Lies and liars have always been an important theme in fairy tales and every tradition has got it’s own takes on the morality of lies. There are countless portrays of liars in fairy and folk tales. Therefore fairy tales provide us with a lot of insight into the world’s cultures. There are so many tales that…
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THE FINEST LIAR IN THE WORLD (The Violet Fairy Book, 1889) by ANDREW LANG
At the edge of a wood there lived an old man who had only one son, and one day he called the boy to him and said he wanted some corn ground, but the youth must be sure never to enter any mill where the miller was beardless. The boy took the corn and set…
THE LAUGHING PRINCE (A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) BY PARKER FILLMORE
THE LAUGHING PRINCE or The Story of the Boy Who Could Talk Nonsense There was once a farmer who had three sons and one little daughter. The eldest son was a studious boy who learned so much out of books that the farmer said: “We must send Mihailo to school and make a priest of…