**Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea.

Summary

The three sons of a man with peculiar eyes wonder at their father’s condition. When the youngest learns the source of his sadness, they set out to retrieve their father’s stolen object: a magical vine that produces a full cask of wine every hour. Quickly they split up, and the youngest son is left on his own. Through kindness, he gains the help of a limping fox who advises him through many adventures.

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Book

The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Music

"Princess (Instrumental Version)" by Josh Woodward.

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Content warning: Violence and death.

**Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea.

Summary

When their parents leave to travel, they tell their seven daughters not to leave the house or open the door to anyone for three years. After the six eldest daughters do not listen and are eaten by a witch, the youngest is adopted by an ogre.

She is well taken care of and given the keys to six rooms in his castle. Determined to find out what is in the mysterious seventh room she devises a plan and steals the key. In the mostly bare room she finds a window overlooking the neighboring prince’s garden. Caring for the garden is an ox who tells the girl that her father, the ogre, plans to eat her. Upset by this, the girl tells her father and he teaches her how to respond- with a spell that incapacitates the ox for seven days.

Untended, the prince’s garden falls to shambles. Displeased, he kills the ox and replaces it with another. The scenario repeats, but this time the ox begs for his life, and tells the prince about the girl in the ogre’s castle.

The prince is intrigued, and hides in a tree where he is able to observe the next exchange between the ox and the girl. He is immediately smitten and makes a plan to ask the ogre for her hand.

The ogre consents, but as the girl is leaving he tells her she must not speak to the prince unless he swears “by the head of Buk Ettemsuch”. She agrees.

Frustrated by his wife’s silence, the prince takes a series of new brides, whom she tricks into killing themselves.

Finally, the prince discovers the key to his wife’s silence and they live happily to the end of their days.

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Book

The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Music

"Princess (Instrumental Version)" by Josh Woodward.

Free download: https://www.joshwoodward.com/

**Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea.

Summary

A woman is gifted a child by the Sun Ball. She promises to return the girl, Letico, after her twelfth birthday. When that time comes and goes, the Sun Ball reclaims the child.

After some time, the Sun Ball notices how sad the child is, and realizes that she misses her mother. He then assigns two hares to guard her on her journey home.

Along the way, the hares stop to find food. They leave Letico in a tree, where she is found by a monster who tries to lure her down and eat her.

Letico manages to outwit and outrun the monster. With the help of the hares she makes it back home where she is joyfully reunited with her mother.

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Book

The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Music

"Princess (Instrumental Version)" by Josh Woodward.

Free download: https://www.joshwoodward.com/