151 Stories Around The World

Once there lived a culprit by the name of Poornananda in a village far away. He had two disciples–Nagendra and Krishna. One day while the two were coming to the village from the city, Naga (Nagendra’s nickname) picked a fight with a horse-cart driver. The fight reached a flashpoint and Naga unable to control himself […]

Early morning many people were busy rushing to their office on time. A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by the

Michael’s birthday was coming soon, so he asked his dad for a bicycle so that he might not need to walk to school any more. Michael got a book instead but he did not complain. One day, Michael saw a big boy named William on a bike. As the boy was turning around a corner,

There was a Siberian husky; her name was Siberia. She had two friends. One was a Chihuahua; her name was Chichi. Her other friend was a Golden Retriever; her name was Goldie. She had fun with her friends. One day, Siberia and Goldie were going for a walk; Chichi came by. She saw them walking

There was once a baby crocodile. He had a beautiful shiny tail and all the other crocodiles were horrible to him because they were jealous of him. One day the baby crocodile counted all his beautiful shiny scales and there were a thousand, a lot more than he thought. So, he counted all the other

Two frogs had lived in a village all throughout their life. They thought they would like to go and see the big city that was about ten miles away.They talked about it for a long time and at last they set off to see the city. It was a hot day and they soon began

Once upon a time, there was a good old woman who lived in a little house. She had in her garden a bed of beautiful striped tulips. One night, the old woman looked closely and she saw, standing by each tulip, a little Fairy mother who was crooning and rocking the flower like a cradle,

A shepherd-boy lived in a small village. He watched a flock of sheep near a village. He used to call out the villagers three or four times by saying out, “Wolf! Wolf!” and when his neighbours came to help him, he always used to laugh at them for their pain and foolishness. And it had

Once upon a time, there lived a wise man by the name of Mamad. He never lied. The king ordered his subjects to bring him to the palace. The king was about to leave for the forest. The king held his horse by the mane; his left foot was already on the stirrup. He ordered

One day, the god created a beautiful woman called Pandora and took her to Prometheus. His brother, Epimetheus, married her. The couple lived happily together until one day Mercury, the messenger of the gods, arrived with a mysterious box. He asked Pandora and her husband to take care of it. He made them promise never

A Town Mouse and a Country Mouse were friends. The Country Mouse invited his friend to come and see him at his home in the fields. The Town Mouse came and they sat down for a dinner of barley, corns and roots. The flavour was not much to the taste of the guest and he

Once upon a time, there lived a lion in a forest. One day after a heavy meal, it was sleeping under a tree. After sometime, there came a mouse and it started to play and jump on the lion. Suddenly, the lion got up with anger and looked for those who disturbed its nice sleep.

Once a journeyman stayed in an inn for many days. When the innkeeper asked for the bill, he told that he would pay the bill the next day because he did not have enough money. After a while, a black devil appeared before the journeyman and asked him to stay in the inn for seven

Saint Peter was entirely bald, except for a single lock of hair that fell over his forehead. Once, while he and Lord Christ were travelling together, they came to a farmhouse where a woman was just cooking up some large yeast pancakes in grease. Saint Peter entered the house to beg for some pancakes, while