Christmas Stories

• A Baker's Dozen
  Saint Nicholas visits a baker who was curse by a witch for being stingy.
• A Gift from Saint Nicholas
  A poor family is visited by a stranger on Christmas Eve.
• Christmas Gift
  Why Florida's coast is plagued by hurricanes.

• Eavesdropper
  A Maryland man learns a hard lesson about eavesdropping.

• Haunted Christmas
  An unexpected guest comes to call on Christmas Eve.

Hanukkah & Jewish folklore

• Saving Time
  Shmul is on his way to the Chelm market when he meets up with an old friend, with surprising results.
• Higher Mathmatics
  How long does it take to get from Chelm to Dvinsk? No time at all, according to these mathmaticians!
• The Hanukkah Story
  The story behind the holiday.
• The Tree that Absorbed Tears
  A Jewish folktale from Romania.
• The Purse of Gold
  A beggar finds a leather purse that was dropped in the marketplace.

Kwanzaa & African-American Folktales

• The Kwanzaa Story
  The story behind the holiday.
• Brer Rabbit Meets a Tar Baby
  Brer Fox tricks Brer Rabbit into fighting with a Tar Baby.

• Brer Rabbit Falls Down the Well
  Brer Rabbit trys to find a cool place to sleep and falls down the well.

• Brer Rabbit Fools Sis Cow
  Now Brer Rabbit was skipping down the road one day heading for his home in the briar patch when he spotted Sis Cow grazing in the field...

• Brer Rabbit Earns a Dollar-A-Minute
  Brer Rabbit gets caught stealing goober peas and has to talk his way out of the trap.

• Never Mind Them Watermelons
  Sam Gibb accepts a dare to stay in a haunted house, never expecting to meet a ghost.

• Why Dog's Chase Cats
  Its a dog chase cat kind of world. (Virginia)

Winter Tales

• Babe the Blue Ox
  Paul Bunyan finds a little blue ox the Winter of the Blue Snow.

• Presumed Drowned
  The souls of five drowned men rejoin their ship from the Ice.
• Davy Crockett and the Frozen Dawn
  Davy Crockett must unfreeze the dawn. (Tennessee)

• The First Tears
  Eskimo tale about the origins of tears. (Alaska)

• The Flying Canoe
  A group of lonely lumberjacks pay a bitter price when they go home for New Years. (Quebec)
• Frozen Flames
  What do you do when the lanterns freeze? Call Paul Bunyan. (Michigan)

• Rainbow Crow
  The snow has come to Earth and all the animals are freezing. Can Rainbow Crow save them?

• The Trapper's Ghost
  The phantom of an evil trapper is doomed to roam the wilds of Labrador, helping lost travelers to atone for his sins.

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