Phoenix D Or: 1049 books

In former days every sound had its meaning and application. When the smith's hammer resounded, it cried, "Strike away! strike away." When the carpenter's plane grated, it said, "Here goes! here goes."...

A chapel held a statue of Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary as a child. An unmarried woman prayed to Saint Annethat she might wed a man...

A wood-cutter told his wife to have his oldest daughter bring him his dinner in the woods. She lost her way and in the night found a house with a gray-haired man and a hen, a cock, and a brindled cow. She asked for shelter. The man asked the animals, the animals said "Duks", and the man agreed, and told her to cook supper...

There was once upon a time a young peasant named Hans, whose uncle wanted to find him a rich wife...

One day a peasant took his good hazel-stick out of the corner and said to his wife, "Trina, I am going across country...

A merchant had done good business at the fair; he had sold his wares, and lined his money-bags with gold and silver... 

A certain tailor had a son, who happened to be small, and no bigger than a thumb, and on this account he was always called thumbling. He had, however, some courage in him, and said to his father, father, I must and will go out into the world. ...

There was once on a time a King who had a daughter, and he caused a glass mountain to be made, and said that whosoever could cross to the other side of it without falling should have his daughter to wife...

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...