Tag Archives: Tangling Tales

Okay, folks, I’m definitely leaning into this fisherman theme. This next story is based on the poem The Fisherman and His Wife by the Brothers Grimm or Alexander Pushkin’s poem The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish or both. Enjoy. AMber There once was a fisherman who could no longer find work on theContinue reading “The Magic Fish”

Today’s tale comes from Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasantry collected by William Butler Yeats. The story is called “Soul Cages” and interestingly enough it, too, is about a fisherman. Maybe I have my theme for this season, eh? Anyway, enjoy… Everybody’s heard of mermaids, right? Those alluring creatures of the sea with theContinue reading “Soul Cages”

Part 2 of The Fisherman’s Wife. I probably won’t separate a story like this again.

This tale is adapted from the story “Fisherman Plunk and His Wife” by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić which can be found in Croatian Tales from Long Ago.