GANNA BOZHKO/GETTY IMAGES. Famous fairy tales and folktales from around the world. Fairy tale stories are part and parcel of childhood. Endlessly retellable (and spoofable—we’re looking at you ...

3. CINDERELLA Versions of the Cinderella story have been told for hundreds of years, with one version—the Chinese folk tale Ye Xian —dating back as far as the 9th century.

Folk tales for children: How the Myntdu, Myntang and Umiurem rivers in Meghalaya came to be An excerpt from ‘Folk Tales from Meghalaya’, by Sobhona Bhattacharjee, translated from the Bengali ...