Peace Corps

Folk Tales

Stories From Peace Corps Countries Around
the World

Africa

  • The Hare and the Water (Tanzania) Read | Listen
  • The Big Fire (Togo) Read | Listen
  • The Great Hole (Togo)

Central and Eastern Europe

  • Half Man, Half Limping Rabbit (Romania) Read
  • The Legend of St. Anne’s Lake (Romania) Read | Listen
  • Fate vs. Mind (Macedonia) Read | Listen
  • Ivan the Fool (Russia) Read | Listen

Asia & Pacific Islands

  • The Legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival (China) Read
  • Mother Wolf (Kyrgyz Republic) Read | Listen
  • The Legend of Ajidar Tash, or Dragon Rock (Kyrgyz Republic) Read
  • The Legend of Cassowary (Papua New Guinea)
    Read | Listen
  • The Khan's Robes (Uzbekistan) Read | Listen
  • How the First Coconut Came to Efate
    (Vanuatu) Read | Listen

 

Latin America & the Caribbean

  • The King's Advice (Dominican Republic)
  • Cricket and the Sea (Guatemala)
  • Quak-wah-tania and Her Sisters (Guyana) Read
  • Wings on Her Feet (Haiti)
  • The Flower of Olivia (Honduras) Read
  • Why People Are Hairy (Panama) Read | Listen

 

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