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A Riddling Tale
2023-12-05Three women were changed into flowers which grew in the field, but one of them was allowed to be in her own home at night. Then once when day was draw...
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The Glass Coffin
2023-12-05Let no one ever say that a poor tailor cannot do great things and win high honors; all that is needed is that he should go to the right smithy(铁匠铺), a...
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The Griffin
2023-12-05There was once upon a time a King, but where he reigned and what he was called, I do not know. He had no son, but an only daughter who had always been...
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Strong Hans
2023-12-05There were once a man and a woman who had an only child, and lived quite alone in a solitary valley. It came to pass that the mother once went into th...
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The Willow-Wren
2023-12-05In former days every sound still had its meaning and application. When the smith's hammer resounded, it cried, "Strike away! strike away.&quo...
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The Sole
2023-12-05The fishes had for a long time been discontented(不满的) because no order prevailed in their kingdom. None of them turned aside for the others, but all s...
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The Bittern and the Hoopoe
2023-12-05"Where do you like best to feed your flocks?" said a man to an old cow-herd."Here, sir, where the grass is neither too rich nor too poo...
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The Owl
2023-12-05Two or three hundred years ago, when people were far from being so crafty(狡猾的) and cunning as they are now-a-day, an extraordinary event took place in...
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The Moon
2023-12-05In days gone by there was a land where the nights were always dark, and the sky spread over it like a black cloth, for there the moon never rose, and ...
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Death's Messengers
2023-12-05In ancient times a giant was once travelling on a great highway, when suddenly an unknown man sprang up before him, and said, "Halt, not one step...