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- Tale Summary When a poor Miller must speak with the King, he tells him that his daughter has the ability to spin straw into gold to make himself seem more notable. The king demands the presence of the girl. The miller鈥檚 daughter is shut into a large
- Tale Summary A gentleman takes a second wife, a haughty woman with two equally haughty daughters from a previous marriage. He has his own daughter from his first wife, who is equally as good and beautiful as her mother. This daughter is called 鈥
- Tale Summary There was once a young girl who was doted on by her mother and grandmother, who had made for her a red hood, which is how she gets her nickname 鈥楲ittle Red Riding-Hood鈥. Hearing that Little Red's grandmother has been ill, her mother
- Tale Summary Once upon a time, a woman was pestered by a rabbit who was eating all of her fine cabbages, and so she tells her daughter to hunt it. She asks the rabbit to please stop eating the crops, and he asks her to climb on his tail and
- Tale Summary In olden times, the king had a beautiful young daughter, who often amused herself by sitting at the side of a fountain in the woods and throwing a golden ball up in the air to catch. One day, she drops it and loses it in the water. A
- Tale Summary After her father鈥檚 remarriage, Cinderella endures the oppression of her stepmother and stepsisters and became their servant. Her Godmother helps her out of her misery by telling her to gather some lizards and mice for a carriage and
- Tale Summary An old man has three daughters. The eldest two are vain, and selfish, and do not help with the housework, the youngest (Helga) is the most beautiful and selfless and serves the whole family. When their fire goes out one night, the
- Tale Summary A king adopts a beautiful girl for his daughter. When she grows up, all three of his sons want her hand in marriage. He sets out a test to determine who will wed the girl, Isolde. Whoever brings back the most unusual thing from foreign
- Tale Summary An old beggar woman is out begging with her son. On their way home, they find a blue belt lying at a place where two paths meet. The woman warns the lad not to pick up the belt in case it contains witchcraft, but he sneaks off to
- Tale Summary An ill-tempered man who never thinks his wife does her housework well comes home one night, angry with his wife. His wife suggests that the next day, they will swap roles; she will go out and mow the fields, and he will take care of