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Tale Summary A young King and Queen are sad because they have no children. On a walk one day, the Queen encounters an 鈥渦gly old woman鈥 and tells the old woman that she is upset because she and the King have no children. The old woman promises to set
Tale Summary Thorstein is a prince and is too kind. After his parents die he spends the entire kingdom鈥檚 budget on charity for people who don鈥檛 deserve it and everybody is miserable. He barters his kingdom away and leaves. On his journey, he
Tale Summary A woman who lives in the woods with her husband gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. The family is poor and they do not have the money to pay for the baby鈥檚 christening. The father walks from house to house for a full day in search of
Tale Summary An emperor with a vast kingdom has three sons. One day, the youngest son, Petru, asks why the emperor has a right eye that laughs and a left eye that weeps. He gets an angry reply but notices that the crying eye cries less.
Tale Summary There was once a beautiful princess that a young king sought to marry. He attempted to swoon her with extravagant gifts, but she refused to marry him. Graceful, the king鈥檚 handsome and kind ambassador, stated that he alone could
Tale Summary A widowed king with a daughter named Flora remarries a widowed queen with her own daughter named Troutina. Flora is beautiful and amiable, while Troutina is ugly and mean. When both daughters are of age to be married, the queen
Tale Summary A queen has a single daughter who is very beautiful and prideful. The princess, named All-Fair, refuses to marry any suitor as she is content being single. The queen seeks out the help of the Fairy of the Desert, but runs into two
Tale Summary This tale is a twist on the one previously told, in which the character described is a victim caught between a city pr忙tor and thief, and now focuses on his own fast-thinking. The village church of Postema is served by the avaricious
Tale Summary Tebaldo, Prince of Salermo, has a beautiful and wise wife who dies and instructs him not to marry someone whose finger does not fit her own ring. After sending home every woman who courted him, his own daughter, Doralice, finds the ring
Tale Summary A handsome young robber named Cassandrino in the city of Romagna, Perugia, is so magnanimous in offering gifts that come of his thieving, that the city pr忙tor is reluctant to punish him. Taken with Cassandrino, the pr忙tor believes his