I use a lot of folk-tales and stories in my teaching. You can access some of them from this page. They are none of them as first transcribed, but have been changed through my tellings.

Miss Piggy ; this is a tale from PNG. It is about how a woman may be a pig, or how a pig may be a woman. (A second version of this story can be found here, with an attempt at anthropologically informed commentary).

The Wawilak Sisters ; this is an Australian story from the Dreamtime.

The Elephant's Child ; this is a West-African tale, which is a kind of reverse 'Beauty and the Beast'. It also has elements of 'Peau d'Ane', although the incestuously aroused king is in this case the father-in-law.

The Greedy Girl ; This is a Hausa tale, collected by an English army-officer in the early years of this century, and published in 'Man'. There are some odd elements about it which suggest that the teller may have adapted it to Tremearne's taste.

The Masai Woman's Head ; from the same source. Once again, there are oddities in the story - what is a Masai woman doing in a Hausa tale? - which may have arisen because the teller knew of Treamearne's anthropological interests and threw in some details especially for him.

East of the Sun and West of the Moon ; this is a well-known European folk-tale - Angela Carter includes it in her Viago Book of Fairy Tales. My version was written to make it as circular and repetitive as possible for classroom telling, but it probably needs further simplification.

The Crow in the Garden ; this is the beginning of a much longer piece on growing up middle-class in England. The rest will be going up as I scan it in.