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Tale Summary Once upon a time, a poor miller died and was only able to leave to his three sons a mill, an ass, and a cat. The youngest was given the cat, and lamented that it did him no good, because all he could do with it was skin and eat it,

Tale Summary There was once a man who remarried after losing his wife, wanting someone to help look after his beautiful daughter. His new wife seemed pleasant at first, but revealed herself to be unkind, and had two daughters just the same as her

Tale Summary There was once a little girl who was well-loved by her mother, and even more by her grandmother, who made her a red cloak that suited the child so well that everyone called her “Little Red-Riding-Hood”. One day, Red-Riding-Hood’s mother

Tale Summary There was once an honest, hardworking Shoemaker, who could not earn enough to make a living. He was down to his last bit of leather to make one more pair of shoes, and so he cut them out to finish in the morning and went to bed. When he

Tale Summary In the days of King Alfred, in a country village in England, there was a poor woman who had a single son named Jack. She never set him to work, and eventually they were so poor, that they only had their cow left. Jack felt badly that he

Tale Summary Long before King Arthur, there was a king in the eastern part of England who kept his Court at Colchester, who was left with his beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter when his wife died. The king remarried with an ugly, horrible woman

Tale Summary There was once, in Yorkshire at a place called Dalton, a Giant that was a miller and who used to grind men’s bones to make bread. One day the giant had caught a boy named Jack, and kept him as his servant for many years, never

Tale Summary After overbaking five pies, a woman tells her daughter to put them on a shelf to let the crust get soft again, to eat later. The daughter thought that if they would be okay to eat later, she may as well eat them then, and so ate each

Tale Summary Once upon a time there was a young woman named Lady Mary, who went with her two brothers to one of their country houses. A young man named Mr. Fox often visited with them, whom Lady Mary was quite taken with; he frequently invited her

Tale Summary Once upon a time there was a girl who was born to a father who only wished for a male heir, and so was sent by her mother to live with a foster-nurse in a house by the great oak wood. When she was fifteen years old, her foster mother