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El único hijo de una pareja de labradores es tan pequeño que sus padres no lo dejan trabajar. Un día, un gigante lo secuestra y lo cría durante años, tiempo en el que el niño crece desmedidamente, igual que sus fuerzas. Sin embargo, cuando el joven vuelve a su anterior hogar, sus padres ya no lo reconocen.
4) Juan el fiel
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Antes de morir, un rey le pide a Juan, su fiel criado, enseñarle al príncipe todos los tesoros que heredará, a excepción de uno. ¿Qué misterio guarda este último?
6) Garbancito
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Acompaña al pequeño Garbancito en sus hazañas y aventuras, mientras cantas junto a él sus divertidas melodías. Pero ten cuidado de bajar la vista, ¡no sea que lo pises!
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Cenicienta, así es como la llaman sus crueles hermanas. También su madrastra, quien un día lleva a sus hijas al baile en el que el príncipe escogerá esposa, y al que prohíbe a Cenicienta ir. Sin embargo, la joven se presenta en el lugar, y al verla, el príncipe se enamora. Llegada la media noche, Cenicienta abandona el baile y deja como único vestigio de su aparición, una zapatilla de oro. ¿Encontrará el príncipe a la dueña del precioso...
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Había una vez un leñador que vivía cerca de un gran bosque con su esposa y dos hijos habidos de la primera esposa, que había muerto. Los cuatro eran muy pobres y no tenían para comer. "¡Lleva los niños al bosque y abandónalos!" sugirió una noche la madrastra a su marido. "¡Se alimentarán de arándanos y así nosotros tendremos suficiente pan para los dos!"
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In this tale, twelve princesses, each of astounding beauty, are locked by their father in their shared bedroom each night. Vexed to discover that their dancing shoes show signs of wear every morning, the king demands an explanation, which they refuse to give. The king offers his kingdom and marriage to any of his daughters as a reward to the man who solves the mystery. However, if the mystery remains unsolved after three nights, the erstwhile suitor...
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Ashputtel, or Cinderella, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. In it, a young girl is forced by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters to a life of servitude, and to sleep next to the fireplace, earning her the nickname "Ashputtel". Elements of the Grimm treatment of this story are much more intense than the Perrault or Disney versions, with the stepsisters experiencing a more violent conclusion. The theme...
11) The Golden Goose
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In "The Golden Goose" Dummling, the youngest and simplest of three brothers, is sent into the forest to chop wood. He shares his food and drink with a little gray man who directs him to a tree which, when chopped down, is found to contain a golden goose. Dummling sets off on a journey with the goose under his arm, eventually arriving in a kingdom wherein the king will offer his daughter's hand in marriage to any man who can make her laugh. This fairy...
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The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids is a fairy tale that strongly resembles The Three Little Pigs and elements of Little Red Riding Hood. In it, a mother goat leaves her kids home alone, warning them not to open the door. A Big Bad Wolf shows up and tries to talk his way in, but the kids hold fast. When the wolf finally gets past the door through trickery, he eats all but one of the kids. The mother goat returns to find the wolf sleeping under a tree....
13) The Juniper-Tree
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The Juniper Tree is a German fairy tale that contains themes of child abuse, murder and cannibalism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales. In it, a boy is murdered and made into a stew by his evil stepmother, who buries his bones beneath a juniper tree outside their house. The boy is reincarnated as a bird who flies forth from the tree and enlists the townspeople to help him exact revenge. It is thought that the Grimm...
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Snow-White, fair-haired, quiet and shy and Rose-Red, dark-haired, outspoken and lively, are two little girls living with their mother in a small cottage by the woods. They give shelter on a winter night to a kindly bear, who treats them gently and returns every night. In the summer the girls encounter a wicked dwarf whose beard is stuck in a tree. Freeing the dwarf, the girls are met with loud ungrateful recriminations for cutting his beard. More...
15) Iron Hans
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In Iron Hans" a series of huntsmen disappear in a mysterious forest. It is eventually discovered that an iron-skinned man is dragging everything into the lake where he lives. The man is captured by the king and subsequently released by the prince, who then sets out on his own. What follows is a coming of age story in which the prince, with the help of the iron-skinned man defeats an army and wins the hand of a princess. The prince is reunited with...
16) Tom Thumb
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In the Brothers Grimm version of "Tom Thumb", a lonely couple hopes for a child, even "if it were no bigger than my thumb". To their delight, their wishes come true and the boy is named "Tom Thumb" for his diminutive stature. The boy is crafty and helps his father by directing the family horse to haul firewood by standing in his ear and whispering commands. Embarking on several adventures, Tom displays a knack for tricking the slow-witted people who...
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In Hansel and Gretel, a famine has settled over the land. The children of a poor woodcutter are abandoned in the woods by their cruel stepmother who believes she and her husband will starve as a result of providing for the children. Days of wandering lead them to a beautiful cottage made of gingerbread and candy, which the children begin to eat. Lured inside by an old woman who promises hot baths, soft beds and more delicious food, the children are...
18) Rumpelstiltskin
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In "Rumpelstiltskin" a miller's careless boast that his clever daughter can "spin gold from straw" is forced by the king to make good on this claim. A little man arrives to help the miller's daughter in exchange for her firstborn child. When the daughter, who by now is the queen, gives birth to a child, the little man comes to collect. He agrees to release the queen from her promise if she can learn the imp's name. According to researchers at Durham...
19) The Golden Bird
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In The Golden Bird a king who has been robbed of a golden apple commands his gardener's sons to watch the tree. Seeing that the thief is a golden bird, the youngest son tries to shoot it, but only knocks a feather off. Fascinated by the feather, the king decides he wants the whole bird. The gardener's son and his two brothers must make fateful choices in what turns into a fearsome quest to capture the bird. It is Aarne-Thompson folktale type 550,...
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In Little Red Cap, or Little Red Riding Hood, a little girl walks through the woods to deliver wine and cake to her sickly grandmother. Having been warned by her mother not to stray from the path, she is tricked by a large wolf into picking flowers in a nearby field. During this time, the wolf, masquerading as Little Red Cap, swindles the grandmother into letting him in and devours her, and dons her clothing. When Little Red Cap arrives, the wolf,...
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