The Dog and the Sparrow ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myth...

The Dog and the Sparrow ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook



Grimms' Fairy Tales



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Title:  The Dog and the Sparrow



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Sherry Crowther



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

A dog owner lets his shepherd dog starve from hunger, causing the dog to leave home. The dog meets a sparrow and accompanies him to the city. The bird captures meat and bread for the dog as a sign of gratitude. When they leave town night falls and they decide to go to sleep. During the night the dog is run over by a man in a horse carriage. The sparrow alerts the man on the carriage, but he ignores the sparrow and runs over the dog. She curses the man by announcing that he will turn into a poor man. Then she pecks the wine barrels the man was transporting open, so that the precious wine leaks out. The bird also pecks out the horses' eyes. When the man tries to kill the bird with an axe he accidentally slays his own horses down. As a result the man is forced to leave his now useless carriage behind and returns home.



At home he notices that birds have eaten all his wheat. He notices the sparrow, still out on revenge, and throws his axe at him, only to smash in his own windows, his stove and the rest of his household. Finally he manages to capture the bird and his wife asks him whether he is going to strike it dead? The man feels this death is not cruel enough for the bird. He swallows it in one big bite. However, the bird still sticks its head out of the man's mouth, prompting him to let his wife take a final swing with his axe at the bird. This kills the man and the bird flies off.



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Little Red-Cap ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legend...

Little Red-Cap ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook



Grimms' Fairy Tales



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Title:  Little Red-Cap (or) Little Red Riding Hood



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Sherry Crowther



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

Little Red Cap is one adorable and loveable kid. Come on, if your grandma makes you a hat that you wear everywhere, that's gotta mean something, right? Well apparently, to the wolf, it means "lunch."



Little Red Cap is a sweet kid, but obedience is not at the top of her priorities, which is kind of a problem in fairyland. Her mom is all, "Bring this to grandma and blah blah blah don't stray from the path blah blah blah." Maybe that's a warning you can ignore if the path doesn't go through a forest filled with shady predators, like a smooth-talking wolf. But you can bet that as soon as she ignores it (and she does), bad things are gonna go down.





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Rapunzel ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Au...

Rapunzel ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends ♦ Audiobook



Grimms' Fairy Tales



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Title:  Rapunzel



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Sherry Crowther



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to an evil witch named Dame Gothel. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices some rapunzel (or, in most translated-to-English versions[12] of the story, rampion), growing in the garden and longs for it. She refuses to eat anything else and gets sick, and the husband begins to fear for her life. One night, her husband breaks into the garden to get some for her. She makes a salad out of it and greedily eats it. It tastes so good that she longs for more. So her husband goes to get some more for her. As he scales the wall to return home, Dame Gothel catches him and accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy, and she agrees to be lenient, and allows him to take all the rapunzel he wants, on condition that the baby be given to her when it's born. Desperate, he agrees. When his wife has a baby girl, Dame Gothel takes her to raise as her own and names her Rapunzel after the plant her mother craved. She grows up to be the most beautiful child in the world with long golden hair. When she turns twelve, Dame Gothel locks her up inside a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window. In order to visit Rapunzel, Dame Gothel stands beneath the tower and calls out:



Rapunzel

Rapunzel

Let down your hair

So that I may climb thy golden stair

One day, a prince rides through the forest and hears Rapunzel singing from the tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for her and discovers the tower, but is naturally unable to enter it. He returns often, listening to her beautiful singing, and one day sees Dame Gothel visit, and thus learns how to gain access to Rapunzel. When Dame Gothel leaves, he bids Rapunzel let her hair down. When she does so, he climbs up and they fall in love. He eventually asks her to marry him, which she agrees to.



Together they plan a means of escape, wherein he will come each night (thus avoiding Dame Gothel who visits her by day), and bring Rapunzel a piece of silk, which she will gradually weave into a ladder. Before the plan can come to fruition, however, she foolishly gives him away. In the first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, she innocently says that her dress is growing tighter around her waist (hinting pregnancy); in the second edition, she asks Dame Gothel (in a moment of forgetfulness) why it is easier for her to draw up the prince than her.[13] In anger, she cuts off a majority of Rapunzel's hair and casts her out into the wilderness to fend for herself.



When the prince calls that night, Dame Gothel lets the severed hair down to haul him up. To his horror, he finds himself meeting her instead of Rapunzel, who is nowhere to be found. After she tells him in a jealous rage that he will never see Rapunzel again, Gothel shoves him from the tower, sending him falling into a thorn bush, which blinds him.



For years, he wanders through the wastelands of the country and eventually comes to the wilderness where Rapunzel now lives with the twins she has given birth to, a boy and a girl. One day, as she sings, he hears her voice again, and they are reunited. When they fall into each other's arms, her tears immediately restore his sight. He leads her and their twins to his kingdom, where they live happily ever after.



In some versions of the story, Rapunzel's hair magically grows back after the prince touches it.



Another version of the story ends with the revelation that Dame Gothel had untied Rapunzel's hair after the prince leapt from the tower, and it slipped from her hands and landed far below, leaving her trapped in the towel. Summary By Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel



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Mother Holle ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends

Mother Holle ♦ Grimms' Fairy Tales ♦ Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends



Grimms' Fairy Tales



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Title:  Mother Holle



Author:  Jacob & Wilhelm GRIMM



Genre(s):  Children's Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales



Language:  English



Read By: Gesine



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

A rich widow lived with her daughter and her stepdaughter. The widow favored her younger biological daughter allowing her to become spoiled and idle while her older stepdaughter was left to do all the work. Every day the stepdaughter would sit outside the cottage and spin beside the well.



One day she pricked her finger on the point of the spindle. As she leaned over the well to wash the blood away, the spindle fell from her hand and sank out of sight. The stepdaughter feared that she would be punished for losing the spindle, and in panic she leapt into the well after it.



The girl found herself in a meadow where she came upon an oven full of bread. The bread asked to be taken out before it burned. With a baker's peel she took all the loaves out and then walked on. Then she came to an apple tree that asked that its apples be harvested. So she did so and gathered them into a pile, before continuing on her way. Finally she came to a small house of an old woman, who offered to allow the girl to stay if she would help with the housework.



The woman identified herself as Frau Holle, and cautioned the girl to shake the featherbed pillows and coverlet well when she made the bed, as that would make it snow in the girl's world. The girl agreed to take service with Frau Holle, and took care to always shake the featherbed until the feathers flew about like snowflakes.



After a time, the girl became homesick and told Frau Holle that it was time for her to return home. Frau Holle had been impressed by the girl's kindness and hard work so much that when she escorted the girl to the gate, a shower of gold fell upon the girl. She also gave her the spindle which had fallen into the well. With that the gate was closed, and the girl found herself back, not far from her mother's house.



Her mother wished the same good fortune for her biological daughter. She also set her to sit by the well and spin, but the girl deliberately threw the spindle into the well before jumping in herself. She too came to the oven, but would not assist the bread; nor would she help the apple tree. When she came to Frau Holle's house, she likewise took service there, but before long fell into her lazy, careless ways. Frau Holle soon dismissed her. As the lazy girl stood at the gate, a kettle of pitch spilled over her. "That is what you have earned," said Frau Holle, and closed the gate.



Other versions describe the first girl having a piece of gold fall from her lips every time she speaks whilst the second has a toad fall from her lips everytime she speaks. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frau_Holle







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