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Tale Summary This tale follows the plot of Charles Perrault’s version, with Sleeping Beauty cursed by an evil fairy who had not been invited to her christening. Awoken by the prince, Sleeping Beauty marries him and bears him two children. The prince

Tale Summary The story begins with a frog announcing that the king and queen will have a child in a year’s time. After the birth, the king holds a great feast, inviting twelve of the thirteen wise women in his kingdom to gain favor for the child.

Tale Summary   An apathetic, talking fish befriends a hungry cobbler who allows the cobbler to eat him and bury part of his flesh in a garden. The garden grows larger and spits out two twin babies that eventually become men. They decide to

Tale Summary This tale is a retelling, though the story clearly follows the usual Little Red Riding Hood narrative arc found in both the Perrault and Grimm versions of the tale. Little Red Riding Hood leaves her mother's house to visit her

Tale Summary The tale begins with an old man, the antagonist, who approaches a poor miller about an exchange for wealth for what is standing behind the mill (the miller was unaware that his daughter was standing behind the mill). Three years later

Tale Summary In the Grimm Brothers' version of Cinderella, she had a hazel bush where a white dove makes any of Cinderella’s wishes come true. She leaves behind a small golden slipper at the ball and her two stepsisters try cutting off a toe or a

Tale Summary A tailor sits at home and while making a vest kills seven flies at once with a cloth. Impressed by his actions he makes a belt saying, “seven at one stroke” and leaves for the city to make money on his accomplishment. While travelling,

Tale Summary Seven siblings are born no more than three years apart into a poor family in which the youngest boy, named Hop-O’-My-Thumb, is deemed a weakly little fellow, but in fact, is actually the smartest in the group. His woodcutting parents

Tale Summary Perrault’s version of Sleeping Beauty is quite different from versions popular today. When the king and queen fail to invite an elderly fairy to their daughter’s Christening, she arrives and curses the child. Another fairy, who had not

Tale Summary The story begins with a widow and her son, Jack, who are poor and need to sell their cow for money. Jack takes the cow into town and is offered magic beans in exchange for it. When his mother sees he’s brought home beans instead of