Grimm Brothers: 426 books

A cock and hen went to eat nuts. They made a carriage of nutshells to come back in; the hen rode and the cock drew it. The duck attacked them for eating nuts, but the cock defeated him, and he let himself be harnessed to the carriage instead...

The hedgehog, however, was standing by his door with his arms akimbo, enjoying the morning breezes...

Once upon a time there was a child who was wilful and would not do what her mother wished...

Once upon a time a waggoner's cart ...

There once was a poor fisherman who lived with his wife, Ilsebill, in a hovel by the sea. One day the fisherman catches a golden flounder, which claims to be an enchanted prince...

One afternoon the Christ-child had laid himself in his cradle-bed and had fallen asleep...

In a large town there was an old woman who sat in the evening alone in her room...

In the time when our Lord still walked this earth, he and St. Peter stopped one evening at a smith's and received free quarters...

A beautiful young girl was made to work hard by her wicked stepmother. One day, the stepmother set her to pick twelve pounds of feathers before night and promised a beating if she failed. The girl cried. An old woman asked about her troubles; she told them, and the old woman...

A beautiful, but spoiled and shallow princess rudely criticizes all her suitors because she is too proud. She is impressed with the last of her suitors, but her pride will not let her accept him. He is a young king with such a thick beard, that to her it looks like a thrush's beak, so she cruelly dubs him King Thrushbeard... 

There was once a man who had a daughter who was called Clever Elsie. And when she had grown up her father said, "We will get her married." "Yes," said the mother, "if only any one would come who would have her."...

In one variant, Mr. Fox feigns death to test his wife's fidelity. In the other, he actually dies. Many suitors arrive. Mrs. Fox rejects them: in the first variant because while they are foxes they do not have the nine tails of her husband, and in the second, because they are wolves, bears, etc. and do not look like her dead husband...

I will tell you something...

An old woman has got some beans that she intends to cook over her fire. Being in a hurry, she grabs some straw to make the fire light faster...