Peace Corps

Folk Tales

Stories From Peace Corps Countries Around
the World

Africa

Abegaz and the Lion (Ethiopia) Read | Listen

The Center of the Earth (Eritrea) Read | Listen

The Maiden Nsia (Ghana) Read | Listen

The Stealing of the Drums (Ghana) Read | Listen

The Talking Goat (Liberia) Read | Listen

Tislet and Isli (Morocco) Read | Listen

The Calabash Princess (Niger)

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) Read | Listen

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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