Do Tell Story Swap
Denmark: The Bed Just So
Do Tell Story Swap Summaries
October 14, 2025
2025 Virtual Story Swap via Zoom sponsored by the Storytelling Association of California (SAC)
Previously Featured Stories
Ireland - Billy Beg and the Giants
Australia - Aboriginal Tracker
Mexico - The Wise Woman of Córdoba
Scotland - Archie and the Little People
Pacific Islands - The Eight Cow Woman
Bali - Tirta Empul
Mexico - Snowing Tortillas
Haiti - The Story of Owl
Norway - The Seventh Father of the House
American Folktale: Halfway up the Mountain
American Folktale: The Wish Ring
Arab Tale: The Friend of a Friend of a Friend
African Folktale - A Mende Story
Swap Summaries
Our hosts:
Katy Mangan
Vicky Ness
Check back every month for insights, resources, and tips from our storytellers!
By Brandon Spars
Published in The Story Beast, Fall 2023 Issue, p 38-41
By Vicky Ness
By Brandon Spars
Published in The Story Beast, Summer 2023, p 35-38
By Meg Brown
By Vicky Ness
By Katy Mangan and Brandon Spars
Published in The Story Beast, July 2022 Issue, p 7-8
Beverly Schwartz let us in on a not-so-secret elixir that can magically change meatballs into marbles, brownies into food of the gods and a quiet night out into a wild adventure.
Meg Brown told a classic southern tale of a return from the dead… all through the eyes of a rather pragmatic child who sees through the fear, despair and horror of a situation to a happier than expected ending.
Travel with Laura McHale Holland down a road so "devoid of light as to resemble another universe”. Who is that stranger by the side of the road? What is behind that feeble light and creaking door?
Vicky Ness told a series of childhood vignettes, summer into Christmas, circa 1956, witnessing a world full of magical things.
Rose Owens told The Wooden Sword, a tale from Afghanistan about generosity, gratitude and power of simple faith to flummox even the most potent powers of the "all-powerful" king.
Renu Narayan told a story about secrets: those that can be kept under wraps and those that will come out no matter how hard we try to keep them.
Katy Mangan told a magical story about a young man’s sacred journey of taking leave, transformation and the weaving of the natural with the sacred, the human with the magical.
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