Diving into Mythology

The K ing o' the Cats Story source:  More English Fairy Tales  by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1894). One winter  evening  the sexton's wife was sitting by the fireside  with  her black cat. They waited and they waited but the master never came home. Finally, the master came rushing in and asked who tommy tildrum was. The master was  terrified  and told the story that he was visiting of his friends grave and then cats started to come near him. The cats looked exactly like the cat that they owned. During this story, old Tom,  continued  to meow and meow louder and louder. Finally, at the end of the story, old tom shrieked out that he was the king o the cats and rushed up the chimney and was never seen again.  King 'O The Cats Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle Story source:  More English Fairy Tales  by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1894). The fox and his wife had great...

Johnny Gloke Story source:  More English Fairy Tales  by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1894). Johnny Gloke was a tailor. Soon he grew tired of his tailoring and wished  to  try something else. At first he did not know  what to do so he pondered about what he would do next. One day he was outside enjoying the weather. A fly started to bother him and he swang and killed multiple flies. After traveling a long way, he came across a country that was troubled by two giants. He was told about the giants and learned that the king of the country had offered a great reward if someone was strong enough to overcome the giants. The king offered the hand of his daughter for whoever was able to conquer the giant.  John hid in a tree thinking of his safety and made a plan of action. He saw the giants coming and picked up a pebble and threw it at him. The giant that got hit with the pebble turned to the other giant and bla...

The coyote was a very tricky animal, he was always coming up with plans to trick other animals for his benefit. One day, he went to a prairie dog town and told all of the prairie dogs to shut their doors and come to the dance. The prairie dogs did as they were told because they trusted the coyote and were very excited to attend the dance. As the prairie dogs were dancing in the circle, the coyote began to throw stones at them and hit them. The coyote told the prairie dogs that the dancing is what was making them fall down and get hurt when really it was the coyote throwing the stones at the prairie dogs. One of the smaller prairie dogs noticed that the coyote had a stone in his hand and told all of the other prairie dogs to return back to their rooms and hide. Many of the prairie dogs rooms were locked because they had shut their doors in order to go to the dance. However, this one little prairie dog named Theo had left his door open and invited all of the prairie dogs into h...

Mr. Miacca Story source:  English Fairy Tales  by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890). Tommy Grimes was a good boy but sometimes acted up. His mother always used to tell him that he needed to be a good boy or else Mr. Miacca would come and take him. One day, Tommy was acting up and Mr. Miacca swooped Tommy up and put him into his bag. When Mr. Miacca got inside he pulled Tommy out and told his that he was going to eat him for dinner. Mr. Miacca left Tommy with his wife while he went out to get the herbs he needed to cook Tommy wife. Tommy convinced Mrs. Miacca to let him run home and get pudding for Mr. Miacca. Tommy ran off and was thinking that h got off the hook so easy. On his way home he ran into Mr. Miacca and Mr. Miacca put him in his bag. Mr. Miacca began to heat up a pot and told Tommy to put a leg out so he could chop it off. Instead of putting his own leg out, Tommy put one of the couch legs out and when Mr. Miacca wasn't paying attention ...

The Old Woman and Her Pig Story source:  English Fairy Tales  by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890). Once upon a time, an old woman was sweeping her house and found a crooked sixpence. The old woman wondered what she should buy with the money and decided that she would go to the market and buy a little pig. One the way home from buying the pig from the market, the woman and the pig reached a stile and the pig would not cross it. Along came a dog and the old woman told the dog to bite the pig so that the pig would cross the stile and they could get home. However, the dog would not  bite the pig. Next, the woman ran into a stick and she asked the stick to poke the pig in order to get over the stile. The stick would not poke the pig. The woman then ran into water, fire, ox, butcher, rat, cat, rope, ox and they both denied to help her get the pig over the stile. Finally, the woman ran into a cow and asked if he would help her. He said he would if she ...