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There was once a poor woman who had two children...

The tale begins with a peasant tilling his fields with a pair of oxen. Inexplicably, while in the field, the oxen's horns grew to an extraordinary size...

Corn (wheat) used to produce many more grains, but one day God saw a woman using the grain to clean off her muddy son. Angry, he cursed them to have no more grain, since they were not worthy of it. Bystanders pleaded with him to have mercy, especially because of the children, and he chose to have it have the current amount of grain...

A peasant's wife and the parson fancied each other, so the wife feigned illness, and the parson preached that whoever had an ill family member could go to the Cuckoo's Mountain in Italy, and get laurel leaves that would cure the ill person. The peasant, Hildebrand, left to get them, and the parson came to his house....

Between Werrel and Soist there lived a man whose name was Knoist...

Three little Stories about Snakes...

There was once a poor man and a poor woman who had nothing but a little cottage, and who earned their bread by fishing, and always lived from hand to mouth...

"Where do you like best to feed your flocks?" said a man to an old cow-herd...

A king and queen long lamented their childlessness until the queen gave birth to a son who was a donkey. The queen was grieved, but the king had him raised as a prince...

A shoemaker, by no fault of his own, had become so poor that at last he had nothing left but leather for one pair of shoes. So in the evening, he cut out the shoes which he wished to begin to make the next morning, and as he had a good conscience, he lay down quietly in his bed, commended himself to God...

A forester found a baby in a bird's nest and brought him back to be raised with his daughter Lenchen. They called the child  Foundling-Bird, and he and Lenchen loved each other...

There were once a man and a woman who had an only child, and lived quite alone in a solitary valley...

There was once on a time a shepherd boy whose fame spread far and wide because of the wise answers which he gave to every question...

Three women were changed to identical flowers...