Grimm's Fairy Tales
By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
These stories began for adults, the violence, etc. changing not only in the hands of the Grimm bros, but by editors after them, as well. CAUTION: This one is a crazy long # of stories and I've decided to blurb all of'em, because this is how I am. :) There's 120, so do skim.
The Frog Prince titled similarly to other animal moral stories having to do with the brutish nature of men upon the wedding night and the awakening of love and sex after. There's a king with lovely daughters, the youngest biding her time playing ball at a brook when the heat was on. One time, she's tossing the ball and she misses the catch crying loudly over it til a frog asks what's up. She tells him and he offers to retrieve it if she allows him full entry into her life, being her mate in every way, she agrees, but thinks he's nuts. He gives her the ball and she biffs off quick, and as she's eating dinner with Papa, the king, she slams the door upon the frog, who followed her, the King having her stay true to her word, and by the time the frog was ready to bed down, the girl'd become done with the threat of he telling her father, if she didn't acquiesce, she chucking the frog, and this apparently changing him into a pretty-boy prince, and when the 2 return to his kingdom by carriage with his trusty footman, Henry, who'd bound his heart for losing his master, the Prince hears bands breaking during their journey from happiness, he thinking it was a part of the carriage each time it sounded.
A Tale of One Who Traveled to Learn What Shivering Meant - A man has 2 sons, the first clever, but a coward, the 2nd dumb with no fear, the man soon states of the younger having to discover a trade, he useless, currently. The man sets him up with a church-keeper, he teaching the boy how to ring the bells, and when he does them alone for the first time, on graveyard shift, he sees someone who refuses to answer him, the church-keeper tricking the boy to the point where he gets chucked downstairs, the boy doing his duty and returning to bed. The man's wife wakes him to ask after her hubby, the boy detailing what he'd experienced and admits remorse if it was her hubby, she confirming it was and he'd sustained a broken rib. The wife complains to the boy's father and he refuses to see reason even after getting the facts. He gives his son som cash and asks the boy not to mention his relation to him to no one (Sanji-style from One Piece, except he didn't get cash), taking it extremely well, and when he begins his journey, he meets a man standing at a gallows, who overhears his goal and offers he stay there, and he'd learn to shiver. By morning though, the boy hasn't learned, so they each go there separate ways. The boy next meets a wagoner, who leads him to an inn, where the owner and wife knows of a castle which could solve his problem, and if he could manage 3 nights there, would be rewarded with a princess, and whilst many attempts had been made, no one had exited after. This doesn't stop him, so next day he goes to the King to request to stay in the castle, he accepting and giving 3 objects of the boy's choice, he then spends his first night, the odd thing to happen being 2 talking cats, the boy killing them, but black dogs and cats pouring out from everywhere, so he kills some as the others escape, the boy now tired and resting in the bed, but it moving about the castle as he lay, which didn't bother him, til it turned him out, so he concludes his sleep next to his fire. The King is surprised but glad he'd survived, and the boy continues to his 2nd night. This time he's visited by 2 halves of an ugly fella falling from the chimney, rejoining and trying to take the boy's seat, he not having it, so the man sits nearby as more men fall and put themselves together before starting a game of bowling, the boy even plays along and bets, upon midnight, though, they vanishing and the boy going to sleep until the King woke him next morning, still not having learnt to shiver. The 3rd night, 6 tall fellas come bearing a coffin, the boy proceeds to attempt to warm it, succeeds, but after discards him back in his coffin when he became a bad zombie. After, an even taller fella starts threatening to take his life, he taking the boy to a forge where he cuts an anvil with an axe with one shot, the boy doing the same, but catching the man's beard with his shot, beating him up til he promises him riches, holding to his word, the boy sleeping after fella disappears, he reporting the gold to the King, getting the hand of the princess, the boy pleased but still not knowing shivering. So, whilst the boy enjoyed his life with his lovely wife, it took one of the princess's chambermaids to help, getting a pail of brook water and fish, the princes chucks it on him after he'd fallen asleep, waking him and Eureka! Success is announced.
The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats - An "old goat" mama'd decided to go search for food for her 7 babies, warning them about the wolf and how to detect his tricks, she off and trusting them. The wolf tries to fool the goats twice without making progress, the kids revealing why they wouldn't open the door, the wolf fixing each error, the 3rd time the charm, the kids unlocking the door, realizing their mistake and hiding all over the house, only one survivor, the wolf leaving, and the kid relating what happened when mama returned. They locate the wolf asleep and develop a plan upon seeing movement in his belly, the mama able to retrieve the rest of her kids, they subbing their bodies for stones and mama sewing him up. When he wakes, he goes to the river for being thirsty and tips over into it, the rocks over-balancing him, the 7 lil goats celebrating with their mother at the brook's edge.
Faithful John tells of a dying king, who had a servant by this name, and upon receiving his presence, wishes for him to agree to guide his young son and show him everything in the castle except one room with a portrait of a princess he knew the boy'd go gaga over, faithful John ofc, agreeing, the King dying in peace. After some time, faithful John does his duty, except for keeping the young King away from the portrait for very long, soon the 2 traveling to visit the princess, bringing gold trinket gifts. The king readies the ship for the princess, faithful John escorting her and upon the king showing her about, has the captain set sail. Upon learning what'd occurred scaring and then comforting the princess (the fact it was a king rather than a lowly merchant). Faithful John then overhears a convo between 3 birds of what the king must avoid in order to keep his betrothed-by-force. He decides he'd save the king, as promised to his father, upon their arrival, a red horse appearing, faithful John killing it, the king loyal to his actions, he also burning his bridal shirt, this also recieving outside criticism, but the king still loyal, but once faithful John had drawn blood from the right breast of his now Queen, he put him on trial and was readying to execute when faithful John confesses why he'd done everything, immediately turning to stone. Time passes, the Queen has twin boys and the King asks the statue how he could turn him back, faithful John answering it would take the heads of his sons and dripping the blood over the statue, which he does, and his faith not only returning faithful John, but both his sons, everyone living happily.
The Musicians of Bremen starts with a random fella with an Ass and he not feeling he was getting it's full potential, deciding to skin him, but the Ass books it, instinctively on the road to Bremen. He runs into a Hound on his way, he also having biffed off from his owner, but his reason caused by getting beaten, but he not knowing how he'd support himself, the Ass offerring they team up and the Hound'd be percussion, the 2 continuing together, they picking up a Cat and Cock, they all resting for the night in a forest and discovering a robber's cabin through the Cock, who'd viewed their light atop a tree, the Ass upon getting closer and seeing the men feasting on meats, decides in order to rob their meal, the quartet would use their singing skills to scare them off, all of them running out the front, and the quartet eating like they'd been starved. The robbers return, but one of the men sent to investigate, interprets his experience as being assaulted by a witch, so the crew leave without further fight and the quartet prosper as musicians and are thankful for their home.
The Twelve Brothers were royalty and spawn of a King and Queen, but things take a turn when the King threatens to murder his sons if their 13th was a daughter, the distraught Queen is nagged into revealing this to her youngest, he suggesting they'd run away, the Queen agreeing they should go to the forest and wait for her signal, if it's safe for them to return, it'd be white. It takes til the 11th day when the boys learn they must flee, so pissed they decide to take it out on all other females by killing them. so they discover a "charmed house" and live a decade there, hunting for their food, secluded from the females. One day, when the princess is grown, she is told of her bros, she searching and speaking with the youngest, he then introing their other bros once they'd promised not to kill the first chick they saw, the sibs reunion a sweet one, everyone living together peacefully until 1 day the princess picks some flowers, which turn her bros into crows, an old witch saying the only way to fix it was for the princess to "be dumb for 7 years" and if she failed, they immediately die, she attempting it, and during her time up in a tree, knitting, a King notices her and proposes, she agreeing by slight nod, the 2, sort of living happily, but shit gets worse when mama-in-law starts constantly talking shit about the princess and the King eventually believes it, agreeing to kill her, but not at all glad, and gets to the point where she's on her bonfire when her 7 years are up, and her bros turn back 2 human, save her, she able to explain to the King, they all living happily together!
The Little Brother and Sister have a difficult life with their stepmother, who is prone to beating them. So, the boy suggests they wander off, the two walking quite away's before going to sleep for the night and Bro dragging Sis to what he hopes is a brook he hears, but it being enchanted by their literal witch stepmother. Bro gets to brook, but fortunately, Sis overhears the brook say it'd transform him into a striped kitty, so Bro doesn't cause Sis warns him, same as the 2nd brook, this time a dog, and 3rd time a Bambi, he fortunately not bolting, but properly guilty, Sis making a leash and the 2 discovering a hut, able to shelter whilst also locating fruits, nuts, and roots for herself and yummy grass for Bro. Soon, the King goes for a hunt, Bro wanting to go out, so Sis comes up with the system of he always announcing a phrase and she'd let him in before dark. The idea works, if not for Bro keeping himself hidden, he attracting the huntsman until leading him back so he could view their password phrase. He relates this to the King, who uses it and upon seeing the girl, proposes, she accepting only if her "fawn" could come, he ofc agreeing, and she leading Bro off. THey wed and live happily for some time before the witch stepmother learns of the kids fate, she mad jealous and plotting to hurt them, this occurring when the Queen bore a son, the witch posing as a chambermaid and placing the still weak Queen into a bath, the plan to suffocate her, her ugly as sin daughter being made to look like her with the exception of an eye, this girl having a defect, so she simply turns her head so the eyeless side doesn't show, this working, but 1 of the nurses sees the real Queen doting upon her son and fawn before leaving, the Queen only being able to return a few more times. The King is told by the nurse, he waiting til the final time she'd be able to visit before announcing believing her actual identity, she confirming, and God restoring her life, the 2 witch relatives being tried, and the younger being torn to bits by wild animals, her mama got burnt, which released Bro from his fawn-state and he and Sis lived happily from then on!
The Three Little Men in the Wood began with 2 families, where 1 of the fathers and 1 mother had lost their spouse, and both had a single daughter, who at first liked each other. The lady asks his kid to ask if he'd marry her, pretty much plainly, and the man has his kid experiment with a boot with a loose sole, a nail, and filling it with water, if it held, he'd remarry, it holds, and he does so. As time goes on, the lady starts getting resentful of her hubby's girl, since her kid was a bish to her and apparently without looks, the man's kid pretty and sweet. So, 1 day in winter, the step-ma sends her hubby's kid to fetch strawberries in the forest, she knowing she wouldn't find any and only wished the girl wouldn't return, the girl walking until seeing a cottage with 3 dwarves, they welcoming her, and she being kind by sharing her bread with them, they having her sweep at the door whilst giving her gifts, she also discovering strawberries, gathering some and returning to the castle, the step-ma's girl jealous, so also goes into the wood and locates the dwarves house, she acting like a selfish, twerp to them, so they only giving her shitty gifts. From thence forward, the step-ma attempts to worsen the quality of life for her hubby's kid, and one day a king notices her drag the lake and offers to take her away, she ofc glad, the 2 marrying swiftly, and a year later, a son begotten, the step-ma discovering her, sabotaging her by chucking her out the window into a river with the help of her girl, she now posing as the king's wife. During the night, a kitchen boy sees a duck turn back into the Queen, feed her baby, then turn back into a duck, she doing this 3x before having the boy fetch her hubby to perform the ritual to have her true self emerge, the King keeping his wifey safe, then asking how the step-ma would deal with someone who did what she'd done to his wifey, without accusing her, he does to her and her kid, what she suggests, they stopped in "flasks" and rolled into the river.
The Three Spinsters starts with a girl, who doesn't wish to do her work, and getting so impatiently flustered wacks her to the point of her exclamation, a Queen hearing from the street and confronting the lady, she lying about the reason, but the Queen fulfilling the wish of the girl's love of spinning, having more flax than her mother, the Queen showing the girl the rooms, declaring if the girl finished spinning everything, she'd give her eldest son to her, the girl despairing for 3 days, not spinning anything, the Queen thinking it odd until hearing the story of the girl missing her mother, giving her another day, the girl seeing 3 weird-looking ladies outside the window offerring to help her if she only invited them to her wedding as aunties and wouldn't be ashamed of them, the girl accepts this. She keeps her word and when the Prince asks them about each overgrown appendage of each woman had because of spinning, made it so his princess never spun again.
Originally, Hansel and Grethel was abused by their mother, but it was changed to step to lessen the shock. This version begins with the severely poor fam. discussing their unfortunate situation, the step-ma suggesting they make a camp for the kids and leave them there, the father not wanting this due to wild animals tearing them up, but his wife nagging until reluctantly he agrees, the kids overhearing and Hansel vowing to protect his sis. He goes outside the front door and detects light-shining white pebbles, taking as many could fit in his pockets, again reassuring Grethel, God had their backs, the 2 going to sleep. Their step-ma wakes thm to announce the fam outing into the woods to chop some logs, giving them bread, which Grethel carried. Hansel drops his stones, and when the group reaches a certain point, the father makes them a fire, the step-ma having them rest as they went off, saying she'd call them when they were finished, but she not doing this, the 2 falling asleep and walking through the night until reaching home again, the pop is happy, but time getting worse and eventually the wife again nagging to ditch them for good. Again, the kids hear her, but this time Hansel can't collect stones, the next morning recieving a smaller slice of bread and going even deeper in the forest, the step-ma setting them up with a bon(fire) again and leaving them til evening. They sleep, as before, no one coming for them, and they this time wandering the forest the rest of the night into the following day, then resting until the 3rd morning, only having bush berries, since sharing Grethel's bread the noon they'd been waiting the 1st day. By noon the 3rd day though, they were close to starved, seeing a white bird which leads them to the bread and cake cottage. They begin noshing on the outside, an old crippled lady coming out and disturbing them after an odd exchange between she and the 2, which leads to them following her inside and to beds to sleep, she putting Hansel in a cage for fattening whilst Grethel did manual labor with less food. Four weeks pass without noticeable fatness from Hansel, the witch losing patience and deciding this night he'd be et. This not satisfying enough, so deciding she'd also add Grethel, having her check her oven for heat, but she playing dumb, so the witch making it easy to push her in, Grethel running off. She frees her bro, they stock up on the witch's "pearls and precious stones", then a duck helps them cross a large stretch of water, the 2 making it back to their pop, their step-ma dead, and the trio able to live happily, the true ending involving a Narrator pointing out a mouse out of which could be made a cap of the fur.
The Three Snake-Leaves begins with a poor man unable to feed his son, so the young man decides to go off and attempt a trade, his pop sad, but wishing him well, the boy joining the King's army and helping to lead his men to victory, the King rewards the young man for his courage. Now, the King had a touched-in-the-head daughter, who drove all suitors away with her wanted vow for her hubby to be buried alive with her, should she go first, she saying she'd do the same if the opp. were to happen, the boy digging on her beauty, so asking for her hand. They live happily, til she drops dead from an incurable illness, he given 4 loaves and 4 bots of wine, he trying to make it last. He views a snake come through the vault toward the dead girl, the young man chopping it into 3 bits, a 2nd snake seeing, and reviving the 1st with 3 leaves, after they biff off, the young man sees they'd left the leaves, so he uses them on the princess, she revives, and the 2 shouting and banging on the door, the King alerted, and he seeing his daughter, celebrating with them, and he making certain the leaves were kept. The princess had changed, she now wanting to kill her hubby, and when they go overseas, she plotting with the Cap'n and has him thrown overboard, she offering to marry Cap'n The servant of the prince hears and sees all, gets in the dinghy, retrieves the body, and revives him. The 2 row to "the Old King's" castle (home; related oddly), they confiding what'd occured, he hiding them away to hear what story his daughter had. She returns and says the prince'd taken ill and died, he bringing them out and punishing her and Cap'n by making them board a ship full of holes, and (I suppose) drown.
Rapunzel starts with a wife and hubby wanting to get preggers, and lives near a world renowned powerful witch, their window looking into her flower/veggie garden, and at one point, the wife begins noticing unbearably appetizing radishes, she so overcome with this desire for some, she makes herself sick over the course of some days, and hubby decides to satiate his wife by taking some, but this snowballs, since he must attempt it again, and gets caught, hubby relating his necessity, the witch deciding upon verifying this, she'd give them all they'd need in radishes for their child, and when the wife pops a girl, the witch names her accordingly, and biffs off with her, not putting her in a tower til 12, she showing her beauty, the witch upon visiting, saying the usual, and later when she's 14, a prince hearing her singing, becomes obsessed, so goes every day to listen, until the witch comes and says her piece, the prince knowing the phrase, now. So, next day, he attempts the required out of lonesomeness, Rapunzel at first petrified, what with not having seen a man, but upon his chumminess agrees to marry him, he being better than the witch and apparently impregnating her not too long after. She has the prince bring her silk to weave a ladder, she letting loose with how slow the witch was to climbing in comparison to the prince, the witch smacking her "a couple blows", then chopping her hair off. Rapunzel's sent to live the rest of her days in a huge desert, the witch then tricking the prince with the locks. Upon learning she'd hidden Rapunzel, he goes out of his mind, and jumps out the window, landing face first into thorns, going blind, and aimlessly walking through the woods in despair for a few years until making it to the same desert, hearing Rapunzel, who had twins in his absence and they reunite, her tears healing his eyes and they returning to his kingdom with happiness, no on knowing what'd become of the witch.
The White Snake has a world-known wise King, he discovering truths seemingly from nothing, the odd point being he was always served a plate of something which no one knew the identity, until 1 day the diligent servant can't help, but have a look, and seeing a white snake. He decides to taste it, he able to understand animals because of it. This helps him soon, since the Queen's ring goes missing and he's accused, but once overhearing some ducks, learns one'd swallowed it, having it butchered and returns the ring (somehow still not getting kilt), he wanting to travel the world as his reward, the Queen granting this (he probably wanting to get away from crazy bish, too). He soon sees 3 fish near a pond, gasping, the servant helping them back in, and they vowing to reward him, this happening with an Ant King after he'd mentioned his people dying because the path of the horse, so fella takes a detour, the King promising a gift, the man going through a forest where some baby crows cry of being doomed to starvation, so the man kills his horse for their appetites, they also giving a reward when it was req'd. So, he walks on and reaches a large town where a town crier, sort of tells of the princess taking a hubby, but the suitors were put to a test where if they failed, they died. Many had attempted, and upon seeing the hotness of the princess, the man offers a try. They go to the ocean where a gold ring was chucked, the man made to fetch it, and would be chucked in until he died. Well, the 3 fish help by delivering the ring to his feet in a mussel shell, the princess now not satisfied because he was a commoner, having him perform a 2nd task where he must gather 10 sacks of seed before sunrise, all of 'em. The Ant King and subjects gathering all in time, the princess then has him get an apple from the Tree of Life for her. So, he journeys through 3 kingdoms until resting 1 night under a tree, a gold apple falling in his hand, the 3 ravens having grown, flying "to the end of the world" to retrieve it for him, and so returned, the princess sharing with him which opened her heart to love him and they living long peaceful lives, unfettered by trubs.
The Fisherman and His Wife lived by the ocean where hubby'd fish every day, one time catching a flounder claiming to be a changed prince, pleading to be freed for not being fair-flavored, but the Fisherman was willing, since it could talk, doing so, then returning home to relate to his wife what he'd experienced, she suggesting he go ask for a wish, she wanting to upgrade their hut. He didn't want to, but placates her, calling the flounder and requesting a cottage, the flounder granting this. The wife is at first content, until wanting a castle, hubby again goes to ask for the upgrade, but begrudgingly. The flounder again obliges, the wife happy, but hubby knowing she'd want something different, she even agreeing she was considering more options. Next day, upon light, the wife decides she'd be queen, hubby bewildered by this, returning to the now putrefied ocean to ask, getting this granted, and once returning, learns she wished to be Pope, which is granted, but by now the sky and ocean looking scary af. After this, hubby attempts to have his wife declare this would be the last of what she could do, but she next wanting to command the sunrise, so the hubby returns to a horrible stormy ocean, relating the wish as she requesting to become "Ruler of the Universe", the flounder putting them in a grungier hut than before, where they stayed til they died.
The Valiant Little Tailor (Seven at One Blow), who usually play a protagonist, begins with 1 who has quite a positive outlook, buying some preserve from an ungrateful seller, he slathering up a slice of the size of a whole loaf, then finishing a project before consuming, this giving a ton of flies a chance to gather about it, the tailor reacting by swatting 7 in 1 hit, quite impressed with himself, he stitches words similar on "a band", deciding he'd travel the world, so takes only a hunk of cheese and a bird stuck in some bushes out front, he soon happening upon a Giant. He offers they travel together, the Giant not respecting him til he points out his vague band, the Giant deciding to test the tailor's strength, the first squeezing liquid out of a rock, the tailor squeezing whey from the cheese. Next the Giant chucking a rock in the air, the tailor throwing the bird, he saying how his rock wouldn't fall back, the Giant then having him help carry a tree from the woods, so the tailor is sure to take care of the foliage side, whilst the Giant got the trunk, he sitting pretty, til the Giant tires and drips his end, the tailor looking like he'd been holding his side, when the 2 continue and the Giant bends a cherry tree for the tailor to eat from, he lets go and it flings the tailor over it, his excuse being he'd needed to jump over for hunters shooting at him, the Giant unable to jump over as he'd done. The tailor is then invited to the Giant's cave he shared with 2 others, setting the tailor up in a large bed to rest, and the tailor secretly going to a corner, seeing the giant wait, then bash the bed, all 3 having a walk in the morning, and upon returning view the tailor still alive, running for fear of his power. The tailor travels further to a castle, naps in some grass and is discovered by towns-ppl thinking he was important because of his band and informs the King. He sends a messenger to inquire, the tailor agreeing he'd come to assist the King in war, he recieving a home in return. The King's men get jealous and confess to the King of not wanting to fight alongside the tailor, so the King calls the tailor to murder the 2 giants giving him trouble, and setting him with supplies and men to help. The tailor is drawn in by the prospect of being given the princess, as well, so he accepts the task, has the knights wait outside the woods whilst he tricked the 2 sleeping giants into killing each other. The tailor makes wounds on both to have it look like he'd killed them, the knights seeing, and the King giving the man a 2nd task of capturing a hell-raising unicorn. The tailor accepts and again has the knights wait for him, he locating and trapping the creature by its horn in a tree trunk as it charged him, he again returning to the King with it. The King requests a 3rd capture of a troublesome boar, the tailor using a chapel to trap the beast as it chased him, the King then begrudgingly keeping his word, still unaware of the tailor's true trade, he now a King. A short time passes, his Queen overhearing him sleep-talk and whining to her pop about deducing his tailor trade, he conspiring the next time he slept, they'd ship his ass overseas, but 1 of his armor-bearers had heard and confided to the tailor, he pretending to sleep talk and threatening the men outside their bedroom, the tailor's reign as King lasting the length of his life.
The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean begins with an old lady, quite poor, and wanting to prepare a plate of beans. She begins by building the fire up quickly with straw, 1 bean strays from the pan unnoticed, next to a sliver of straw and a piece of coal, the 3 bonding over escaping and plan traveling further together. They first reach a river, the straw offering to get the burning coal across, it getting scared midway, and the 2 falling in. The bean thought this hilariously clever of himself waiting and laughs so hard he pops. A passing tailor'd been seated nearby, so sews the bean together, it grateful, and the reason why there are black seams on beans!
Cinderella isn't the fairy-style story told by Perrault, this one starts with Cinderella's mother falling sick and dying, her father, a rich man, and by spring was on the hut for a new wife. He succeeds by finding one with 2 pretty daughters, who were ugly inside. The 2 soon decide they'd dress Cinderella up as a maid, also coming up with the name she goes by after making her sleep by the hearth and became sooty. At one point, Cin's pop decides to go to a fair without his fam, for some reason, he asking all 3 what they'd like for him to bring them, the sisters asking for dresses, precious stones, and jewels, Cin asking for the stick which hit her pop's hat on the ride back, the man providing all, and Cin planting the bough next to her mama's grave and actually getting it to grow with the aid of her tears, she praying at the spot and upon making wishes under it, a white bird dropped whatever it was from the tree branches. Later, the King proclaims a festival to last 3 days in order for his son to choose a bride. The sisters tasked Cin to helping them groom and prepare for the parties, Cin upset and hoping to attend, her step-ma saying if she collected all fallen beans from ashes within 2 hours, she could tag. Cin calls for the help of all the birds, promising them inedible (to bishes, maybe) beans for them, they finishing in an hour, and Cin's step-ma denying her, unless she did the same again, in an hr, with 2 tubs of beans, she has the birds help again and it's finished in half hour. Her step-ma still refuses her for no proper dress or ability to dance which'd shame them, so Cin goes to her wishing tree and receives a gilded dress and fancy shoes, going to the dance and immediately captivating the Prince, the trio of bitches not recognizing her, and after some hours, she wished to go home, the prince wanting to escort her, but she fleeing and returning her dress and shoes at the tree, her step-ma now suspecting her identity, everyone going to the party the next day. Cin gets her gear the same way, it being better looking every time she asks, she dancing only with the prince again, and running off the same way, this time her father suspecting. The 3rd time the prince gets her shoe and going to Cin's house, the eldest girl attempting it, her ma instructing she chip the offending toe which made the shoe not fit, the prince being warned by the white birds on the tree as he's riding off. The 2nd girl does the same, but with her heel, the birds warning him again, and the prince returning to ask if they had another girl, her father straight up saying no, OTHER than his dead wife's kid (prick), the prince sticking to his guns to see her, she fitting in the shoe properly and he recognizing her face, finally, their wedding a big party and Cin's stepsisters struck with blindness for being bitches!
The Riddle shows a King's son wanting to see the world, so only brings along his loyal servant. He meets a pretty girl near a cottage, they wishing to rest, she warning of her step-ma practicing black magic, the prince not intimidated. The 2 spend the night unharmed, but the servant's horse takes a hit next morning when the old lady offers a parting drinky, some spurting out onto the horse and it collapsing with deadness. The 2 escape and want to rest for the night at a thieves inn, they gaining attention as prey. They get lucky when the group eats the crow the prince'd brought, it having the poison in it, the girl being the only survivor, is left with all their treasure, the prince and servant traveling much further and coming across a hot and "haughty" princess who would marry whoever gave her a riddle she couldn't get, but the suitor's head being cut, if she did. The prince attempts it, the princess knowing she didn't know, sends servants to see if the prince spoke whilst asleep, his servant catching 2,leaving evidence, and the prince himself catching the princess after giving her the answers, his evidence being the princess's own cloak being the judges reason for awarding the man, so marriage, here they come! The cloak becomes a part of her wedding ensemble, as well, just to rub it in.
Old Mother Frost is of a widow with 2 girls, one pretty and clever, the other, none of this. The ugly girl gets all the lurv for being her true born, the other used as a maid, and one day, whilst spinning so much she bled over her spindle, and upon trying to wash it in the well, drops it, her step-ma gives her no aid, having her worry about retrieving it herself, the girl so stricken, throws herself in after it, and regains her senses in a meadow, she taking out a rando bread from a rando oven, shaking a tree free of apples, and then helping a buck-toothed old lady with her home and bed. She stays with her quite pleasantly for awhile, but somehow begins missing her home, the old woman sending her off well, and when her step-ma sees her, she wishes the same for the other, the girl being lazy about it, but reaching the oven without taking the bread out or shaking the tree, and when she helps Old Mother Frost, she does well at first, for thinking of the riches, but slowly stops working during her days there, the woman firing her, and the girl getting sooted upon rather than a gold bonus, she staying black the rest of her life.
The Seven Crows (Like the 12 Bros, listed above) tells of a man who had no girls, only 7 boys, their 8th, a girl, but weak, so the 7 boys offer to fetch water for the girl to be baptized, they losing the pail for fighting over it. (Whoa! error, "...stood by (not) now knowing..." tsk, editor!) The boys didn't do anything for fear, their pop's getting impatient and wishing their being changed to crows, this happening moments as he's finishing his words. The parents soon believe the boys lost, the girl growing and she learning of her missing bros, deciding to find them, she going all over the world, the sun, moon, and stars. The morningstar gives a hint about requiring a key for "the glass castle", where they were. She loses the bone key the star gives her, but her own fitting and opens the door, meeting a dwarf, who offers she wait for the 7 crows to return. She eats from every dish and cup left for her bros, and upon their arrival, they inquire why some human'd been feasting on their meals, one of them recognizing the fallen ring the girl'd brought, she coming out when called and they returning to form, everyone celebrating and returning home.
Little Red Riding Hood was beloved by all who knew her and her grandma didn't know when to stop showering the child with gifts, one being her velvet hood, she wearing it so often, her ma referred to her as Red Riding Hood, and this day giving her a care package to deliver her ill g/ma. Once getting to the wood, the Wolf greets her and asks about her load, the Wolf getting selfish and deciding he'd eat both generations. So, he suggests she look around at the flowers, RRH wanting to gather some for g/ma. The Wolf uses his time well, eats g/ma, and sets up the scene appropriately, RRH coming a bit later and seeing her g/ma, exclaims all she saw, he gobbling her and taking a nap. When a huntsman hears the racket of the Wolf's sinuses, he decides to make sure the lady was alright, and upon viewing the Wolf, nearly shoots him before thinking of cutting him open in case the old lady still lived, RRH popping out first, and grabbing stones to fill the Wolf with, the g/ma fine, but the Wolf dropping dead not long after, the 3 content and RRH taking away not to ignore her ma's warning ever again. The alternate story having RRH going straight to her g/ma's house and they locking the Wolf out, he planning on waiting for RRH's exit, so they using boiled sausage water in a trough to lure him down, he falling in, and drowning. RRH happily returning home, presumably still in the dark woods...
The Singing Bone begins with the outcry of a country over a wild boar killing people and animals alike, the King soon offering his daughter for its death and 2 bros of a poor fella decides to try, the younger leaving in the morning whilst the elder the night before, the younger meeting a dwarf who gifted him a spear, he succeeding and bringing back the body. Meanwhile,t he elder bro was found partying with some peeps and drinking some courage, believing he'd be the only killer of the boar. So, when he sees his bro, who doesn't smell a rat, they while their time away and when they're on their way back, the elder kills the younger, he getting the glory and the princess, the truth coming out later when a peasant sees a bone where the elder'd buried his bro, fashioning it as a mouthpiece for a horn, it telling his story once blown. The man shows the King, who recovers the bones and buries him with royal respect, whilst the other is drowned in a sack.
The Giant with the Three Golden Hairs tells of a poor lady giving birth to a boy destined to marry the King's daughter at 14, dut to a partial caul-covered head. The K learns of the prophecy and decides to bribe the parents to sell their baby what with the stranger promising much gold, and to raise the boy will. He chucks the kid immediately into a stream, he hoping he'd drowned, but it floating down river to a mill, the boy worker bringing the box to shore and upon seeing the baby, delivers it to the millers, who didn't have children and thought this was good luck, raising the boy right. The K comes to them to rest one night, the parents admitting adopting him when asked, the K knowing who the boy was, offering gold for him to deliver a letter requesting his murder. The boy gets lost on the way and goes into the cottage of an old lady, scaring her, explaining his reasons for being so forward, the old lady warning he'd be killed if discovered there for locating a thieves H.Q., but the boy too exhausted to cont., and when the lady explains to the robber, he reads the letter and decides to help the boy by rewriting the letter. So, the Queen does as bid, the boy marrying her daughter and upon the K's return has hi collect 3 hairs from a giant, even though he'd already been married, this being the new request for him to stay royalty, he agreeing for no fear. As he passes through each town, he claims to know everything every time he's asked by a guard, vowing to answer their q's on his way back. Each 1 had an extravagant natural gift, and 2 wished to learn why those sources didn't at least work in the usual way. Another wants to learn when he'd be allowed to stop working. He then gets to the Giant's kingdom, meeting his g/ma, she staring at him intently. When asked, the boy is plain as to why he was sent, the lady deciding she'd do what she could, beginning by morphing him into an ant. After she stows him safely, inquires of the 3 men's q's, she advising he listen as she's yanking each hair. When the Giant K arrives and is fed til sleep, this after he'd smelled out the human, but not discovering him, she takes the first hair and this wakes him, she replying it was due to a dream and then asks why a fountain in a plaza no longer spouted wine, let alone water, he stating if anyone would only murder the frog blocking the drain. When she starts brushing his hair agian, he's lulled to sleep once more. When she nabs the 2nd, she uses the same excuse and asks why a tree which grew gold apples didn't sprout leaves anymore either, he providing it was due to a mouse chewing at the base, he threatening to smack her one if she bothers him again, she cradling him to sleep this time, and when waking almost does as he says, but he wondering about her dream, asking why the ferryman won't ever be let go, but must always go back and forth, his answer being if the man puts the oar in his hand, then the other will do the same, and this will allow him freedom, she finally letting him sleep until waking at sun up, the lady changing the boy back and he leaving, first giving thanks, reaching the ferryman and sharing how he should give whoever asked him for a ride over next, to hand them the oar, next he gives the gold apple tree village the advice given, being gifted 2 donkeys, with gold. Next, after giving the fountain town their advice, they also give him a couple donkeys with gold, and once getting back, updates his happy wife, the K quite pleased about the donkey gold, as well. The prince confesses how the K could get more by asking the boatman to row him over and collect it on shore, the K doing this and getting stuck as new ferryman, as of foreversville.
The Handless Maiden tells of a miller losing all, but mill and apple tree. One time, an old fella comes to him claiming he can make him well off and all he wished in return was what lay beyond his mill. The man agrees, since assuming the fella meant his tree, the old guy laughing and relating he'd come back in 3 years to collect. When reaching his home, wifey asks about the gold chests all over the house, and once sharing what'd happened, sets him straight about what he'd wanted being their daughter. The girl was pretty and G-fearing, she washing clean and chalking a circ about herself on the day she was to be taken, the Evil 1 pissed and demanding they take the girl's water, since he couldn't control her without dirt. ("so that the(y) were quite clean") She cries upon her hands making them clean, the E1 angered and now saying to chop her hands off or he'll take the miller, so he requests she forgive his pussiness, she doing this because she's his bluuuurd! The girl again cries, this time upon her arms, the E1 having to call it quits, the miller so grateful, he vows to take care of her for her whole life, she declining in pref. of traveling to where empathetic guys'd provide all her needs. Next day, for some reason, her arms are tied behind her back and she walks til quite hungered, praying in order to cross to a wonderful-looking fruit-bearing tree, an angel doing her bidding by clearing a path through water, the angel tagging with her inside the royal garden, of which the caretaker sees her take a single fruit, but was intimidated by the mystical creature. The K counts his pears next day and the gardener tattling what'd occurred, so the K returns later with a priest, who learns her humanity and why she'd come. The K takes pity for her beauty and weds her, a year later he a-warring and the young Q bares a son, her mother-in-law writing to the K of the news. The messenger decides to take a nap on the way, and the E1 shows up, trading the letters to say the Q and boy should be murdered and save the eyes and tongue for proof. The m-i-l doesn't wish to comply, so she does this to a calf and sends the Q and child away for safety. The Q goes to the forest crying and praying for help, the angel returning and leading her to a cottage where she's greeted by an extremely white girl, who upon q'ing reveals to be another angel to serve her and son, the 3 living there 7 years, her hands growing back. The K upon coming back is at first grieved and then when hearing their survival states 2 not eating til he found them having traveled 7 years, God keeping him alive without food or drink, the angel leading him in upon locating the cottage, he napping, and when the Q and son see him and the Q requests the boy replace the napkin on his face, the boy is confused when learning this man was his father and not in heaven as he'd been told. The K shows he's awake and q's their identities til the angel shows the silver hands he'd gifted his wife, the 3 sharing a meal and returning to the K's mother, the couple celebrating their marriage again and remaining happily ever after!
Clever Alice had a pops, who was quite eager in when she'd get married off, his wife concerned of whoever it was, better be worth her time. One fella, Hans comes along to propose on the condition she was "prudent", Alice being sent to fetch beer and noticing an ax left by some workers wedged above her head, she becoming upset over the thought of the child begotten by Hans'd be killed by this ax if she married him. As she didn't return, they send their maid, then their boy servant to see what held up Alice. Each 1, including her parents, upon hearing her reason, fall down crying beside her. When the young man goes down and discovers her reason, he commends and marries her swiftly. When Alice is tasked, much later, with reaping corn, she eats and naps first, hubby returning and finding her, drapes her with a net with bells, and upon her waking, she questions her identity. Once hearing through the door of hubby saying Alice was present within, she questions herself to the point of going house to house, but everyone afraid of the bells she jangled to open their doors, she not being seen since this occasion.
The Table, the Ass, and the Stick tells of a Tailor, who had 3 boys, and a goat. The eldest son leads the goat to a church yard, due to it being their source of milk, and when collecting goat at evening, asks to be certain it'd had enough, the goating agreeing. (Error! "I am satisfied, quiet", needs the 'e' last there, editor) The eldest confirms the goat's satisfaction, but upon asking the goat himself, drives the boy outside, presumably, and confirmed to beating him on his way out with a yard stick, for the goat lied about starving. Next, the 2nd born does the job, brings the goat to a garden hedge, and the goat again gobbles up all the finest herbs, (2nd error, "the wanted to return", psh) they returning and the same fate occurring as his bro. The 3rd boy decides on bushes with soft leaves, again the animal lies and the boy is driven out, harder wacks mentioned. So, the tailor his own self goes through the motions, giving it lettuce, and upon returning, receives the same answer, the tailor whipping the beast after shaving its head, then grieves his actions toward his sons. The eldest trains as a Carpenter, he being gifted a magic table which always looked robed in cloth upon wishing, and stopping at an inn, shares his table with some guests, catching the eye of the owner. Later, upon the Joiner and guests going off to sleep, Joiner'd slept in the room with his table propped against a wall, the owner switching it with his own, and next day, Joiner leaves for his father with the fake. When he's welcomed warmly, he bids his pop invite guests to partake of the table, nothing happening and then having to join up with a tradesman of his craft. The 2nd son learn the trade of miller, being gifted an ass which spouted gold coins, Miller getting to the same inn, found out, and swindled. He disgraces his pop like the first and works with a master, as well. The 3rd boy becomes a turner, which is the fella who turns objects to shape them, the job hard and he learning extra slow, his bros updating what'd been happening, and upon finally finishing, is gifted a stick in a bag, it able to beat the shit out of people til Turner told it to retreat, he making use of it when threatened. He gets to the inn and boasts of what he carried within his bag, the owner greedy, and when Turner feels the owner attempting to lift the bag from beneath his head whilst he slept, he lets the stick out, the owner vowing to give up table and ass. Turner returns with all their loot and is able to prove his bros honor, everyone living happily together at ease from there trades. Meanwhile, Goat'd found Reynard, the fox's hole, Bear asking why Rey pulled a face he had on, telling of scary eyes in his home, the Bear even scared off, a Bee asking his plight and helping by stinging Goat, no one knowing where fool had gone.
Thumbling begins with a low peasant, who sits in evenings with his wife, complaining of having no kids, she musing of having a child no larger than a thumb, becoming sick later on, and popping out a boy, called Thumbling, who doesn't grow. The boy was smart and independent, offerring to lead the horse and cart for his pop 1 day, proving he could by speaking at the animal's ear, 2 weird fellas noticing and following. They offer the peasant a gold piece, the son persuading him to accept, running off after they'd gone a ways. He rests in a snail shell when 2 different guys walk by talking of stealing from a parson, Thumbling offerring to help, but upon arriving, speaks loudly and wakes the cook, she uncertain of the reality when chasing away the thieves, Thumbling sleeping in some comfy hay. Next morning, the now maid-cook, takes the hay for the cow, Thumbling waking before being chewed, deciding to jump into it's tummy, and soon yelling for it to stop eating, the maid scared by hearing the same voice and telling Parson of the talking cow. Parson has it killed after hearing it, and upon dividing the meat, a Wolf eats the piece Thumbing is stuck in, informing the beast where his pop lived, the place filled with good food. The Wolf hastening and eating until finished, Thumbling alerting his parents, and the 2 arriving with weapons. Upon recognizing their Thumbling's voice, pop kills the Wolf by axe in the head, and releases their son, the 3 living happily.
The Wedding of Mrs. Fox is 2 versions of the same story, the first relating of the Fox with 9 tails, suspecting his wife was cheating on him, and decides he'd catch her by pretending he was dead, but only lying still, many suspects for his wife's attention visiting her, she turning each away, since they didn't have 9 tails, the suitors #ing the amount of tails, and upon the fox arriving, the 2 are about to hitch up when Mr. Fox wakes and drives them all away. The 2nd version has a Wolf posing as a suitor and upon arriving, the Cat maid allows him in, offerring snackies, and when the Wolf mentions coming to propose to Mrs. Fox, Cat updates her and asks a random description, which doesn't match Wolf, so turns him down. Soon, all the animals of the forest were offerring their paws in marriage. Mrs. Fox shuts 'em all down, until another Fox comes to offer, Mrs. Fox approving and the 2 chucking out Old Fox. The 2 celebrate their union grandly and are, perhaps still dancing.
The Little Elves begins with a Shoemaker, who was so poor he only had enough material for a single pair of shoes. He sets up to begin in the morning, and discovers them perfectly completed. This continues until becoming well off, the Shoemaker and wife learning of the "manikins" doing precision work all these years, the 2 decide on making both clothes and shoes, they hiding each time, the elves so happy, deciding to never work again for looking so good (Cat, Red Dwarf-style), but this not affecting the Shoemaker's business, doing well the remainder of his happy days. 2nd tale starts with "a poor servant girl", she doing her best job at cleaning house, and upon discovering a letter, takes it to her boss, and he relating to her of elves wanting her to be one of their kids godmother, she deciding to consent, due to the difficulty of refusal. 3 elves come by to escort her to their home in a hollow mountain, where the mother was still lying in bed for having recently popped, the girl invited to stay 3 days, and she having a pleasant time. Upon her farewell, they give her gold and lead her out, and upon picking up her duties as before, a new family living their don't recognize her, she being away 7 years and her boss dead. The 3rd tale has a not well-made changeling not consuming anything, the woman asking her neighbor and she instructed to have the changeling watch as she boiled water in 2 eggshells over a fire, upon doing, the changeling sings of not seeing this before, regardless of being as old as the eldest tree, whereupon the elves returned once hearing its laughter, and took what's right and left what's left.
The Robber Bridegroom has a Miller wishing his pretty daughter had a prosperous suitor, 1 day agreeing to a guy seeming to have money, but his girl not taking to him, and didn't enjoy his company. At one point, the man decides she'd visit his home, since he'd soon be having a dinner party, and he'd give her a path of ashes to guider her. She isn't at her ease the day of, so brings along veggies to guide her back if need be, and upon viewing his home, still gets downer vibes. Once entering and seeing nor hearing anything, a voice bids she leave for entering a killers' lair, and sees a bird in a cage. The girl looks around thoroughly instead, and once entering the basement (slow handclap), discovers an old lady also wanting to help her escape, since these fools were man-eaters! The lady hides her and has her stay still before they arrive with another girl, giving her 3 different colored wines, stripping her, and chopping her up. When 1 sees a gold ring, and attempts to claim it by chopping her digit off, it goes flying to dumb girl, the lady distracting them with food, and the 2 escaping as the drugged men slept, the girl's veggies sprouting and leading them back, she telling her father what happened, and the marriage proceeding, before the wedding (presumably), the party has the practice dinner with speeches, and the girl relates the experience she'd had as a dream, then throwing the finger with ring down in front of him, his crew and himself sentenced to death after trial.
Herr Korbes relates the story of a Cock and Hen agreeing to be travel companions. On the road, they tell Cat where they were going, he tagging along, and the duo hoping they'd catch Herr Korbes at his place. 5 more come to travel with them, and upon getting there, miss Herr Korbes, so they each hide in a nasty spot, when he returns each bringing him pain or discomfort in some way, the conclusion being he must've deserved this.
The Godfather is about a poor fella having so many kids, he and his wife began having difficulty acquiring godparents for them, his latest bundle needing one, and due to a dream, the man asks the first dude he sees, it being a guy giving him water which only cures people in the head, but if given to someone with foot problems, they'd perish. So, he begins healing people, getting fame and fortune. One day he sees a kid, who'd die, since his illness lay in his footsies, the man visits this Godfather, and sees at his home duelling dustpan and broom, getting directions to where he could find the Godfather, this happening with body parts and creatures on each stair, always taking him higher until reaching a door where he sees the Godfather wearing a troubling headdress through the key hole, confronting him with the oddities, and he hiding in a bed, explaining away each one as son and maid, then plant roots, as well as, cabbages, but the fish frying themselves couldn't be denied for serving themselves during this, but when the Godfather denies wearing the head gear, the man leaves, afraid for what the man could do to him.
The Godfather Death has a poor man with a dozen kids, who he slaves 24 hours per day to nourish, so once the 13th kid arrives, he runs out to ask the first man he sees to be the Godfather, choosing Death, who wishes to comply and promises the boy would be wealthy and a celeb, he also going to his christening and acting his part. When the son comes of age, Death's present is an herb which will allow people to be cured and he would get a signal whether the person could be saved. When the now doctor saves the King against Death's will, he allows this single pass, the next time being warned he'd get snuffed. He does it again when the King's daughter must die, so Death takes him, shows him the lamps which varied in size and represents human lives by how old they were, and once showing the doc's own lamp almost dead, he pleads with his Godfather to save him long enough for some good years with the princess, but Death takes so long on purpose, Doc dies and remains his ward. (No one fucks wit Def!)
The Golden Bird is like The Handless Maiden, above, since he had a garden with gold apples and 1 goes missing, so he has his eldest boy keep watch the first night, but he snoozing by 12 AM and upon morning, another was swiped. The 2nd boy goes the next night, but same results occur, the King hesitates for his 3rd boy to fall asleep, as well, but the son is rearing to go. He does better by not only IDing, but clipping a feather from the bird as it escapes, and when his pop was told, he wishes for the whole bird, a feather worth a kingdom being nothing! The Oldest boy searches first, and almost shoots a Fox, he giving a tip of going the right way and to choose the quieter of 2 inns up ahead. The kid still shoots at the Fox for q'ing its abilities to give advice, but doesn't clip it, also going into the lively inn, not worrying about his mish, anymore. The 2nd boy leaves only to accompany his bro at the inn, partying to his desires. The 3rd boy eventually wishes to follow and the K again denies him, but only for a short while, the boy befriends the Fox when meeting him, and even gets a ride, for the Fox wanted to help him. They travel quickly, and he spends the night at the inn suggested, next morning the Fox tells him exactly where he'd locate the bird, and what he'd find when getting there. The boy departs from the last piece of advice, and the bird wakes the sleeping military men in the castle upon placing it in the gilded cage, now captured. He's tried, and the K demands a gold horse, the boy properly saddened by his stupidity, and the Fox not sparing his feelings, but again helping him find the horse. Not completely following the instructions again though, he's caught, now the K bids him to get the fine ass daughter of the K of the Golden Castle, the boy feeling down about being an idiot, the Fox wanting to help him still, and this time the boy following directions, but relenting with the Princess's tears to farewell her parents, and he gets imprisoned again. Now, the K decides in order for the boy to survive, he must rid the mountain outside the K's window in 8 days and he'd give his daughter as a prize. The boy works 7 days with no real result, the Fox coming back to state how he shouldn't help him, but would, clearing the hill by morning and getting the girl, the Fox then telling him how he'd get the horse, doing so, as well as the bird, the Fox requesting the boy kill him, but upon refusal, advises a couple more pieces before biffing off. Once reaching the 2 inns, he hears his bros were going to be hanged for evil deeds, the boy pays for their freedom, and when they all stop for a rest, chuck their lil bro into a spring and take all back to the K, but the boy survives and the Fox helps him out, disguising himself to get back to the castle, the princess having been woeful the whole time, stopping her crying and states the facts of the 2 bros and identifies her "true husband", in the crowd at the castle, the 2 marrying. After, the prince goes to the woods and meets the Fox, relenting to chopping its head and feet off, he turning back into the bro of the princess and the prince thenceforth content.
The Travels of Thumbling gives a small recap of the first, the nicknamed, Thumbling announcing his want to travel, and his pop suggesting how he could make a sword. During their last meal, Thumbling takes a look at it in the pot and gets steamed up the chimney, starting his adventure, and finding a boss which he complains about their rations of meat, she chasing but not catching him, until finally able to chuck him out, he walking through the forest, and meeting robbers, who invite him to help steal from the K, Thumbling agrees, and hides quickly when the K arrives. He's able to fool the guards, gathers the rest of the coins, and only takes a small amount of it he could carry, and when he gets a job as a waiter, quickly makes enemies of the stealing serving girls, so a plan is implemented where he is caught in hay and a cow eats him, he escaping when its killed, getting stuck in a sausage, then a Fox's mouth, he wanting the hens in his father's farm, if he obliged. Thumbling agrees, the Fox gets this once getting him back and makes clear his parents'd given the chickens up because he's their beloved son.
The Feather Bird tells of a Sorcerer, who disguises himself as a beggar to swipe little girls, no one knowing where he stowed them. He locates a man with 3 pretty girls, the oldest giving him bread when asked, and upon touching her, she automatically gets into his bag, he taking her to his house, and caring for her. One day he has to leave, and gives her all the keys and an egg she must preserve, also forbidding she go to a certain room, she checking it out, and sees chopped bodies, dropping the egg, and recovering it, but the blood it showed, not coming off. Once the sorcerer returns and discovers she'd disobeyed, he chops her up and goes for the 2nd girl, she also not surviving. The 3rd girl gets caught and upon placing her sis's parts back in order, they live again, and once the sorcerer retuns and sees the egg still unchanged, decides she'd be his bride, so the girl has him carry gold in a sack with her sisters inside, so they could return with help. So, everytime the Sorcerer stops, the sis in the bag'd make it seem like the girl was watching through the window at him. He gets to the parents house, the 3rd girl readies the wedding party, the sorcerer's buddies invited and she making a skull look like her peeping through a window, she glazing herself with honey and feathers, and walks out, the Sorcerer returning and the sisters bros and fam locking all inside, to burn them all.
The Six Swans begins with a K who goes on a hunt and chases his kill so thoroughly, his men lose him. The K soon loses direction and asks an old lady how to get out, she bargaining if he fulfills her wish, she'll do so, otherwise he'd get lost again and starve. He must agree to marry her pretty daughter, the K agreeing and noting she was as the lady says, but he getting the shudders upon looking at her for too long. They marry once the lady gets him back, he worried for his 6 sons and single daughter, since he didn't trust his new witch-wife, so to protect his kids, he sends them to a hard to find castle, and even he needs magic properties in order to rediscover it. The Q is suspicious because of how often he leaves for the forest, so bribes his servants and learns of the kids, as well as how to locate it, so she makes some shirts with a charm and goes to the castle, the sons thinking they see their pop, go to greet her, she getting the shirts to touch the boys and they turning to swans, the lady at ease, now, and not realizing the girl was still there. She tells her pop what'd happened to her bros, so he takes her back to the castle with him, she deciding and detecting her bros in a robbers house, they able to shed their feathers and look normal for a short amount of time each night, he relating what was required in order to return them to normal. She sets out to perform the 6 year task, like the earlier story, she being found by a K, and is taken to his castle, soon deciding to marry the silent girl. The K's evil step-ma only speaks ill of the girl, the new Q bearing their first son and the step-ma stealing him and blaming the girl as a murderer, this happening 2 more times, so the K must put his wife on trial and they find her guilty, and would be put to death by fire. The swan bros show up, since this was the final day of their curse, and one shirt the young Q made was missing an arm, due to time, so a single bro had a wing, still, the girl speaks her innocence and accuses his step-ma, she getting burnt, hopefully collecting her 3 boys, and the 6 bros living happily with them.
Briar Rose tells of a Q and K hoping daily to have a kid, the Q being confirmed of her wish by a frog whilst bathing, and states within the year she'd have a girl. She was so nonsensically pretty, her pop could barely keep it together, he inviting most everyone, they excluding a single wise lady because they only had a certain amount of gold plates, so the day of the party, the wise ladies give their virtuous gifts, and the 13th one curses the kid, without intro-ing herself, and stalking off. The 12th "fairy", then gives her gift to lighten the curse from death, to a century long sleep. Also in order to keep her safe, the K has all the spindles burned, so when the girl is 15, and left by herself at the castle, upon exploration of the whole place, comes to an old tower where she discovers an old lady spinning flax, the princess asking her business there, and the lady giving this answer, the girl attempting to spin and fulfilling her enchantment, falling to deep sleep, it affecting the whole castle, wind dying, as well as flies sleeping. Soon, people spoke of the Briar Rose curse, boys attempting to help her, and die trying. Another prince tries it, not swayed by the deaths of those before, this coinciding with the end of her charm, the thorns allowing him passage by turning into roses temporarily as he passed, and upon reaching and kissing Briar Rose, she awakes, along with the rest of the castle, the girl marrying the prince and both remaining happy.
King Thrush-Beard begins with another K with an exceptionally hot princess who made a game of turning all her suitors down. When the K sets up the most eligible in a line-up for her, all she does is give them insulting nicknames, he telling her she'd be married to the first proper fella who comes in. After 2 days, a minstrel comes by to sing, the K goes through with his word, then having his daughter go off with him, the minstrel leading her on foot through a forest, he telling her of being the land of King Thrush-Beard. She, upon hearing everything they went through was King Thrush-Beard's, wishes she'd hooked up with him when she had the chance, they getting to the minstrel's hut, princess not impressed. Soon he tries to have her work in the house, then sees what trade she could do, getting hurt with the first 2 tasks, then selling earthenware products, she doing well for her beauty, one day her spot being hit by a man on a horse, she worried and crying to her hubby of what happened. So, he gets her a job in a K's kitchen where she'd live for free, she 1 day looking at the pretty party-goers coming in, and again gets taken to dance by King Thrush-Beard, she soon realizing he'd been the man on the horse, and the minstrel, she having learned her lesson and he forgiving her, marrying her properly with her fam in attendance, and they joyful thereforth.
The Twelve Hunters tells of the bastard son of a K who didn't know he existed, he marrying a girl he was head over heels with, as he'd been sitting with her per usual this evening, quite content, he's updated of his pop, the K quite sick, the man declaring he must away to him and he'd come back for her when he was K. He sees his daddy, who somehow knows him, now, and promises him, out of sadness to marry a particular princess, the K then perishing. The prince goes along and his wife hears, so sad her pop declares he'd get whatever she desired. She decides on 11 girls who looked like her, she then making a crew to accompany her to her hubby's place, not recognizing her as his wife, he hires them to be the royal Huntsmen. The K is told by his magic Lion of the Huntsmens true identities. The lion then advises peas'd be the answer to prove they were female, because they'd clumsily trip, unlike manly men. A servant warns the ladies and the K accuses the Lion, he knowing what'd happened due to his power, so this time they'd use spinning wheels, since they'd be more fascinated then men, again the servant supplying his intel, and the K again angered, he soon bonding to them. 1 day his hubby falls down, and upon helping her up sees the ring he'd given her, he making it so the other princess returned home, and he married the right lady, the Lion again trusted.
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs has the Q one day mending the K's shirts, it snowing, and getting distracted, she pokes her finger, and 3 drops of blood fall on the snow, she imagining what her little girl'd look like, this happening, and naming her S-W, the mother dying, and after a year, pop marrying the vainest bitch in town, who always reassured herself of her own beauty with her mirror. Unfortunately, by 7, S-W topped her step-ma, and the mirror made it known. So, due to jolly green giant of envy getting to her, she orders a hunter to take the girl to the forest, since she wished to not see her anymore, and to collect her <3 and tongue for a keepsake. When the man is set to kill her, she begs for her life and promises to leave, the man taken with her beauty, and allowing it, instead killing a boar for its parts. S-W grieved for herself and knew not where to go, running blindly and isn't abused by anything, she coming to a little house, and upon entering, eats a bite or 2 from each bowl, and same with their wine, 7 of everything, she finding the last bed the most comfy, and dropping off after prayers. The 7 dwarfs return, and immediately ask about their stuff being touched, upon discovering beautiful S-W, they leaving her to sleep and the 7th spending an hour with each fellow in their bed. When morning hit S-W is at first afraid, then realizes the dwarfs were friendly, and shares her story, she agreeing to take care of house whilst in return, they'd care for her, this working for awhile, the man warning to keep the door shut with her step-ma eventually knowing her survival. The Q'd consumed the boar parts, again 1 day asking her mirror, it giving up S-W's location and companions. She dresses up like a peddler and goes to S-W to sell her corsets, helping her into 1, and sewing her in tight, thinking she'd killed her good, and again asking the mirror, but the dwarfs save her and advise not to let anyone in without their presence. The Q gets the same answer as before, she next going as an "old widow", S-W falling for the poisoned comb and once getting it brushed through her hair, she falls down. The dwarfs again revive and bid her not open the door for anyone. When the evil woman again consults and is told by the mirror she was still an ugly bitch, she's more envious and rageful than before, vowing she'd die if she had to with the attempt to kill S-W. So, she devises and engineers the poisoned apple, going to S-W as a peasant's wife and convincing her again to eat it once she bites and eats the core, she fooled thrice, the Q getting the answer desired from the mirror. The dwarfs make certain the girl is dead, grieving 3 days around her body, then deciding she looked too alive to bury, instead placing her in a see-through case, 1 dwarf always keeping watch. She stays the same until a K's son happens by, requesting to buy the case, the dwarfs declining, and the prince asking they gift it to him for being unable to continue on without S-W, promising to care for her til his death. The dwarfs agree, since he seemed sincere, 1 of his servants carrying and dropping the box when he trips, the apple-piece falling out of S-W's mouth, and reviving her. The prince aways with her upon proposing and the 2 swiftly being married, the evil step-ma invited and once again asking the mirror about who was prettiest before going, it telling of the prince's bride outdoing her, she almost declining her invite, but wanting to see her opponent, astonished to recognize S-W, and she made to wear burning iron shoes until she perished. (Nice way to conclude a wedding!)
The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn shows 3 bros progressively becoming more poor, so they set off the eldest seeing and claiming what he'd planned on, which was locating a bunch of silver, this being discovered on a hill, and returns to their home, the 2 moving forward for want of more than silver. 2 days pass and they make it to a hill of gold, the middle brah satisfied after thinking about continuing on, he returning to their home, the 3rd bro moving on, expecting more of his own riches. He travels a few days more, getting to an even bigger forest, and was now nearly starving to death, so climbs a tree to get his bearings, seeing more trees ahead, so wishes for a decent meal to keep him going, barely getting the words out before seeing plates of food upon a napkin, he keeping it stowed as small as he could make it, within a pocket, testing the napkin again and it supplying more food, still expecting more from his to-come fortune. The next night, he comes up to a black fella, (terms ranging in unique fashion, "Charcoal-burner", as well as making known how black his mouth was when eating.) offerring him to dine with him, he in return having offered some of the taters he was frying. Upon seeing how the young man'd presented the vast meal, he was impressed, and ate with big bites. The man offers to trade his virtuous soldier sack for the handy napkin, upon learning what happens when he snapped his fingers at it, he quickly accepting, then taking his leave. A little ways away, he tests the sack, it spitting out the 7 soldiers, including Corporal, having them swindle back his napkin before dismissing them back into the sack to find more of his fortune. At sunset he locates another C-b, he being offered a hat which shot off a dozen guns, the young man ofc agreeing, leand pulling the same scam, a day later, doing it again, and acquiring a horn, which upon using'd tear down cities. He decides he'd gotten everything necessary for his fortune to be made, and was curious to see what his bros were up to, not being received warmly, with the outfit he was wearing making him look like a hobo, his bros chasing him out of their now, palace. The 3rd was so pissed, he calls out multiple ranks of 7, having his bros get thrashed til they knew him, and when townsppl came, they could do nothing against the soldiers. Their K also put into place, having him agree to marry off his daughter to him, getting this, but the girl trying to discover whether he got his strength from his knapsack, she using it against him, but he using the guns against her, from the hat, she relenting, and taking his hat, he using the horn against her, burying the K and girl it its rubble, and he taking over fully as K.
Rumplestiltskin begins with a far from well-off Miller, who ofc fathers a pretty girl, deciding to spin a yarn to get in favor with the K, stating she could spin straw to gold. The K loves the idea, so orders she be put to the test. The girl is brought to the room, and the K states she'd die if she hadn't succeeded by dawn-ish next day. The girl is soon in tears for not knowing how to proceed, the little man coming thru the door and inquiring what was wrong. She explains the prob, he asking what it'd be worth to her, she giving her necklace, and he doing the job. The K is a greedy dick, so he puts her in a larger room to perform again, this time giving the little man her ring, so upon the K returning and bidding her spin one more time and she'd be his wife, he knew she'd never be beat in riches. When the man returns to bargain and she hasn't anything to give, he decides her firstborn'd do nicely. Well, since the girl saw no other way out, agrees, marries, and a year later gets to kid-popping, the little man returning soon after, the lady so distraught, he's touched to bargain if she guessed his name she could keep her kid. She's given 3 days, using a messenger to discover odd names, not hitting it til the man travels to an isolated home overhearing the little man ID himself, she guessing a couple before using it, he incensed thinking a witch'd blabbed, stamping a foot through the floor, he tugging it so hard his leg pops off, he leaving and not bothering the Q again.
Roland tells of a witch who preferred her own ugly, evil girl over her step-child, who was beautiful and virtuous. Her vicious girl decides she wants her sis' apron, so the witch plans on killing her for it, devising her kid be sure to sleep against the wall. The other girl hears and plan accordingly, moving to the wall once the evil girl slept, the step-ma comes in and chops her own kid's head. After, girl goes off to the place of her bf's, as titled, he instructing her to nick her step-ma's magic wand, or they'd for sure get caught, and etc. happen. She somehow gets away with it, and drops 3 blood spatters from herself about the house before biffing off. Next morning, the witch calls her daughter to come for her apron, the witch getting responses from each blood spatter, until reaching the 1 at the bed, seeing her child laying there, raving, throws herself out the window and goes after her step-kid and bf, the girl turning herself into a duck and her bf into a lake, getting away temporarily. Next day though, they planning her demise, since ofc, she comes back and thinks the bf is a fiddler, picks the rose which was her step-kid, and dances herself to death due to trodding on thorns til she's bloody and naked. Roland then details going to his pop to finalize their engagement plans. The girl explains her plan on disguising as a red stone, Roland leaving her there and getting caught up with another girl back home, she sad once realizing he was taking so long, and changing into a pretty flower hoping some guy'd bring her to his place. A shepherd discovers her a couple days later, and puts her in a chest, she bringing him good luck. The man enjoys it, but soon becomes paranoid by not ever finding anyone, so asks a wise lady what to do, he throwing a napkin over whatever he discovered when he hears anything suspicious, this breaking the spell. The shepherd does this and sees the gorgeous girl, he asking her hand, but she staying true to her ex, and when he's about to get married, people bring her, the ladies singing solos for the couple, he knowing her and immediately marrying her instead, the 2 happy from then on.
The Juniper Tree was believed by the Grimm bros to be 1 of the BEST stories in this collection, written by Runge, taking place a couple thou years ago, a wealthy man and his loyal wife, don't have kids, but want them, the wife praying daily to no avail. 1 day, she carves an apple at their juniper tree, and cuts herself, hoping for a red and white kid, throughout 8 months, the nature around the tree flourishes, but getting ill upon eating its fruit, so by mo 9, she's requesting to be buried beneath the tree, she having her baby, and when seeing it, was so happy, her heart gives out. The man grieves, hard, but marries again, the woman having a girl and soon abusing the boy by swatting at him and whatnot. 1 day her little girl, Marline, asks her ma for an apple, getting 1, but the Evil 1 taking the ma over when the girl asks if her bro will get 1 too, taking the girl's apple away, and giving the excuse the bro should have 1 first, and once he gets back from school, notes aloud of his step-ma's ugly look on her face, but accepts the apple from the heavy-lidded chest, losing his head when she shuts it on him, then attempts to make it better by reattaching it with a hankie and placing the apple in his hand, sets him in a chair outside the door, Marline asking for his apple, and seeing he was so white, gets afraid when he doesn't respond. Her ma suggests she go ask again, and if he says nothing, smack his ear, upon doing so, his head comes off, and she, inconsolably updates her ma on what'd happened, the lady going along with allowing her little girl to believe she'd killed her bro, she burying him under the juniper tree the girl''s tears peppering his box. When pop comes home and asks where his boy is once sitting down for dinner, Marline can't stop crying, and ma says he'd gone to a certain town. Marline takes a mo. before dinner and spends more time at the juniper tree crying, but once lying on the ground, her perspective shifts, returning to table after seeing a bird fly out and perch outside a Goldsmith's place, and singing his fate on how he was now a bird. The Goldsmith walks out with 1 shoe on, the bird bargaining only to sing his song again for the gold chain he'd been finishing, this being done, and hearing the song once more, the bird then biffs off to a Shoemaker, he coming out, inviting his whole fam and neighbors, giving the bird shoes to sing again, after which the bird goes off and sings his song on a lemon tree outside a mill with 20 men working, they trickling out upon hearing and 1 of them asking for an encore, the bird asking for the millstone, every man agreeing, so the bird obliges. He next returns home, viewing his father, joyful with the thought of being reunited with someone dear, the wife scared of ill omen, and the girl crying bitterly in a corner. When the bird starts its song in the juniper tree, each has a unique reaction, pop going out first against the wife's advice, and receives the gold chain, the girl going out and getting the red shoes, the wife then goes out with the hope it'd make her feel better, as soon as she walks out the door, the bird killing her with the millstone. When pop and sis got to see, smoke and fire replace the body with the live boy, everyone joining hands and going back in to dinner happily.
The Little Farmer detailed a man amongst many wealthy farmers, and he nicknamed this for being the only 1 struggling. Due to not having cash for a cow, he bounces the idea of having his wife's pop carve them a calf, and hope it gets big, and real, she jumping onboard, and her pop making it look like it was grazing. The farmer has a shepherd carry it to pasture, the man doing so, then believing it could get itself back since it stood all day, he goes back without it, the farmer and he returning to get it, but it already gone, so the farmer takes him to court and gets a real cow as payment, but he and his wife now unable to feed it, so soon killing it and selling its meat in the next town, he wrapping a raven he discovers up in the meat, then has to stop at a mill for horrible weather, and is treated to bread and cheese, he soon jealous when this lady gives her priest-lover a banquet, but then hides everything with the man when her hubby returns. Upon getting invited to the table by the miller, the farmer explains the soothsayer bird, the miller wanting a demo. So, the farmer makes the bird squawk and predicts wine to be under a pillow, this true. He then uncovers the meat, the salad, and the boiled meat, his wife nervously going to bed, the miller wondering about the 5th mystery, and the farmer suggesting they eat first, for it being a shit thing, so after finishing, the farmer gets him to pay $300, then tells him where the bad soul was hiding, the black man running out fast, and once getting back, the farmer is brought before the mayor to reveal how he'd gotten rich, having them believe they could get 3 hundies for cow skin, they all killing their cows, but only getting $3, they now wanting vengeance. So, they have him sentenced to die by putting him in a box with holes to be sunk in the ocean, he tricking a shepherd to take his place by having him believe he'd be mayor if he went inside, the priest there to pray for him, not saying anything for being the adulterer, the shepherd putting the water in the nailed box. When the farmers get back to see the Little Farmer guiding the flock, he tricks them into believing he'd gone to the bottom of the ocean and walked beautiful fields with loads of more lambs. The clouds in the sky so perfectly reflected like sheep in the water, the mayor goes first, the rest of the town soon following and this leaving the Little Farmer to be the sole survivor and wealthiest resident.
Jorinde and Joringel first tells of an old witch living in a castle alone and spending her days as an owl and feline only being human at night, the woman charming her grounds so she could eat whatever entered, turning beautiful girls into exotic birds and keeping them in a room. Joringel and Jorinde were engaged, the 2 straying too close to the castle 1 day during a walk, Jorinde turned into a bird and Joringel unable to move, but seeing the owl. When the old witch returns and releases him, regardless of his snivelling begging, the witch refuses to return his love, he numbly working in an odd village nearby and shepherding lambs, he having a dream detailing how he'd be able to break the witch's charm, he executing this, despite the witch throwing poison at him, he saving the other girls after releasing Jorinde, and the 2 living in bliss.
Fir-Apple begins with a forester hearing a kid and seeing a boy sitting under a fir tree, an eagle spiriting him away from his sleeping ma under the tree and the forester rescuing and raising him with his girl, Helen, naming him Fir-apple, he and Helen becoming so close, they'd get sad when apart. 1 day, the old cook confesses to a curious Helen why she'd collected so much water being to boil F-a when pop is away. So, next morning when the cook goes to see the 2 gone, she plans to set up a search for them, the both escaping from her 3 times, each turning into animals and a lake, by the end, they drowning the crazy ass, and if the 2 still live, most likely being quite jolly.
Catherine and Frederick were a young married couple, "One day", he going out to farm and asking she prepare a hearty meal and drank when he gets back. When it's the proper time to start, she fries a sausage, and as it cooks, goes down the basement for beer, and as it fills a bucket, she goes up to be sure the dog wasn't at it, but he was, and succeeding, she chasing after him a ways, and walking back, the forgotten booze all out on the floor. She returns and cleans it, coming clean when Fred comes in, he pretty upset. This leads to him changing his silver pieces to some gold and telling his hubby they were "yellow counters", and where he'd buried them. He leaves and some q'ble men come by to sell some b.s., and Catherine shares where the gold was, and the 2 men making off with it. She again confesses to Fred what'd happened, and she states how he should've told her the truth, deciding they still had time to get their gold back. Fred makes sure Catherine loads herself up with butter and cheese, Fred getting further ahead, and she amusing herself with smoothing the ruts in the road with her buttah, and rolling her cheeses away, so they'd each help the previous to come back to her, this starting because one'd rolled out her pocket. She soon catches up, since Fred got hungered and stopped, she only having the bread to give. After eating a bit and learning she hadn't locked up house, he sends her back for more food and to do so, he waiting there, so she decides to bring apples and vinegar, plus the bottom half of the door, Fred impressed and having her carry it, until they get to the forest, they not discovering anyone, so they rest up a tree. The men make camp right below them, Fred's idea of pelting them with rocks doing nothing, Catherine no longer able to keep up the door along with the apples, so decides to dump them, Fred resistant after this and when she dumps the vinegar, what with possibly being caught, but she does, and then after, the door, this scaring the men away, and Fred and she discovering their gold in the morning and going home, she now accepting the job to cut corn, deciding to eat and sleep first, only doing a few, and cutting half her clothes off for slowly dosing off, so when she gets back home and asks if she was already inside, Fred assumes so, and she wanders off and decides to help some thieves, who decide they'd rather ditch her, and when she's discovered in a priest's field throwing dirt around for the gathering of veg, she scares a fella walking by, he informing the priest who couldn't walk, so he carries him piggyback, and the 2 get so afraid with the viewing of her, the priest runs faster than the fella.
The Two Brothers, 1 poor and the other wealthy, 1 making a living as a goldsmith and being selfish, the other fixing brooms, and living righteously. The broom-mender's twins'd get the leftovers from their unc's meals. The broom-mender sees a gold bird at some point, and when knocking it, gets a feather to sell to his bro, getting lucky again when climbing a tree another day and locating its nest, selling an egg, the last encounter getting him the bird and a load of gold. The goldsmith has his hubby prepare the bird, so he could get the power of gold appearing each morning under his pillow. As the wife does this, the twins turn the spitted bird for fun, and when seeing 2 morsels fall out, each eats them, the lady covering their tracks by killing a chicken and putting its heart and liver in, the goldsmith eating it, but not getting any gold in the morning. The twins ofc, do and the broom-mender is so confused, after the 2nd day he shares with his bro, who out of jealousy has him believe it's Satan and the kids should be abandoned, the broom-mender being a simple ass, does so regretfully. The twins try finding their way back, but only go deeper still into the forest, being found and raised by a hunter, the boys saving their gold. When the boys become young men, they do their hunter trial, and ask their pop if they could travel the world, he agreeing they were ready and their last night together spent merrily. When it was time, the pop gave them each a gun, a dog, and knife, advising the 2 stick it in a tree near a road, should they be separated and it'd tell how the other fared, the 2 reaching a huge forest and eating their food first day. When they prepare to kill a rabbit, it bargains with them to take 2 other rabbits, the boys deciding to keep them and instead want to kill a fox, but it pleading they take 2 other foxes, and agreeing, are then ready to shoot a wolf, but he also giving 2 pups, the next a bear giving up 2 cubs, and the final animal, a lion subbing his life for 2 cubs. The twins have the 2 foxes get them to food, they doing as bid and leading them to a village, everyone getting fed. Soon, they realize they must go on alone, so parting tenderly and leaving their knives in a tree, go to find homes, each taking 1 of each of the 2 animals. The younger locates a town which was mourning, the young man discovering the last virgin was to be sacrificed for a dragon tmw, the huntsman then learning the K would gift his daughter and his own kingdom upon his death, if whoever could kill it. So, next day the huntsman goes to the dragon's cave and drinks from the 3 cups labeled to make him like Hercules, and get the buried sword, he able to swing it for feeling so light, the K sends up the princess, and the hunter protects her by having her stay in the chapel, the 7-headed dragon coming and surprised, inquiring why the hunter was there, he declaring his being there for a fight, killing the dragon with a bit of help from his animals and chopping off 6 heads and the tail, the beasts chunking the rest of the dragon to bits, he then releasing the now fainted princess, she giving each animal a part of her necklace as reward and the huntsman her hankie, with her name inscribed, he using it to store the 7 tongues off the beast. The huntsman decides a nap is in order, he and the princess dozing, and each animal keeping watch before all fall fast and deep. Since the Marshal'd been left by the K to watch the princess be flown off with and saw nothing, goes up to have a look-see, and when viewing all'd been handled, kills the huntsman and takes the princess, threatening her life if she didn't go along, so she corroborates the Marshal's story to her pop, but makes the requirement to have the wedding put off a year and a day, hoping the huntsman'd return (Marshal not having revealed what he'd done). Meanwhile, a bee awakes the rabbit, each animal soon being awoken, and the ultimate blame put on the rabbit for being last, they going to tear him apart, but he relates of a root 200 hrs away which'd restore the huntsman to life, the lion giving him 24 hrs, the rabbit booking it, and they reattaching and bringing the huntsman back, he soon realizing his head was on back to front, the animals killing and fixing him, and he getting depressed and traveling for a year before returning to the town to see it in red, learning from the same innkeeper of the pending marriage of the Marshal to the princess and why. The next day, the innkeeper bets the huntsman he wouldn't be sharing the K's bread as he'd claimed, he getting Jumper to get some. The rabbit makes it inside the castle to the princess (another error, "The(n) the", ya dippy editor), she recognizing Jumper due to the necklace. She fetches the bread for him upon learning her Huntsman returned, she also sending the baker to deliver it safely, the rabbit bringing it in, and the innkeeper keeping his word, but not betting when the Huntsman then sends the fox for meat. he gets to the princess more easily and asks for it, the cook delivering, and the huntsman next sending out the wolf for veg, this obliged and the cook again accompanying the wolf back, next the bear being sent for sweetmeats, the sugar-baker delivering it for them, lastly the lion being sent for wine, the butler for some reason testing the fucking K of the Jungle, until finally getting wacked upside the head, then filling 6 bottles, after which delivering it for the lion, the huntsman partaking with his animals, then knowing the princess still cared for him, declares he's off to marry her. The innkeeper can't help, but bet his home and property, the huntsman in return puts up 1000k in gold. As this occurs the K inquires the princess why the animals'd kept coming and going, she stating of sending for their master and he'd know. So, right after they'd finished settling their bet, he gets the invite, he requesting 6 horses and a carriage, with attire included for him, she repeating her previous response to her pop, and he doing as bid. Upon the huntsman's arrival, the K follows the princess's advice, the 2 going and meeting the princess and Marshal, everyone seated where the heads of the dragon'd been mounted, the K explaining the event today, so the huntsman hwhips out the princess's hankie with the tongues wrapped inside and is able to show they fit inside each mouth, proving he'd killed the dragon, he then showing the hankie, the princess able to identify it was hers, he then collecting each part of her necklace from the animals and reassembling, and showing it, again, the princess corroborating this, she stating how this was the reason for her putting off the wedding and the Marshal's threat. The K has the Marshal judged and sentenced to be split by 4 oxen, this done, the huntsman marries the princess, and after giving presents to both his natural and foster pops, the innkeeper is told he could keep his property along with his bet gold. The 2 live happily and one day the young K decides he wishes to ride in a haunted forest, the K allowing this, and his animals going along with a bunch of men, they waiting whilst he went after a deer, doesn't catch it, and realizes he must make camp, the men by this time biffing off and reporting what'd happened to the young Q, she worried, and this whilst the huntsman hears above him a lady lamenting in a tree of being cold, so he offers she share his fire, but she afraid of his animals. He unfortunately obliges upon her request to touch them with a twig, which turns them to stone, she climbs down and does the same to him, before burying them all with the others she's changed. Meanwhile, the young K's bro comes back, to see how he'd gotten on, he being mistaken for the young K and knowing he must be truthful and state his true ID, 2 days later, he wanting to follow his bro into the forest, the K and young Q not wanting this, but again sending attendants with him, but as before, upon seeing the deer, they wait whilst he tracked and lost it, the witch again attempting her trick, but the huntsman refusing to hit his animals, threatening to shoot her, and she claiming no fear. Well, she changes her mind when he readies some silver bullets, and she confesses where his bro was, he having her change everyone back. This done, all the people turnt to stone leave gratefully, the bros reuniting warmly, and dispose of the witch, the haunted forest disappearing with her murder and the castle now visible. As they walk, his bro confesses to the young Q having him in her bed, his bro moved to furious anger and lopping his head off, immediately feeling guilty, so Jumper gets the root, fixing him. They each come in from opposing sides of the kingdom and when walking to be ID'd by the young Q, she uses her necklace as her marker, the young K happy and everyone sharing a meal in celebration, the young Q mentioning how he'd kept his sword in their bed the last couple nights, the young K knowing now his bro hadn't banged his wife.
How Six Traveled Through the World starts with a skilled man in many fields, having been in the military, acted bravely, and once done, wasn't satisfied with his salary, so decides he'd get the valuables of the kingdom. First he discovers and joins up with a fella, who was strong enough to pull 6 trees from the Erf, and after bringing them home to his ma, the 2 set out. They run into a hunter wishing to blow the eye out of a fly, he also coming along, they then locating a guy, who could blast wind from his nose like a champ, and after him, a man who was quick AF, having taken 1 of his legs off to rest. They all continue to a man who could frost the place if he didn't cover 1 ear with his hat. They all go to a kingdom where the K'd made the task of whoever beat his daughter in a race would marry her and if lost, wouldn't have a head anymore. So, the ex-military huntsman offers his running servant to the contest, the K making clear they'd both die if he lost. The man speeds his way to collect the cup of water, but takes a nap on a horse's skull as a pillow, thinking this would make it easier to wake, the huntsman shoots the skull without harming the man, and he wins the race even with having to refill the spilled cup the princess'd dumped on her return from filling hers. So, the K devises to kill them by putting them in an iron room and locking them inside with the allusion of a feast, so when it begins getting overly hot, due to putting heat on in the kitchen downstairs and piping it in, the hat man cools the place down by putting his hat on properly, the K annoyed his plan failed. So, he instead hopes to bribe the man with money in exchange for his daughter, the ex-military man agreeing. He prepares for 2 weeks which he has a ginormous sack made for his strong fella to fill, the K not happy with how much load this fella could bare, which was all of it, with room still, he walking off comfily. The K attempts to get his treasures back by sending a couple regimes, but the nose-blower whooshes them away, the K giving in and the 6 men living well.
The Queen Bee starts with a K's 2 sons having so much fun on their own, not coming back home. So, the youngest bro, Dummling goes to fetch them, and upon meeting them, the 2 goofing on his lack of cleverness, they still coming along with him, and refrain from upsetting an anthill due to his saying so, nor allowing them to kill ducks for food, or to capture bees for their honey. The bros reach a castle which they enter and look through a keylock, calling to a man thrice before he comes out and directs them to a room with food and drink, then shows each to sleeping quarters, awaking the eldest and showing of a princess's pearls, among other tasks, needing to be collected, if he couldn't finish in time, he'd be turned to stone. He fails and it happens, the middle bro also attempting and failing, then Dummling tries and cries for knowing the difficulty, being helped by the Ant K and his subj's, he also getting help from the ducks with locating the princess's bedroom key at the bottom of the lake, the 3rd task requiring he ID the youngest and prettiest princess when they all look alike, who'd had honey for dessert, the Q Bee ID'ing her and the boy marrying her, the spell broken and all 3 girls reviving, b4 the marriage, ofc, the other 2 bros resigning themselves to marrying her sisters.
The Three Feathers is similar to the above, the 2 older bros brave and decisive, but Dummling being a fool. The K believes his time was near, and was attempting to decide on his heir. He sends all 3 on a quest to get the best carpet, having each go in the direction of 3 feathers he lets go in the wind, Dummling getting stuck with the 1 landing in view in front of him, sad, but then seeing a trapdoor where, below he hears a voice sing to a frog to allow the knocking visitor inside, the large frog asking what brought him and gets 1 of her young'ns to fetch his request, he grateful and returning home. The older bros steal from a random shepherd's wife, not thinking their bro would get anything. The K admits the youngest wins, but the 2 bros complain so much he has them detect the prettiest ring, again using the feathers to decide the direction each could choose, each getting the same and whilst the bros hammered a nail as their ring choice, Dummling gets the best 1 and the K admits this, the 2 bros putting up the same argument, so a 3rd test is given, the K deciding they'd each locate the prettiest lady, Dummling going to the frog and she giving him a carrot with mice attached, the frog then bidding he choose a frog, it changing into a gorgeous girl, the 2 bros choosing the first peasant girls they locate, the K again stating the youngest wins, but the bros suggesting the girls jump through a hoop, the 2 girls breaking their limbs and the frog princess winning, the youngest ruling with level-headedness and joy.
The Golden Goose again stars Dummling, this time by a normal man, he the youngest and being looked down on. The eldest goes to chop wood 1 day, and gets a pancake and wine from his ma for the day, an old man asking for samples due to being famished and dehydrated, but the boy declines and upon beginning to cut a tree, wounds himself, the old man to blame, the boy returning home to heal. The middle bro denies the man, as well, and cuts his leg, Dummling offerring to go and his pa denying him for not understanding the danger, but upon insisting and hoping he'd be allowed, he gets permission, but gets a crappier pancake and sour beer, and when the man asks for some and Dummling agrees, it changes to a better pancake and wine, the man giving him luck by pointing him to a tree which'd give him treasure. He follows his advice and takes the gold feathered goose, after spending a night at an inn where 3 daughters of the owner try to get a feather and each sticking to the bird, the young man not caring and having them follow him along, a priest gets righteous about how the girls were chasing him, and upon touching 1 of the girls, also becomes stuck. The priest's clerk also gets stuck after him, and when he asks for help by 2 passing peasants, they get stuck, as well. Dummling takes his procession to a town where the K decreed whoever could make the princess laugh could marry her, upon hearing of this Dummling brings them to her, and she immediately cracks up once seeing them all. The K doesn't approve of Dummling, so demands he also locate a man who could drink a basement-full of booze, the young man going back to where he'd met the old man and meeting a fella who couldn't get his thirst quenched, Dummling taking him to the basement, the K then having him discover a man who could eat a mtn of bread, Dummling again going to the forest and bringing back a 2nd hungry man. This time the K has Dummling get a boat which could travel on land, as well, the old man granting this to Dummling and the K giving his daughter up, Dummling ruling after the K and living happily with his wife.
Allerleirauh tells of a K who had a wife who was quite blond and pretty af, she becoming ill, so when she felt death was close, had him promise to remarry no lady who was blond or as pretty as she, then croaking. After the K's men search instead for a lady like the dead Q and fail, he turns his eyes on his own blood, she the only 1 like her ma, and tells his statesmen so. They don't like it for being against God, and the girl was afraid, so also had a plan to dissuade him, going with a request of 3 dresses similar in color to the moon and sun, and 1 shiiiiny, like stars, as well as a jacket containing skin from each beast in the kingdom, thinking he wouldn't succeed, but this isn't the case when pussy's involved, K getting it done and setting the wedding date for next day. The princess decides to run for it, taking her new wardrobe and golden spinning wheel with accoutrements, powders herself black, and spends the night in the forest, resting in a hollow tree. It so happens, the girl sleeps late and the K'd gone hunting, his men describing her uniqueness, so the K orders her capture and tie her up. Upon waking she pleads for shelter and safety, she brought to help in the kitchen and stay in the stable. She lives this harder life for awhile until a party is had and she goes in the golden gown, the K dancing with her and not placing her, she slipping off after. She resumes her incognito life and helps the cook prepare a soup for the K, sticking her gold ring in it for him to discover, he calling the cook, who was scared shitless she'd gotten her hair in it. He reveals Allerleirauh'd made the meal and she claimed not to know about the ring, so the matter rested there. The same thing occurs though, a party is held, Allerleirauh gets permission to look and again dances with the K and leaves, preparing the soup again. This time she adds the golden spinning wheel to it, and denying she knew anything to the K. There's soon a 3rd event and the cook lets her go despite suspecting she was a witch for making better soup than he, she again dancing with the K, this time unknowingly getting the gold ring slipped on her finger, and she also late for her shift, since the K'd prolonged the dance, she doing a bad job of putting ashes on herself and also simply putting the skins jacket over her dress, so when she's again summoned by the K, he sees her for what she is, his daughter-bride, the 2 marrying and living joyfully in their incest.
The Three Luck-Children are given a cock, a scythe, and cat, the pop informing his boys if they used their gifts right, they'd make their living in places those things weren't known. When the pop croaks, the oldest son travels about with his cock, unable to find a spot where they weren't already plentiful, until coming to an island where he could show the residents the bird's uses. The people are soon prepared to buy it and the fella is given a load of gold. When he returns to show his bros, the middle next goes off with his scythe and discovers an island where the people shot their corn down with cannon balls, so when the middle son shows how well the scythe worked, they give him a horse weighed down with gold as he'd requested. The youngest next goes and locates an island where they were overrun with mice and so the people beg the K to buy it, the youngest getting a mule smothered with gold. Unfortunately, the cat gets thirsty after a bunch of killing, and starts mowling, no one knowing what it meant, and after the K has a servant ask the cat to leave, and takes its meow as no, they level the castle to the ground, the cat escaping.
The Wolf and the Fox begins with the W catching the F and as they traveled, threatening him to find sustenance for him or it meant his death, the F finding him lamb, but he not satisfied, returns for a 2nd and gets caught by peasants who beat him bloody, the F stating the W's gluttony getting him in trouble. When next the W gets hungered, the F takes him to a spot where pancakes were getting made and again when the W isn't satisfied, goes for more and is assaulted, the F responding the same to his complaints. The 3rd day when the W asks for food tactlessly, he's led to a sore with cured pig, the F keeping track he could still fit through the hole they'd come in by, telling the W it was to keep watch, but also warning to not overeat. When the peasant comes, the F flees and si glad to finally be rid of the fat ass, now dead W.
The Pink tells of a Q yearning to get knocked up, an angel finally coming to her and confirming the gender, as well as the gift of getting everything the kid wished. The K was ecstatic over his boy popping out. The Q takes her son to wash at the spring every morning, the cook knowing of the boy's power, setting up the Q as she napped, taking her boy and making it look as though wild animals'd shredded him away from her as she lay there, the K believing it, and keeping his wife in a tower which received no light source, she made to stay there for 7 years, and only getting food by birdies. The cook meanwhile, advises the now comprehensive boy to wish for a large home with all the necessities included. Then, he has the boy wish for a female companion for himself. The pretty little birl becomes fast buds with him, and the 2 greatly care for one another, the cook then threatening the girl to kill the boy for fearing he'd ask of his pop soon. The cook must bully her once more before she has a calf killed in his place, and has the boy hide under his covers. When the cook returns for the boy's heart and tongue, he bursts from the bed and has him changed to a black poodle, who ate burning coals, and belched flames. The boy doesn't dilly dally long after for thinking if his ma was still kicking, so tells his girlfriend he was off to visit his pa and he'd care for her if she wished to tag. She wasn't certain, and worried how she'd be received in a strange place, so the boy turns her into a "pink" = flower, so he could force her to join him without having to think. The boy is followed by the poodle, as well and upon getting to his ma's tower, wishes a ladder and asks her whether she's perished, she thinking it was 1 of the birds who'd asked, reminding him she'd just finished, probably thinking it dense. The boy ID's himself and vows to relieve her of her prison. He then goes about this by asking for employment by his pa as a huntsman, which he would agree to if he got loads of venison, he having killed all the game in his kingdom, so the boy wishes it, and the soldiers kill enough for 60 cartloads, he then inviting his men to a feast, the huntsman revealing his ID when hearing why his pa'd trapped his ma in the tower, setting him straight. The cook is turned back after again eating some coal, then placed in the deepest dungeon, the boy then showing his gf. The Q is brought out and is so joyous for being free, is let go of her mortal coil and her birds fluttered above her grave as angels, the K so guilt-stricken and depressed, he soon dies and the young K marries the girl, and this Narrator doesn't know whether they fare well.
The Clever Grethel is a cook, who tastes her own food, and drank a bit, confirming what a "pretty girl" she still was by tappity tapping her shoes with red knots. Her master asks for her to prepare 2 birds for himself and a guest, he going out to escort the person when Grethel warns the birds'd be at their tastiest soon, she grabbing some drank whilst she waited his return, but since he hadn't come back, yet, eats a wing, since it'd burned (uh huh). Then goes after the other wing, to be even, and after another drink, convinces herself to eat the bird, and when the master still hadn't shown, eats the other bird. Directly upon finishing, the master comes in with guest, he sharpening his knife and Grethel convincing the guest the master meant to chop his ears off, upon hearing the carving, bolts, and Grethel relates he'd taken both birds, the master shouting "only one!", after the man, making him think he was negotiating to a single ear, booking it quicker to safety.
The Golden Children begins with a poor hubby and wife, eating what they caught, the man netting a gold fish. He's in awe, and then the fish bargains turning the man's hut into a castle if he let him off. The man mentions food being what's necessary, so the fish includes a cupboard having as much as the man wished, he accepting, so th fish warning he not reveal to anyone his benefactor or it'd be taken. He goes home and gets wide-eyed over the castle, his wife already adorning herself of the clothes, the man wanting food! She doesn't know of the cupboard til he mentions it, and the 2 feast, she making marry and not asking repetitively how he'd come by it, since he'd told her it'd go if he did, but after a little time passes, she nags it out of him, and they're returned to their hut. Sort of fortunately, the man catches the same fish, getting offered the same deal, with the same rule. The comforts last a couple days before the wife nags it out of him again, she not wanting it if she couldn't have the peace of how it'd come. After a couple days, he catches the fish again, it resigned and instructing to kill and split him 6 ways, 2 for his hubby to consume, 2 for his horse, and 2 for the Erf. The ground produces gold lilies, the horse, and wife, 2 gold babies. The kids, etc. grow, they wishing to travel with the horses, so telling their pop he could see how well they were with the state of the flowers. Both boys go to an inn, 1 returning home due to the people's jeers at they being gold, the other despite also being warned by other townsfolk, goes into a wood where robbers were prominent. The boy passes unharmed, reaches a town and becomes smitten with a beautiful girl, the 2 agree to marry, her pop discovering them during the festivities, and only sparing the bear-hunter garbed boy because his daughter'd begged him. When the man sees he's gold, he's glad he hadn't done anything rash, next morning the boy dreams and wishes to fulfil his need to hunt, discovering, but not claiming the stag, and after chasing it all day, comes to a witch's house, he asking if she'd seen the animal. She has, but upon being interrupted by her dog's bark, which offends the boy to threaten it with being shot, she charming him, his bro seeing the flower shed a petal, and going after him to see if he could aid his cause. He locates his bro as stone and after threatening the witch, she acquiesces, the 2 happily greeting each other, and biffing off, returning to their respective homes and living with ease thereafter.
The Water-Sprite is a possessive creature which claims a sis and bro after they fall into a stream, the 2 made to work in boredom, so when the sprite is off to church, they flee. The sprite chases them upon realizing they'd left, the kids 3 attempts at waylaying it successful in the end.
Brother Lustig was among many soldiers to get a measly return for fighting in the ended war, but a said disguising himself 3x as a beggar gets most of what the man had, then turns into a fellow soldier after Lustig'd stopped and gotten a beer with his last share of bread, he offering they beg together, but the saint offering Lustig to tag along with him and he would provide a share from whatever earnings he got from his healing powers, Lustig onboard, and the 2 moseying along. When the saint saves a man from death, Lustig carries, kills, and eats the heart of the lamb which'd been offered as payment, despite the saint declining, the saint walks off and requests Lustig refrain from eating till he returned, upon doing so, asking for the already consumed heart, Lustig claiming lambs didn't harbor hearts. As they cross a stream, the saint tests Lustig by having the water rise and give him opp. to come clean, Lustig sticking to his story, and the saint still helping him across. They next hear of an ill princess, Lustig urging the saint on, but he moving more slowly, and the princess dies, but the saint still revives her, not requesting anything for payment again, the K filling Lustig's bag with gold when he saw he wished for something. When the saint later divvy's up their loot, he gets his honest reply from Lustig when making a portion for whoever ate the heart, then parting ways with him for his dishonesty, the solder okay with this. When another princess dies, and he'd spent all his gold, he attempts his hand at bringing her back, but the saint returns during his botched ritual to tell he'd placed the bones wrong, and would only help him this once and not to ask for a reward, Lustig not doing so, but receiving gold to be filled in his bag, and so they had better chance of not running into each other again, the saint charms the sack to always fill with w/e he wished. Lustig spent the last of his money with booze and bread, wishing for the smelly turkeys he saw cooking, the sack providing, and the man giving away the 2nd to a pair of men passing, who go to the same in to eat it, the proprietress having hubby check on theirs upon seeing it. When he sees both birds gone, he accuses these 2 despite they mentioning the soldier, Lustig moving on to another, full inn, he asking about the castle on the other side and being told of each guest not coming out breathing, Lustig up for the challenge with snacks, ofc. 9 spirits of evil bother him, he using his sack to trap them and finishes sleeping through the night, the owner and inn keeper surprised to find him alive. He's offered permanent employment, but refuses and goes to a smithy where he has his sack crushed, killing all the spirits except 1, which escapes. Lustig travels all over into retiring age, he locating a pilgrim and wishing to walk a righteous way, but chooses a nice, ez path, coming to an evil place, and is recognized by the escaped evil spirit, he warning the master, and so being turned away, going to the house of angels instead, and seeing the saint, who also refuses him entry, so Lustig returns the sack, then wishes himself inside it when it's through the gate, the saint not bothered in kicking him out again for his cleverness.
Hans in Luck begins with his term of 7 years service being completed and asking for his pay out so he can visit his ma. He receives a gold nug the size of his head, and is complaining and wishing to be on a horse like he was seeing some fella on currently, he offering to trade, Hans glad to not have to lug it anymore, but gets thrown from the horse when getting it to trot. A peasant with cow stops the horse from running and Hans wishes he had a cow instead of a horse. The peasant agrees to a trade and when after traveling a lil tries milking her, gets kicked in the noggin for his efforts, a butcher passing by and giving him a revitalizing pull off his flask, he then trading his pig for the old cow. Going further on his path he meets a boy with a goose, he telling of the mayor's pig being stolen, so he should consider hiding it, he trading the boy for the goose, instead. Then, he trades the goose for a grindstone, he able to make a living off it no matter what, but on his walk, he'd grown more tired from the weight and when stopping for a drink, drops them accidentally in the river, but he gladdened for the lighter load, and returning home to his ma.
The Fox and the Geese has a fox gluttonously looking @ some geese flock in an open space, as they eat he chatting about how he'd consume them, the birds responding in fear and the Fox unmoved. 1 goose pleads they be allowed to pray before death, the Fox happily allowing this, they not stopping and this tale continuing when they do.
The Young Giant is another tale of Thumbling, he the son of a peasant, still and 1 day wishing to help his dubious pop with his plough, upset until pop agrees, he stopping at the field he'd be working and sees a giant which he says is coming to claim Thumbling to scare him, but the giant actually does, snatching him up and leaving before his pop's shock subsides. Meanwhile, the giant takes Thumbling to his home and feeds him to the point of growing like a young giant. The giant decides to gauge Thumbling's strength, having him break a branch off a tree, Thumbling taking a sapling from the ground, the giant feeding him well for another couple years, after which Thumbling could break an old tree, the giant again using same method and formula, Thumbling tearing the widest oak tree out the Erf, without using effort, but was amused, he being allowed to return to the field he plucked him, escorting him back, and when pop is confronted by Thumbling, since he'd be working in the field, he's scares him initially, his pop trying to drive him off, but when pop backs off from Thumbling, the YG takes up the plough, pop watching and offering advice, soon Thumbling suggests he return to ma, and have her cook a shit ton of food, whilst he finishes the field. When he returns, it isn't a warm welcome from ma, who has the same reaction, but finally getting him all their food in store, Thumbling deciding he must get an iron bar which he couldn't break over his knee, his pop trying 3 times and not able, so Thumbling goes off to apprentice for a smithy, the 1st one he goes to, agrees believing he'd saved cash, since Thumbling only wanted payment every couple weeks and wanted to give 2 blows to the smithy, he thinking he'd fair well. Upon the smithy testing him, he destroys not only the iron, but the anvil is buried in the ground from impact. Thumbling gives him a half capacity blow as his payment, and takes an iron bar, as well, leaving and using it as walking stick. Thumbling next ravels to a big farm, and asks the Bailiff if there was a posish open as lead servant, the man confirming and also believing he was saving money with only being hit 3 times a year. Next morning, Thumbling is bothered to wake up quite early, he sleeping in a couple more hours, and making himself a lackadaisically timely broth, all with the claim he'd get his job done before the rest of them, he making a barrier no horse could pass as he came along, gathering 2 large trees, and schooling the other workers on how he'd get them more leisure if they trusted him, then getting his horse through the barrier after clearing the area of trunks like "feathers", everyone so in shock to move, Thumbling getting back and showing the Bailiff his worth, the man impressed. When his year is up, the Bailiff becomes a pussy about the blows, Thumbling dividing it, but then conceding to a 2 week respite, the Bailiff consulting his counselors, and believing it best to have Thumbling take a bath in a lake, they then dropping a millstone upon him, but when they do it, Thumbling comes back with the millstone as a necklace. Upon further consultation, the Bailiff decides to use his enchanted mill which everyone entering, was found dead by morning. Thumbling is made to work grinding corn, weird shit happening by 11 pm, a table coming in and setting an appetizing meal out, Thumbling partacking fully, then the lights going out, and getting wacked about the head, he soon returning each blow til morning, when the Bailiff is shocked by Thumbling's survival, but overjoyed this meant he'd saved his mill, to the point of offering any amount of money as payment, the young giant Thumbling wishing only what he'd been promised, the Bailiff so worried, as he's standing at a window, Thumbling kicks his ass out, and he disappears far away, Thumbling then stating to the Bailiff's wife, she'd have to take the other hit if he didn't return, she now nervously waiting at the window. Thumbling sends her farther, for she being lighter, and her hubby and she yell at each other to come to them, the 2 still fluttering about , the young giant Thumbling traveling on.
The Dwarfs start with a wealthy K with 3 daughters, who enjoy wandering through pop's gardens daily, he a tree aficionado, 1 being able to stick people 100 feet into the Ef if an apple is plucked, the youngest deciding the rule was surely only for outsiders, taking and sharing it with her sisters, but they all quicksand into the Erf. At noon, pop couldn't get the girls located, so has it known he'd offer 1 of them as a bride if they were discovered. 3 young huntsmen in particular, for there were many, travel to a castle where no human was seen, but a full table loaded with feast. The bros decide 1 of them should chill there whilst the others hunted the fine little girls, this being HQ, the eldest drawing the lot to stay. So, presently a Dwarf comes and sets up cuts of meat, trying to get the huntsman to participate, but when he has him pick up some fallen scrap, he beats the shit out of him, this happening to the middle bro, as well, they not confessing to the youngest for believing he'd refuse his turn, but when the Dwarf tries his game, the youngest insults him about why he couldn't do it, then throttles him and the Dwarf offering info on where the girls were. He explains the network of tunnels under the Erf, stating the girls were in a well with 3 rooms guarded by over 3-headed dragons, so advises the huntsman to take a knife, thereby cutting off its heads, the Dwarf disappearing before the bros come back to ask how everything was, not being back by the nightfall. His brows were a bit pissed off by his nonabused success, the 3 again drawing to see who'd go down the well first, it being the eldest again, he carrying a bell which'd warn the other bros to pull him up fast. He and the middle bro don't make it all they way down, but youngest bro does. He goes into the room to see the girl having all 9 heads of dragon napping upon her. The youngest doesn't make a thang of it, cutting their heads off, like cheese, the princess kissing him and nuzzling his neck, also giving him her necklace as a gift. He goes into the other room, this princess having a 7 headed guard, and the youngest girl, a 4 headed 1, the 3 sisters showering him with lurv, until he rings his bell, each girl sent up, the youngest placing a rock inside the basket for his turn, since the Dwarf had also said his bros'd turn on him, they cutting the rope after pulling it half way up. they have the princesses go along with their story and wish to claim the girls as their brides once seeing the K. The youngest bro sadly stuck, seeing a useless flute on the wall, but upon blowing it, dwarves pop out, he having enough come to fill the place, then upon their asking, wished to be above ground, they pulling him up by his hair, and he getting back to the castle as the girls are readying for their betrothals. Upon entering and locating where the K sat with the girls, they pass out, pop thinking he'd done them wrong, so arresting him, until the girls woke and provided detail of his honorability. The 3 declare they can't share why, the K having them speak to the oven, literally for once, perhaps. Pop is so pissed, he has the bros hung, and gives the youngest bro the youngest girl, and the Narrator going to the wedding in glass shoes, and breaks them to pieces when kicking a wall.
The Peasant's Wise Daughter tells of a poor man living with his daughter in a small cottage, she advising they attempt to inquire of the K of obtaining some waste land. The K obliges by gifting a quadrant of a corn field, they cultivating well, and uncovering a mortar of gold, the girl advising they not inform the K, since they didn't have the pestle, the man still going and providing it to the K, who thanks him by putting him in prison til he finds the pestle. The man spends his days wailing about should having listened, the K inquiring why he acted this way and didn't eat or drink, he confessing his clever girl, he calling her to him. K proposes to marry her, if she solved a riddle, which she performs herself, meeting his terms after releasing her pop from prison. Years go by, and the K is on a parade, a bunch of peasants with oxen and whathaveya, currently stop in front of the palace. They get into an argument involving their animals, the argument brought to the K, who gives a young ox to the wrong peasant, the rightful owner pleading help from the Q, who comes up with a plan, as long as the peasant was loyal. The peasant follows her plan,t he K suspicious of his reply to the point of assault and torture, the poor man finally confessing the Q'd said it, the K no longer caring for his wife and telling her to go back where she came from, she agreeing and being allowed to take with her what she most desired, she giving hima strong sleep tonic causing him to sleep 1 day and night, he awaking at the Q's childhood home, and upon his waking, declaring it was he she thought the world of, and he's so smitten, they live happily, the Narrator not having heard different.
The Three Birds are about 3 sisters working with their cows and seeing 1 of the arrogant King's with his huntsmen, who lived in the hills, each girl claiming 1 of the men they saw to each other, but the K hears them, and when he'd finished hunting, returns to them and q's what they'd meant earlier, they not saying, but all 3 agreeing to marry each man. When the K goes on a quest, he asks the 2 sisters to keep his Q company, none of them having yet spurt out kids, their Queenly sis having a baby with a red forehead and good looking already, they plotting to chuck the kid in a pond, a bird spouting a rhyme, which spooks them, but they telling the K of the stillborn, he taking it well enough. Meanwhile, a fisherman saves the boy and raises him with his wife, since she didn't have any buns (in the oven). Next year, the sisters pull the same trick, dumping the newborn in the pond, and the bird rhyming at them, the K taking the news as before, and the Fisherman raising this 1, as well. A girl is next born and again the 2 sisters pull their gag, but this time, the K meets this update with anger and punishes his wife for years for it. The kids grow and the eldest becomes aware of his adoption, his pop not wishing to part with him when he wished to discover his true pop, but is given blessing to try, and after many days of travel, meets a lady fishing at a lake, who he greets as his ma, and carries him over the lake to search for his pop. After a year, the 2nd boy goes after him and meets the same lady, and has the same chat, also getting crossed over the lake. The girl gets bored not long after and goes to find her bros, she meeting the old lady and instead hopes her fishing goes well, the lady helping her across, gives her a staff and provides instructions which'd lead her to a castle, as well as what to do whilst there. The girl locates her bros at the castle, they having traveled half the globe, and after performing her odd duties, the 3 cracking a dog in the face, which turns him into a pretty prince and they being escorted back to the lake, and brought across by the lady, the trio going home with their caged bird. The oldest goes hunting and is met by the K, who the boy leads to the Fisherman when needing confirmation of his ID, the bird then singing what'd happened all those years ago, scaring everyone, but the K taking them all to his now released Q, the girl giving her water she'd collected at the castle, and making her well. The 2 sisters are pyred alive and the girl is married off to the pretty prince, all living with joy til elderly-ness.
The Raven tells of a Q with a Thumbling-sized (presumably) little girl, she always held by people whilst in transit, 1 time the girl being so fussy, her ma opens a window and, the ravens flying about outside, she hopes the girl turns into one of them and fly off, so she'd get blissful non-loud moments. Right after she says it, she takes off from her arm and stays in "a dark forest" for quite awhile, ma and pa knowing nothing about her. A bit later, some fella is near the raven, following her noises, and when she sees him, speaking of he being able to help her get out of her magic state, he willing, so she detailing how he must go on to an old lady's house, where he not partake of her grub or he'll pass out, and wait for her on some tree bark in the backyard. This will be the site she'd be able to meet him at 2 for 3 days, with different color horses with buggy, she reminding he must not be asleep, the girl not convinced he'd partake, he vowing he'd succeed, but failing in the end, drinking some wine and not being roused, the girl not surprised, and the 2nd day he fails again, with the wine once more, the old lady's relentless quest to get him to have something winning him over. When this happens again due to food the last time, she not only gives him a neverending banquet, also her gold ring with her name inscribed, as well as a best wishes note letting him know where she was. Upon his reading the message, he wanders far, getting stuck in a forest for 2 weeks, coming upon a Giant guarding a home, he way of it, but still getting viewed, and being right about he wanting to eat him. The man instead offers his banquet, the Giant agreeable, since he'd only threatened him for having no better option. After eating to comfiness, the Giant helps him research for the castle on his 2 maps, not discovering it, he convincing the man to stay for his bro's return, he possibly knowing, and upon his eating til filled, helps them learn the place was thousands of miles away. The Giant offers to let him hitch, taking him the couple hours needed, and dropping him off a little ways away, the man getting there in time to view the girl coming back, he waiting a couple years to get the chance to meet and save her, building a shack, and meeting 3 robbers who he saw whacking at each other, they offering up the info upon his inquiring, what they were there for, 1 of them having a stick which unlocked doors, another, an invis. cloak, and the last, a horse of which could get up the glass mtn, the 3 disagreeing who'd go up, the man getting them to allow him to test the items, all at once, and he cracking all 3 whilst berating their stupidity. He reaches the castle door and gets it open, finds the princess undercover, puts the gold ring in a cup of wine placed in front of her, and she searching all over the castle whilst he took his ass back outside to wait on his horse, de-cloaked, she eventually locating him there, and so happy to finally be freed, they get bound biblically next day.
Old Hildebrand is the old farmer who had a wife soon getting eye-balled by the parson, who hoped to 1 day speak with her in private-like. She was okay with this, so he instructs her to play sick for 5 days to her hubby, and then he'd have a sermon detailing any family with sick could go to a mtn in Wales, she being 'cured' upon her hubby's return, wifey playing along and getting him to go to church for the parson's act, getting the laurels and cross, informs his wife, and goes on his way, the parson showing up soon after. Meanwhile, the old man meets his cousin, an egg merchant, who gets down to the grits after hearing the farmer's story, suggesting the parson only wished to have a comfy chat with his wife, his cousin then offering him a ride back in his ole cart, he finding his wife joyful with the parson and making the best their garden and home had to offer. The cousin knocks and asks to stay the night, he also asking she sing something, making a ditty up about her hubby, and he singing a response upon coming out his cousin's basket, then getting a hwhacking stick, swats the parson out his home.
The Water of Life tells of a K, who everyone thinks'd die since he was so sick, his 3 boys sad and crying in the K's gardens. They meet an old man who listens to their reasons for crying, he telling of the water of life being able to save him, but'd be difficult to acquire. The oldest decides he must attempt it, whining at his pop til he gets permission to go, believing if he succeeded, he'd get to be K and'd be favored best. He goes quite a distance when seeing a dwarf, who curses him when he insults him needlessly, being eventually stopped by a narrowing pass on a mtn, he surprised for some reason. After the 2nd bro waits a bit, he also whines til getting his way, and also mistakenly insults the dwarf, getting the same hand for being a twat. The 3rd bro also badgers pop to be allowed to journey, eventually winning and upon meeting the dwarf, speaks properly, receiving de way. He only requires to loaves of bread for the lions, and an iron rod to tappity on the door, being sure to return before 12 when de way closes again (Editorial Director Stade, "the ro(a)d and bread", come on, now). The 3rd son gets to the castle where he discovers charmed princesses sitting at a table, he pilfering their rings and some bread, as well as a sword, then releasing another princess from a bedroom, she wanting to get married to him in a year. She also reveals where the fountain is, he hurrying off only to take a nap and wakes only to give himself a few moments to collect some water, and lose the heel of his shoe as the door shuts o him. H gets back and the dwarf commends him on getting sword, he pleading with the dwarf to release his bros once learning what'd happened, the dwarf consenting and warning him of their evilness. The 3 travel back, the bro updating his brahs, and also saving 3 kingdoms by allowing each K to borrow his sword for the warring and bread for the feeding of troops and people. Whilst they journeyed by sea, the 2 bros plotted and stole the life water, replacing it with seawater, upon getting back, the K getting worse by drinking it, the 2 bros making it look like he'd wanted to hurt his pop. the K getting better upon drinking the bros water. The 2 threaten the youngest to stay quiet, and they wouldn't murder him, but pop isn't happy about the water he'd served him, putting a hit out on him with a huntsman. When the 3rd son learns this upon the man's confessing in the forest, the prince pleads to be spared, and the huntsman agrees, switching outfits with him, the prince going deeper in the forest whilst the huntsman went back. Meanwhile pop sees all the treasure the 3 Ks who were helped had sent him, then regretting his order, the huntsman coming clean and the K declaring his son's safety if he came back. Then, the oldest bro going to claim the freed princess, but he taking the side-road rather than the gold one, which had her guards sending him away, the 2nd makes the same mistake, and the 3rd bro not noticing the gold and barreling to her door, she giving him claim to her property. Upon the 2 marrying, she tells of his pop's forgiveness, so he confesses the truth about his bros, the pop pissed, but the 2 doing well by going back overseas and not coming back.
The Spirit in a Bottle relates of a poor woodcutter to work all his hours to save money for his boy's education, so he'd have someone of use to lean on when he couldn't move anymore, for stiff joints, perhaps. So, the boy goes, and gets much notoriety for his schoolwork, staying quite some time, til the money runs out and he is kicked out, going back and reassuring his pop he'd conform to necessity, deciding he'd help him with chopping wood, suggesting he borrow the neighbors axe, the 2 setting out in the A.M. The boy worked energetically, pop taking a break, as the son goes off looking for bird nests, the pop attempting to get him to settle down and rest. The boy goes off aways and discovers a century-old large-ass oak, he hearing a voice wishing to be let out, locating a bottle amongst, presumably windy, hideable roots. The little amphibian-looking creature jumps about inside, the boy taking the cork out, and releasing the growing spirit, half the size of the huge-ass tree. The spirit then confesses the boy's reward was a cracked neck, he refusing to accept this, the spirit declaring he'd been punished for a reason, he being Mercury and had to crack a neck, apparently upon release. So, the boy states he needed a 2nd viewing of the spirit coming out the bottle to prove its spiritness, it doing this, the boy replugging him in, and ready to go when the spirit barters giving him enough to live off the rest of his life, and after Mercury vows to keep his word, the boy tries him, Mercury giving him a cloth which healed anything, and also changed iron into silver, and upon experimenting, thanks Mercury, and vice versa before parting. His pop is well pissed, since the boy'd been gone so long, but he takes it in stride, ruining the axe by turning it to silver, and getting his pop to accompany him home reluctantly, still steamed, but once the boy goes to a goldsmith and making $300, getting the $200 later, he pays for the damaged axe, his neighbor only asking for $1 and change, the boy giving him double and confessing what'd happened to his pop, going back to school with the rest, then becoming the best doc ever with his healing cloth.
The Two Wanderers involves a good and bad peep, a shoemaker and Tailor, coming across each other during transit, the Tailor making an amusing rhyme to himself about the shoemaker's career, he making apology by way of booze, the shoemaker accepting this and even willing to continue on together, looking for the same type of town. The first 1 had the Tailor making out, more ways than 1, better than the sour shoemaker, for his positive side, but Tailor always sharing his tips. Some time later, they're attempting to get to the royal city, 2 paths going there, but 1 much shorter, and neither knowing which path was the quickie. The Tailor talks of only buying a couple days worth instead of 7 days, despite the off-chance it was the long way, the 2 buying their stock and hoping for the best. The Tailor gets hungry by day 3, and the shoemaker straight up laughs in his face, essentially misery loving company, and to teach the Tailor a lesson. By day 5, the Tailor was getting too weak, so the shoemaker bargains he popping out the Tailor's eye for a bit of bread, the Tailor sad, but buoying himself with mama's values and consoling himself with at least having 1 left, but by the 6th night, being close to heart failure, the shoemaker's terms the same, the Tailor reminding him of God's justice and how he'd shared with him, the shoemaker uncaring, and now leading the Tailor as promised. By evening they get out of the forest and the shoemaker leaves the blind tailor at a gallows, he sleeping and the Shoemaker wandering off, upon waking, the Tailor overhearing 2 crows talk of how the blind can get their sight back by the water which'd fallen over the gallows overnight. The Tailor wets a kerchief in the grass, and is once more blessed with vision, seeing where the royal city was, and upon finding a girly horse, plans to ride the rest of the way, except she begs she isn't yet ready to carry people, he allowing her to go and she being able to return the favor someday. He then threatens to eat a stork, but it also promising future fortune, he being offered the same by a mother duck for her young, and a Q bee, he finally reaching the city and getting a ready meal at an inn, then looking and succeeding in continuing his trade, and moving up to Court Tailor, the shoemaker receiving the same honor for his profession, he taking a jab at the before he could be struck at, informing the K the Tailor'd pompously stated of being able to locate a missing crown, the K having the Tailor bring it or leave the city, the Tailor preparing to do so when re-meeting mother duck and she and her ducklings fetch the crown from inside the pond. The Tailor returns it to the K and he's gifted a gold necklace chain. Next, the shoemaker claims the Tailor could detail in wax the entirety of the castle in full specifications, the punishment worse for now being life imprisonment if he failed to omit any nail-like detail. Next, he returns to the tree, getting help from the bees, sending him home to rest, and completing the work by evening, it ready for the Tailor to collect by morning. When the K sees it, he gifts hima stone house, and again the shoemaker tells the K of the Tailor saying he could make clear water run from the pond of the castle, this time failure meaning a lost head, the Tailor meeting the now strong filly, she giving him a ride back to the castle and falling on the spot where a fountain popped out the ground with clear water, the K hugging the Tailor in front of everyone for joy. Next, the shoemaker claims the Tailor could procure the K a son, since he only had crazy-pretty girls, and he'd arry 1 if he succeeded, the Tailor meeting the stork, and being told to wait a week, and 2 days, where they'd meet up in the city, this occurring and the Q taken with the baby boy upon his delivery, by stork, the younger girls sharing bon bons and dates, the oldest princess getting the gift of the Tailor's hand, the shoemaker being made to prepare the Tailor's shoes for his wedding, and is then kicked out, sleeping at the gallows and the 2 crows pecking his eyes out, he going nuts and probably dying in the forest, no one hearing from him after.
The Experience Huntsman begins with a boy knowing how to build locks, 1 day wanting to find his fortune, his pop supporting him and giving him picket money. After awhile, the boy grows tired of his trade, in preference of hunting. The boy runs into a Huntsman, telling him his desire, and the Huntsman taking him on, and sticking with him for some years, and when he feels ready to move on, the Huntsman gives him an air gun, the boy going to a ginormous forest, and resting in a tree away from feral creatures. At 12 a.m., he sees a bright light coming from further in the forest, marking the direction by tossing his hat down, and upon locating it, views 3 giants roasting a cow on a spit, 1 of the giant's stripping a piece off to see if it was cooked through, the boy shooting it out of his hand, doing this a 2nd time, and the giant smacking his fellow, who points out it was a sniper, and after the 3rd time, offers loudly for the boy to join them peaceably or if they are made to hunt him down, he'd never be found again. The sniper huntsman smartly comes out, they also confessing they'd wanted to save a princess, he also having to kill a yappy dog, it being where the giants couldn't pass. Then they go by boat, the huntsman takes out the dog from the boat as it'd approached the water, he then has the giants wait whilst he surveyed the place, it quiet, and once inside the castle, opening a message about the sword he finds being able to resurrect people. As he stares at the sleeping girl, he q/d being able to give her off to the fiends, he collecting bits of cloth around her without waking her, then calling each giant separately to a hole in a wall where he cuts off their heads and tongues, keeping the latter with his cloths, the K seeing by morning and asking his court who'd succeeded, the K's 1-eyed, ugly Capt'n taking credit, the princess preferring the K's other terms of wearing peasant clothes and working with pottery to marrying this impostor. The K decides where she'd sell her wares, and hires carts to crash into her work. She still can't bare to marry the Capt'n, so he has a house built for her in the forest where she was to cook for anyone who dropped by, for free, the huntsman soon hearing about it and going for the gratis. When she sees her pop's sword on his back, he tells of saving her, showing her his mementos, she leading him back to the castle to show her pop, he setting up the Capt'n to set his own fate for having lied, being torn in 4 pieces, the huntsman marrying the happy princess, having his parents live with them, and he taking the throne upon the K's death.
Professor Know-All starts many years ago with a peasant called Crab, who sold logs by bull-lead cart, a professor buying some, and Crab asking if he could learn how, having noticed he lived in comfort. The prof. confirms this, advising getting an alphabet book and a sign stating the Title of this piece, Crab doing so, and soon being sought after by a Baron, who wished to learn who'd stolen his cash, Crab having his wife Gertrude come along, and as they're being served at the Baron's home, Crab makes it seem like he knew who the thieves were already to 1 of the thieves, making an accusatory statement with a double meaning, only referring to he entering the room first, the server informs the others in the kitchen. After the 3 others are scared upon being pointed out, as well, again Crab makes it seem like he'd guessed what was in the next dish, it being Crab, and he addressing himself in the first person. The thieves decide to cut him in, so he'd keep his mouth shut, but a 4th is made to believe he'd been found sneaking in the chimney, Crab confiding where the money'd been kept, and getting a reward from the Baron, on top of what he'd already been given, becoming quite famous to everyone's delight.
Bearskin tells of a young, brave man who joins the army and was a front-of-the-ranks sort. When the war ends, he could go where he pleased, but his parents were already gone, and his bros weren't willing to put him up whilst he waited for more war to break out. He ponders his dreary fate in a clearing nad is overheard by a man with a "cloven foot", offering everything he desired if he could prove his bravery, the young man quite willing. The Evil One has him turn and upon seeing a bear, shoot it in the face. The E 1 then requests 1 more piece of proof. this involving 7 years of not speaking or washing, and would only where what the E 1 wore. If he dies during the trial, he belonged to Satan!?, but if surviving, would get everything he were to need to live well and long-lasting. So, he puts on his coat, which upon touching in the pocket would discover money, and would be named Bearskin because of the cloak he wore and slept on. The 1st year went alright, but it became more difficult the gnarlier his appearance became, but usually the money spoke well enough for him. After gaining a night at an inn, he coaxes a crying old man into sharing his problem, it being he hadn't enough to pay for the room he and his girls shared, so being scared he'd be detained and they'd all starve, Bearskin helping them by footing the bill and giving the man a purse to get them started, he so grateful, he offers 1 of his girls as a bride, they accepting him once hearing how well he treated their pop. The oldest is scared by his looks, and screaming, flees, the middle states plainly of a bear dressed up looking better than Bearskin, and the last girl speaks the right stuff, Bearskin giving her part of a ring with his name on it, and the other with hers, he explaining he had 3 years to go, and after, they'd have their wedding party. The youngest stays in black during his time away, and would be tearily saddened, her sisters cruel about him and making light. Bearskin, meanwhile continued to help the poor and upon reaching the last day, meets up with the angry E 1, he making him groom him to normal, and was even more pretty, now. Once getting to the nearest town, he hires a horse and c., as well as buying a nice, velvet coat, and goes to his betrothed, and being welcomed heartily by the 2 older girls, and when they left to change into their best clothes, thinking they'd both had a chance to be chosen as hubby upon his mentioning it, they're enraged when they return to see the youngest had her hubby back, once he'd shown her the ring by chucking it into her wine glass for her to find after she'd drank, the 2 girls running out of the house.
Hans the Hedgehog begins with a well off farmer, who wasn't blessed with kids, and so with vehemence states of his kid gong to be a hedgehog, his wife having a son with normal bits below, but looked like a hedgehog, the farmer waving it off and moving forward with a christening minus a god-father, they putting him in a straw bed to accommodate his spikes, and 8 years later, farmer pop wearies of the boy's existence, wanting him dead, so when a fair was setting up in the next town, he gets requests from his hubby, servant, and son, he bringing everything back, and Hans then asking for a rooster to bridle, so he could leave forever, pop more than willing. Hans takes a pig and donkey into the woods, he watching them cultivate, as he watches from a tree the rooster'd flown into, it having done so without his planning, but he staying out there for years unbeknownst to his pa-pa. Hans spends his time in the tree playing his bagpipes, and a K hears him one day when lost, his servants point out Hans in the tree, still sitting on the rooster, but coming down to help him return home, after he'd promised to let him keep whatever met the K first when he got there, the K writing B.S. on paper as confirmation (Editors half-assing simple grammar only continues to make me wonder how I couldn't get a job like this, with all it entails, since I know I'd catch, "ran to me(e)t..." :| mk.) The K is greeted by his princess, he informing her she was safe from Han due to he fooling him. Hans is then shown back in his tree, doing the same shtick, another K getting lost and agreeing to the same terms, his only girl greeting him, and the K saddened by his deal, but the girl a sport. Hans, though is still in the woods and readying to come to his parents town to kill off his massive pig herd, pop's still disappointed he lived, but was glad when Hans went to get his rooster newly bridled and was off again, going to the first, liar of a K, he making sure Hans was kilt on sight, this failing to stop him, the rooster going to the K's window where Hans threatened both the K and girl's lives, if he didn't keep his word, but after setting them up grandly with horses and c., Hans quills the bitch and sends her back home, only going a little ways away, she looked down on for the remainder of her life. The 2nd K instructs his guards differently, Hans being welcomed, the princess at first scared, but staying strong for duty and daddy, and after the wedding, Hans instructing some appointed guards on how they must dispose of his spikes, this working and a new wedding celebrated for his better, normal form, he going to his parents years after when he'd become K, and upon convincing the farmer of his ID, they all live with him happily, apparently the man no longer wishing him dead...
The Jew Among Thorns begins with a wealthy man with a high performing servant, who was always 1st to help and last to finish, staying the 1st year and the man giving him nothing, thinking it'd force him to stay and he'd save cash, the servant stays 2 more years before requesting his due, and the stingy man gives 3 farthings, the servant quite pleased for being unaware as to how much this'd actually help him, but upon meeting an old dwarf, gives them up and gets 3 wishes. Fella's wishes are pretty original, a gun which'd always get its target, a violin to make people dance, and the ability to request anything and people not being able to say no. After he's bestowed his wishes, they part, and he sees a joo loitering to listen to a bird in a tree. The servant shoots it when hearing the joo wanted it for food, and as he's retrieving it from beneath a thorny bush, the servant plays his fiddle and forces him to dance, the joo wishing for him to stop. The servant doesn't leave off, though til he'd been given the joo's gold, and he so pissed he reports it to a judge of being mugged. They locate and sentence the servant to hang, but he gets his request to play his fiddle 1st, the joo opposing obv. When the judge pleads for the servant to stop and he'd let him live, he does, but the servant then threatens the joo to say where he'd actually gotten his cash, he admitting to thieving it, so gets hanged in the servant's place, the servant joyfully continuing on.
The Goose Girl begins with an elderly Q, of who's hubby'd died, and only had a pretty girl. When she was old enough (13, perhaps?), she was set up with a K's son who lived a fair distance, so when the Q was preparing her for travel, she makes sure she has the best of everything, loving her very much. A bridesmaid and horses were also to go with her, the Princess' horse, Falada able to talk. Within the hour, the princess is meant to begin her journey, so her ma brings her to a bedroom, and cuts her own finger, so 3 blood drops could be put on a napkin, so the girl would be safe. The princess rides her horse with her bridesmaid, and after an hour gets thirsty, asking her to fetch water with her goblet from the stream nearby, the girl refuses to do her job and suggests the princess dip her face in to drink, the 3 blood spatters reminding her ma'd be disappointed if she knew, the princess regarding the words with respect and regret. They ride a ways further, and the princess forgetting her maid's snarkiness, asks again for water, she receiving the same reply, which upsets the princess whilst she drinks straight from the stream again, this time losing the blood cloth, and not noticing. Her maid does see, though, gaining mastery of the girl, and forcing her to switch clothes and horse with her, she also having her swear silence of what'd gone on, the maid, ofc being killed if it were found out by the K, Falada seeing all of this go down in silence. They get to the castle and the prince carries off the servant, the K seeing the pretty princess left outside, he inquiring about her to the servant, and she dismissing her role, stating she could be given tasks to keep her busy, the K pairing her with the geese-keeper, Conrad. The servant then requests the prince to have her horse's head cut off due to it aggravating her on her ride there, and when the princess hears about it, bribes the man who was to do it to place the horse's head above an archway she tended to go under, she then regarding the head by name, and Falada replying of the princess's ma being heartbroken if she were to learn what'd occured. She continues with Conrad to a field where upon seeing her shiny, gold hair, attempts to pluck some locks, the princess singing a way to have him stop, so she could brush and put up her hair again. Her wish is granted, and Conrad returns, quite pissy of his plan being foiled, so doesn't talk to her at all during their work. The next day, the princess and Falada have the same go-between, Conrad again attempting to grab her hair, and she making him chase his hat around until she was finished, Conrad going to snitch on her to the K, and he watching her throughout their shift the next day, he asking her about her reasons for acting this way, she refusing to say for fear, so he suggests she tell it at the fireplace, the princess unloading her sorrow, the K then coming back and has proper attire given to her, updating his son, and the wedding moving forward, the servant not recognizing the princess, and the K asking her what should be done to someone who had done what she'd done, the maid saying the person should be dragged by 2 horses in a cask til death. Well, lo, this is done to her, and the young couple live happily and without difficulties.
The Valiant Tailor tells of an overly "proud" princess who'd give a riddle to any man who asked for her hand, and would be given the walk of shame if failing. So, 3 tailors heard about this and all thought they could be great contenders, the 3rd a simple underachiever, wasn't convinced by his fellows to sit this 1 out despite their attempts, so the 3rd tailor walks along like he owned the erf, and the 3 go to guess the princess' riddle. The first 2 fail, but the 3rd figures out the 2 colors of hair on her head, she coming up with a 2nd task for he to spend the night with a bear living in her stable, and if he survives, she'll take him as her hubby. The tailor was still confident, and the princess thinks she'll be safe, since the bear'd been a man-eater up to this point. The tailor, upon seeing the aggro bear, takes out some nuts to crack and eat, the bear wanting some too, so the tailor tricks it by giving it pebbles. The bear q's its strength, and once seeing the tailor crack another nut after the bear gave him back a pebble, the tailor sleight of hands it, this coaxing the bear to want another go at it, but fails ofc. The tailor plays his fiddle and the bear dances, he now wanting to learn this skill, the tailor agreeing upon cutting the bear's claws down, getting the bear to consent to placing its paws in a clamp, the tailor then making a pallet and calling it a night. The princess is shocked, but is made to go through with her word due to the K, who gets them a ride to the church, the bear then chasing them, but the tailor intimidating it with the threat of being clamped again, placing his feet out the window of the carriage, and the bear backing off, the princess and tailor living contentedly with joy, AFTER they hitch up.
The Blue Light begins with a soldier who'd served loyally, but is released by the K for becoming too injured, refusing to pay him out. So, the soldier, not knowing what to do, wanders to a big wood where he follows a light to a witch's hovel, he agreeing to perform tasks for shelter, first of which was to turn the soil in her garden, but upon not being able to finish by evening, has him chop logs the next day, and by the 3rd day, is tasked to collect her blue light from the well. She lowers him by basket, he gets it, but she tries to grab it before fully letting him up, he perceiving her game, and refusing to give it up until he was out, so she lets him drop back in, and leaves him there. The soldier doesn't get hurt and could see he wouldn't die quickly, so smokes the last of his pipe by lighting with the blue light, a black dwarf asking his wish, the soldier wanting to escape, so the dwarf leads him out through an underground tunnel. On the way, he shows the witch's treasure, of which he takes all he can bring along, and when they get out, he has the dwarf get the witch, so he could have her judged, which the dwarf carries out, and updates of her being hanged. The soldier then allows him leave at present until next he called, the dwarf instructing all it'd take for the soldier to call him was to light his pipe to the blue lamp. The soldier goes back to the city of the K he'd served, getting a room, then summoning the dwarf, planning vengeance on the stingy fuck. So, he has the dwarf kidnap the princess to be his servant for each night, despite the dwarf warning this could backfire, but the girl is gotten and serves him by sweeping and cleaning his shoes, then is brought back, she informing the K for feeling like her dream had actually made her tire with the work. The K decides she should test it by placing peas in her pocket which also had a hole, so if she was snatched, there'd be a trail, which would've been a great plan if the dwarf hadn't overheard, preventing this to help them by dumping peas through all the streets before secreting her away again. (This editor does seem to get confused by words like "though" which should be "through") The K's new plan seems to be a winner, though when the princess is told to leave her shoe at her destination, and the dwarf warns the soldier again, but he disregards this, so the princess is able to leave her shoe under the bed before being returned again. This does the trick, and the soldier is imprisoned, but sees an old mate, who fetches the lamp for him, which he pays with his leftover ducat. Upon lighting it in privacy, the dwarf reassures him everything would work out. this is shown when he's tried and sentenced to die, but being given his last request of a smoke, the dwarf appearing and battering the judge and men involved, to death, and the K is so scared of getting the same, surrenders his kingdom and princess for the soldier to marry, since he had no option.
The Three Army Surgeons go to an inn, journeying due to believing themselves fully educated in their careers, and when the manager asks, is told they were searching for jobs in their profession. Upon inquiring what they did, 1 describes it as chopping off his hand, and in the morning being able to reattach it without any issue, the 2nd confessing being able to remove his eyes, and put them back in next day without damaging them, and the 3rd stating of being able to remove his own heart, and reattach it. The man admits they were skilled if this was the case, the 3 not mentioning they also had a balm which'd heal anything it was on, so the 3 take out their own body parts they mention, and the man has his servant store it til morning. The servant has a boyfriend, who stops by, getting snacky, the servant fetching yummies, but not fully closing the cabinet, a cat making off with the body parts, and when the girl was replacing the dish they'd used, sees the missing parts, the soldier getting a right hand form a body on the gallows, takes the cat's eyes, and a pig's heart, the girl going to bed and the soldier leaving. Next morning, the girl retrieves the parts for them, and they attach them to themselves, biffing off after paying. Before long, they first notice the 1 with a pig's heart beginning to act like a pig, and the 1 with cat eyes couldn't see and had to be led to the next inn, they noticing a wealthy fella counting his cash in a corner, the 1 with a thief's hand stealing some gold, despite his cohorts being against it, but the 3 retiring to sleep, the 1 with cat eyes noticing mice about the room, so 1 suggests they must return to the first inn. Upon confronting the manager, he calls to his servant, who biffs off directly upon seeing them and never comes back, the 3 threatening to set the place on fire if he didn't give them monetary recompense, the man having no choice, and despite having enough to live off the rest of their lives, now they'd have much preferred their own parts back.
Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful begins with a man and his hubby, who were "blessed" to have no kids, til money became tight, then they have a son. Since they were so hard up, they couldn't get a god-father, so the man goes off to another town, but on his way, he meets another poor man, who offers to stand as god-father, and whilst not having a gift for the boy, he'll meet them at the church, upon getting there, the old man suggesting they call the boy Ferdinand the Faithful, the 2 agreeing. Outside, the homeless man admits he wouldn't be joining them, due to neither parties having anything to spare to the other, the o. m. then, producing a key for the pop to give to Ferdinand when he's 14, and then to climb a hill, to a castle, the key opening the door, the man gifting everything within, he'd own. At 7 yrs old, Ferdinand's teased by kids for not getting a gift from his god-father like them. Ferdinand asks his pop, and he confesses of the key, and the castle up the hill, Ferdinand looks, but sees no castle, yet. 7 yrs later, the castle is there, and a horse in a stable is inside, Ferdinand riding the horse back to pop and declaring of going traveling with his gift. Upon leaving, he hesitates to bring along the shepherd he sees, but going back to get him, when the man calls him by his baptized name, the 2 riding for some time before reaching a lake with a gasping fish on the ground, once Ferdinand helps it back, the fish vows it'd help him if he ever fell in, and gifted a reed pipe for him to use when he's in danger. Further on, Ferdinand inquires where the shepherd wished to go, he stating the closest spot, and after asking his name, for some reason, Ferdinand says it, the shepherd then replying of he being called F. t. U., the 2 riding to the first inn seen, which was bad news for the inn, FtU knowing how to fork shirt up. When FtF is seen by a girl inside, who takes a fancy to him, and decides she'd help him get a job from the K, even though he wished to travel more, the K hears his liking of going horseback, so makes him a courier, FtU asking for a posish, too so the girl helps him get a job at the castle. About 2 mornings after working there, FtU overhears the K's sadness for his betrothed not being with him, so FtU, who'd a grudge the whole time against F, advises the K send a messenger to her, suggesting the courier, and if he didn't bring her back, chop his head off. The K decides to try it, and tells FtF his terms, and once he'd gotten to the stable upset, his horse Schummel asks what's wrong, and after getting over the surprise, tells what the K'd said, but didn't know where the princess was, Schummel suggesting he ask the K for a ship brimming with meat and another with bread, requiring for both of the dangers across the lake. F updates the K, and gets what he asks, Schummel then requesting to be taken with F on the boat, also telling how he must present each to either parties. Once he gets to the castle, 2 of the giants'd help carry her bed out to the ship, for she can't be woken. Everything occurs as expected, the princess needing her letters, F being sent back to the castle, and return them or die. He informs Schummel of what he'd been tasked, they requiring the same supplies, and make it to the castle, but as F's walking out with them, clumsily drops them in the water, Schummel not being able to assist him with this. F recalls the pipe, and uses it, the fish coming with the letters, F returning with them as the wedding was getting started. The Q meanwhile, wasn't interested in the K, but F, she stating in front of guests of knowing an odd trick of chopping off someone's head and reattaching without injury. FtU offering she attempt it on F, she performing it, and only a red line remaining, she then offering to do it on the K, he agreeing, and she leaving his head detached, waiting a bit before hitching with F. At 1 point, Schummel requests he ride him over a hill 3 times, upon which he returns to his pretty-boy prince form.
The Shoes Which Were Danced to Pieces tells of a K with a dozen girls, each 1 prettier than the other, all of them sleeping in a single room with the beds lined up, the K locking their door every night, and 1 morning comes in to see all of their shoes danced to bits, and no 1 knowing how. So, the K takes it to the people, offering 1 of the girls as a bride, and the title of K upon his dying, but after 3 days and nights he didn't succeed, death'd be knocking. 1 prince, a short while later tries it, the first night, a mist coming over his eyes and making him sleep, by morning they'd been dancing again. This prince doesn't figure it out, and dies, as do more. A soldier who is injured from war, so couldn't reenlist, comes to town, an old lady asking where he was headed, and not knowing, since he didn't know the city of the dancing princesses, the old lady revealing he'd be able to do the task if he didn't drink the wine, and pretended to sleep, she also giving him an invisible cloak, in order to track them. Upon learning this, he goes to the K to tryout, looking as princely as the others. They set him up in a room and the oldest princess provides the wine, the soldier having a bag under his chin to pour the wine into, and once pretending to snore, the girls begin giggling and getting their bestwear on, going through a tunnel through the oldest girls bed which descended down. The youngest gets her cloak tramped by the soldier after cloaking and stalking them, he then wanting a twig souvenir, upon coming out into a beautiful wood, the youngest hearing and paranoid, each time the oldest staying positive with innocent causes for her stress. She continues this, since every time he breaks a twig, 1 of silver, gold, and diamond, until they reach a lake with a dozen princes waiting in boats, the soldier still accompanying the youngest, everyone going to a castle party, the prince noting the heaviness change, but not caring, and upon getting inside, the soldier dances invisibly and drinks the princesses wine glasses, it worrying the youngest still, but the others telling her to shut up! At 3 a.m. they return home, the soldier running in first and pretending to be snoring loudly, he deciding to watch them the last 2 nights for curiosity, and also acquiring a wine goblet, showing these to the K, and stating where he'd stalked them, the K asking the princesses who agree, and the soldier picks the oldest as hubby, he getting the kingdom upon t he K's death, the 2 married the same day. Meanwhile the princes were apparently cursed again to dance as many days as nights with the 12 princesses... confusingly.
The Three Brothers lived with their pop, and all hoped to gain his property when he croaked, and pop wasn't sure how he'd choose without insulting them, not wanting to sell due to how long the house'd been in the family, so he settles with tasking all 3 to choose a job and create the best they could, the winner receiving the home. The 3 sons accept their mission and the oldest decides to blacksmith, the middle, a barber, and the youngest becoming a fencing master. They agree upon a return date, and each goes off to train with their respective gifted masters. The smith learns by shoeing the K's horses, and feels assured by his success, the same was felt by the barber, who trims all the upper class, also feeling at the top of his game, and the fencing-master takes all the punches and rides through any difficulties by keeping steady-minded, not allowing uncertainty to affect him. When the 3 go back to their father, they debate how they'd show their abilities, getting interrupted by a rabbit high-tailing it across the field they were standing by, the barber stating the good timing, and performing his service of efficiently shaving closely the rabbit's moostosh, pop impressed and stating he'd get it if not topped, ofc. Next a carriage comes by, and as it passes, the blacksmith is able to reshoe the horse without impeding his run. Pop is properly impressed and states of now not knowing who'd win. The last son then has their pop watch as it begins to slowly downpour, and how he could swing his sword so quickly, he stayed completely dry even once it was pouring buckets, pop rewarding him the house. The 2 others weren't petty though, and all 3 stayed living together and being successful in their careers til old age, and upon 1 becoming ill and perishing, the last 2 were so brokenhearted, they also became ill and didn't survive, the 3 so close, they were all buried together.
The Evil Spirit and His Grandmother tells of a massive war where the K made it difficult for the soldiers to make a living with his shit pay, which causes 3 soldiers to contemplate AWOLing, 1 wanting to know their plan, since if they were ever discovered, they'd be hanged. Another suggests they hide in a field til the troops passed, the 3 waiting a couple days without this happening, so soon must think how they shall eat. Luckily, a dragon, the evil spirit passes by and offers they serve him 7 years and he'd fly them out without anyone wising up, and the 3 agree, since nothing better presented itself. The dragon does its part, and supplies each with a hwhip which upon cracking'd provide all the cash they could ever need, and after 7 years, they'd be owned by the dragon. After writing their names in its book, he also states of their only chance to escape this fate is to answer a riddle correctly. The 3 live quite well and contented, the 7 years passing fast, 2 of the 3 getting depressed by their near future, but the 3rd declaring he'd get the riddle. The 3 wander to the fields and an old woman asks why they were glum, dismissing her ability to help, she coaxing it out of them, and advising only 1 of them need go to the forest to locate a rock hut, the assistance they required inside. The optimistic soldier goes and meets an older lady, g/ma to evil 1, she aiding him due to his respectfulness. She bids he hide in the basement and listen closely when she asks the dragon. At midnight, the dragon returns for dinner, and the 2 eat heartily, g/ma asking after his day, and eventually the riddle, swiftly going off to sleep. G/ma lets fella out, and he assures he heard clearly when q'd. He then exits by window, and rendezvous with his comrades, and then news bolsters them, whipping out more cash. Soon after, the dragon comes and states their possible fates, the first soldier revealing his riddle reply, "In the great North lies a dead sea-cat, and that shall be the roast meat", upon hearing, the dragon's response having him sound like Foghorn Leghorn. The d. q's of what the spoon was, the next soldier answering, what rib, and the d's expression gets more horse-ish, and cussing q's the 3rd of what'd serve as wine glass, the answer being a hoof off a horse. Immed. the d. biffs off, and the 3 soldiers are free with their money-hwhips, living wonderfully well and living long.
The Idle Spinner, which is of the 3 Greek Fates, sort starts with a man and hubby living in a specific village, she doing very little, and spun thread quite slowly, and not caring if her work got messy, he berating her, but she consistent with reasons, this time asking for a reel, hubby agrees to provide, and she now worried about having to start over, deciding to go off and locate him in the woods, she then hiding in bushes as he was attending to make the reel, she singing a fate of death if he completed his task, which stops him for a mo., b4 dismissing it as fantasy, she then singing the same phrase, again as it looked like he was starting up again, this 1 spooking him a bit, but tries once more and she "cries" out the words again, this 1 scaring him enough to get home instead, she taking great pains to arrive 1st and look nonchalant as he relates why he didn't have the reel, she not being scolded again. It's irking him soon enough again, so the wife comes up with a solution her hubby agrees to, she waking him early after not soaking the thread as she'd said, but loose synthetic fibers, she warning he must watch the thread and take them out before they turn to the fibers, and even when he hastens out, he notes it'd already occured, placing so much guilt on himself, he didn't harp on her for her spinning at anytime after. Despite this, she was a still sloppy, messy, lazy-bones.
The Donkey Cabbages tells of a young huntsman looking for pray one day and in high spirits, meeting an old, ugly woman, who was starving and asking for charity, so the huntsman provides what he could spare, and she advises he stay on the path and would come across 9 birds arguing over a cloak, he required to shoot in the middle of them, and 1, plus the cloak would fall. He then should wear the cloak and use it to wish himself anywhere at the mo. he wanted, this being a wishin' cloak! As for the dead bird, if he ate it's heart whole, he'd discover a gold piece under his pillow each morning. So, the lady's words were truthful, and so he eats the heart and takes the cloak back with him. Also as told, he gets gold every morning, he soon ready to begin traveling, and so leaves the parentals, and goes through a full forest, he locating an impressive castle, a witch and daughter living there, the ma stating of what the girl should do, since sensing the bird heart he'd eaten, the man pretending to stop for rest, but truly for the pretty girl. They greet him cordially and soon the man's even more lovestruck, willing to do anything for the girl, so the ma gives her a drink to have him partake, and upon doing, the heart pops out his mouth, she swallowing it, and her ma collecting the gold pieces, the man indifferent since the girl served as constant eye-candy. The ma gets greedy again though, and also wants his cloak, the girl getting a whooping for wanting to leave him this, so as the man finds the girl looking out the window sadly 1 day, she tells of gems on a mtn, no man able to get to it, the huntsman taking care of this by transporting them both to the mtn, the ma then using her witchcraft to put him to sleep, allowing the girl to return with the cloak and the gems. When he wakes, he's feeling down about being duped, and is soon met by a few giants, who worked the area. He pretends to be asleep, gets kicked at, and learns he'll get carried away if he reaches the point of the mtn. A cloud carries him to a garden with cabbages, and upon eating 1, gets turned into a donkey, which had him eating more, and finding 1 which turned him back, he now ready for a nap, and when he awakes in the morning, takes 2 cabbages for his journey, relocating the castle a couple days later, and muddying his face as disguise, asks to spend the night and confesses about his scrumptious cabbages for the K, he giving the bad 1 to the witch at her request, she swiftly donkeyed, and running to the yard, the servant turning, too, as she was transporting it, the tray spilling, and when the huntsman goes to see what the hold up was, since the girl'd become curious, as well, he brings it to her, and she also changes. He next offers the 3 donkeys to a miller, who should treat the old 1 by giving her a single meal and 3 beatings, the servant, a single beating with 3 meals, and the girl no beatings and 3 meals, since he couldn't decide whether to punish her. 3 days after, the miller returns with the news of the old one dying and the other to close behind, he having him return them for feeling bad for them, and when they're back he changes them back, the girl asking forgiveness and revealing why she'd acted so, even though she lurved him, also telling him where his cloak was and'd give him the bird's heart back, but he having her keep it, since he was going to hitch up with her, and the 2 living happily to their ends.
Little One-Eye, Little Two-Eyes, and Little Three-Eyes were the names of a lady's 3 girls, the oldest 1-eye, which also was the amount on her face, and center stage on her forehead. The middle girl was like a normie, and the youngest had 3. Due to 2-E's odd-man-out looks, she was treated poorly by all 3, eating their scraps, and dressing uncomfily, as well as getting pushed around. 1 time, 2-E's was made to care for the goat in the wood, and hadn't gotten enough to eat this morning so, upset, she's noticed by a lady, who q's on why she cried, and being advised she ask the goat for milk and table, it appearing with all sorts of food, and when satisfied, to ask for it to leave, and it would. The lady leaves, and 2-E's tries it, and upon seeing, partakes, quite content now and no longer eating the scraps, which became noticed by her sibs after the 3rd day, so 1-E goes with 2-E's to tend the goat, but falls asleep with the exerting walk, 2-E getting her feast, and the 2 going home, and their ma getting the update of her failure. So, 3-E's next gets sent, she feigning sleep and learning 2-E's secret, and sharing with their ma. So, since mama was a jealous bitch, kills the goat, and 2-E's cries in the woods again, the same lady appearing, and suggests she ask for the goat's entrails to bury at their door, everything'd be handled. The lady vanishes, and once 2-E's q's her sibs for it, they act lightheartedly about it, and agree, 2-E's doing as told without anyone knowing. Next morning, they discover a spectacular tree with silver leaves, and gold apples. The ma asks 1-E to fetch some fruit, but the branches swing away from her, so ma has 3-E's try, by climbing the tree, but she also has no luck, and when the ma attempts, also failing, no one treats 2-E's any better when she fetches down plenty. 1 day all 3 sibs are under the tree when a knight rides by and so the 2 girls has 2-E's hide for shame of her, they attempting to give the pretty knight a branch and failing, 2-E's rolling him a gold apple from under the basket she being allowed out when her sisters admitted her presence, she then also presenting him with the requested branch, she asking he save her, so takes her to his pop's castle, falling for her, and the 2 marrying. The sisters were jealous, but still consoled themselves for having the tree, which by next day, moves to where 2-E's resided, she living happily, and even helps her sisters when they fall on hard times, and were now begging, the 2 changing their ways, and being remorseful for treating 2-E's badly.
The Six Servants begins with an old enchantress Q with a strikingly pretty girl, the woman having a penchant for killing her suitors, so'd ask an unanswerable riddle, and chop their heads off. Many perished, another K's son, so dedicated to attempting, made himself sick when his pop refuses to allow him leave, waiting 7 years before wishing him well, since no doc could cure him. The prince goes off with renewed vigor, and whilst traveling, a large man offers his service, if needed, being as fat as a hill, the prince agreeing on the off-chance he could make use of him, the next man being seen with his ear to the grass, he claiming to hear everything in the world, and after offering what he'd heard going on at the princess's castle, he also is bid to join them. The next fella they see has long legs the length of mtns, so he also offers his services. The prince then sees and asks why the next guy'd covered his eyes, and learns he cuts whatever he sees in half, offering to help any way he could, the prince accepting, and walking to the next guy, who had vibrating limbs, he explaining of his body temp. taking the exact opposite of extremes to the weather, so he also is brought along, the prince then seeing a man with a stretchy neck, he able to view great distances, so being asked to join his party. Now he leads them to the Q's castle, and bargains to do anything she wished if she gave her daughter to him, the Q happy to play for he being so cute, so decided on 3 tasks for him, he agreeing. His 1st task being to recover a ring from the Red Sea, the prince congregating with his fellows, Stretch neck locating it, Fatty sucking in the sea, and Long Arms then retrieving it, the prince returning it to the Q, she shocked, but confirming her property. The 2nd task was for the prince to wholly consume 300 ox, and 300 casks of wine, or she'd kill him. He asks to bring guests, and she allows 1, ofc Fatty being chosen, and the task being finished, the Q as shocked as before, but giving the 3rd task, he having to stay awake with his arm about the princess until midnight when the Q'd come in to see if he succeeded. The prince goes back and brings Fatty and Long Arms, making it to 11pm before the Q magics them all into sleep, and the princess is taken out, the 3 waking before the time was nearly up, the listener able to locate her, Long Arms and Sharp Eyes rescuing her from a cave 300 miles away, everyone returning safely. When the Q comes in at midnight, and has no choice, but to keep her word, she shames her daughter for not sticking to her own terms. The princess then goaded into making a task for the prince to sit upon some be-flamed logs, contentedly. So, Frosty is bid to sit, he freezing his buns off for 3 days, the 2 readying to marry when Listener overhears the Q wanting her girl back at any cost, Fatty and Sharp Eyes each detouring her soldiers, the prince marrying, and his servants ending their services. The prince admits he was actually a swineherd and gives her used clothes to wear, she going along with the hard work for a week and a day, then 2 men escorting her to her hubby at a palace, he immaculate and with renewed affection, states of having punished her for all he'd gone through, the 2 celebrating their union properly, the Narrator wishing to have seen it.
The Old Woman in the Wood tells of a poor servant girl carrying boxes through a forest and comes upon bloodthirsty thieves right in the center. She hides without being harmed, but is quite upset after they'd gone, for not knowing the area and no one living nearby, so she'd most definitely starve to death. After deciding to wait where she was, a white pigeon carries a gold key in his beak, sharing of it opening a cupboard with enough food to sustain her, inside a tree. She partakes and is now sleepy, so the bird provides a 2nd gold key to another tree with a bed, she using it to sleep. In the morning, the bird agian gives her a key to another door in a tree with plenty of dresses, the girl remaining there awhile in comfort. The bird then makes a request for the girl to bring it a particular nondescript ring from within an old lady's house, who she was to not speak with. Upon going to the old woman's home, she can't locate the ring until the old woman makes off with a bird cage from the room with the ring in the bird's beak, the girl wresting it from her and returning to the tree, the bird not returning, but 1 of the trees turning into a pretty prince, who tells of having been the bird, as well, she having saved him and his servants and horses, which'd all become trees, they returning to his home and marrying the maiden, living happily.
The Man of Iron begins with a K who enjoys hunting in his forest, 1 time 1 of his men didn't come back, and those he sent after him, along with the dogs also failed to return. the K then has it known the danger of the forest and only owls and eagles exiting, now. It goes ghostly quiet, as well, and an unknown huntsman offers to help, despite the K's warning, being unafraid of the conditions. The huntsman goes with his dog, who detects an animal, giving chase, and falling into a pond where an arm comes out and takes the dog down. The huntsman then brings back more men to bail out the water, finding a wild man, bringing him to the K, and sticking him in an iron cage, no one to let him out or they'd be sentenced to die. Well, the K had an 8 yr old boy, who was playing with his ball, and it rolls into the cage, the boy demanding it back, but the man declines unless he opens the cage, he asking 3 days in a row, and is told where the key was when the prince admitted to not know. Upon learning it'd be so easy to obtain, he does it for his ball, but as he sees the wild man leave, becomes afraid of his punishment, the wild man taking him along. When the K returns from hunting, and sees the man and boy missing, everyone assumes the worst. As this happens, the Iron Man reaches his old loitering spots and confesses of the boy not ever returning home, but as long as he follows his instructions, he'd be well cared for, and so he allows the prince to sleep, and wakes him in the morning. He leads him to a pool eh was to watch nothing went into or it'd lose power, dunking his finger, later when he'd felt a twinge of pain, but even though he'd denied it, the Iron Man knew, and said he'd let it pass this time. The boy lets his hair fall in the 2nd time, and the 3rd time his hair falls in, he's cast out, but is given the favor of Iron Man coming to his call if he came there and was in trouble. The boy goes to the 1st town he comes to and tries to find a job at the K's palace, the staff taking a liking to him. He begins work with the cook, but refused to take his hat off when the K states it was the rules for approaching the royal table, due to a disease, so the cook switches him with the gardener boy, since the K'd complained of the boy being hired. In the summer, the princess is distracted by the light from her mirror which'd bounced off the boy's head from down below, she getting his attention and requesting a bouquet, the princess immediately asking for him to lose his hat. She takes it off him, and gives him ducats, giving them instead to the gardener's kids, this occurring 3 days in a row, with the boy refusing and giving the ducats away. Soon the country is close to war, everyone going off, and the boy making certain a horse was left, a lame 1 being available, which the prince takes to the forest and calls for the Iron Man. Once he make his request, the Iron Man delivers not only a better horse, but soldiers along with it, going off to see the K definitely requiring back up. So he fights well, and then gets his lame horse back before returning, everyone hassling him rather than considering it could've been him. In order to uncover the ID of this knight, the K decides to have a 3-day festival, and the princess'd throw a gold apple as bait. The boy returns to the IM, who helps give him differing colored armor and horses each day, and being the only 1 to succeed, but didn't present himself after, like custom dictated, so for precaution the K orders the winner to be chased down, and cut up if he resisted. Well, the knight escapes the 3rd time, but barely, his chasers uncovering his gold locks and reporting this to the K. He confronts the boy, who confesses and asks for the princess's hand. On their wedding, the prince's parents are happy to know he's alive, and the wild man IDs himself as a K and gives him all his treasure.
The Iron Stove told of a particular prince, who was enchanted by an old witch in the forest, to sit in a stove. He stays quite some years, before a princess becomes lost and locates the stove. The prince doesn't take long to use the fact of his pop being more important than hers, coupled with his plan to offer coupling with her, as his main barter. She agrees, despite thinking marrying a stove being a bit taboo. He gives her specific enough directions to get her home, and request she return with a knife to cut the stove with, she relaying this to her pop. He doesn't wish to offer his only girl to a household appliance, so has the pretty miller's daughter return in her place, she working to gouge him out for 24 hours, the stove requesting for the princess when it's revealed she isn't. She returns, and the K bribes the prettier swineherd's girl, and when the stove discovers this, clarifies it must be the princess, otherwise the kingdom will collapse. So, the sad princess goes and scrapes, she making headway after a couple hours, and speeds up when she sees how pretty of a boy he was, but bids be able to return to her pop once more before he took her to his pop's castle. He tells hse can go, but must choose ONLY 3 words... Girl takes a nice long chat, brings some cash, and searches for the now biffed off stove, which'd gone once she'd passed the 3rd word, but the prince not being stuck inside. After a week and 2 days, she's near starving, so holes up in a tree for shelter. When viewing a light and follows it, she knocks at the door where she'd seen a set table with frogs. She's greeted cordially and shares why she was there, the frog requesting a basket, it being filled with supplies, the older toad giving her a bed to sleep in before she continued on next morning. After coming to a castle and getting a job as a servant, she's able to bribe the prince's new hubby with a fancy dress, so she could spend the night near him, but the princess'd date drugged him, so the princess weeps with not being able to chat with him. The servants being the only ones to hear, relay this to the K, the 2nd night, they sharing with the prince, so by the 3rd night, he doesn't drink the roofy, and is able to confirm the princess's claims, the 2 going back to the toad hut, which transforms into a castle, and the toads return to being the K and his other son, the wedding had, and the princess and prince joining their kingdoms, living contentedly and financially secure.
The Little Lamb and the Little Fish is about a sis and bro who cared for each other greatly. Their natural ma had perished, and step-ma hated them. This to the point of on a day when the 2 were playing with other kids at the pond, they singing a slightly dark rhyme, which ended like duck, duck, goose, with one kid being chased by the rest. As the step-ma watches their game, she dedicates her thoughts to hoping they'd each turn into a fish and lamb. The boy swimming, and the girl so sad, she couldn't eat on shore. They stay like this for some time before the step-ma decides to have the lamb slaughtered for guests, the fish swimming to the sink, and the girl wishing for help. After the bro responds, the cook overhears their troubles, and having sensed something foul, so reassures the lamb he'd kill another, then takes her to what'd used to be the bro and her nurse, she bringing them to a wise lady, who helps them return through prayer. The sibs make a cottage in the woods and live quietly and joyfully, but single.
Simeli Mountain tells of a couple bros, 1 of which was wealthy and the other not. Wealthy bro doesn't give charity despite his bro having a shit job "treading" corn and couldn't always feed his fam. When he'd been walking through the wood with his barrow, he sees a huge mtn he doesn't remember, he hiding in a tree when he sees a dozen wild men coming toward him. He watches as they go to the mtn and have an open sesame mo. When he sees them all exit with loads of sacks, he tries it for himself, discovering the hollow mtn's treasure. He sticks to gold and silver, leaving the precious gems, and after dong this a couple times and using his bro's scale, it leads to suspicion, so he makes the scale sticky and it yields a gold piece, which allows him to inquire what his bro'd discovered, and would take legal action when he caught his lie. So, the greedy bro goes and collects a big ass load of the precious gems, but forgets the name when he's readying to leave, so becomes scared shitless, and rightly, even though later the same night, it'd yielded to confusion, the dozen robbers returning, and stating how they were glad he turned up, rich bro being punished with a head chopping, despite fingering his bro as the culprit.
Going Out A-Traveling tells of a poor lady with a boy who enjoyed travel, and upon q'ing, says he'd reply to anyone "not much". Well, upon testing on a fisherman, he gets beat up a bit for the man not bringing in many fish, he getting schooled about what he should be saying, "a good catch", instead. Welp, he uses this phrase at a gallows the next day, and is advised to say, "God comfort a poor soul", and again the following day, uses it at a grave where a man is about to dispatch an elderly horse, and gets whacked into saying, "There lies a carcass in its grave", so utilizes the new phrase the next day on a wagon load of passersby, they all falling into a grave, the driver hwhipping him across the face, and warding him off home to his mama, he never journeying again.
The Little Ass starts with a Q and K who had everything they wanted, except kids. The Q blames herself for no life growing in her, which somehow enables her to get preggers, but is told she'd birthed an ass, she wishing she hadn't at all, bidding it be chucked in the river. The K however, plans to have it be his heir regardless, so prepares to raise it. As it grew, it wished to learn the lute, the musician not believing the ass had the dexterity. The ass applies himself though, and soon plays as well as his tutor. He next goes traveling with a companion, they coming to a place ruled by a K with 1 pretty girl. At 1st he isn't allowed in, but the guard informs the K of how well he played for being an ass. The Ass Prince then insists sitting by the K when they initially were trying to have him sit next to slaves, the K then sitting him next to his daughter, the Prince knowing proper etiquette. Months pass, and soon the ass feels he should return home, but the K wishes he'd stay, so finally offers his daughter which the ass accepts, the K having someone hide in the bedroom after they'd been married to see if he'd remain ass-shaped, which he doesn't. He reveals his pretty-boy prince look to his hubby, and she lurving him better, now. The K barges in the next morning, but instead of meeting a sad daughter over this ass, she confesses to loving him as much as a normal bloke. The K leaves bewildered, but the servant confides what he'd seen which the K denies being possible, so gets the suggestion to look in on them tonight, and burn the ass skin, so the prince didn't have a choice, but to remain pretty. At night, the K views the prince and spirits away his disguise to burn, and when the prince readies to flee next morning, the K stops him and again offer he stay, and inherit his title, giving him half the kingdom now, so the prince agrees, a year later the K dies, and a year after this his own pop dies, he inheriting both lands, and ruling well, his wife and he living peaceably well.
The Old Griffin starts with a K with an ill girl, a prophesy being given where she'd be cured by an apple. So, the K offers her hand to the man who could fulfill the request of apples. A peasant hears of this and instructs his oldest to go bring their best apples to her, so Hele does so, but not before lying to an Iron Man on the way, who turns them into frogs legs, the thing the boy claims they are, which pisses off the K when he sees them, turning him out, who relates his experience to his pop. The 2nd son, Saeme doesn't do better, for also lying to the Iron Man, so is also turned away by hwhipping him out, and after telling his story, the youngest, Stupid Jack, also wishes for a chance, and despite his pop not trusting he could succeed, still allows him a chance. So, Jack doesn't lie to the Iron Man and convinces the guard let him enter, able to show the beautifully scrumptious apples. A few are given to the princess, and it's not long before she's happily greeting her pop herself. The K doesn't give the princess up, directly though, 1st asking for a boat which drove on land like water. Jack relates this to his pop, and designates Hele to build it. He is interrupted by Iron Man, but this time says he's building a boat, which by the end, felt like he was sitting in bowls of wood. Saeme receives a similar to exact conclusion, but Jack describes exactly what he was attempting to the Iron Man, so when he begins rowing upon concluding the build, it take him to the K so quickly, the royal could see him speedily coming back. The K sets him a new task of rabbit herder, and if he lost 1, he wouldn't get the princess. So, he takes the hundy of bunnies, a maid requesting 1, and Jack only agreeing if the princess were to take it, the Iron Man q's him whilst the maid relays this, and making it so he could whistle and have any stray return. When the princess arrives, he gives her 1, but upon her reaching 100 yards, gets it to come back. Next, the K tasks him to get a Griffin's tail feather. He immediately makes haste to another castle for lodging, this before the days of inns, and tells why he'd come, the man asking if he'd q where he could locate his chest of cash, Jack promising to oblige. He travels further the next day, and upon stopping at another castle for the night, is asked to learn how to cure a girl from her sickness, Jack again agreeing. Once making it to the lake he must cross, he's q'd by the large man, who acted in lieu of a ferry, why he was bound to play this role, Jack accepting. He is dropped off, locates the house where he only meets the wife, but upon her q'ing, he states everyone's request and tail feather. The wife helps him out by letting him hide under the bed, and pluck a feather whilst he slept, and she'd q the rest to the griffin, herself. Jack hides appreciatively, Griffin coming back, and smelling the "Christian", she able to explain this away by saying he'd left, then mentioning the 1st prob. with the missing key, Griffin describing where it was, snobbily. She responds with the 2nd issue with the sickly girl, she only having to regain the hair a frog swiped off her to use as a nest... The last, with another quite odd solution, being for the big man to let someone down in the middle of the lake, and he wouldn't have to cross anymore. Butt-crack of dawn-like, Griffin leaves again, his hubby repeating the answers so they stuck, then he goes to the lake, he stating of giving his answer when they were over, and upon telling the fella, he offers another when they were over, and upon telling the fella, he offering another ride over and back, Jack, not so stupidly, declining, and goes to the girl's house. Once carrying her to the frog nest and handing it to her, she becomes perfectly well. Her parent gifted him gold and silver, plus anything else he wished, he going to the last castle, and retrieving the key, the man so glad, he gives him a box of gold, and farm animals. He returns to the K, saying he'd gotten it from the griffin, the K going off and being drowned in the lake, Jack marring the princess and getting the title of K.
Snow-White and Rose-Red are sisters of a poor widowed ma. The 2 girls resembled a couple rose bushes outside their cottage, and they were quite close and vowed to never part from the other and would always share what the other had. SW was much more gentle and quiet, whilst RR was an energetic, curious sort. They tended to go far into the forest and snack on the veg, playing with the animals, and if they stayed too late, would spend the night, their ma knowing and it being a safe area. 1 time they woke to a pretty child in shiny white material, sitting by them, then retreating to the wood, the 2 then noticing they'd been resting near a pit, their ma believing they saw an angel. The 2 girls also took care of house for their ma by cleaning and cooking. Their ma'd also read to them whilst they did more work spinning by the hearth, next to a lamb and dove. 1 night, they were comfy like this, when they heard a hurried knock, ma designating the little girl, RR to answer. Upon obliging, a large Bear head pops in, everyone scared, but the Bear stating he only wanted to get warm. The ma becomes empathetic and has him rest by the fire, calling the girls back, and everything settling down again. The girls soon became familiar with the Bear, playing jokes which he'd respond accordingly if they got too rowdy with him. Soon, the black bear became such a staple of their evenings, the door remained unlocked. When spring came back, the Bear tells SW of having to leave for the Evil Dwarfs'd work to get his buried treasures which'd be more difficult to recover. SW is sad to see Bear go, but he biffs off quickly enough to handle bidness. After a bit, their ma sends them to collect sticks, the 2 seeing an old dwarf with a yard-long beard. He'd gotten it stuck in the split of the tree, he seeing them staring, and asks if they planned on helping him, RR asking how he'd gotten stuck, which by the end had him requesting they not laugh at him. The 2 then try and fail to loose him, RR offering to get more peeps, but the dwarf not wanting more spectators, but more suggestions. SW remembers her scissors and snips off the end of his beard, he salty as he leaves, complaining of stupid people. A bit later they see the same dwarf struggling with a fish, getting his beard caught up in the line. Well, it ends with SW again snipping off a bit, he cursing her, and biffing off with a sack of pearls. A few days later, the girls ma sends them for sewing supplies, the 2 seeing a bird land nearby. They rush to it when they hear a scream, and see it'd tried to accost the dwarf, he next complaining of the 2 messing up his jacket, leaving with precious stones this time. The girls continue to town, and on their return see the precious stones laid out, the dwarf, and now the girls, admiring them. The dwarf q's what they thought they were staring at, when Bear roars, and grabs the dwarf, he pleading to be spared, offering his treasure, and the girls. The bear puts him out of his misery with a single swipe, the 2 girls about to run when they recognize the voice, he now a man, who happened to be a prince and was cursed by the dwarf until his delf (:)). SW marries the prince after they return home, RR gets his bro, and everyone receives a cut of the dwarf's treasure. The ma lives many years with her girls, and the rose trees being brought to the castle where they bloomed red and white roses yearly.
The Turnip regards 2 soldier bros, 1 rich, the other staying poor, so leaves the army to drive a plough. After ploughing his land, he plants turnip seeds, 1 growing like a weed, which'd not ever been recreated. Not believing he'd make much from it, he uses 2 horses to pull it to the K, who was intrigued. when listening to the man's story, he is touched, and gives him enough to stunt his bro's prosperity. When the rich bro hears of this, he attempts the same with a bit more lavish gifts to the K, thinking he'd act in kind. What he receives is the large ass turnip, and once getting it home, becomes so pissed, he decides to off his bro. He hires some guys and sets up his bro by saying de'd discovered riches they'd split. They capture him, and are going to string him up, when a student passing, is singing with gusto, they leaving the man hanging in a bag, he tricking the student into believing the sack gave wisdom, and has him wait for a turn, getting him to let him down, then strings him up inside, and takes his horse, but sends someone for him after an hour, the simple fella.
Star Dollars relates of a small girl, who both parent'd died. She devolves into such poverty, she only has the clothes she wore, and a loaf someone'd given her. As she walks through some fields, she meets a poor man, who is hungry, so gives him the loaf, and continues. After which she meets 4 girls separately, asking for other articles, and the girl giving everything she had off her own back, until probably in underthings, since it was becoming evening. So, the stars gift her with replacement petticoat, which contains star money in the pockets, so she being set fo life!
The Shreds tell of a maiden, who was cute, and also unenergetic, and lacked care. She was the type to waste thread whilst spinning if she created a knot. Her servant was her opposite, so'd gather her leftovers, and make a dress for herself. A young man falls smitten to the lazy girl, the servant girl prancing about her the night before her wedding, she stating how the girl'd made the dress from her trash, so when the fiance heard, he trades her for the servant girl to wed.
The Glass Coffin starts with the advice to not say to anyone of a Tailor not being able to journey a long way, and get success as much as he wants. For he'll be able to go anywhere and have luck. 1 time, a young Tailor boy gets himself lost in the woods, so resolves to sleep in a tree, seeing a light though, he follows it to an old man's hut, he being q'd who the lad was, and what his plans were. Tailor states of his profession and requests a place to sleep the night, the man greeting this by pushing the boy toward the door, but he pleading, and the man relenting, only acting rough. Next morning, Tailor is woken by the head-butting of a goat with a black beast, the former victorious. The goat notices Tailor and rushes him, Tailor taking hold, and soon riding the goat as it sped off into the distance, stopping at a ridge of rocks and allowing Tailor down with care. He'd bee near dying, when the goat butts into a rift in the rocks, and Tailor thinks about having no idea where he was. A voice beckons from between the opened rocks of he being welcome within and wouldn't be harmed, Tailor noticing the iron door he passed through, and the great polished stone room, then being told to stand on a certain stone to await his future. Tailor is brave boy, so steps up, and it acts like an elevator, going down to another level with a fascinating room. There were 2 glass chests, 1 containing miniatures of a castle, and grounds, with other buildings, and the voice brings his attention to the 2nd chest, with a maiden sleeping, but pleads for Tailor's help upon seeing him, which he provides readily. When she's released, she gets a cloak, gives him a friendly smooch, then shares her background, and how he was her heaven-sent hubby. She speaks of how her bro and she'd been living comfily together after her parents died, and they'd entertain their neighbors, and have visitors, 1 time the 2 hosting a traveler, which upon the evening closing, the girl goes off to sleep and hears music which freezes her. The traveler had charmed her and hoped to share his heart and hand, she not conceding what with not at all being impressed with his woo-pitching ways. So, like a bitch, he decides to come up with a way to make her regret this, the man taking her bro hunting the next morning. So, she goes off riding with 1 attendant, but soon continues alone for the servant's horse fell. She sees the traveler approaching with a tearful goat, she q'ing where her bro was, he laughing at her, so she takes a shot at him, but it bounces back into her horse off the man's chest. The stranger mumbles shit which through her loopy, and when she'd gotten her head straight, he'd transported her to the room they were in, he having trapped her home, and the people around her in the other chest. Until her dreams came true with Tailor's arrival, she next asks he help with the 2nd chest, which they place on the rising stone, and the 2 go up again with it. The girl opens it, and everything returns to life-size, and her bro comes out of the forest in his true form, the girl accepting Tailor as hubby the same day!
Lazy Harry had a job driving his goat to pasture, but found this work trying day by day, til the Fall, when he'd rather be napping. He comes up with the perfeck plan of marrying fat Kate, she being able to drive both their goats to pasture. Well, he gets his request with fat Kate's parents agreeing to the match, Kate taking the goats and Harry staying more idle, til fat Kate bids they trade the goats for a beehive, so they both could chill. Harry loves the idea, so they do so, and Harry is able to get a jarful by Fall, they hanging it by their bed and keeping a switch nearby to steer away any thieving. Fat Kate is in the middle of showing how she'd handle the boy they were considering hiring to do work for them, when she swings near the jar and it drops to the bed. Their dreams of hwhipping and gaining a goose and boy going with the fallen honey, but they able to consume a shardful left, as fat Kate concludes with a story about the snail who'd started off to a wedding and takes so long he arrives at the christening, and outside his home, he'd fallen and stated how going quick wasn't helpful.
Strong Hans tells of the boy being taken out to the woods by his ma to gather firewood when he was 2, whilst he pop stayed home. Hans would run far into the woods with his ma trailing him, a couple robbers surprising and kidnapping them, everyone going deep into the woods, where no one ever visited. The ma attempts to plead to be allowed with her son to be released, but they deny her, reaching a stone with a door, it opening by itself, and everyone going down a dark hall to a room with a fireplace. All sorts of swords were placed on the walls, and 4 robbers were seated at a table with the Cap at the head. He states, as long as the ma was calm, they'd leave her alone, and if she did the housework well enough, she'd be well cared for, he then giving her food and showing where she and Hans would sleep. The 2 stay with them for some years, Hans becoming larger and stronger, his ma teaching him to read from a book of chivalry, and telling him stories. When he was 9, he put a fir-tree staff by his bed, then inquires who his pop was to his ma. She refuses to share, so he didn't feel tempted to leave, but he threatens the Cap about it, who takes it lightly and clocks him upside the head, Hans deciding to try again in a year. When he does, he picks his timing right, after a feast, and when everyone was winding down, Hans uses his cudgel on the Cap and crew, his ma offering to go search for his pop with him. Hans takes their treasures, and the 2 return after a couple hours walking. His pop greets them warmly, and when Hans sets the treasure down inside, the force knocks it through the floor and into the basement. By this point, Hans is 12, and he assures they had enough for more than a new home, the 2 building a cottage, and buying cattle along with more land to build on. Hans next gets enough cash to construct a heavier staff, he then journeying deep into a wood where he meets a fella up a tree, twisting fir stems. Hans thinks this useful, so has him join him, calling him Fir-Twister, and the 2 moving along til meeting a giant smashing rocks, he wanting to build a house, but Hans diverting him to help, and names him Rock-Splitter. The 3 travel further to a castle where they set themselves up, Hans bringing home a boar easily from the garden, the 3 deciding 2 take turns with 2 going out hunting whilst 1 remained to cook. Fir-Twister stays home first, a wrinkled and gnarled old Dwarf coming and asking for meat, which he denies, and receives quite a thrashing from the man, and keeps this to himself, so the other 2 could learn for themselves. R-S receives the same fate, he also keeping his mouth shut, but Hans decides to give the old Dwarf some of his share of meat, but when the Dwarf asks for a 3rd serving, and tries to beat Hans when he refuses, Hans chases the little fucker out into the woods to a rock hole, Hans marking it, and returns to the castle. He tells his tale to the others and the 3 return to the rock hole, lowering Hans down where he locates the Dwarf with a beautiful Princess wrapped in chains. Hans wacks him with his staff which murders him, the Princess freed, and had been brought there by a Count, who couldn't deal with her denying his hand, the Dwarf having been her guard. So, when Hans lets the Princess be pulled up, he places his staff in his own place, his senses correct in not trusting the 2, they letting the basket fall. Hans returns to the room with the Dwarf's body, and sees a ring on him, and once putting it on, is greeted by a couple spirits who offer their aid, Hans being dropped outside, he then tracking his traitorous comrades to the ocean, having the spirits drop him on their deck, where he righteously kills them, and chucks them overboard, he getting the Princess back to her parents, and Hans marrying her with many happy revelers.
Master Cobblersawl was a constant worker and had the ego of 1 who thought he knew all, blaming others for his wide-gaited clumsiness, as well as having to control everything, his hubby making a fire and he putting it out to save logs. With the maid he acted a bit of a shit by flooding the kitchen with water because she was repeating a funny story she'd heard, and wanted her to focus on work. He also decides he must get in the middle of a construction of a house next to them, he about to show the builder how to chop wood, when he chances to see a wagon with clay, and 2 young horses harnessed to it, he believing they'd collapse under the weight soon enough, the peasant ignores him, and Cobblersawl goes back to his shop to seethe, and when his apprentice comes in to return the shoe he'd chucked in his haste, he thinks it was 1 his student was working on, criticizing it, no response given when the apprentice confesses it was actually the Cobblersawl's shoe, but knew he'd stubbornly believe his own lies. A couple nights later, he dreams he'd died and gone to heaven, meeting St. Peter, who advises he not interact with anything in heaven or it'd be bad for him, Cobblersawl stating he'd wasted time telling him this, since he already knew how to be, but soon is criticizing another wagon which he thought required at least 4 horses to pull the heavenly wishes which weighed so much. When an angel helps by bringing to more horses and attaching them to the opposite end of the 1st set, Cobblersawl is in the middle of ranting about it, when he's kicked out and as he goes, sees the horses flying up, then he wakes. Well, Cobblersawl was glad to be alive ofc, but still couldn't help stating how pointless a horse with wings was when it already had legs, he reverting his attention to helping the builders outside again.
The Nix in the Pond relates of a well off Miller and his hubby, their fortune increasing yearly, but with each year had a loss, as well. So, the Miller still had to work hard as his property decreased, til 1 dawn, he walks to the mill-dam, and views a maiden coming out of the water, her hair covering her boobage. The Miller frets whether to hang back and watch or biff off, he recognizing her as the water spirit of the pond. She solves his dilemma by inquiring what saddened him, he unloading his financial despair. The Nix states she'd help only if he'd give what'd just been birthed in his home, Miller agreeing, since he thought it could only be an animal. The Nix returns to the water, and Miller gets home, his maid breaking the glorious news of his wife popping a son. Well, the Miller shares why he didn't look happy to his hubby, and none of their buddies could offer any tips. The Nix however didn't claim the boy after a few years, and the Miller's paranoia lessens, but does warn his son to never approach the pond for getting snatched. When the boy trains as a hunter, he gets employment from the lord in town, and a maiden becomes smitten with him, and the 2 marry, living happily in a cottage given to the hunter. When he goes hunting and is cleaning his deer kill, the Nix wraps him in her arms and brings him underwater without disturbing the water. His hubby knew about he not being able to go near the mill-pond, so when he didn't return, and she sees his deserted gun by the pond, she deduces what occurred and mourns her loss stressfully, unable to get the Nix to come out for her. She paces about the pond attempting to coax some reaction, but ends up falling into a deep dreamy sleep. She travels up a mtn in a storm, the weather changing to pleasant when she reaches a cottage, and she awakes after being greeted by a kind old woman. The young hubby decides to recreate her dream trek and goes up the hill nearby, following the path, and reaches an old woman's cottage, she kindly giving her a seat, the young lady sharing her woes, and the old lady giving her a gold comb to brush her black hair with at the pond during the full moon, she then seeing what would occur next. Well, the wait was long, but the lady follows the instructions and sees the water take the comb up from the shore, the hunter's head surfacing for a mo. before going back under, he looking sad. The young lady returns to the old woman, and she is told to next play a sweet song on the gold flute, and see what happens. When she does this, the flute is taken and more of the hunter surfaces, he reaching out to his hubby, but a wave putting him under again. So, after the hubby despairs once more, and dreams of going to the cottage, she goes and is given a gold spinning wheel, where upon finishing a spool was to await what came after. She does as she's instructed, and the hunter is released, they running, but the water soon coming after them, the hubby calling for the old woman's help, and so the 2 being turned into a frog and toad, so they wouldn't drown, which works, but they are separated by the force of the water as it flooded the forest. When they touch dry ground, they return to their forms, but now had to work among new people who didn't know them or their country, both tending sheep, and missing the other for many years. Until 1 spring, when they both happen to herd their flocks near each other, and whilst not recognizing the other, and speaking little, the 2 were greatly comforted by the other. 1 night when they were spending the night outside, the shepherd plays a flute and the lady weeps, telling why she was sad when he q'd, and the 2 finally remembering each other with the help of the moonlight lifting their fogs, they living happily, afterward.
The Presents of the Little Folks begins with a traveling Tailor and hunchback Goldsmith, and at sundown they hearing music from the distance. It invigorates them to track it, and upon discovering a dancing and singing people, a tall, old man sitting in the center, he invites them to join in, which once they do, see him sharpening a knife, and shaving off both men's beards and hair, then having them stuff coal in their pockets before they moved on to locate a place to sleep, the party sounds and music stopping at midnight. When they lay down for the night with their heavy coats covering them, they discover the coal was now gold by morning. The Goldsmith richer for stuffing more rocks in his pockets, and their hair having grown back. He still yearned for more though, so the tailor waits as the Goldsmith goes through the same process again, going to sleep, but this time not discovering more gold, and the old gold now back to coal. His hair didn't return, and he'd gained a hump on his chest, the Tailor kind enough to share his treasure with the Goldsmith though, and he thenceforth living with 2 humps and needing a toupee.
The Goose-Girl at the Well begins with an ancient lady, who lives in a small cottage in a wasteland with her geese. Even walking with crutches didn't stop her from gathering grass for her geese and fruits for herself, and her appearance began unnerving the other villagers, so they'd make up rumors about she being a witch. 1 morning she's met by a young man, he surprised by how much fruit she planned to carry, but offering to help when she mentions how rich youth didn't usually make an effort, and he was a Count's son, so wanted to prove he could carry his weight, regardless of class. When she places the heavy items on him though, he begins to change his mind, but the old lady gets him to begin, and upon reaching the hill, he wishes to rest, she preferring he relax when they get to her home an hour away. The young man doesn't appreciate her response, and tries to peel the pack off himself without success, she laughingly suggesting he not wear himself out, so as they reach the top of the hill and the old woman becomes more spry and gets a ride on the man's back before they're greeted by a middle-aged lady, the old lady's daughter, goes indoors when her ma suggests it for etiquette of a man's presence, whilst she fetched him his much earned drink. When he's left alone, he's lulled by the environment and naps til the old woman wakes him. She acknowledges whilst she hadn't been grateful, she'd reward him properly, giving him an emerald-shaped book. He's refreshed enough to start back, but ends up wandering lost for a few days, and is brought before a K and Q, he offering his gift. When the Q looks inside it, she looks like she dropped dead, but revives quick enough to order he not be charged with a crime, and to speak with him alone. She confides her story of having 3 daughters, her youngest the most pretty, and when the K asks the girls to compare their love for him with an item, he punishes the youngest for her answer even though it wasn't malicious. She was still lost in the woods he'd sent her in with salt bound to her. What the Q'd seen in the emerald book was a pearl, which looks similar to the kind her youngest's eyes would pop. She the inquires where he'd gotten the pearl, he revealing the old woman and he not having seen a girl there, but the Q and K wish to check for themselves. Meanwhile, the old woman is spinning wool or whatever til her daughter comes home and joins her project, til she goes off into some far away woods to do her job, the preparing for which the girl's appearance changes drastically for the better. She puts her mask back on quickly though, upon hearing something in the bushes, returning home where her ma states they were coming to the end of living together, it being 3 years. The girl begs not to be turned out, but her ma states she should wait in her room til she calls, and to wear the dress she'd arrived in. Back with the K and Q, they were preparing to journey, whilst the Count looks for the old woman's house again for a couple days, then spends a night in a tree, so he doesn't lose his path. He notices the goose-girl approaching from a distance, he seeing her bathe, and tips too far forward, breaks a branch, which is what she notices, and biffs off. The Count plans to follow til seeing the K and Q walking in the direction of the old woman's home, he joining them, and the 3 viewing the old woman through the window spinning. They tap at the pane, and the old woman beckons them in, she telling of the wonderful girl they'd shunned was a lovely soul inside and out. She has the girl come out, a happy reunion's had between she and her parents, the old woman giving her the home they shared for 3 years, then disappearing and the house becoming a palace with servants. The Narrator's g/ma was losing her memory, so it's speculated by the Narrator, the princess gets with the Count, and were happy the rest of their lives. The other geese were suspected men and maybe where the servants came from, and the old lady being a wise woman, who'd given the gift of pearl tears when the girl was a baby, but by this day this possibility not ever happening, or everyone would be wealthy.
The Poor Boy in the Grave tells of a lad who was orphaned, both parents perishing, so a judge has him put in a wealthy farmer's home for shelter, unfortunately, the farmer and his wife were horrible people and didn't like spending on others, so the lad was more starved and physically assaulted. The lad 1st is tasked to watch the chickens, but he watches as a hawk carries a hen off, the Farmer beating him to the point of not being able to get up for a handful of days. When he's next told to watch the chickens, the lad ties them to a string, together, but becomes so exhausted with days of watching and not eating when he sleeps, the hawk gets them all and the Farmer beats him for his recovery lasting many days. When he's well enough again, the Farmer decides he's too dumb to watch, so he'd be a messenger his 1st task to deliver a grape basket to the judge with a letter. The lad's so starved, he takes 2 bunches, the judge notices, and sends him back with a note for more, and the boy eats 2 again, and disposes with the note, the lad honest when confronted, and the judge amused, and sending him back with a note for the farmer to treat him better and feed him more, or 1 day he'd know what justice and injustice meant. All this meant to the aggro farmer was, the lad needed to work, and if he made any mistakes, he'd be punished with assault. So he sets the lad the task of making hay fodder for the horses, giving him 5 hrs, the lad starts, but destroys his coat in the process, and knowing he'd be killed, decides to eat the jar of poison under the farmer's wife's bed, it actually honey, and when he remembers the farmer's poison, he discovers Hungary wine, this time believing death was near, so goes tot he graveyard and lays in an open grave, the cold night and wine ending him. When the farmer hears of this, he's scared of repercussions, and his hubby comes to console him, when she burns their home down for a grease fire starting when she'd left melting butter on the stove. The couple's remaining years were poor--stricken and miserable.
The True Bride begins with a lovely young girl, who had an evil step-ma, her ma dying when she was quite small. She was made to do adult work, but was mostly left alone. Her step-ma was relentless with making the girl's life a pain, setting her an impossible task to finish with the amount of time she set, the girl starting, but despairing. An old woman comes to help her, after telling her sad tale, she bidding the girl to sleep, and when she awakes, the work is finished, the step-ma complaining she hadn't begun anything else in preference of waiting. The next task she's given is to drain the pond out front with a spoon with a hole in it. She begins woefully, and is again interrupted by the old lady, who mist-ifies the water after sending the girl to a thicket to nap, and when she wakes, informs the step-ma, it'd been done, she incensed she wasn't finished sooner. Next morning, the step-ma orders she build a palace, since she'd done the others or she'd give the girl what she thought she deserved. So, again the girl attempts it, and is overwhelmed by the weight and enormity of the project, the old woman turning up, and telling the girl might live in the palace she constructed, and be happy, then has her sleep nearby as she magicked the castle together, and after the girl wakes and looks inside, goes to the step-ma, who looks thoroughly for issues, and locating none, so once going down the cellar steps, the door shuts on her, the girl opening it to help her if she needed, but she discovers her dead at the bottom of the stairs, the girl now living there, and beautiful dresses appearing with her need. Soon, she is getting suitors, but no one tickles her fancy til her eye gets caught by a prince. He soon must return to get his pop's permission and asks she wait the few hours it'd take, under the tree they were chatting under, she kissing his cheek and declaring not to allow any other to kiss him on the same cheek til he returned to her. Well, she waits 4 days, and then decides to go after him, in case he'd gotten in trouble. She packs a star-covered dress of gold, 1 with silver moons, and the last with gold suns, also taking gems in a kerchief. She goes and asks around with no luck, deciding to get a job as a shepherdess from a farmer, and hides her wealthy possessions beneath a rock. For 2 years she sadly tends her flocks, a calf taking a shine to her when she pets it, and says a rhyme. She then hears a princess was betrothed, then sees the two-timer riding by. She gets her chance to remind him when he passes again, singing her rhyme, but it not doing the trick, so over the course of a 3 day celebration, she unearths her dresses, the 1st being the gold suns, and wears her gems, she catching the attention of every1, the prince dancing with her and not recognizing her, she biffing off after and wearing her shepherdess clothes. The 2nd day, she wears the silver moons dress, and after the prince dances with her, requests she return the final night. The 3rd night, she wore the star dress, and when he asks her name, she kisses the same cheek as before, and the fog exits his eyes, taking her away directly, and marrying her.
The Hare and the Hedgehog starts with a preface of the validity of the story's reality from the Narrator, who calls to how his g/pa'd mentioned its truth before each telling, and this also being why it'd been passed on to him. It was a morning in summer on Sunday, and Hedgehog was singing at his door, his hubby cleaning the kitchen utensils before checking the crops. Mr. Hedgehog ditches her for impatience, discovering a Hare near the cabbage field. Mr Hedgehog attempts to greet Hare pleasantly, but is met with silence, Hare instead asking hwhy he was there, Hare having an opinion to his statement of being out for a walk. Hedgehog doesn't appreciate his tone and is 1st to declare being able to win against Hare in a race, the Hare accepting and asking the terms. They settle on the winner getting a coin and booze, and when the Hare expects to start presently, Hedgehog wished to prepare and meet back in half hour. Hedgehog decides to employ his hubby to trick the stuck-up Hare, she q'ing his ability to win, but he only needing her to watch the event. When they get to the meeting spot, Hedgehog decides to have her stand at the finish and pretend he'd already beaten Hare, she posing, since they look exactly the same. Well, this trick pisses off Hare, so he keeps racing back and forth with either hubby calling out of beating him before he reached the finish, 74 times, Hare finally collapsing with exhaustion, and Hedgehog getting his winning and going home with his hubby.
The Spindle, the Shuttle, and the Needle describes a small girl's parents dying, and she living with her godmother, teaching her the trade of spinning. At 15, the god-ma gets sick, telling her daughter, she'd get their cottage and what the title states. The god-ma perishes soon after, blessing the girl, and she mourning her to her grave. The girl makes her living as her god-ma intends, and she'd always get lucky with buyers of her clothes and paid well, so she could give to the needier. Around the same time, the local K's son was in the market for a hubby, and so decides to weed out a lady, who is rich and poor at the same time. He sees the richest chick, and biffs off after seeing her outside her door, and when seeing the poor maid spinning motivatedly, the prince is impressed, viewing through her window. Once she notices, she is embarrassed and continues working til he rides off. She sings the song her god-ma used to, and after, her spindle jumps away from her and goes off outside, she weaving instead. Meanwhile, the spindle locates the prince, who decides to follow it, the maid singing the shuttle tune whilst using it, it also leaving her hands, and quickly weaving an idyllic scene in nature with deer and rabbits. She moves on to needle-stitching, singing this tune for the needle, it covering the tables and chairs with cloth, as well as curtains for the walls. The maid then sees the prince coming back, he this time coming in to declare how she was poor and rich, and if she joined him, she'd become his wife. She offers her hand in answer, and once back, are married, the 3 spindle accessories added to their treasure room in reverence.
The Robber and His Sons told of a Robber with a gang, who lived in a wood where they'd hid themselves and steal from the wealthy passersby. When Robber gets old, he begins to grow a conscience, and wants to atone, so starts living righteously, and raises 3 sons. When they're of proper age, he asks their ambitions to make an above-board living, they wanting to become robbers, which Robber tries to dissuade them with the possible fate ending with hanging. They don't care though, and so resolve to practice by stealing the Q's persnickety-appetited horse. The youngest bro is stowed in the particular wad of grass bought by the stable-keeper, the boy unnoticed, and riding off at midnight. Unfortunately, he is seen by the tower guard, and upon capture, gets all 3, preparing for their executions. They're brought before the Q, she realizing their youth, and calls their famed pop, bartering she'd release his sons for his most spectacular robber story, since he'd advised his boys weren't worth any money to be let go. So, he tells of a Giant in a certain forest, hoarding gold and silver, he taking with him many men to lift some of it, but they're captured by the Giant and 10 others. His 100 men are split into groups of 10, and they begin working for the giant. Which actually turns into them realizing they were meals, when he wouldn't accept bribes, and Robber being thinnest, was last to go. When the giant planned to kill him, he offers to heal his eyes, since noticing how he'd been checking them for fattiness. The giant accepts the robber's help to stay alive, and is allowed to gather the necessaries to make a mix, pouring it over the giant's face, making him completely blind, and burning his skin to boils. The robber then has to hide off the ground, since the giant wished to swat him for tricking him. A day later he poses as a sheep so he could hid among the others, but this lasts a short time before getting caught and recaught, a few times after temporarily escaping, the giant hen deciding to reward him with a ring, Robber not knowing it was enchanted til he couldn't stop saying, "Here I am!". So, since he couldn't take it off, he bites his finger off, saving his own life. The robber states to the Q how this 1st part was for 1 of his boys lives, the next part being for a 2nd. His escape had him wandering solitarily with no human structures nearby, he coming across wild animals, as well as a couple wild men with beaks and horns, which haunted his thoughts. Robber next sees smoke in a clearing and is scared to view 3 dead men, hanging. Resisting running, he detects a cottage, and discovers a lady and child, he asking how she'd gotten there, and being told she'd been kidnapped with her child from her hubby. She was also told to kill her child for the 3 giants planning to eat it, so Robber carries 1 of the biggest bodies hanging in the woods, and cuts it up for the lady to cook, then hides her kid in a hollow tree, he hiding near the house as backup support for the lady when the giants returned. As Robber views the giants coming back, they looked like hairy apes (bigfoot?). After they'd eaten a body they'd brought back with them raw, as well as the contents of the lady's pot of dead body, 1 announces not believing they'd eaten her kid, and requests 1 of his fellows to go and cut a strip off of each body outside to reassure him. So, Robber poses as the missing body, and has the scar to prove it, he stopping the story again to segue how the last part was for his 3rd son's freedom.When the giants'd left, he'd tried his best to give himself 1st aid, but was still pouring blood. He ignores this and ends up having to return to the gallows again, since overhearing the giant wanting his bod for tasting the best, stringing himself back up. They drag him back to the cottage, but before being able to cut him, a storm's winds begin blowing, scaring the 3 giants away, and when it passes, the 3 travel 2 weeks in the wilderness eating veggies and roots, til discovering a civilization where Robber finds the lady's hubby, reuniting them, the Q agreeing he'd done quite a bit to right his wrongs, so lets his 3 boys go.
The Master-Thief begins with a hubby and wife who are met by a man looking like a lord and wishes only to partake in some taters in their shabby hut. The peasant is amused and guesses what sort of lord he was, and also agrees to accommodate, his wife making dumpling-style taters. The stranger inquires whether the 2 had kids to help them with the work, the peasant replying of not, his only son running away a long way back. The stranger plants a young tree with a pole next to it, and fills it, he q'ing whether the peasant would straighten another tree, the peasant stating it was too old to realign, the stranger remarking like kids, the peasant hadn't taught his son early enough which'd trained him not to run. SOon it's revealed the stranger is the peasant's offspring, he learning he'd become like Robin Hood, which didn't change his pop's opinion of his thieving career, his ma glad to see him though, as well, and only happy to have seen his face again despite his seedy work. As they eat, his pop mentions how their master, the COunt would hang him if he knew what he'd become, so the thief decides to present himself to his godfather, the Count, the man stating he'd have to prove his mastery, and if he succeeded, wouldn't be hung. The thief suggests he give him 3 tasks, so the count comes up with the thief stealing his best horse from his stable, the pane he and his wife slept on, as well as her ring as they slept, and lastly the parson, and clerk from the church. The thief 1st disguises himself as an old lady, and spikes some wine with roofie, and returns to the Count's home, being noticed by his soldiers at the stable, and offers them a drink, he able to get the 1st outside to partake, the ones inside guarding the horse no different, and soon sleep. The thief goes to a bit of trouble to trick those who'd been nearer the horse, still succeeding riding out. Next morning, as the Count stares out his window, the Thief rides back on the horse, and relays how he'd handled his soldiers, which he partially could see lying about asleep in the yard, as well as those in the stable. So, the Count allows him this win, and makes clear the next time he'd treat him how he would any burglar. At nightfall, as the Count and his hubby ready for bed, he states he'd wait through the night and assault any intruder. The Master-Thief prepares for his attack by liberating a fresh dead body from the gallows and props him at level with the window, the Count falling for it and shooting, the Thief pitching the body forward, and the Count responding by digging a grave in the garden, the Thief pretending to be the Count by imitation and having the Count's hubby give the comforter to bury his godson in and her ring, as consolation, which she doesn't wish to do, but obeys. The Thief gets home before the Count's finished his project and is surprised to see the Thief alive and shows him his possessions. After relating how he'd succeeded, the Count notes he still had the 3rd task, which if failed, voiced all the prev. The Thief prepares in the evening by going to the church and attaching crabs to candle wax, and releases them ("ont" most likely being out, Editor?), then putting on a fake beard and monk robe, acts "the end is nigh" and offers to allow those who hear him to enter the empty sack he carried. The 2 who fall for this is the Clerk and Parson, both of which decide to take "Peter" up on his offer to get to heaven. So, the Thief cinches them in and drags them to the Count's home, explaining their hard progress of going down steps and through mud puddles as ethereal subs, like up a mtn and through clouds. He leaves them, and next morning proves the deed done to the Count, who allows him to leave and not return, which after farewelling his parents settles in a distant land and doesn't communicate with them again.
Old Rinkrank tells of yet another K with a princess which he tasks any man willing, to climb over a mtn made of glass he'd requested be made, without tripping, and they'd marry his daughter. 1 fella was head-over-heels for her, and the K states the game, the fella accepting, and the princess deciding to come with and be his spotter, in case he fell, but as they climb, she's the 1 who trips, the glass opening and the girl vanishing, not found even after the K had the mtn unassembled, and no trace of the hole she fell through was found. princess meanwhile, was well under the earth, inside a cave where she meets a grey-bearded coot saying she'd either agree to serve him or he'd kidnap her, so she goes along and tends his wrk, cooking, and the 2 climb his ladder upward, 1 time, and when he returns at evening, he brings silver and gold. Princess remains with him to old age, he calling her Mother Mansrot, whilst she must call him the title of this piece. princess decides she wasn't going to let him back inside 1 day, he yelling from outside to do certain taks which she'd already handled. RR gets curious, so he goes to the little peep window, putting his beard through 1st, so's his fat head could go through, but Princess was ready, and binds his beard so he couldn't get loose, this prompting him to reveal where his ladder was, and she being able to get out and return to the K and her hubby, who still lived, and were waiting, Princess marrying her man, and every1 well happy and rich.
The Ball of Crystal follows an Enchantress with 3 boys who loved each other greatly, the lady paranoid for some reason they'd wish to steal her power. So, she changes her eldest into an eagle, the middle, a whale, and they able to turn human a couple hrs per day. The youngest plans to run off and save a magicked princess, who had 23 die trying to save her and 1 alive to repeat his story. So, he goes off wandering quite awhile before reaching a forest out of nowhere, he seeing and being bid to approach a couple giants requesting his opinion to settle their argument over an old hat. The boy q's why they fought over it, the 2 revealing its ability to grant wishes. The boy offers they race for it, he taking it and walking a distance off, becoming distracted with the thought of the princess and wanting to locate the castle, so keeps walking, right to the castle, since he wished to do so offhandedly. He reaches the princess without issue, locating her in the last room, her form looking old, but a mirror showing what she truly looked like, she then revealing the sequence of events he'd meet. 1st an ox which he must kill, a phoenix-like bird sprouting from its body, and inside the bird is the egg which contained the yolk which formed the crystal ball. He must be careful of when the bird laid its egg, since it'd burn anything near where it fell, if landing on the ground. So, the boy goes down the mtn, kills the ox, and after a long-winded fight, upon its death, the bird pops out directly, and is nearly about to fly off when Eagle bro happens to spot his little bro, and bird, knocking it toward the sea, the egg falling onto a hut of a fisherman, which was starting to blaze when the sea goes over the hut and puts it out. Whale bro had caused the wave, and little bro discovers the egg, which'd broken, and takes out the crystal. He shows it to the Enchanter, who states he'd become owner of the castle, his power gone, and his bros back to their humanity, the boy returning to the beautiful princess, and the 2 exchanging rings, presuming happy, happy,
Jungfrau Maleen told of a K's son, who'd become taken with her, but her pop not approving, for having someone else in mind. The princess though, was so h-o-h, she declares she'd marry no other! Her pop responds by having a depressing tower built, where no natural light reached, declaring he'd stick her in there for 7 yrs, and see if she was still so inflexible. She and her maid are bricked in with 7 yrs worth of food and drink, and when they only have a few days worth food left, they get worried no one'd come, the walls so thick they were unable to hear anything from outside. The princess decides it's time to consider breaking out, she using their bread knife to dig the mortar, the maid helping, and they succeeding in making an opening, seeing the place deserted, and burning. they get out and wander off, once making it to the next kingdom, and not knowing it was her fella's, the 2 being offered kitchen maid jobs at the castle after being turned away by the townsfolk. The prince had been betrothed to another princess, but this 1 ugly and mean. Due to her stank face, Maleen was made to serve her meals in her room, and on the day of the wedding, the bride bids Maleen put her dress on and take her place, embarrassed with the perceived reactions she'd get from walking through town. Maleen at 1st declines, but must when the princess threatens her life, the K ok with it, due to her beauty, and the prince not believing it could be his beloved, despite recognizing her. As they walk, the bride sings in an odd dialect, the prince further confused when her reply to his inquiry was to mention her name, and when this occurs a 2nd time, she only claims to have heard of Maleen. She does this a 3rd time, as he puts a necklace on her, the 2 marrying, and the ugly girl taking her place in the bedroom, she having to return to Maleen after the prince asks about what she'd said earlier. The princess decides to give the excuse of asking her maid about her thoughts when he q's again. The ugly princess vows she'd have her head, since the 2nd and 3rd responses revealed her trickery, which made her confess to the prince when he uncovers her veiled face, then having her fetch Maleen, but she instead orders her head be chopped for being a witch, but the prince ends this when he hears her cries, seeing the necklace he gave her, he speaking to her privately, and she confiding her identity, and torture, and how happy she was now, the 2 remaining this way, whilst ugly got her head cut.
The Boots Made of Buffalo-Leather starts with a phrase: A soldier who is afraid of nothing, cares for nothing, and 1 man like this having been discharged and having no experience doing anything, so moves around begging. He only had a cloak and buffalo boots, he not paying attention to signs and reaching a wood of enormity. He sees a man sitting upon a stump, the soldier offering to team up when the Huntsman tells of also being lost. By evening, it was estimated they'd remain in the woods for quite awhile longer, but a stone cottage being spotted due to its light, and upon knocking, was truthful with the old lady who appeared. She is honest in return, and confides of the place being a robbers hideout, the soldier willing to take his chances, and drags the huntsman on with him, even though he wasn't as quite all in. The woman feels bad for them, so has them hide in back of the oven, and when the robbers were passed out,s he'd feed them. When the dozen robbers come in right after they'd settled in their hiding spots, the woman brings the meat tray to bad language directed at her, the Soldier nearly unable to hold out and aimed to sit among them for a helping. The Huntsman holds him back, but the Soldier starts having a coughing fit, and the robbers discover them. The Soldier states his desire, the Captain robber admitting they'd kill them, and amused by the man's balls, agrees to his last meal, the Huntsman not joining him. The Soldier also requests wine, the Cap having the woman oblige. She returns with a bot of 1 of their finest, the Soldier making a toast in health of their company, he then adding they would exist with their right arms raised and mouths open, freezing them, the Huntsman then agrees to join the feast, they staying for a few days, and before departing, have the old woman direct them to the closest path. They reach a town, and the Soldier relates discovering thieves to his buddies, everyone agreeing to go and capture them, the Huntsman also agreeing. The Soldier gives the robbers their ability to move again, and his soldier buddies move in and bind them, sticking them on a wagon to go to prison. The Huntsman gives 1 of the soldiers a commission, and then they all return to the town where they see a large group of people running out the gate and whooping, the K having returned after being gone awhile. The Huntsman then admits his identity as K, and invites the Soldier to stay, he trying to apologize for his rude behaviour at him, and the K unbothered, only wishing he ask him before he make toasts.
The Golden Key tells of a poor boy having to get wood in a thick snow by sledge. When he's gathered a decent amount, he considers making a fire to warm himself before returning. As he sweeps a clean spot to do so, he discovers a gold key, he then digging the ground and locating a chest. It takes some time detecting the key hole, and unfortunately he's still in the process of opening the chest so we can all learn what goodies lay within, the boy suspecting wonderful things!
Peculiar choice for the end story, I suppose its supposed to be cutesy, but definitely gives the impression of being a lot of fluff for a deflated ending. The group of stories were mostly fun, though, and whilst there's repetition, it's still got some windy story paths to follow. I'm glad to have at least read them all.
