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Princess Who Is Exiled Because of Salt

My father wanted me to flatter him by telling him how much I loved him. I said, "I look upon you as salt in my food." That didn't go over too well! He got really angry and banished me. Since I had no skills, I dressed myself in rags and went looking for menial work. I...

Princess Who Wears a Magic Ring

I was walking with my attendants in the rose garden when a gold ring fell at my feet. “Why, here is a ring!” I cried. “Where could it have come from?” I picked it up and put it on my finger. It fit me as though it had been made for me. Just at that moment my father...

Manus

My father is weak, but I am strong. I grow stronger every day. I’m like my uncle who is much stronger than my father. My uncle's son is weak, however. Life is strange! One day, when I was playing shinny in the field with my brothers and my cousin, I drove a ball too...

Water Lily

My sisters and I spun gold flax for an old woman who made us work from dawn to dusk. We had never seen a man. The old woman warned us that the sheen would go out of our flax and terrible things would happen if we ever laid eyes on a man. Well, I did lay eyes on a man....

Lindworm

I was the firstborn prince, but from the moment of my birth, my mother denied my existence. I made my way to the hills and lived off the land. I ate mice, and then I ate rodents, and then I ate lambs, and then I ate children. When my brother set off to marry and take...

Little Boy Named Sorrowful

Today, my mother took my hand and led me into a room where a man was lying on the bed. He had a handkerchief over his face. It slid off and fell to the ground. Mother said, "Sorrowful, pick up your father's handkerchief, and cover his face." I picked up the...