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Can you imagine a fight between the Death and a giant? Who will you bet on? Well let me tell you this time. The giant won. The Death was going to die if a compassionate man had not ...

Have you ever wondered why people live longer than some animals? What if I tell you that we were supposed to live no more than thirty years but the donkey, the dog and the monkey c ...

Did you know that the type of grass cows eat can be of very high importance? If it is too rich they get too wild. If it is too poor they get too weak. You would not have expected t ...

The fish face a serious issue. They do not have a king. So they decide to hold a contest where the fastest fish is to be proclaimed as the new king. The herring is leading. The sol ...

The bird kingdom is missing a king, so they decide to hold a contest. The one to fly the highest will be the winner. The contest starts. The eagle is about to win. And all of a sud ...

Do you think there is a difference between poor and rich men in Heaven? Do they get treated differently? Can you imagine that the peasant in our story witnesses how a rich man gets ...

The king’s daughter gets sick and the only way for her to feel better is by eating apples. Now you would not be so surprised if we told you that the king announced that whoever bri ...

A man had a goat, but he was so lazy that it costed him great effort to take the goat to the pasture each and every day. So he came up with a genius plan. He was going to find a wi ...

There is a spell over the three women in our story. They get transformed into flowers but each of them can return home at night one at a time. The spell can be reversed only if the ...

Can you imagine that a young man chose his bride by the way she cut cheese? No, we are not joking. This a real story we know from Brothers Grimm. The hesitant bridegroom could not ...

Travelling is said to give you many unforgettable moments and experiences. The boy in our tale will for sure keep some memories but are they going to be good? He decided to repeat ...

A peasant’s wife is so lazy that she always comes up with excuses for not getting some work done. She has to spin but she does it so reluctantly that there is often something quite ...

One day a huntsman was wandering around in the woods. He stumbled upon an old lady and his good, kind heart could let the woman go without him helping her. What she gave him in ret ...

There lived three apprentices who always worked in the same town and always travelled together. Once they stumbled upon a rich man who wanted their help in return for a lot of mone ...

Three army surgeons show off their skills. The first cuts off his hand, the other tears off his heart and the third takes out his eye. And this is only to impress one innkeeper. Th ...

Once lived a stubborn little child who would not hear her mother’s words. The child was actually so willful that even the Lord’s patience would run out. So he let the girl get sick ...

A tailor’s poverty made him commit a crime. He was travelling around searching for work but there was nowhere to be found. He was so desperate that when he saw a Jew he decided to ...

A poor mother and her daughter are starved to death. One day the miserable girl meets an old lady in the woods who gifts her with a small magical pot which fills with sweet porridg ...

Hans’ uncle wanted to marry his nephew to a rich man’s daughter. Hans’ fortune was however not that big so the uncle had to come up with a trick. He went to the neighbor village wh ...

Brother Lustig was a soldier who got dismissed from the army. He wandered around when he one day stumbled upon a beggar who he shared his food with. Surprisingly the beggar turned ...

One night the master in our story was going to have guests so he asked his cook Grethel to prepare one chicken for him and one for the guests. And so she did. But she prepared them ...

Have you heard of a strong friendship between a fox and a wolf? We neither. However the fox and the wolf in our tale meant to be so close, that they called each other cousins. But ...

A father leaves his three sons three simple and seemingly useless things. The first one gets a cock, the second one – a scythe and the third one a cat. He leaves them something mor ...

A father wanted his son to learn something that would be advantageous for him. And so he decided that theft would be a great trade. He sent his son to a master thief and they agree ...

A prince and a princess are in love but the prince’s father wants his son to marry another girl. The devastated princess comes up with a plan. She gathers a group of eleven more la ...