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Indo-European Folktales Test 3
fairytales from around the world
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
12/18/2009

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The Seven Wise Men of Buneyr
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seven stop to count to see if they are still there. but they each forget to count themselve, they meet a sheperd who helps them. the men agreed to help the sheperdin return but they were stupid and ended up killing his mother and his goats
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The Baneyrwal and the Thief
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man saw his reflection in tub and thought it was a theif and tryed to kill ut
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The Baneyr Man and the Mill
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man tryed to kiss a water because he thought it was god but cut his face
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The 12 Men of Gotham
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12 men went fishing and counted themselve to make sure no one drowned but they only counted 11 so they payed man to find thier missing brother
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The Burial Shirt
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Mother had a wonderful 7 yr old son who died. the boy began to appear to her where he had once played. the boy came to his mother in his burial shirt and asked his mother to stop crying because he could not fall asleep in his coffin because her tears made his shirt wet. she stopped crying. he returned the next night to say his shirt was almost dry. mother decided to stop grieving so her son could rest in peace
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The Pancake - Death
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a wife was cooking pancakes for her 7 kids. she said they could have them when the pancake turned itself. the pancake got scared and jumped out of the fire and ran away. so the family chased after the pancake. while running the pancake met a man who also wanted to eat it, so it kept running and then it met a hen and she wanted to eat him too, so he kept running. same for the duck, the goose, the gander. then it met a pig and the pig tricked the pancake and then ate him.
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Death of Little Hen - Grimms
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hen and rooster went to Nut Mt. and little hen started choking on a nut. rooster went to the well to get water for hen. but the well told rooster to get red silk from bride first. but the bride told rooster to get her wreath. he gave the wreath to the bride and the bride gave him silk and he gave the sil to the well and got water, but when he got to hen she was already dead. 6 mice built hen a casket. on the way to the grave they met fox. then all the large animals of the forest came. they came to water and tryed to cross, but all 6 mice drowned. coal tryed to help them cross but he dies too. the stone tried to help, the little rooster almost gets acorss but the other animals are too heavy for him and they fall in and drown. rooster finally burried hen, he mourned her for so long that he died too. and everyone was dead
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Parable of the Mustard Seed
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girl marries wealthy man and has a son who dies. the women went around the town looking for a cure for her son. medicine man sent her to Buddah. she asked him what herbs he needed and he asked for red mustard seed from house in which no one died. but she could find none and accepted death. the living are few but the dead are many.
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Death's Messenger
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death made deal with man told send messengers before he came for him. death came and the man said he not sent messenger. but said that dimmed vision, hunched back and gray hair were his messenger and that the man's time had come
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Why People Today Die Their Own Death
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law required theat old people be killed when they reached a certain age. one family didn't want to kill their grandfather so they hid him in the cellar. there was a famine at this time. the old man gave his familiy good advice. the king found about the miracle and the family told them about the grandfather. the king was please with old an and decided to let all old people die their own death
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Wendish Lengend
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ancient town practiced geronticide. then official came from another town and stopped them from killing an old man, he took the old man with him and gave him a job as a gate keep which he had for 20 additional years.
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The Willful Child
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stubborn child did not do what he was told and so god was displeased with him and caused him to fall ill. he died and was buried. but he kept reaching his arm out of the grave and wouldn't keep it down until his mother beat it wit ha switch. then he could rest in peace
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Brahman Girl Who Married a Tiger
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there was a brahman girl that needed to be married and a tiger that could change into a man that wanted a brahman girl to cook brahmen food for him. he turned himself into a handsome boy in order to woo her. they were married and he took her on his journey home. but he was unkind and threaten to show his original shape. he turned back into a tiger and forced her to cook for him. after a while she gave birth to a tiger. she asked a crow to send for her brothers so they could rescue her. the brothers used objects they found on their hourney to scare the tiger away. when the tiger was gone the girl ripped up the cub and stole from the tiger and ran home with her brothers. the tiger went to girls home to get revenge, but her family knew of his deceit and plotted to kill him. they made him fall in well where he die. this story is to explain proverb: Be Quiet , or i shall show you my orginal shape
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Peter Ox
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man and wife were sad that they had no on to inherit their furtune. so bought a cow that they want to be there son, so the paid the sexton to teach him how to talk, but the sexton tricked the couple and slaughtered their cow. the sexton said that the cow had ran away. the man thought another merchant was his cow. the man gave the merchant money because he thought he was his son and wanted him to come home. the merchant agreed to be his son. and they lived happily ever after
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Fitcher's Bird
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Admann and his Wife
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wife is supposed to be weeding the flax, but get confused and decides to eat and sleep instead. the husband find out what she is doing and cuts off her skirt. then she forget who she is and wonders away forever
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The Husband who was to mind the house
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a husband who thought his wife never did anything right came home very anger one night, so his wife offered to switch jobs with him. the man is very bad at minding the house. he ruined the butter, killed the pig, wasted the ale, put the cow on the roof and got his head stuck in pot.
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The Russian Soldier
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man had russian soldier quartered in his house during an occupation and they had never seen a bathroom. they drank from the toliet and used teh tub as a coal bin. they couldn't ride bikes and got their ands and feet stuck in the spokes
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3 wishes
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men was starring at sky and god decided to grant him 3 wishes. man and his wife ask god to make his penis bigger, but god made it too big. the asked go to make it less, but then it disappeared. so he had to ask god to give him back his normal penis
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The Preist Who Knew How to Make Heads
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pregnant women's wife was away, so preist tricked her into sleeping with him by saying that her baby would be born without a head in the absence of its father. father returned and cut off all the heads of the priest's sheep, telling him that he should be able to fix it because he knows how to make heads
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The Kings New Turban
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man promised to weave king a turban that those born in wed lock could see and bastards could not. no one could see it but no one wanted to be thought of as a bastard. they king went to his advisors and the trick was discovered
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The Emperors new Clothes
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there was an emperor that loved clothes and spent all of his money on them. two swindlers tricked emperor in paying them pay clothes that were invisible to stupid people. everyone pretended to see the clothes because they did not want people to think they were stupid. finally a small child said that he didn't have anything on. and everyone knew that there were no clothes
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The Sausage
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Old women was minding her house when a grand lady came to visit and asked to borrow a pan her daughter's wedding. so the women obliged. when the grand lady returned with the pot she granted the old women 3 wishes.she meant wish for riches but instead she wished for sauage. for her mistake he husband wished the sauged was stuck to her nose. then they had to use the last wish to remove the sausage.
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The Treasure
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The MilkMaid and Her Pale
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farmers daughter was carrying a pail of milk on her head while day dreaming about how she could the milk to get money to buy a gown to wear to fair and meet boy, but forgetting about the pail she tossed her head and spilt the milk. moral: do not count your chicken before they are hatched
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the Foolish German
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workers were made at the german stwerad for making them work on St Nick's day and tricked him so he would be attacked by hornets and he let them take the day off
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The Broken Pot
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unlucky man recieves rices and gruel by beggin. his has so much left over that he starts thinking about he will use the leftovers to build his fortune, but he accidently kicks over the pot.
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The Bull, the donkey and the husband
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husband could secret talk to all the animals. he overheard the animal talking and it made him laguh, the wife insiting on knowing why he laughed, so he decided to tell her even though it would cause his death. then he over heard the rooster saying that he should beat her instead, so he did and everyone lived happily ever after.
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The Language of the Beast
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Shepherd rescues a snake from a forest fire and is rewarded by knowing the language of the beasts, but if he told anyone he would immediately die. with the language he was able to find treasure. in his new house he order his wife to make a feast for the sheperds. her over heard the dogs plotting against them annd had them killed. the husband then over hear the horse and laughed and his wife wanted to know why. so he resigned himself to death until the cock told him that he should beat his wife instead and he did.
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Two in a Sack
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man was beat by wife and capture crane to please her, but they went to cranes house and gave him a sack instead. he stopped at his cousin's on the wat home and they stole his sack, when he wnet home the wifebeat because the sack didn't work. the crane gave him a new sack and went to his counsin and the sack beat them up. then he went back to his house and his wife was pleased with he new sack
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Fitcher's Bird
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sorcerer captured a girl a took her to his house and gave her everything she wanted. one day the man had to leave so he gave her an egg and a key. she unlocked the door and discovered dead and dismember people which made her drop the egg, which should could not get clean. when the man he knew she had been in the blood chamber and so he killed. he captured another girl and did the same to her. then he captured a third girl, but she was clever and sly. she put the egg in a safe place. she put her sister bodies back together and they came back to life. she tricks him into giving her gold. she sent her sister home to get help. then she disgueised herslef as a bird an escaped. the help she sent for set the man house on fire and killed him
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blue Berd
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a very rich man had a blue berd and no one liked, mother offered him one his daughters. he tryed to woo them which worked and he married the youngest. the man went a trip and left the girl a key and told her not to open the closet. but she didn't listen and opened the door and discovered his previos wife were dead. the key was bloodstained and would not come clean. he knew what she did and say he would kill, she called for her brothers to save her. they came and killed bluebeard and she was able to inherit his estate. she used the money to help her self and her family
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Mr. Fox
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a young lady and her brother went a country seat along with Mr. Fox who the ladies liked. she wondered off on her own and found a chamber filled with skeletons. she saw Mr. Coming with a new victim and escaped to her brothers. she told everyone what he had done and they killed him
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Haaken Grizzleberd
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princess was rude to a rich suitor. so he tricked her by getting her pregnant and making her live as a beggar, eventually he married her they lived happily ever after
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the telltale wife
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man was going to a village meeting when he got dung on his clothes, so he took then off and hung them in a pot in his room, his wife asked what was in the pot, so he told her it was a man's head because he didn't trust her, one day the man struck so she told everyone he was a murderer. when the police came there was no head in the pot. Moral: anything you tell a woman will become known
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