October, 2025 | FolktalesAmerica.com

The Moon’s Missing Child

October 17, 2025

In the far north, where winter swallows half the year and the wind sings louder than drums, the Inuit tell a story of how the moon learned to shine with sorrow and love. Long ago, the sky was black as sealskin. The world lived by the dim light of fire

Anansi and the Snake of Wisdom

October 17, 2025

Caribbean Folktales

In the heat of the Caribbean forest, where the palms whispered and lizards blinked from sunlit rocks, lived Anansi the Spider, clever, proud, and forever hungry for glory. One morning, King Lion gathered the animals. “The Sky God keeps all wisdom in a calabash at the top of the tallest

The Singing Shell of Jamaica

October 17, 2025

Caribbean Folktales

Long ago, when the wind carried more voices than noise, there lived a young fisher boy named Kofi in a small Jamaican village near Port Royal. His father had been lost to the sea, but Kofi sang to it every morning before casting his net. His songs were bright—half laughter,

The Loup-Garou and the Broken Rosary

October 17, 2025

Canadian Folktales

In the parish of Trois-Rivières, when the maples wore frost like lace and barns ticked with settling wood, people warned children against the loup-garou—a cursed soul that prowled on four legs until a promise was kept or a kindness given. It wasn’t always a wolf, they said, but it was

The Flying Canoe of Saint-Jean

October 17, 2025

Canadian Folktales

There are winters in Quebec so deep that time itself seems to freeze, and men in the logging camps count their days by the creak of the pines. On New Year’s Eve, when the cook boiled beans and the fiddle scraped jigs by the stove, the men of Camp Saint-Jean