Hey everyone, I need to find a story for my Folklore class. The story can be anything from a practical joke to a spiritual encounter as folklore is practically everything. All it requires is a distinguishable beginning and end, which isn't hard, right?

This is the list of potential topics

• Rites of Passage (Birthdays, Graduations, Getting one's driver's license, weddings, funerals, getting froshed)
• Work (First day on the job, humourous incidents, lessons learned from mistakes, pranks, injuries)
• Formal performances (Sports, Drama, Music, Class presentations)
• Initial experiences (First day of school first time on a plane, first time cooking a special meal, first visit to another country
• Food fortune (Finding money, winning a contest)
• Misfortune (Travel Stories, Accident stories)
• Supernatural occurrences (Encounters with ghosts, the old hag, seances)
• Religious/spiritual experiences (Conversion stories, miracles, prayers answered)
• Place names, nicknames (origins)
• People; unforgettable characters; anecdotes
• Tall Tales
• Jokes
• Monologues; recitations (St. Peter at the Gate, Job's Cove Rock)
• Ballads
• Folktales
• Legends
• Original Creations

So yeah, if you have ANY stories at all you'd like to share, any wish to be immortalized in an archive (which you don't have to be if you don't want to), just reply or send me a message. My name is Samuel and I'd like to thank you for at least reading this far.

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I'm going to go ahead and move this thread over to the Books forum.

Also a reminder to everyone who posts that all copied material must be put within quote tabs, as you are not allowed to earn gold for something that was not originally written by yourself.

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I could tell you a story of a series of misfortunes, it'd be had to believe though it's true. Let me know if you are interested. I have to go now but I will be back.

I have a wonderful story about a magical flying pierogie, if you're interested. :lol:

It's an actual folktale from Wroclaw, I swear!

- Knerd - That sounds perfect, I can record it while we use VOIP or just copy it into an article. It's up to you if you're still interested.

- God - Hmm, I think I'm only supposed to get one story. If that's alright then we could carry on with your story instead.

look at any of the fairy tales, but look for the Brother's Grim versions as they are the truest version of them (but if you want the truest versions you have to look for an early edition of them, as the brothers cleaned them up and re-released them many times during their lives).

You have me mistaken. Those are already established folklore legends. I'm looking for someone to interview on folklore.

Sorry I ran off on you, I didn't forget! It just takes some time to write this stuff down.

I spent this past summer studying abroad in Wroclaw, Poland. The majority of my time was spent on Ostrow Tumski (Cathedral Island) of the city. This folktale is associated with an archway that connects St Martin's Cathedral to (if I remember correctly) the old boy's Dormitory.

If you look closely on top, there's an architectural decoration that looks like a dumpling, or pierogie.

The story:

Flying Dumplings!X

Once upon a time, a Polish man had the most wonderful wife in the world. She was sweet, good natured, and made the best dumplings in the world. This man would eat the dumplings for dinner every single night. Other women would try to cook her recipe, but the meal just never came out quite as perfect.

One winter, this poor woman caught a nasty cold and passed away. Her husband was distraught – What would he do without his favorite meal? He tried dumplings from all around the world, but nothing was ever the same. He grew thin and sickly because no food in this world could tempt his appetite.

Spring and summer slowly passed, and soon it was time for the man to take his farm’s harvest to market. He brought his wares into the city and left his cart in the market square. Wandering around, he was suddenly overcome with sleepiness, so he laid down underneath the archway of St Martin’s and took a nap.

In his dreams, his wife came to him! She presented him with a pot full of his favorite dumplings. She told him that the pot would always be full, so that he could always eat his favorite food and would never go hungry again She couldn’t bear to see him waste away! However, the pot came with a warning. He must always leave one dumpling left on the bottom. If he ate every last one, the pot would never again refill.

When the man woke up, the pot sat right beside him! And a huge pile of warm dumplings sat inside of it! Quickly he took up his fork and began eating. Mmm, they were as good as he remembered. He ate and ate for hours. Suddenly he looked down and realized that there was only one dumpling left. He remembered his wife’s warning, but this dumpling looked like the best and freshest of them all. He couldn’t possibly believe that his wife would be so cruel as to deny him dumplings forever, so he reached down his fork and prepared to eat it.

Just as he brought the dumpling to his mouth, it fell off of his fork and dropped right back into the pot. “Haha,” the man thought to himself, “My wife is just playing tricks on me.” So he tried again to pick it up. And again it fell back into the pot. “Well, she was always a jokester,” he thought again. A third time, he stabbed the dumpling with his fork and brought it up to his mouth. Right before he could bite down on it, the dumpling began to float away!

It floated up and up into the air. Te man scrambled after it as best he could, but it was so quick. Soon it was floating up above the buildings, toward the archway. The man began to climb the arch, hoping to grab it. Luck was on his side when the dumpling settled down right on the center of the arch, so the man reached forward and snatched at it.

But as soon as his fingers touched the dumpling, it turned to stone.
And there it still sits.

Thanks a bunches! :)