Pied Piper
-Pied piper is actually evil.
-Pay your debts or your children will become wild forest people
The Golden Ball
-Two sisters take strange jewelry from old man and bring harm upon themselves. big surprise
-Boyfriends will gladly cut off limbs of giants to save your life
Tattercoats
-Neglected orphan because her mom died in birth and her grandpa hates her
-Its basically opposite of Cinderella
-Prince falls in love with her while she is still in rags and on the way to the ball
-much sweeter story
Johnny Gloke
-Outsmarted two giants and gained reputation and such as a great warrior and married a princess
-He is like Mr. Bean but it ends up working and squashing a rebellion
Scrapefoot
-Its goldilocks but scrape foot is a fox and the bears live in a castle
-I wonder how this story got changed from a fox to a little girl
-I think I like the little girl better though
The Old Witch
-Two sisters
-One helps strangers on a passage and the other doesn't
-The one who helped gets money and a husband and the other gets nothing
-It is like the good Samaritan but without actually being good because they both steal money
The Three Wishes
-Forest Fairy
-Wish one- A sausage? or pudding?
-Wish two- nose as long as the sausage
-Wish three- nose back to normal
-I feel like this is how my wishes would also accidentally go
The Children in The Wood
-Poem style
-Rhymes almost every other line
-Classic uncle tries to kill nephew and niece for their inheritance
-Hires two thugs to kill them, but one kills the other then leaves the kids in the forest to die, and they do.
-Uncle gets haunted and everyone dies
King John and the Abbott of Canterbury
-What is the center of the world? How long will it take to go around the world? What am I thinking?
-King John is annoying
-Good shepherd saves the day
Rushen Coatie
-Cinderella
-instead of a ball, it is church on Christmas
-instead of a fairy, it is a red, magic cow
-Three days in a row
-not as long as some Cinderella stories
-includes songs
The King of the Cats
-old couple have a cat who inherits the throne and runs away
-weird and short, but quite enjoyable
The Stars in the Sky
-Children's story
-repetitive of the same question and the answers with the same cadence
-ridiculous and it was a dream
The Little Bull-Calf
-this one is told as if it is just someone reading aloud and adding in their own side commentary
-awesome cows, dragons, magical cow bladder weaponry
-Killing dragons and getting princesses
Old Mother Wiggle Waggle
-Poetry
-AAAB
-likely was sung
-Foxes, ducks and goose
Catskin
-Similar to Tattercoats but the mom does not die
-Married off to first that asks, its a gross old man
-Ran away after asking for a bunch of things like a catskin coat
-became a maid
-Three balls, three dresses, three clues to who she was
-they said the word slut...
-This one ends much happier with reconciliation of the father who would do anything to see his daughter just once. Much better story.
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