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The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
2023-12-05In a little house in a little old village in Japan lived a little old man and his little old wife. One morning when the old woman slid open the screen...
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Golden-Curls and How She Kept Silent
2023-12-05Caution: this tale may be too intense for children less than six years old.Once upon a time, there was a very poor blacksmith whose worldly possession...
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The Wood Fairy
2023-12-05Once upon a time there was a little girl named Betushka. She lived with her mother, a poor widow who had only a tumbledown cottage and two goats. But ...
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Pot, cook
2023-12-05In a village there lived a poor widow with her daughter. They lived in an old house with roof full of holes. They had several hens. The old woman used...
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Reason and Fortune
2023-12-05Once Reason met Fortune on a footbridge. "Let me pass," said Fortune. Reason was inexperienced and did not know who should go first and said...
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The Enchanted Toad
2023-12-05There was once a peasant, like many others, who had three sons but his wife had long been dead. When the two elder lads were somewhat grown up they we...
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The Princess and the Glass Mountain
2023-12-05There was once a king, who was so devoted to the chase that he knew of no greater pleasure than hunting the beasts of the forest. Early and late he wo...
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The Wooing of Becfola
2023-12-05We do not know where Becfola came from. Nor do we know for certain where she went to. We do not even know her real name, for the name Becfola, "D...
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The Four White Swans
2023-12-05In the days of long ago there lived in the Green Isle of Erin a race of brave men and fair women--the race of the Dedannans. North, south, east, and w...
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The Storyteller at Fault
2023-12-05At the time when the Tuatha De Dannan held the sovereignty of Ireland, there reigned in Leinster a king, who was remarkably fond of hearing stories. L...