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  2. The Brave Little Tailor - Wikipedia

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    The tailor provokes the giants. " The Brave Little Tailor " or " The Valiant Little Tailor " or " The Gallant Tailor" (German: Das tapfere Schneiderlein) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 20). "The Brave Little Tailor" is a story of Aarne–Thompson Type 1640, with individual episodes classified in other story types.

  3. The Three Little Pigs - Wikipedia

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    The phrases used in the story, and the various morals drawn from it, have become embedded in Western culture. Many versions of The Three Little Pigs have been recreated and modified over the years, sometimes making the wolf a kind character. It is a type B124 [3] folktale in the Thompson Motif Index.

  4. Little Red Riding Hood - Wikipedia

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    Little Red Riding Hood is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a sly wolf. [4] Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales.The two best known versions were written by Charles Perrault [5] and the Brothers Grimm.

  5. Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Wikipedia

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    1837. " Goldilocks and the Three Bears " is a 19th-century English fairy tale of which three versions exist. The original version of the tale tells of an impudent old woman who enters the forest home of three anthropomorphic bachelor bears while they are away. She eats some of their porridge, sits down on one of their chairs, breaks it, and ...

  6. The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal - Wikipedia

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    an illustration of a variant of the tale. The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal is a popular Indian folklore with a long history and many variants. The earliest record of the folklore was included in the Panchatantra, which dates the story between 200 BCE and 300 CE. Mary Frere included a version in her 1868 collection of Indian folktales, Old ...

  7. Afrikaans folklore - Wikipedia

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    It is a story of magic that reflects some aspects of the inner world of human beings. According to Miruka's classification of folktale content, it can be called an imaginary tale. This imaginary tale has a typically Eastern setting, with a rural atmosphere. There are hunters, a wood, rich landowners ("wazirs") and beautiful ladies ("poeteri").

  8. Three Billy Goats Gruff - Wikipedia

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    122E. Country. Norway. Published in. Norwegian Folktales. " Three Billy Goats Gruff " (Norwegian: De tre bukkene Bruse) is a Norwegian fairy tale [1] collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr, first published between 1841 and 1844. [2] It has an Aarne-Thompson type of 122E.

  9. Rip Van Winkle - Wikipedia

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    Multiple sources have identified the story of Epimenides as the earliest known variant of the "Rip Van Winkle" fairy tale. [17] [18] [20] [12] [21] The story of "Rip Van Winkle" itself is widely thought to have been based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal's German folktale "Peter Klaus", [5] [12] which is a shorter story set in a German ...

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