Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day

Let us celebrate Mother’s Day with our most beloved folk tales about mothers!

 

The Boy whom Seven Mothers Suckled – Folk Tales from Bengal

Once on a time there reigned a king who had seven queens. He was very sad, for the seven queens were all barren. A holy mendicant, however, one day told the king that in a certain forest there grew a tree, on a branch of which hung seven mangoes …

Mother Holle by the Brothers Grimm

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy. The mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best, because she was her own daughter, and so the other, who was only her stepdaughter, was made to do all the work of the house, and was quite the Cinderella of the family.

The Fawn and His Mother by Aesop

A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?”

The Mole and His Mother by Aesop

A MOLE, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: “I am sure than I can see, Mother!”

The story of a mother by Hans Christian Andersen

A mother sat there with her little child. She was so downcast, so afraid that it should die! It was so pale, the small eyes had closed themselves, and it drew its breath so softly, now and then, with a deep respiration, as if it sighed; and the mother looked still more sorrowfully on the little creature.

The dead mother – a Russian Fairy Tale

In a certain village there lived a husband and wife—lived happily, lovingly, peaceably. All their neighbors envied them; the sight of them gave pleasure to honest folks. Well, the mistress bore a son, but directly after it was born she died. 

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