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Binnorie

English fairy tales

Once upon a time there were two king's daughters lived in a bower near the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie. And Sir William came wooing the eldest and won her love and plighted troth with glove and with ring. But after a time he...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: English, Русский

Blue Beard

French folk tales

There was, some time ago, a gentleman who was very rich. He had fine town and country houses, his dishes and plates were all of gold or silver, his rooms were hung with damask, his chairs and sofas were covered with the...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: English, French, Русский

Cherry OF Zennor

English fairy tales

CHERRY HONEY, with her father and mother, and a half-score of brothers and sisters, lived in a little hut at Trereen, in the parish of Zennor. They were very poor people, terribly poor, for all they had to live on was what...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: English, Русский

Childe Rowland

English fairy tales

Childe Rowland and his brothers twain

Were playing at the ball.

Their sister, Burd Helen, she played

In the midst among them all.

For Burd Helen loved her brothers, and they loved her exceedingly. At...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: English, Русский

Earl Mar's Daughter

English fairy tales

One fine summer's day Earl Mar's daughter went into the castle garden, dancing and tripping along. And as she played and sported she would stop from time to time to listen to the music of the birds. After a while as she sat...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: Русский, English

Hansel and Gretel

German folk tales

Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children.


The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel.


He had little to bite and to break, and once when great...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: Русский, English

Johnny-Cake

English fairy tales

Once upon a time there was an old man, and an old woman, and a little boy. One morning the old woman made a Johnny-cake, and put it in the oven to bake. "You watch the Johnny-cake while your father and I go out to work in...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: Русский, English

Lazy Jack

English fairy tales

Once upon a time there was a boy whose name was Jack, and he lived with his mother on a common. They were very poor, and the old woman got her living by spinning, but Jack was so lazy that he would do nothing but bask in the...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: Русский, English

Little Red Riding-Hood

French folk tales

Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature that ever was seen. Her mother was very fond of her, and her grandmother loved her still more. This good woman made for her a...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: French, English, Русский

Master of all masters

English fairy tales

A girl once went to the fair to hire herself for servant. At last a funny-looking old gentleman engaged her, and took her home to his house. When she got there, he told her that he had something to teach her, for that in his...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: Русский, English

Molly Whoppie

English fairy tales

Once upon a time there was a man and a wife had too many children, and they could not get meat for them, so they took the three youngest and left them in a wood. They travelled and travelled and could see never a house. It...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: English, Русский

Mr Fox

English fairy tales

Lady Mary was young, and Lady Mary was fair. She had two brothers, and more lovers than she could count. But of them all, the bravest and most gallant, was a Mr. Fox, whom she met when she was down at her father's...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: Русский, English

Mr. Vinegar

English fairy tales

Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar lived in a vinegar bottle. Now, one day, when Mr. Vinegar was from home, Mrs. Vinegar, who was a very good housewife, was busily sweeping her house, when an unlucky thump of the broom brought the whole...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: Русский, English

Nix Naught Nothing

English fairy tales

Once upon a time there lived a King and a Queen who didn't differ much from all the other kings and queens who have lived since Time began. But they had no children, and this made them very sad indeed. Now it so happened...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: Русский, English

The Cauld Lad of Hilton

English fairy tales

At Hilton Hall, long years ago, there lived a Brownie that was the contrariest Brownie you ever knew. At night, after the servants had gone to bed, it would turn everything topsy-turvy, put sugar in the salt-cellars, pepper...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: English, Русский

The Fairies of Merlin's Craig

English fairy tales

Early in the seventeenth century, John Smith, a barn-man at a farm, was sent by his master to cast divots (turf) on the green immediately behind Merlin’s Craig. After having laboured for a considerable time, there came round...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: Русский, English

The fish and the ring

English fairy tales

Once upon a time, there was a mighty baron in the North Countrie who was a great magician and knew everything that would come to pass. So one day, when his little boy was four years old, he looked into the Book of Fate to...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: English, Русский

The Golden Snuff-Box

English fairy tales

Once upon a time, and a very good time too, though it was not in my time, nor your time, nor for the matter of that in any one's time, there lived a man and a woman who had one son called Jack, and he was just terribly fond...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: Русский, English

The Jackal and the Partridge

Indian folk tales

A Jackal and a Partridge swore affiliated friendship; but the Jackal was complete crushing and jealous. "You don't do bisected as abounding for me as I do for you," he acclimated to say, "and yet you abode a abounding...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: English, Русский

The magpie's nest

English fairy tales

Once upon a time when pigs spoke rhyme

And monkeys chewed tobacco,

And hens took snuff to make them tough,

And ducks went quack, quack, quack, O!

All the birds of the air came to the magpie and asked...

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Genres: Fairy-tales
Available Languages: English, Русский
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