This story is Cannetella from
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A King wants his daughter to marry, but she doesn’t want to. So she sets impossible requirements for her husband. Unfortunately, the king’s enemy uses magic to meet those requirments and marries the princess. He treats her terribly but eventually she escapes. He finds her again. Will he get her back? Will she finally be free from him?

This fairy tale is Rated G.

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This story is The Street Musicians from
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A donkey who has served his master faithfully for years discovers that his master plans to shoot him because he is now old andcan’t work. The donkey decides to set out on his own and become a street musician. Along his journey he meets other animals in the same situation, including a dog, a cat, and a rooster. They all join him on his journey. They meet up with some robbers in a house, and decide they want the house for themselves. Can they drive out the robbers and become street musicians?

This fairy tale is Rated G. No one is killed, there is some mention of shooting the donkey, drowning the cat, and so on.

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This story is The Simpleton from
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Moscione, who isn’t very bright according to his father, is sent out into the world to seek his fortune. He meets many men along the way and convinces them to join him. They all have special powers, so Moscione thinks they might be useful. They end up in the kingdom of Flower Vale. The King has promised the hand of the princess to any man who can beat her in a foot race. She is very fast, and so far everyone who has tried has lost their head. Can Moscione and his little band win the heart of the princess?

This fairy tale is Rated G. No real moral, but nobody gets killed, just some usual treachery.

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This story is Don Giovanni De La Fortuna from
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Don Giovanni De La Fortuna fritters away all his cash and must resort to begging. The Devil meets him on the road and offers him a purse that always has gold if he agrees to go without bathing for three years. He agrees, gets rich, stinks, gives the King some cash, king offers daughter’s hand and she is horrified by Don Giovanni’s appearance. Will he find true love?

This fairy tale is Rated PG-13 . The Queen and eldest daughter drown, almost as an afterthought. Plus the devil is in it.

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This story is The Story of Ciccu from
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Three brothers, of which Ciccu is the youngest. Dad dies, fairies visit and give gifts, Ciccu tricks brothers into giving him their gifts. He runs off, spends money unwisely, loses gifts, is nice to a stranger, gets job with the king. THe brothers retalliate andCiccu goes on hard quests. Eventually, he tricks king into killing himself, wins the fairest princess of all, and becomes king.

This fairy tale is Rated PG-13 . For trickery, death, woman beating and such. But they live happily ever after at least.

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This story is King Lindorm from
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This story is about a King and Queen who want kids. An old woman will help if the queen follows her instructions, but she screws it up and give birth to a snake and a beautiful child. Snank goes out the window, child gets to be a prince. Snake eats people, turns into another prince, marries beautiful princess, becomes king, and then goes off to war. Can they overcome the treachery of the wicked stepmother? What happened to the other prince?

This fairy tale is Rated PG-13 . For multiple murders, evil stepmother, suggestive sexy things, and the like. I mean really, nobody cares they the snake ate a whole slew of maidens before he got turned back into a human?

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This story is The Merry Wives from
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This story is about 3 wives who each boast about how stupid their husbands are. When the price of a pint goes up, they decide to have a contest to see who has the stupidest husband. The winner would be able to drink free from then on. They then proceed to play tricks on each of their husbands. Who will turn out to be the stupidest?

This fairy tale is Rated G. It’s funny, although as a husband I am horribly offended.

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This story is Maiden Bright-eye from
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This story is about a daughter with a wicked stepmother. The daughter is kind to a little man and gets 3 wishes that promise her a happy life. The wicked stepmother wants to put a stop to this, and ends up getting her own daughter cursed as ugly withfrogs falling out of her mouth. The king wants to marry Maiden Bright-eye, but the stepmother pulls a switcheroo and he marries the ugly daughter instead. Can Maiden Bright-eye defeat her wicked stepmother’s scheme?

This fairy tale is Rated PG-13. The ugly daughter pushes her sister into the sea, and ends up getting horribly killed by the king.

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This story is Princess Minon-minette from
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This story is about a King who is raised by a fairy, so is kind of a jerk. He goes in search of a bride and finds Princess Minon-minette, who thinks he is no big deal. The Princess’s Fairy tells the king what he must do to win her heart, and the king goes off to do it. But the king is captured, and the princess declares war on the evil Iron King. Will the good king escape? Will the Princess win her war?

This fairy tale is Rated G. There are no murders or bloodiness, but there are some pretty advanced topics for a fairy tale, and it tends to wander at times.

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This story is Esben and the Witch from
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This story is about 12 brothers. Eleven of them are big and strong and the twelvth is a wuss. The eleven set out from home on white stallions to make their fortune, and young Esben follows riding a white stick. He saves them from a witch, and the king’s wrath multiple times. Eventually the witch explodes because she gets so mad, the king sees his folly, and they all go home as rich men, never to treat Esben poorly again.

This fairy tale is Rated R. The witch accidentally murders eleven of her daughters (Who are in bed with the eleven brothers), and Esben kills the other two. The evil knight is hung in the end and everybody rejoices.

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This story is The Troll’s Daughter from
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This story is about a lad who goes in the service of a troll. The trol sets him to tasks for 3 years, and pays him 6 bushels of money. The lad meets the troll’s daughter, they fall in love, and then plot as to how to get her away from the troll who keeps her captive in a glass palace. Will their love defeat the Troll?

This fairy tale is Rated PG. The girl plots the death of her father the troll. They end up cutting his heart up with a knife.

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This story is The White Dove from
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This story is about 2 princes who get saved from a storm by a witch. They promise her their next brother. The witch takes the youngest brother, and puts him to work. A beautiful princess in the form of a dove helps him and they plot their excape from the witch. Will they get away and live happily ever after?

This fairy tale is Rated G. No killing in this one.

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This story is The Sprig of Rosemary from
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This story is about a girl who meets a handsome wizard and marries him. She does the one thing that he tells her not to do and his castle is destroyed and his memory is erased. She goes on a quest to find him, to get their wonderful life back. Eventually she does find him, but will he remember her in time to stop him from marrying the ugly princess?

This fairy tale is Rated G. No killing in this one.

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This story is The Golden Lion from
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This story is about three Brothers who decide one by one to venture out into the world. The eldest finds a city where the king is offering his daughter’s hand in marriage, if the suitor can find her. The catch? If they can’t find her after 8 days, they get their head chopped off. Well, the first two borthers get their heads cut off, but the youngest meets an old woman who decides to help him and hides him in a Golden Lion. Will he find the princess? Will he gain her hand in marriage?

This fairy tale is Rated PG. There are several heads chopped off.

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This story is Master and Pupil from
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This story is about a boy who wants a job. He finds a man looking for someone to dust his books. The boy agrees but the man is a wizard and the boy learns magic from the books. He runs away and uses the magic to make money. The wizard finds out, gets mad and tries to kill the boy. Who will win in the end?

This fairy tale is Rated PG. There is a murder.

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This story is The Two Brothers from
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This story is about two brothers who are given armor, horses, and swords by a magic fish they free. They both become knights and go their own way. The elder brother saves a princess, then leaves her, then comes back in seven years and marries her. They live happily till he decides to kill a witch who turns him to stone. His younger brother rides to his resceu. Can he save him?

This fairy tale is Rated PG. There is some heads chopped off and some treachery.

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This story is The Man without a Heart from
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This story is about a seven brothers who need brides. They go out looking, see an old man who also wants a bride. They tell him ‘Whatever’, then go off and find their brides. On the way back the old man gets angry because they dont have one for him. He turns them to stone, and keeps the youngest for himself. The youngest brother, who had stayed behind to care for their house, shows up and finds out from the young bride how to find the old man’s heart. Will he find the heart? Can he save his brothers and their brides?

This fairy tale is Rated PG. There is a murder, but he deserved it, kinda.

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This story is The Wounded Lion from
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This story is about a girl who has no place in the world. She goes to work for a farmer as a cowherd. She finds a wounded lion and saves it, but her cows disappear. So she is tasked to watch the asses, and the same lion is found wounded again, andagain her charges disappear. Who is the lion? Why do her flocks disappear? Is there a mean giant involved?

This fairy tale is Rated PG. There are no murders, but the girl gets beaten several times for losing all the herds.

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This story is The Water of Life from
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This story is about 3 brothers and their sister who build the most beautiful palace, but they want the best palace ever so they head off one by one to find the Water of Life, the Talking Bird, and a branch from the Tree of Beauty. They each fall to the traps laid to stop them and only the sister is left. Can she succeed where her brothers failed?

This fairy tale is Rated G. There are no murders, and it has a happy ending.

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This story is How the Hermit Helped to Win the King’s Daughter from
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This story is about 3 sons trying to win the hand of the King’s Daughter. The King does not give up his daughter so easily I fear.

This fairy tale is Rated G. There are no murders (Almost one, but it didn’t happen), and it has a happy ending.

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