Category: Yugoslavia

May 10, 2020

THE SHE-WOLF (Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources) Translated by Albert Henry Wratislaw

There was an enchanted mill, so that no one could stay there, because a she-wolf always haunted it. A soldier went once into the mill to sleep. He made a fire in the parlour,...

August 14, 2018

THE NINE PEA-HENS AND THE GOLDEN APPLES (The Violet Fairy Book, 1889) by ANDREW LANG

Once upon a time there stood before the palace of an emperor a golden apple tree, which blossomed and bore fruit each night. But every morning the fruit was gone, and the boughs were...

August 7, 2018

THE GOAT’S EARS OF THE EMPEROR TROJAN (Serbian Folk Tale) (The Violet Fairy Book, 1889) by ANDREW LANG

Once upon a time there lived an emperor whose name was Trojan, and he had ears like a goat. Every morning, when he was shaved, he asked if the man saw anything odd about...

June 26, 2018

THE STORY OF THREE WONDERFUL BEGGARS (The Violet Fairy Book, 1889) by ANDREW LANG

There once lived a merchant whose name was Mark, and whom people called ‘Mark the Rich.’ He was a very hard-hearted man, for he could not bear poor people, and if he caught sight...

January 6, 2018

Best 7 Fairy and Folk Tales about Lying

Top 7 Fairy and Folk Tales about Lying 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...

January 2, 2018

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...