100 Bulgarian Folk Tales

100 Bulgarian Folk Tales will give you one hundred reasons to love Bulgaria and its people. Broadly divided into six chapters, this book covers a wide range of the most common topics and characters, pertaining to Bulgarian folklore.

Starting with the practical wisdom of everyday stories, the collection then dips into tales of magical adventures and encounters with supernatural creatures. Further, it will make you relax with witty sketches, sprinkled with local humour. Following the trail, you will gradually discover a closer and deeper bond to the life of our ancestors. The surviving legends of creation and shared religious beliefs will help you understand the roots of moral values, engraved in our hearts and minds to this day.

These stories will make you cherish and appreciate the past for the whole array of human experience, preserved and encoded in Bulgarian folklore. Prepare for a cosy evening by the fireplace with your beloved elders.

Roots Create Fruits
Popular Wisdom

• The Most Precious Fruit
• Plums for Dirt
• The Spoilt Daughter
• The Hardship Lesson
• The Clever Girl and the King
• The Treasure in the Field
• The Father's Advice
• Why We Need Old People
• Respect Your Old Parents
• The King's Envoy and the Witty Maiden
• Soup of Pebbles
• The Hungry Servant
• Stealing Water Melons
• Eye Bone
• Magical Folk Tales
• The Unborn Maiden
• Life-giving Water
• The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple
• The Girl and the Twelve Months
• The Boy and the Wind
• Roses and Pearls
• The Golden Girl
• Little Deer Brother
• The Boy Who Was Breastfed for Twenty-five Years
• The Prince and the Horse's Head
• Mara Cinderella
• The Grateful Dead
• The Language of Animals
• The Fox Matchmaker

Animal Fables

• The Fox and the Stork
• Godmother Fox
• The Fox and the Sparrow
• A Bad Word Can Never Be Forgotten
• A Wolf Can Change His Fur But Not His Nature
• The Stone and the Snake
• The Fox and Her Friends
• The Lion and the Mouse
• The Little Blackbird
• The Prettiest Child
• The Man, the Ox, the Dog and the Monkey
• The Sun's Wedding and the Wise Hedgehog
• The Ox and the Ant
• The Snake and the Mouse
• Why The Donkey Has Long Ears
• The Fox and the Hedgehog

Witty and Funny Tales

• Witty Peter and His Wife
• Witty Peter Goes to Court
• Stinky Meat
• Witty Peter and the Rich Man's Son
• Donkey Circus
• Witty Peter Barber
• Witty Peter Dentist
• King Tsarvul
• Witty Peter at the Fest
• Witty Peter and the Uninvited Guests
• Witty Peter and the Greedy Priest
• Three Brothers and Two Rabbits
• From Rich to Poor in One Hour
• Silly Woman's Blind Luck
• Women and Secrets
• Wife Makes Her Husband Crazy
• The Ultimate Lie

God, Saints and Sinners

• Piece of Paradise
• To the End of the World
• Soil from Under the Sea
• Woman and The Devil's Tail
• How God Created People
• Why Do We Need Winter
• God Looks After All of His Children
• How God Created Illnesses
• Why the Sky is So High
• Of Walnuts and Pumpkins
• Why Death is Blind, Deaf and Mute
• What Goes Around, Comes Around
• The Strange Beggar
• Everyone Should Bear His Own Cross
• The Most Righteous Saint
• The Monk and Saint Michael
• Archangel Michael and the Poor Man
• Friend with the Devil
• To Host God for Dinner
• Saint Illiya and the People
• Saint Illiya and the Fates
• The Father's Pardon
• The Skinflint in Heaven
• The Three Brothers Who Met God
• Mother Mary in Heaven
• God Willing
• Τοο Many Helpers
• Happiness Comes from God

Supernatural Forces

• Dragon's Bride
• The Samodiva is No Housewife
• Samodiva, the Forest Nymph
• Dimitar and the Samodivas
• The Yudas and the Two-headed Man
• The Fates Have the Last Word
• The Love Prophecy
• The Zmey's Son
• Kidnapped By the Zmey
• The Last Lamya
• The Talassum and the Hidden Treasure