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The fir tree
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A rose from Homer's grave
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The naughty boy
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Grimms' Fairy Tales: Children's and Household Tales

List of fairy tales (Page 9)

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160 A riddling tale

Three women were changed into flowers which grew in the field, but one of them was allowed to be in her own home at night. Then once when day was drawing near, and she was forced to go back to her companions in the field and become a flower again, she said to her husband: If thou wilt come this afternoon and gather me, I shall be set free and henceforth stay with thee. And he did so.Read the story →

161 Snow-White and Rose-Red

There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red roses. She had two children who were like the two rose-trees, and one was called Snow-white, and the other Rose-red.Read the story →

162 The wise servant

How fortunate is the master, and how well all goes in his house, when he has a wise servant who listens to his orders and does not obey them, but prefers following his own wisdom. A clever John of this kind was once sent out by his master to seek a lost cow.Read the story →

163 The glass coffin

Let no one ever say that a poor tailor cannot do great things and win high honors; all that is needed is that he should go to the right smithy, and what is of most consequence, that he should have good luck. A civil, adroit tailor's apprentice once went out travelling, and came into a great forest, and, as he did not know the way, he lost himself.Read the story →

Harry was lazy, and although he had nothing else to do but drive his goat daily to pasture, he nevertheless groaned when he went home after his day's work was done.Read the story →

165 The griffin

There was once upon a time a King, but where he reigned and what he was called, I do not know. He had no son, but an only daughter who had always been ill, and no doctor had been able to cure her. Then it was foretold to the King that his daughter should eat herself well with an apple.Read the story →

166 Strong Hans

There were once a man and a woman who had an only child, and lived quite alone in a solitary valley. It came to pass that the mother once went into the wood to gather branches of fir, and took with her little Hans, who was just two years old. As it was spring-time, and the child took pleasure in the many-coloured flowers, she went still further onwards with him into the forest.Read the story →

167 The peasant in heaven

Once on a time a poor pious peasant died, and arrived before the gate of heaven. At the same time a very rich, rich lord came there who also wanted to get into heaven. Then Saint Peter came with the key, and opened the door, and let the great man in, but apparently did not see the peasant, and shut the door again.Read the story →

Lean Lisa was of a very different way of thinking from lazy Harry and fat Trina, who never let anything disturb their peace. She scoured everything with ashes, from morning till evening, and burdened her husband, Long Laurence, with so much work that he had heavier weights to carry than an ass with three sacks. It was, however, all to no purpose, they had nothing and came to nothing.Read the story →

169 The hut in the forest

A poor wood-cutter lived with his wife and three daughters in a little hut on the edge of a lonely forest.Read the story →

170 Sharing joy and sorrow

There was once a tailor, who was a quarrelsome fellow, and his wife, who was good, industrious, and pious, never could please him. Whatever she did, he was not satisfied, but grumbled and scolded, and knocked her about and beat her. As the authorities at last heard of it, they had him summoned, and put in prison in order to make him better.Read the story →

171 The willow-wren

In former days every sound still had its meaning and application. When the smith's hammer resounded, it cried, Strike away! strike away. When the carpenter's plane grated, it said, Here goes! here goes.Read the story →

The fishes had for a long time been discontented because no order prevailed in their kingdom. None of them turned aside for the others, but all swam to the right or the left as they fancied, or darted between those who wanted to stay together, or got into their way; and a strong one gave a weak one a blow with its tail, which drove it away, or else swallowed it up without more ado.Read the story →

173 The bittern and the hoopoe

Where do you like best to feed your flocks? said a man to an old cow-herd. Here, sir, where the grass is neither too rich nor too poor, or else it is no use. Why not? asked the man. Do you hear that melancholy cry from the meadow there? answered the shepherd, that is the bittern; he was once a shepherd, and so was the hoopoe also,--I will tell you the story.Read the story →

Two or three hundred years ago, when people were far from being so crafty and cunning as they are now-a-day, an extraordinary event took place in a little town.Read the story →

In days gone by there was a land where the nights were always dark, and the sky spread over it like a black cloth, for there the moon never rose, and no star shone in the obscurity. At the creation of the world, the light at night had been sufficient.Read the story →

176 The duration of life

When God had created the world and was about to fix the length of each creature's life, the ass came and asked, Lord, how long shall I live? Thirty years, replied God; does that content thee? Ah, Lord, answered the ass, that is a long time.Read the story →

177 Death's messengers

In ancient times a giant was once travelling on a great highway, when suddenly an unknown man sprang up before him, and said, Halt, not one step farther! What! cried the giant, a creature whom I can crush between my fingers, wants to block my way? Who art thou that thou darest to speak so boldly? I am Death, answered the other. No one resists me, and thou also must obey my commands.Read the story →

178 Master Pfriem (Master Cobbler's Awl)

Master Pfriem was a short, thin, but lively man, who never rested a moment. His face, of which his turned-up nose was the only prominent feature, was marked with small-pox and pale as death, his hair was gray and shaggy, his eyes small, but they glanced perpetually about on all sides. He saw everything, criticised everything, knew everything best, and was always in the right.Read the story →

179 The goose-girl at the well

There was once upon a time a very old woman, who lived with he flock of geese in a waste place among the mountains, and there had a little house. The waste was surrounded by a large forest, and every morning the old woman took her crutch and hobbled into it.Read the story →

The best fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
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