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Wise Folks
2023-12-05One day a peasant took his good hazel-stick out of the corner and said to his wife, "Trina, I am going across country, and shall not return for t...
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Two Stories about Snakes
2023-12-05There was once a little child whose mother gave her every afternoon a small bowl of milk and bread, and the child seated herself in the yard with it. ...
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The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat
2023-12-05In a certain mill lived an old miller who had neither wife nor child, and three apprentices served under him. As they had been with him several years,...
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The Two Travellers
2023-12-05Hill and vale do not come together, but the children of men do, good and bad. In this way a shoemaker and a tailor once met with each other in their t...
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Hans the Hedgehog
2023-12-05There was once a countryman who had money and land in plenty, but how rich soever he was, one thing was still wanting in his happiness he had no child...
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The Shroud
2023-12-05There was once a mother who had a little boy of seven years old, who was so handsome and lovable that no one could look at him without liking him, and...
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The Jew Among Thorns
2023-12-05There was once a rich man, who had a servant who served him diligently and honestly: He was every morning the first out of bed, and the last to go to ...
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The Flail From Heaven
2023-12-05A countryman was once going out to plough with a pair of oxen. When he got to the field, both the animals' horns began to grow, and went on growin...
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The Two Kings' Children
2023-12-05There was once on a time a King who had a little boy of whom it had been foretold that he should be killed by a stag when he was sixteen years of age,...
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The Cunning Little Tailor
2023-12-05There was once on a time a princess who was extremely proud. If a wooer(求爱者) came she gave him some riddle to guess, and if he could not find it out, ...