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Adapted in Taleypo Talk
One of the great joys of storytelling is to find a story and then adapt it to one's way of telling it. The stories below are folk tales except for two original stories. I've added my own dialog, images, and participation to make these stories my own. I've also combined elements of stories and localized an exiting tale. You are welcome to take the stories and give them wings. If you tell the story, like it is written, I would like for you to give me credit. If you take the story and pare it down to its essentials and build it back up...it is yours! Two stories - Red Shoes and Nattie are my original stories and under copyright .You are welcome to tell them, but please do not take them and make them your own. They are not a folktales. And, please do not record them in any form. Come with me now as we take a magical ride on Taleypo's magic carpet. Don't worry about gas prices...it is imagination-powered.!
"It's the
story that matters, not the storyteller. Hear the stories, listen to
them, pay attention to them, gather them up from the meadow like
buttercups." Leonni Swan
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A Stocking From St. Nicholas an original St. Nick story |
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Coyote Brings the Light a California Indian story |
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Darby the Tailor an original story using folktale motifs |
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Demon Goat an 0rg. fractured tale based on Bill Grogan's Goat |
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Grandmother Spider Brings the Light a Cherokee Porquois story |
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Legend of the Cedar Tree a Cherokee Legend |
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Mary Culhane and the Dead Man an Irish Folktale |
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Nattie's Wild Hare Original story about a rabbit named Nattie |
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Rabbit the Arrow the Arrow Maker an adt. Lakota Legend |
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Rumpelstiltskin a German Folktale |
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Taleypo tells Tailypo a southern folktale |
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The Beginning of Redhorn - a sacred Winnebago |
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The Blue Rose an adaptation of a Chinese tale |
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The Blue Faience Hippopotamus adapted folktale by Joan Grant |
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The Devil's Bridge a localized French Folktale |
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The Frog Prince - Revisited, a Fractured Frog Prince |
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The Hairy Toe a Southern Folktale |
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The Hobyahs! an English Folktale |
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The Magic Paintbrush - retold Chinese folktale |
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The Piasa an Illinois legend |
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker at Sunset Hills Illinois Urban Legend |
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The Whistling Tsonaquas Adapted NW Coast Native Am. |
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Ticky-Picky Boom-Boom a Jamaican folk tale |
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Too Much Noise One Halloween Night Adpt. folktale |
"The dreamer awakes, the shadow goes by, / When I tell you a tale, the tale is a lie. / But listen to me, fair maiden, proud youth, / The tale is a lie, what it tells is the truth." Traditional ending.
