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Princess Who Is Exiled Because of Salt

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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