In ancient China, a farmer went to the market to sell loads of luscious pears. He set up his barrow and soon the crowd assembled. A poor, hungry, ragged-looking priest approached him and humbly asked for one pear. The farmer refused. The priest kept insisting. A man in the crowd came forward and asked the […]
One day, Haojia, the witty man, went to a well to fetch some water. When he peeped into the well, he saw the moon’s reflection and thought that the moon had sunk in the well, ‘Oh, Good Heavens! What a pity! The shining moon has dropped into the well!’ He rushed home for a hook
Long ago, Kua Fu, the bravest and the fastest giant, lived on the mountain called ‘Heaven Pillar’. He could cover hundreds of miles in a single step. One day, he took a tree and began to race after the sun. He chased the sun to the Yu Valley, when he felt thirsty and tired to
Once there was a merchant who had three daughters. One day the merchant asked his daughters what they wanted him to gift them. The eldest demanded for a necklace while the second asked for a new dress. But the youngest asked for a silver saucer and a transparent apple. The merchant fulfilled their demands. The
The Silver Saucer and the Transparent
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Once there was a man who had a great grey-white bear, which he was going to take to the king. He came to the Dovrefell and saw a cottage where an old man lived. He asked the old man if he could get a room there for his bear and himself. The old man refused
Once there was a giant green lizard. She took a poor peasant’s daughter in exchange of a bag full of gold. The peasant was happy. The lizard, who was a fairy in disguise, made a beautiful palace for her new daughter and put a hundred maidens to her service. But her daughter was always ungrateful
Once there lived a painter and a wood-carver. They hated each other. Once the painter told the Badshah that his father had always wished to construct a pagoda in heaven, so the Badshah must send a skilled wood-carver up to heaven. The badshah called the wood-carver and told him the matter. The wood-carver knew that
The Queen of Calabar used to give big feasts to all the domestic animals but never invited the wild beasts. At one feast, there were three large tables and she told the cow to sit at the head of the table and share out the food. The first course was passed, which the cow shared
Once there lived Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar in a glass bottle. One day, when Mr. Vinegar was away from home, Mrs. Vinegar was busy sweeping her house, when an unlucky thump of the broom broke the vinegar bottle. In an agony of grief, she rushed to meet her husband and told him what had happened.
There was once an old couple. The husband owned a rooster while his wife owned a hen. The hen laid many eggs but the old woman never gave any egg to her husband saying that he should beat his rooster so that he might lay eggs for him. The old man gave his rooster a
Once during the noon of a mid-summer day, a young noble was hunting in a valley. He was tired after chasing his game and sat in the shadow of an old abandoned castle. He wished he could have some wine. Just then, a beautiful maiden appeared before him from the castle. She was bearing in
One day, Fin MacCumhail chose three boys named Black, Brown and Gray to guard his castle. All three of them did their jobs sincerely. When all had risen in the morning, Fin asked them if they had any wonderful incident to tell him after the night’s watching. Black told that he encountered some thieves and
Long ago, some beautiful mermaids were having a party. Just then, a young merman arrived and told the mermaids that humans had decided to turn the river into a canal and build a dyke that should keep out the ocean. All the mermaids were worried except the queen maid who doubted the merman and sent
Once upon a time, there was a man named Domingo who was so poor that he had to sell one thing after another to get food in order to keep from starving. Finally, there was nothing left except his cat whom he loved dearly. The cat promised that Domingo would never starve as long as
Aunt Greenleaf was a thin old ghostly woman. She lived in a hut surrounded by pines and sold herbal remedies to the folks in her town. People consulted her only when someone got sick because her home remedies worked too well to be natural. So, they called her a witch. The folks figured that she
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