The Wedding Of Mrs Fox
First Story There was once upon a time an old fox with nine tails, who believedthat his wife was not faithful to him, and wished to put her to thetest. He stretched himself out under the bench, did...
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As a merry young huntsman was once going briskly along through awood, there came up a little old woman, and said to him, «Good day,good day; you seem merry enough, but I am hungry and...
View ArticleThe Story Of The Youth Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was
A certain father had two sons, the elder of who was smart andsensible, and could do everything, but the younger was stupid andcould neither learn nor understand anything, and when people saw...
View ArticleKing Grisly-Beard
A great king of a land far away in the East had a daughter who wasvery beautiful, but so proud, and haughty, and conceited, that noneof the princes who came to ask her in marriage was good...
View ArticleIron Hans
There was once upon a time a king who had a great forest near hispalace, full of all kinds of wild animals. One day he sent out ahuntsman to shoot him a roe, but he did not come back. «Perhaps...
View ArticleCat-Skin
There was once a king, whose queen had hair of the purest gold, and wasso beautiful that her match was not to be met with on the whole face ofthe earth. But this beautiful queen fell ill, and when...
View ArticleSnow-White And Rose-Red
There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front ofthe cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which borewhite and the other red roses. She had two children who...
View ArticleThumbling // Audio book
In the first story, Thumbling, a poor childless peasant couple wishes for a child “no matter how small” aloud. Seven months later the wife has a small child “no longer than a thumb” which they call...
View ArticleHansel And Gretel
Illustration by Giada Aprile. Near a great forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife, and his two children; the boy’s name was Hansel and the girl’s Grethel. They had very little to bite or to...
View ArticleLittle One Eye, Little Two Eyes and Little Three Eyes
There was a woman who had three daughters, the eldest of whom was called Little One Eye, because she had only one eye in the middle of her forehead; the second. Little Two Eyes, because she had two...
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