Folk Tales, Myths, and Legends from Around the World

This website is intended for individuals that enjoy folk tales, myths, and legends, and are not satisfied with merely reading the more commonly known tales from Europe and North America. Now this does not mean the sigepa will always ignore better known stories, such as Rip Van Winkle, which was one of the first American folk tales selected for inclusion on this website.

Although there are hundreds, possibly thousands of folk tales in existence around the world, you will not find them all here. What you can expect is a reasonable number of folk tales from a variety of countries as this website continues to grow.

Stories selected to become a part of this collection are based on what should appeal and interest the general public. Not all tales will be suitable for reading by the younger reader.

Sigepa is pronounced ziggy (rhymes with piggy) pa (pa as in ma or pa or cat's paw). Sigepa is actually two words in Tagalog, a language in the Philippines, and is Sige pa. Sige pa roughly translates as a way of asking politely for more.