Modern Compilations & Folklore
6 passagesc. 2nd-13th century CEHebrew / AramaicPublic Domain
Individual passages from Jewish Fairy Stories (Friedlander, 1920), indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
Solomon wanted to build a Temple without lifting a single iron tool against the stone. He had read the warning himself: if you raise your blade upon the altar, you defile it (Exodu...
The rain had started, and Falsehood was out of work. This is the strange little legend the Yalkut preserves on the Psalms. When the flood came, the animals streamed toward Noah's a...
Three husbands. Three weddings. Three funerals the morning after. Hannah buried each groom in the first night of marriage, and by the third she had stopped blaming fate and started...
For ten years Abraham and Ada of Sidon loved each other, and for ten years they had no child. The neighbors slighted Ada. People said a childless house lay under a curse. Abraham b...
A ruined man was bent over a plow that wasn't his, working a field for day wages, when a stranger walked up out of nowhere and offered him a deal no sane person would believe. The ...
A raven stole a fresh piece of cheese and flew it up to a fig branch, sure he was safe. He was not. Down at the roots of the tree stood Master Fox, staring up with the hungry, calc...
