book published in 1906 titled, The Cat and the Mouse:
A Book of Persian Fairy Tales.

This story was published in, “The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories” that was printed in 1921. The title of the story is, “Wild Horse Hunter” by author Zane Grey.

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This episode explores a tale from one of my real-life adventures. It's from a trip I took with my son to Mt. Wudang in China.

This is a story that was recorded by Albert D. Hesler from his interactions with the Yoruba people of Nigeria. It was collected in Helser's book titled, African Stories, published in 1930 and is titled “The Origin of Death.”