The Poor Man and the Rich Man
In olden times, when the Lord himself still used to walk about on this earth amongst men, it once happened...
Category: Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Grimms’ Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children’s and Household Tales is a German collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or “Brothers Grimm”
The Goose-Girl
There was once upon a time an old Queen whose husband had been dead for many years, and she had a beautiful...
The King of the Golden Mountain
There was a certain merchant who had two children, a boy and a girl; they were both young, and could...
Old Hildebrand
Once upon a time lived a peasant and his wife, and the parson of the village had a fancy for the wife,...
The Three Little Birds
About a thousand or more years ago, there were in this country nothing but small kings, and one of them...
The Water of Life
There was once a King who had an illness, and no one believed that he would come out of it with his...
Doctor Knowall
There was once on a time a poor peasant called Crabb, who drove with two oxen a load of wood to the...
The Peasant’s Wise Daughter
There was once a poor peasant who had no land, but only a small house, and one daughter.
Then said...
The Young Giant
Once on a time a countryman had a son who was as big as a thumb, and did not become any bigger, and...
The Spirit in the Bottle
There was once a poor woodcutter who toiled from early morning till late night.
When at last he had...
Sweet Porridge
There was a poor but good little girl who lived alone with her mother, and they no longer had anything...
Wise Folks
One day a peasant took his good hazel-stick out of the corner and said to his wife, "Trina, I am going...
