We were playing with the Moon Fairy and laughing in the surf when a fisherman came walking along the beach. He appeared lost. We quieted, but the Moon Fairy hadn’t seen him and she was still playing with us when the man approached her feather robe. It hung on...
I grow on a hedge that lines the path to the stable of the Beast. We are releasing an exquisite fragrance here where the sun shines and the birds sing and the howling winter cannot reach us. The merchant who has spent the night in the castle has experienced the...
Martin, my son, well, he can do just about anythin’, except when it comes to woo-in’. He wanted his old mother to go an’ do it fer him. So I went to the king, oh yes I did. I marched right up them steps, and ain’t nobody could stop me, though I...
My dogs were in hot pursuit of a white rabbit when all of a sudden, the rabbit turned around and leapt into my arms. “Why, bunny,” I said, “As you have come to me for protection, I will see that nobody hurts you.” I took it home to my palace...
Oh, we tried so hard to have children! Every day I was down on my knees, begging Heaven to hear my prayer. “Please give me a child to care for, even a tiny child. I would be happy with a child the size of a hazelnut!” Heaven granted my wish. My little son...
I promised the dying king that I would instruct his little son in all that he should know. I would be a father to him, serve him faithfully, and never desert him. Those were easy promises to make, but there was one more. The king said: “After my death you must show my...
Being the youngest, my brothers elected me to keep house while they went out to hunt. They shot hares, wild deer, pigeons, and whatever else they found to eat. It was my job to dress the game and serve it up for dinner. Ten years passed, and then one evening, before...
My compassionate husband has brought a sick woman into the house. I know she is an imposter who will be nothing but trouble, but he doesn’t see it. He says, “My princess. as I do not remember that I ever contrived to injure anybody, I cannot believe that...
I wasn’t worried about being abandoned in the forest by our parents. I said to Gretel, “Just wait until the moon rises, and then we will see the crumbs of bread I’ve strewn about, all along the path. They will show us our way home.” When the...
I’ve had it with giants. There was one who lived on St. Michael’s Mount, off Cornwall, who was eighteen feet high and nine feet round. He would come over to the mainland and help himself to people’s farm animals whenever he wished. I set out to...
