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Cap O’ Rushes

shortsonline — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 23:05:05 +0000

English Folktale. A rich man banishes his daughter. She makes a cloak out of rushes to hide her fine clothes and finds a job cooking and cleaning. As you might have guessed, she meets her true love at a ball and turns her bad luck into a ‘happily-ever-after’ ending.

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Kate Crackernuts

shortsonline — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 21:05:44 +0000

Scottish Folktale. A queen is unhappy that her stepdaughter is more beautiful than her own daughter. So, with a little magic, she pops a sheep’s head onto the prettier one’s shoulders. Fortunately, there is no evil stepsister here. The two girls run away together and of course marry handsome princes.

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Fairy Ointment

shortsonline — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:11:07 +0000

English Folktale. A strange looking man asks a nurse to help his sick wife look after their baby boy. His wife gives her some ointment to put on the baby's eyes. When she puts some of it on one of her own eyes, she learns the family’s secret.

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Tom Tit Tot / Rumpelstiltskin

shortsonline — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 02:37:44 +0000

English Folktale. A mother lies to the king by saying her lazy daughter is a whiz with a spinning wheel. Strangely, this is just the kind of girl he is looking to marry. To avoid losing her head, the girl accepts an offer of help from a small magical creature.

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The Three Sillies

shortsonline — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 10:01:20 +0000

English Folktale. A rich young man finds that the woman he loves and her family are not very clever. He decides that he will only marry the girl if he can find three people sillier than they are. Needless to say, it doesn’t take him long to find them.

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Mr Miacca

shortsonline — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:44:12 +0000

English Folktale. A 'bogeyman' story in which a boy does something wrong and finds himself about to be cooked for Mr. Miacca's dinner. He gets away by tricking Mrs. Miacca. The forgetful boy makes the same mistake, and again finds himself on Mr. Miacca’s dinner menu..

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Hudden and Dudden and Donald O’Neary

shortsonline — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:51:54 +0000

Irish Folktale. Two well-off but foolish farmers will do anything to get their hands on a small piece of barren land between their farms. The story begins with them deciding to poison the poor landowner’s faithful cow. Things escalate from there, with three people dying and the landowner becoming rich.

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The Fish and the Ring

shortsonline — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:28:07 +0000

Scottish Folktale. A rich man looks into the future and learns that his son will marry a girl from a poor family. As he is about to kill the girl, she agrees to go away forever. A hungry fish teaches him that you can’t change what is meant to be.

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Molly Whuppie

shortsonline — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:25:18 +0000

Scottish Folktale. A young girl bests a giant four times. In the process, she steals his riches and tricks the brute into killing his three innocent daughters and severely beating his wife. As a reward, she and her sisters marry into the family of a greedy, cowardly king.

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The Ass, the Table, and the Stick

shortsonline — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:41:02 +0000

English Folktale. A young man works for a year and earns a magic donkey. An innkeeper tricks him out of it, so he works for another year and earns a magic table. The same innkeeper tricks him out of this. For his next job, the boy earns a magic stick.

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