What are the foreign folk stories?

A. What are the names of foreign fairy tales?

1, Pandora's box

Pandora's box, also called Pandora's box, Pandora's box, is a classic Greek myth. Pandora is the first human woman created by Zeus, mainly to get back at mankind. Because Prometheus among the gods cared too much about human beings, he angered Zeus.

Zeus first ordered hephaestus, the god of fire, to mix water and earth into a lovely woman according to the image of the goddess. Then he ordered Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty, to pour hormones into men that made them crazy.

Hera gave her self-confidence and self-esteem. Athena taught women to knit and create beautiful clothes in various colors, which made women look more colorful and charming. Hermes, the messenger of God, taught her the gift of language.

So Zeus injected a vicious disaster behind this beautiful image. A complete woman is finally finished. The gods helped her get dressed, put on a hair band (this hair band is the work of Vulcan hephaestus), and wore a bead chain, which looked like a bride.

Hamish suggested, "Call this woman Pandora. This is a gift from God to mankind. " All the gods agreed with his suggestion. In ancient Greek, Pan meant everything and Dora was a gift.

Pandora means "a woman with all talents". After Pandora was created, Zeus ordered Hermes to take her to see Prometheus' brother Epimetheus.

Because he knew that Prometheus would not accept his gift, he gave it to Epimetheus from the beginning. Epimetheus was born stupid. Under the beauty and temptation of Pandora, he accepted her.

2. Eden

Eden is a paradise on earth. According to Genesis of the Old Testament, God created Adam, the ancestor of mankind, in his own image, and then created Eve from Adam's ribs, and placed the first couple in the Garden of Eden.

The Garden of Eden contains the meaning of heaven in the original Bible. The Bible records that the Garden of Eden is in the East, and the poet Dante's Divine Comedy puts the Garden of Eden at the apex of the mountain of purgatory. Four rivers flowed out of the Garden of Eden, nourishing the garden.

The ancestors of mankind committed the original sin and were exiled by God for stealing forbidden fruit, which was called Paradise Lost. Accordingly, after the doomsday judgment, mankind was redeemed and returned to heaven, which was called paradise regained.

Brahma created the world

A long time ago, there was no sun, no moon and no stars in the world, only a piece of Wang Yang. One day, a seed floated into the water and gradually turned into a golden round egg (called Vatican egg by Indians). It floats on the water day after day, year after year.

Suddenly one day, this Brahma cracked and Brahma, the god of art, jumped out of it. He has four long arms, four huge hands and four yellow-black faces, facing two or four directions in the southeast and west respectively.

It is said that they symbolize four kinds of Vedas respectively: Rigveda, Samoyed Veda, Yeroveda and Adapo Veda; It represents four kinds at the same time: Brahman, Khrushchev, Veda and sudra. Because I've been at Golden Egg for too long.

In a rage, Brahma pushed the top half of the golden egg up at one stroke, 18 thousand Li, which was the later paradise; Another foot pushed the lower part of the golden egg down 25 thousand Li and turned it into a vast and generous land; A clear sky was formed in the middle.

Then Brahma determined the position, distinguished the year, month and day, and created the language. Having done this, Brahma fell asleep contentedly on the land he created. However, when he was lying down, he accidentally bumped into his position.

These lands sank to the bottom of the water and became the bottom of the sea today. The roughness of the seabed is the result of different forces exerted by Brahma's ten toes I don't know how many years I slept, but Brahma finally woke up. After stretching, I decided to walk around and put on white clothes.

Wearing a white garland, holding a musical instrument, a rosary, a lotus flower and a book, he set off on a swan. He walked around and finally found that there was only water in this world except him. Brahma thought, "The world is too cold and desolate.

Do I just keep company with water every day? Isn't that lonely? No, I want to create, create creatures like me, and let me exist everywhere in this land. "Thought of here, Brahma began to show the power of god.

So, from his heart, from his eldest son Murray, from his eyes, from his second son Adili, from his mouth, from his third son Angelo, from his ears, he climbed out of his fourth son's private life. Five sons filled roja, and six sons fell out of their noses.

A son Dasha grew on the right thumb, and a daughter Perigny was born on the left thumb. I don't know how long it took, but rudra, the last son of Brahma, appeared on his angry forehead. He always stands on God's side quietly.

But secretly, they often accept the incense of some monsters and become their backing. So later he became Shiva, one of the three great gods, with not only endless wonders, but also three eyes. When he is angry.

The eyes on my forehead will spit out three flavors of real fire and burn everything. Soon, Brahma's first son, Sen, created the Lord Kayebo; Adili created Dharma, the god of justice, and Luna sumo, and Angelo became the mentor and priest of Jupiter.

He created a sacrificial Lord and became the ancestor of the whole Angelo family. Corelqu grew from Brahma's skin, and his son Ushanas, also known as Taibai Venus, was extremely clever and proficient in magic and reform. Employed by Asura as a mentor and priest.

Later, Brahma's son Dali married his daughter Lini, and they gave birth to seventy daughters. They married 13 of them to the immortal Kaya Bo; The other 37 people were betrothed to the moon goddess sumo. Later, they became 27 constellations in the sky.

The rest are also married to gods or older ones. The sons born to Caillebault and Dasha's eldest daughter, Des, and their second daughter, Tannu, are extremely brave and clever. Not only do they know a lot of magic, they can change their shapes at will, but they also use a lot of magic.

They have countless treasures of gold and silver and built three cities of gold, silver and iron in the sky, on the ground and underground. They are called Didier and Tanapa, collectively known as Asura. Caillebault and Dasha's third daughter Aditi gave birth to the Twelve Gods.

Most of them are also quite outstanding. Such as Poseidon, Midoro and Varuna, craftsmen, Dostoevsky, sun god, Suriye, heaven and earth, Indra, lightning god, wind god and road god.

Especially the youngest son Vishnu, brave and kind. Reincarnate many times, eliminate evil and promote good warfare, save the gods and save mankind, and become one of the three most famous protectors. Since then, Brahma and his descendants have been busy creating the world, saving or destroying it.

4. Damocles Sword

In the 4th century BC, Syracuse Wang Di Onisius (430-367 BC) in the east of Sicily attacked the aristocratic forces and established an Athenian-style democratic regime. However, he was dissatisfied and opposed by the nobles, which made him feel that although he had great power, his position was unreliable.

Once, he talked to Damocles, the minister of Xiang Chong, about this issue, and vividly showed his views to him. In order to satisfy the greed of his favorite Damocles, he was entrusted with the palace and gave him complete power to realize any desire.

This vain and snobbish Damocles looked up at a banquet in Daqing and saw a sword hanging upside down under the ceiling above the seat. Only a horse mane was tied to the hilt, and it was about to fall on his head, which scared him to leave quickly.

Then King theseus of Dionysus came out and said, "This sword (worn on Damocles' head) is a symbol of danger, threatening the king all the time. As for the joy and happiness of the king, it is only a superficial phenomenon. "

B. Top Ten Foreign Folk Stories

Zeus, Apollo, Athena, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera, the legendary Danish mermaid, the city of dreams-Bangkok, the eternal city-Rome.

C. Famous foreign folk stories

Foreign folktales:

The Happy Princess in the pigsty In a big castle, there was a beautiful princess named Isa. She wears beautiful clothes, a glittering crown and curly hair every day. Every day, a servant combs her long curly hair, and there are six maids to protect her when she plays. Everyone else thinks she is the happiest child in the world, but Princess Isa really doesn't think so. She looks unhappy every day. "Baby, you are the happiest child in the world." The queen always says this to her. One morning, Isa jumped out of bed and shouted, "I don't want to be a princess anymore. How boring! " Then she took off her crown and threw it into the goldfish pond outside the window. The entourage quickly reported to the king. What foreign folk stories (source: Photo Network) "Go and get your crown!" The king ordered. Isa said, "I don't want it! I don't want to be a princess The princess can't do anything fun! " The king's hair stood on end with anger. "Before she fished out the crown from the goldfish pond, she took her to the pigsty!" "The attendants took Isa to the pigsty ... ISA began to feed the pigs, clean the pigsty and so on. Piggy gently arched her with her pink nose. Three days later, the king came to see her. "The queen, you look very dirty. ""yes. But do you know that pigs eat potatoes? " Isa touched her sparse hair. The king shouted, "I'll give you one last chance to take your crown out of the goldfish pond." "I don't want it!" Isa shouted, "I'd rather help in the pigsty! "When night came, the king fished up his daughter's crown, and then he went to the pigsty to find her. The king and elsa sit side by side. " You are dirty, but you look happy! "yes, father!" Isa said happily, "This is the happiest time in my life!" " "all right." The king sighed and said, "This is your crown. Come back if you want. I miss you! " "Father, I can wear the crown at any time." Isa said, "Maybe I can wear it when picking blueberries. Do you know that blueberries can make sauce? " "I don't know." The king said, "But you can do it for me." The king kissed his daughter's dirty cheek and her daughter kissed him on the nose. Then they returned to the castle hand in hand. Later, Sha Yi often went to work in the pigsty.

D. What are the European folktales?

Among the folk stories in Europe, German stories are always full of interest, and the most interesting one is probably The Adventures of the Boatman (or the translated Travel Notes of Minch Hausenki), which seems to be based on everything. A piece of lard caught dozens of wild ducks, and the cherry pit that hit the deer's head grew into a cherry tree. When I was a child, I finished reading this book while laughing.

English folk stories seem to inherit Homer's narrative style, and Canterbury Tales is the most typical one. It seems that the author himself doesn't care much about whether the story is interesting or not, but spends a lot of time on narrative skills. Most stories always bear heavy historical traces. The love between ghost knight, martyr, smuggler and black dragon is a symbol of the long middle ages. Gulliver's Travels was actually an anti-British society at that time. Even the later Paradise Lost and the later The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I thought that the prototype of the dark forces in The Lord of the Rings was actually the Mongols that Europeans said at that time) were branded with this tradition.

E. What foreign fairy tales are there?

There are four mythological systems in the foreign world.

As a special ideology, myth is the product of a certain historical stage, with the characteristics of collectivity, concreteness and fantasy. The core of myth is belief, that is, believing that everything in myth is true. In the age of myth, myth has strong authority and functionality. For people of that era, myth is not only an online encyclopedia of knowledge, but also a code of conduct in real life. Some people say that myth is the Bible of primitive society.

Myth, as far as its explicit form is concerned, is the earliest comprehensive cultural creation of mankind in primitive times; As far as its explicit form is concerned, it is the ideology of primitive human beings; As far as its function is concerned, it is a way for primitive human beings to understand and grasp the world and a code of conduct to maintain interpersonal relationships. It is the earliest cultural complex created by human beings. For us modern people, myth is a symbol system, that is, its explicit form is inconsistent with the meaning behind it, and its "meaning is greater than form", so there is a problem of "decoding" myth, which is obviously different from history. But there are historical factors in myth, because myth is a reflection of its times.

Because myth is the oldest cultural creation, all primitive peoples have created their own myths. To sum up, myths generally go through three stages from generation to maturity. That is, from biological myth to fairy myth, to highly personalized hero myth. Of course, due to the different living conditions and historical development of different countries and nationalities, the specific forms of these three stages are also different, but the general framework is roughly the same. Some backward ethnic groups, such as Australian aborigines, whose myths are still in the first stage, provide us with living fossil samples. In the process of historical development, many primitive peoples disappeared, and so did the myths they created. It is generally believed that there are five systematic myths in the world, and they have a complete system:

First, ancient Indian mythology

The formation of Indian mythology is closely related to its own history. Around 3000 BC, civilization appeared in the Indus Valley. Around 2000 BC, a southward Aryan invaded India. After countless wars, their troops entered the Ganges River valley from the Indus River valley and enslaved the local aborigines. So far, the indigenous civilization in the Indus Valley has been destroyed and changed. Ancient Indian myths are mainly preserved in the Vedas, Brahma Purpura, Vishnu Purpura, Shiva Purpura, Dapeng Purpura, Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Although China myth has its own characteristics, such as premature historization and moralization, the general trend is still the same. The myth in Shan Hai Jing can represent the first stage. In the generation of the Yellow Emperor, if its historical and moral factors are excluded, it should be a heroic myth. The Yellow Emperor is the highest god, the god of thunder and lightning, the ancestor of heroes and cultural heroes. This complex includes a long process from the emergence of patriarchal commune, through the struggle between tribes, to the gradual formation of the Chinese nation, which embodies the people's creation and belief in the Yellow Emperor.

F. Foreign countries, folk stories

Stith Thompson (1885- 1970), an internationally renowned American folklorist, has made great achievements in studying folk literature for decades. Using the research method of historical geography, this book sorts out and classifies the folk stories circulating all over the world, and discusses the development and evolution track of all kinds of stories, the formation core of different types of mother-in-law stories with different motifs and their moral concepts, so as to reveal the original features of the stories and understand the folk customs, religions, witchcraft, morality, law, language, art and people's various mentalities in social life. This is a very valuable academic work, with detailed story materials and refined theory in the later period.

G. What are the foreign folk stories?

It is commendable to be brave and save lives, but innocence is not easy. Next we will tell the story of an innocent man.

In ancient Japan, there was a man named Kumamoto, a subordinate of Hosokawa Morihiro, whose position was very low. He is short, plain, sallow and a little uncomfortable. It is said that he is young, but his face has deep wrinkles, messy hair and fluffy beard. Although he is ugly and comes from a poor family, he is simple and honest, believes in Buddhism and is liked by his friends and neighbors.

One day, sitting at the door in the sun, he saw a second-hand goods collector passing by with a pair of baskets on his shoulders, shouting as he walked: "There are old clothes and shoes, and second-hand goods and antiques sell well!" " Seeing a carved Buddha statue in his laundry basket, Kumamoto stopped him and said, "Hey, you are not afraid of sin as a second-hand collector. How can even bodhisattvas be bought and sold? " Seeing that this second-hand collector is a businessman, he dared not be too presumptuous, so he had to smile apologetically and say, "Brothers don't know anything. We will accept anything from people who eat our bowl of rice. Since people are willing to sell bodhisattvas, I will accept them. " Kumamoto respectfully took a look at this bodhisattva. It was Guanyin Bodhisattva, boxwood carving's. This Buddha statue is 1 ft high, simple and meticulous in carving, beautifully painted and heavy in hand. He was so happy that he was afraid that the bodhisattva would be thrown around and desecrated, so he spent 200 pence to buy it. Second-hand collectors accepted it with150p, but they changed hands and earned 50p, so they don't have to sell it.

H. What are the foreign folk stories?

The Happy Princess in the Pigsty In a huge castle, there was a beautiful princess named Isa. She wears beautiful clothes, a glittering crown and curly hair every day. Every day, a servant combs her long curly hair, and there are six maids to protect her when she plays. Everyone else thinks she is the happiest child in the world, but Princess Isa really doesn't think so. She looks unhappy every day. "Baby, you are the happiest child in the world." The queen always says this to her. One morning, Isa jumped out of bed and shouted, "I don't want to be a princess anymore. How boring! " Then she took off her crown and threw it into the goldfish pond outside the window. The entourage quickly reported to the king. What foreign folk stories (source: Photo Network) "Go and get your crown!" The king ordered. Isa said, "I don't want it! I don't want to be a princess The princess can't do anything fun! " The king's hair stood on end with anger. "Before she fished out the crown from the goldfish pond, she took her to the pigsty!" "The attendants took Isa to the pigsty ... ISA began to feed the pigs, clean the pigsty and so on. Piggy gently arched her with her pink nose. Three days later, the king came to see her. "The queen, you look very dirty. ""yes. But do you know that pigs eat potatoes? " Isa touched her sparse hair. The king shouted, "I'll give you one last chance to take your crown out of the goldfish pond." "I don't want it!" Isa shouted, "I'd rather help in the pigsty! "When night came, the king fished up his daughter's crown, and then he went to the pigsty to find her. The king and elsa sit side by side. " You are dirty, but you look happy! "yes, father!" Isa said happily, "This is the happiest time in my life!" " "all right." The king sighed and said, "This is your crown. Come back if you want. I miss you! " "Father, I can wear the crown at any time." Isa said, "Maybe I can wear it when picking blueberries. Do you know that blueberries can make sauce? " "I don't know." The king said, "But you can do it for me." The king kissed his daughter's dirty cheek and her daughter kissed him on the nose. Then they returned to the castle hand in hand. Later, Sha Yi often went to work in the pigsty.

1. What are the European folktales?

European folk stories include: mice and elephants, kites, farmers and snakes, turtles and rabbits, and so on.

1. The story of "Little Mouse and Elephant" mainly tells that the elephant was caught in the hunter's net. On the verge of life and death, the mouse bit through the net and saved the elephant. The elephant and the mouse became good friends. One day, the mouse was caught by a lion. It was the elephant that saved the mouse. The mouse is grateful that the elephant saved his life. Another day, the mouse and the elephant fell out, and no one paid attention to each other. Finally, the elephant was taken away by the hunter and the mouse was eaten by the lion.

The race between the tortoise and the hare is an intriguing fable, which depicts a proud rabbit and a persistent little turtle. This story tells everyone: don't underestimate others easily. Modesty makes people progress, while pride makes people lag behind. Only by doing things in a down-to-earth manner and not giving up halfway can we succeed. In addition, don't be proud that you are better than others, and don't use your own strengths to make up for others' shortcomings, but learn from each other's strengths.