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An elderly woman kneels at the Great Lakes shore calling a giant sturgeon from the water with a wooden flute.

Granny Squannit of the Great Lakes

by Elizabeth Fabowale

February 20, 2026

American Folktales·American Tall Tales

Along the misted shores of the Great Lakes, where fog drifts over reeds and the water laps like whispered secrets, there was a woman known to all who lived by the water as Granny Squannit. She was small in stature, hunched with age, but her eyes gleamed with a knowledge that seemed to reach beneath the surface of the lake

Parchment-style illustration of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox in snowy woods, American folktale.

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox: An American Folktale that Teaches Lessons on Strength, Teamwork, and the Power of Legend

Long ago, in the rugged northern forests of America, where towering pines whispered to the wind and the snow stretched farther than

Parchment-style artwork of Davy Crockett firing into the sunrise on a frosty Tennessee hill, American folktale scene.

Davy Crockett and the Frozen Dawn: An American Folktale that Teaches Lessons on Boasting and Humor

In the early days of the American frontier, when the land stretched wild and untamed across Tennessee, there lived a man whose

A realistic painting of an American alligator resting on a muddy riverbank at dawn, surrounded by misty wetlands and tall grasses under soft golden light.

The American Alligator Legend

In the vast marshes and slow-moving rivers of the southern United States, where the air hangs heavy with mist and the reeds

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