There was once upon a time a miller（磨坊主） who lived with his wife in great contentment. They had money and land, and their prosperity increased year by...
A tailor and a goldsmith were travelling together, and one evening when the sun had sunk behind the mountains, they heard the sound of distant music, ...
After the stealing of fire, Zeus became increasingly unkind to men. One day he ordered his son Hephaestus to build an image of a beautiful maiden out ...
One afternoon the Christ-child had laid himself in his cradle-bed and had fallen asleep. Then his mother came to him, looked at him full of gladness, ...
A poor peasant-boy one day heard the priest say in church that whosoever desired to enter into the kingdom of heaven must always go straight onward. S...
There was once on a time a hermit who lived in a forest at the foot of a mountain, and passed his time in prayer and good works, and every evening he ...
Once upon a time, there were two sisters, one of whom had no children and was rich, and the other had five and was a widow, and so poor that she no lo...
There was once a King's son who went out into the world, and he was full of thought and sad. He looked at the sky, which was so beautifully pure a...
Three hundred years before the birth of the Lord Christ, there lived a mother who had twelve sons, but was so poor and needy that she no longer knew h...
One evening, it was raining and the wind was blowing hard. An old couple came to an inn and prepared to put up for the night there. A young man receiv...