Zadig was a rich and handsome young man of Babylon. One day, he decided to travel around the world to gain wisdom. He saw all kinds of people, even those who were poor and miserable and wondered about the differences in the people. On the banks of the Euphrates river, he met an old hermit […]
A housewife lived in a cottage on the main street of the village, but not many people came to her house. She was known to be a rather stingy woman and did not like to give or share anything. If anyone came asking for something, she would find some reason not to give it.But one
A strange thing was happening that year. It was summer and the weather had become very warm. Roads and fields were full of little dragons. The whole place looked green and purple with dragons of different shapes and sizes. They made their nests in the shrubs, bushes and hedges. They didn’t harm the children, but
Hercules was a great hero who had been given twelve difficult tasks to perform by his cousin, the king. He came with his bow and a quiver full of arrows, and wearing a great lion-skin to search for the golden apples from the garden of Hesperides, which was guarded by a hundred-headed dragon. Fifty heads
There was a place called Carland which was marshy and full of bogs–large patches of water with weeds and mounds inside it. There were pools of water, often black or green, with all kinds of weeds and when you walked through them, the ground was squishy and squelchy.The Moon shone brightly over the marsh and
Long time ago, a boy named Epithemeus made friends with a girl named Pandora. She was a friendly and good-natured girl but was extremely curious about everything. He took her around his house and showed her all his toys and other things.Her eyes fell on a chest that lay in one corner and she asked,
Once upon a time, there lived a poor woodman in a village. He would go every day into the forest to chop and collect wood to sell in the village. His wife would give him a loaf of bread and a pitcher of water when he went.That morning, the woodman had decided to cut down
The King’s daughter was beautiful, but she was very vain. Whenever someone asked to marry her, she would mock him. One day, when a handsome prince with a golden beard came to the palace, she laughed at him and named him ‘Prince Grisly-Beard!’ The King was so angry that he announced, “The Princess will marry
A man with a daughter married a widow who also had a daughter. But the girl’s new stepmother hated her. She was very cruel.One winter morning, the stepmother made the girl wear a thin dress and told her, “Go to the woods and fetch strawberries.” The girl shivered and pleaded, “It’s very cold in this
Once, there was a very skilled stone-cutter. He cut slabs from rocks in a mountain to make urns, tables, shelves, decorations and even headstones for those who were to be buried. The mountain spirits liked the stone-cutter and wished to bless him.One day, when the stone-cutter went to the house of a very rich man
In the Austrian mountains, there lived three goldsmiths— Hans, Schwartz and Gluck. They were brothers. Hans and Schwartz were very selfish and unkind. They often played mean tricks on Gluck.One day, they found Gluck’s favourite pot. It was made of gold and had on it the face of a man with a beard. It was,
A farmer had a large barn on a mountain where he used to store hay. But every summer, on St. John’s Eve, he found that the hay had been eaten up and very little was left for him. He had three sons. The youngest was named Cinder-lad, for he was always covered with the ash
Once upon a time, in Greece, there lived a young girl named Arachne. She was very pretty, with golden hair and blue eyes. Every day, she sat outside her house and would spin the finest thread and weave the most delicate cloth, with bright colours and designs. Many people came to buy cloth from her.She
In Baghdad, there lived a merchant named Kalif who sold richly embroidered clothes that he had brought from Mosul or Shiraz in exchange for rose oil that he sold there.One day as he was travelling, he heard an animal roaring and the stamping of horses’ hooves! He ran forward and saw a richly dressed rider
A poor young woodcutter lived on the edge of a forest and looked after his old parents. His mother was a good-natured and hard-working woman but his father was a grumpy and selfish man. He was always telling his son to bring him a little wine, because rice and curry was not enough.One day, while
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