Folk- and fairy tales hand down a morality and principles for living together in a society. Since greed is such a wide-spread human trait, it became one of the most famous motives in folk and fairy tales. The uncontrolled longing or desire to gain and accumulate more food, wealth, prestige by few can easily spoil…
Category: Scandinavia
KNÖS (THE SWEDISH FAIRY BOOK) By Frederick H. Martens
Once upon a time there was a poor widow, who found an egg under a pile of brush as she was gathering kindlings in the forest. She took it and placed it under a goose, and when the goose had hatched it, a little boy slipped out of the shell. The widow had him baptized…
Best folk and fairy tales about WATER – Happy World Water Day
The 22 of March is the UN’s world water day. World Water Day 2020, on 22 March, is about water and climate change – and how the two are inextricably linked. Adapting to the water effects of climate change will protect health and save lives. Using water more efficiently will reduce greenhouse gases. We cannot…
THE MASTER-SMITH (Popular Tales from the Norse) By SIR GEORGE WEBBE DASENT
Once on a time, in the days when our Lord and St Peter used to wander on earth, they came to a smith’s house. He had made a bargain with the Devil, that the fiend should have him after seven years, but during that time he was to be the master of all masters in…
HOW ONE WENT OUT TO WOO (Popular Tales from the Norse) By SIR GEORGE WEBBE DASENT
Once on a time there was a lad who went out to woo him a wife. Amongst other places, he came to a farm-house, where the household were little better than beggars; but when the wooer came in, they wanted to make out that they were well to do, as you may guess. Now the…
THE COCK AND HEN (Popular Tales from the Norse) By SIR GEORGE WEBBE DASENT
(In this tale the notes of the Cock and Hen must be imitated.) Hen—You promise me shoes year after year, year after year, and yet I get no shoes! Cock—You shall have them, never fear! Henny penny! Hen—I lay egg after egg, egg after egg, and yet I go about barefoot! Cock—Well, take your eggs,…