Folktales

I've always had a fondness for creation and origin stories. I had a dear co-worker mention a creationism story for the Utila Islands located out by the Bay Islands, Honduras. I've heard it is quite a beautiful region. Many people visit for the amazing underwater life and coral. You can dive with huge whale sharks that are like the size of a bus. Whale sharks are quite friendly. Anyhow she was doing some research on the culture for an editorial piece, and it is said the islands were created when 2 older sisters wouldn't share their turtle soup with their younger sister. So she went and started looking for her own turtles for soup. As she stepped out into the Caribbean Sea, an island would spring up from the spot. The last island was Utila where she happily found tons of turtles for soup. So when she mentioned this folktale, I had to go looking around online for more details. It was a tough one to find, but a wonderful book on Amazon.com called "Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World" by Kathleen Ragan, it contains numerous folktales about women and girls that make you say "You go girls!"