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November 25, 2022

The Cat and the Birds (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop

A CAT, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself up as a physician, and, taking his cane and a bag of instruments becoming his profession, went to call on...

November 14, 2022

THE PINK (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

There was once upon a time a queen to whom God had given no children. Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son...

November 14, 2022

SNOWDROP (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

It was the middle of winter, when the broad flakes of snow were falling around, that the queen of a country many thousand miles off sat working at her window. The frame of the...

November 14, 2022

SWEETHEART ROLAND (Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen) by The Brothers Grimm

There was once upon a time a woman who was a real witch and had two daughters, one ugly and wicked, and this one she loved because she was her own daughter, and one...

November 13, 2022

Folk- and Fairytales raising awareness of the plight of orphans

Tragically, millions of children all over the globe have become orphaned for many reasons: war, famine, displacement, disease or poverty. To make sure that they are not forgotten, once a year there is a...

November 13, 2022

The Hairy Man (The Crimson Fairy Book, 1910) by ANDREW LANG

Somewhere or other, but I don’t know where, there lived a king who owned two remarkably fine fields of rape, but every night two of the rape heaps were burnt down in one of...