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Tale Summary Aladdin is a young man from a very poor family whose laziness causes his parents great stress.  After his father, Mustapha, dies, his mother seeks to provide for her family through her own hard work.  One day, a wizard who

Tale Summary Red Riding-Hood’s mother asks her to go to her grandmother’s with cakes and butter. She must travel through the woods to get there and while on her way she meets a wolf. The wolf has the desire to eat her but is wary of the woodcutters

Tale Summary Once upon a time, there was a poor man and his wife, wood makers by trade, who had seven young boys (the oldest being ten, and the younger being seven years of age). This youngest boy was very small, only being the size of a thumb when

Tale Summary Once upon a time, there was a very disagreeable widow with two daughters. The eldest was much like her, but the youngest was more like her father and was very beautiful and sweet of temper, and her mother disliked her very much. She

Tale Summary There was once a poor miller, who died and had only his mill, his ass, and his cat to leave to his three sons. The youngest of the boys, inheriting the cat, lamented aloud his misfortune, and how he must eat the cat and make a muff with

Tale Summary Once upon a time, a King and Queen finally bear a daughter after desperately trying to have a child for years. They invite all the fairies they can find within their kingdom to be godmothers, and they all (7) attend the girl’s

Tale Summary Once upon a time, there was a King and Queen who had three daughters, the most beautiful of them all being the youngest, named Anima. It happened that one day the princess found a bush of lovely flowers. When she tried to dig it up, she

Tale Summary There was once a princess so beautiful that her father the king had her locked away inside a tower. One day, she lamented her situation to her nurse, who happened to be a witch, and received advice. She was to ask her father for a

Tale Summary There once was a young girl who lived in a pretty cottage at the edge of the forest with her father, a woodsman, and her mother, who stayed at home and tended to the cow and the food. On the other side of the wood was another pretty

Tale Summary A miller with a very beautiful daughter is summoned to see the king and tried to alleviate himself of the unease of never being at court before by saying that she could spin straw into gold. The king is intrigued and has her sent for,