The Old
Man and His Grandson
The Children of an old man grown and married are unsympothetic towards
their father, then their grandson teaches them a lesson, a short common
folktale of less then a page.
The
Singing Soaring Lark
A merchant tries to get his daughter a singing lark as a gift, but is
attacked by a lion who makes him promise his daughters hand in marrage.
As in many fairy tale stories the lion turns out to be a prince however
he
takes human form every night so they sleep through the day. However the
prince is later turned into a dove which flys away causing the maid to
search for him for seven years before freeing him from an evil
sorceress.
The Goose
Girl
A Princess goes to marry a Prince however on the way her maid makes a
switch so that those in the palace thing the maid is the princess. The
Princess is forced to become a goose girl and walk past her dead horse
(killed by the maid) every day. However the dead horse reveals her true
identity. A strange sort of fairy tale of medium length.
The Young
Giant
A Strang folk story of a thumbling boy who is suckeled by a giant until
he is a giant himself, then he performs feats of strength and hard
work, and in return demands the right to give powerful blows to his
employers.
The Gnomes
and the Princess
A king has a special apple tree he has laid a curse on so that when his
daughters try to eat it they are sucked into the ground. The king not
knowing what happened to them offers rich rewards to rescue them. A
little later a gnome is rude to a huntsman who beats the gnome, so that
the gnome tells him how to rescue the princess to make him stop.
The King
of the Golden Mountain
A father accidently gives his son to a dwarf, however the son later
growing smart has himself bless to be protected. And so the dwarf can't
take him but instead has him set adrift in a boat. The boy rescues a
princess from a curse and becomes a king. But his wife leaves him, and
he must win her back with powerful magical items.
The Raven
A queen changes her daughter into a raven by accedient, with some of
the same elements as The King of the Golden Mountain, only a
slightly less heroic character and a happier end.
The
Peasants Wise Daughter
A king gives some peasants a land grant and on the land they find a
mortor of gold, the father wishes to present it to the king but the
daughter says the king will merely put him in prison if he does so.
However the father still gifts it to the king and the daughter must
free him by solving a riddle. The king seeing how smart the girl is
marries him, but he is a fool and later bad rulings cause him to expel
her for she is wise and it causes them to fight.
The Three
Little Birds
The Story of a peasant girl who marries the queen and has three
children, causing her sisters to grow jealous so that they throw her
babies into the water. A fishermen finds each of them and raises them.
The Water
of Life
A king with three sons is sick and on his death bed, so the sons set
out each in their turn to fetch the water of life to cure their father.
The eldest two are haughty and rude to a dwarf which tries to speak
with them, so he curses them. The youngest one however is polite to the
dwarf, and so he is granted the ability to get the water of life.
The Spirit
in a Bottle
A poor father tries to put his son through school, but they eventually
cannot afford the tuition and the son must return home. While helping
his father with chores the son finds a bottle with a magical spirit
trapped inside it.
The Three
Little Men in the Wood
Another fairy tale story in which a girl is mistreated by her
stepmother and is sent into the winter snow
to gather strawberries, for the step mother hopes that the girl should
freeze to death. Instead the girl makes friends with some magical
little men in the woods.
The Three
Spinners
A woman brags that her daughter is the greatest spinner so the queen
takes her to spin thread, the girl is scared but receives help from
three deformed women. The Queen being impressed gives the girl to her
son to marry. An interesting fairy tale because it is a joke as much as
a story.
Hansel and
Gretel
Two children are abandoned in the woods by their parents because of a
famine. They then are captured by a witch who plans to eat them. One of
the darker fairy tale stories yet still a children's classic.
The Girl
Without Hands
The Devil attempts to destroy a good and pious girl, taking her hands,
but she manages to marry the king, then the devil has her banished
through trickery, but the pious girl will always make it through.
Clever Hans
A boy goes to his bride and gets gifts, but he always does the wrong
thing with them, carrying a calf on his head, dragging bacon on the
ground, etc. A funny folktale on which another American Fairy tale
story is
based.
The Three
Languages
A young man is sent by his father to learn something but he comes back
and says he has learned what the frogs say, what dogs say, and what
birds say. Angry his father banishes him, however the young man has
actually learned to speak the animal languagues, not just their sounds.
And so he uses this knowledge to become the Pope.
The Frog King
Many
call this Fairy Tale The Frog Prince, and think that it is about the
power of love, however for those who think they know the tale but have
never read the true version, this story ends much differently then most
would imagine.
Our Lady's
Child
A
girl is taken up to live with the Virgin Mary in heaven, however the
girl is disobediant and sent to Earth, and will not repent until she is
put to the stake to be burnt. One of the religious folktales that
teaches of repentince.
The Story
of a Youth who went forth to Learn What Fear Was
A
funny folktale about a boy who does not know what fear is. He therefore
sets out to discover it and in the process defeats many evil things.
The Wolf
and the Seven Little Kids
A
wolf pertends to be some goats mother and so devours all but one.
However the real mother manages to cut her kids out of the goat.
Faithful
John
The
servents are jealous of a faithful servent and so eventually convince
the king to kill him wrongfully, and only after the death of the
servent does the king realize his error. However this fairy tale gives
the king a chance to bring his servent back to life, if he trusts the
servent enough to kill his own children.
The Good
Bargain
A story of a foolish peasant who throws
his
money at
frogs, and his product to the dogs in anger. He however makes the Kings
daughter laugh in the process, that however is not the end as he turns
the kings rewards down only to get others. (This is a very anti-semitic
tale)
The Twelve
Brothers
In a twist on the fairy tales this story begins with a father wishing
to kill his sons, afraid for her children the boy's mother has them
flee into the woods. Later their sister goes in search of them and they
live together happily for a time, until the boys are turned into
ravens. To free them their sister must go through a number of trials.
Brother
and Sister
Brother and sister is the story of
siblings
who
escape their wicked step mother, on the way however the boy is changed
into a roebuck. As they grow the brother (as a stag) becomes the target
of a prince on a hunting trip, he however manages to escape leading the
prince to his sister.
The Three
Snake Leaves
A man merries a princess who demands that anyone who merries her should
be buried alive with her if she dies first. And then she does in fact
die, so he is put in the crypt with her, until by chance he sees a
snake use magic to bring her to life. He copies this magic, bringing
his wife to life and they are freed from the crypts. However the
princess is changed and tries to murder him some time later.
The
Valiant Little Tailor
In this fairy tale story a tailor kills 7 flys with a single swat, and
then
sets out impressed with himself. He uses cleaverness and courage to
defeat many creatures from giants to unicorns. And so marries the
princess, however she is not happy being wed to a tailor, so her and
her father try to get rid of the tailor, but he outsmarts them in this
as well.
Cinderella
The fairy tale story of a girl who's wicked step mother tries to turn
her into a servent. She however overcomes this with magical help and
marries the prince. Unlike the versions you might know this story
involves Cinderella and the prince dating for a time before they marry
and the horrible punishment that follows.
The Riddle
A fairy tale story of a princess
adventures as
he meets a
witch in the woods, and and in full of bandits. He then falls in love
with a princess who will marry anyone who can stump her with a riddle.
Mother
Holle
The fairy tale story of a
girl who
has a mother
who does not lover her and sends her off into the woods. There the
mother works for the magical Mother Holle and so is rewarded with great
riches.
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The Old
Man and His Grandson
The
Singing Soaring Lark
The Goose
Girl
The Young
Giant
The Gnomes
and the Princess
The King
of the Golden Mountain
The Raven
The
Peasants Wise Daughter
The Three
Little Birds
The Water
of Life
The Spirit
in a Bottle
The Three
Little Men in the Wood
The Three
Spinners
Hansel and
Gretel
The Girl
Without Hands
Clever Hans
The three
Languages
The Frog King
Our Lady's
Child
The Story
of a Youth who went forth to Learn What Fear Was
The Wolf
and the Seven Little Kids
Faithful
John
The Good
Bargain
The Twelve
Brothers
Brother
and Sister
The Three
Snake Leaves
The
Valiant Little Tailor
Cinderella
The Riddle
Mother
Holle
The Robber
Bridegroom
The
Godfather
Frau Trude
Godfather
Death
Thumbling
as Journeyman
Fitcher's
Bird
The
Juniper Tree
Old Sultan
The Six
Swans
Little
Briar Rose
Fundevogel
King
Thrushbeard
Little
Snow White
The
Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn
Rumpelstiltskin
Sweetheart
Roland
The Golden
Bird
The Two
Brothers
The Queen
Bee
The Three
Feathers
The Golden
Goose
The Seven
Ravens
Little
Red-Cap
The
Singing Bone
The Devil
with the Three Golden Hairs
Rapunzel
Clever
Elsie
The
Wishing Table, the Gold Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack
Thumbling
The Elves
Allerleirauh
The Hares
Bride
The Twevle
Huntsmen
The Theif
and his Master
The Three
Sons of Fortune
How Six
Men Got on in the World
Gossip
Wolf and Fox
The Pink
The Devils
Brother
Bearskin
The Willow
Wrean and the Bear
Sweet
Porridge
Wise Folks
Stories
about Snakes
The Poor
Millers boy and the cat
The Two
Travellers
Hans the
Hedgehog
The Shroud
The
Skillful Huntsman
The
Cunning Little Tailor
The Bright
Sun Brings it to Light
The Blue
Light
The Wilful
Child
The Kings
Son who Feared Nothing
Donkey
Cabbages
The Old
Woman in the Wood
The Three
Brothers
The Devil
and His Grandmother
Ferdinand
the Faithful
The Iron
Stove
The Four
Skillful Brothers
One Eye,
Two Eyes, and Three Eyes
Fair
Katrinelje and Pif Paf Poltrie
The Shoes
that Were Danced to Pieces
The Six
Servants
The White
Bride and the Black One
Iron John
The Three
Black Princesses
Knoist and
His Three Sons
The Maid
of Brakel
DOmestic
Servents
Snow White
and Rose Red
The Glass
Coffin
Lazy Harry
The Griffin
Strong Hans
The Hut in
the Forest
The Goose
Girl at the Well
The Ear of
Corn
Old
Rinkrank
The
Lambkin and the Little Fish
Eve's
Various Children
The Nix of
the Mill Pond
The Poor
Boy in the Grave
The True
Sweetheart
The
Spindle, the Shuttle, and the Needle
The Sea
Hare
The Master
Thief
The Drummer
Simeli
Mountain
Going A
Travelling
The Donkey
The
Ungratefull Son
The Turnip
The Old
Man Made Young Again
The Three
Sluggards
The Star
Money
The Stolen
Farthings
Brides on
their Trial
The
Sparrow and His Four Children
The
Crystal Ball
Maid Maleen
St Joseph
in the FOrest
The Twelve
Apostles
The Rose
Poverty
and Humility Lead to Heaven
God's Food
The Three
Green Twigs
The Aged
Mother
The Hazel
Branch
Cat and
Mouse in Partnership
The
Wonderful Musician
The Pack
of Ragamuffins
The Straw,
the Coal, and the Bean
The
Fishermen and his wife
The Mouse,
the Bird, and the Sausage
The Nix
Brother
Lustig
Hans in
Luck
Hans
Married
The Gold
Children
The Bremen
Town Musicians
The Louse
and the Flea
The Tailor
In Heaven
The
Wedding of Mrs Fox
The Elves,
Third Story
Herr Korbes
The Dog
and the Sparrow
Frederick
and Catherine
The Little
Peasant
Jorinda
and Joringel
The Wolf
and the Man
The Wolf
and the Fox
The Fox
and the Cat
Clever
Gretel
The Death
of the Little Hen
Gambling
Hansel
The Fox
and the Geese
The
Riddling Tale
The Wise
Servent
The
Peasant in Heaven
Lean Lisa
Sharing
Joy and Sorrow
The Willow
Wren
The Sole
The Bitten
and the Hoopoe
The Owl
The Moon
The Hare
and the Hedgehog
The
Peasant and the Devil
The Crumbs
on the Table
The Grave
Mound
The boots
of Buffalo Leather
The Poor
Man and the Rich Man
Old
Hildebrand
Docktor
Know All
The Jew
Among the Thorns
The Flail
from Heaven
The Three
Army Surgeons
The Seven
Swabians
The
DUration of Life
Death's
Messangers
Master
Pfriem
The Little
Folks Presents
The Giant
and the Taylor
The Nail
The Three
Apprentices
The Lazy
Spinnder
The Fox
and the Horse
The Lord's
Animals and the Devil's
The Beam
The Old
Begger Woman
Odds and
Ends
The Story
of Schlauraffen Land
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