Eve's Unequal Children
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　When Adam and Eve were driven from paradise, they were forced to build a house for themselves on barren ground, and eat their bread by the sweat of their brow. Adam hoed the field, and Eve spun the wool. Every year Eve brought a ch

Death's Messengers
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　In ancient times a giant was wandering along the highway when suddenly a stranger jumped toward him and shouted, "Stop! Not one step further!"
　　"What?" said the giant. "You, a creature that I could crush between my fingers, yo

The Duration of Life
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　When God created the world and was about to determine the duration of life for all the creatures, the donkey came and asked, "Lord, how long am I to live?"
　　"Thirty years," answered God. "Is that all right with you?"

Lean Lisa
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　Lean Lisa was not at all like Lazy Heinz and Fat Trina, who would not allow anything to disturb their rest. She burned herself out from morning until evening and loaded so much work on her husband, Lanky Lenz, that it was harder for him than fo

Lazy Heinz
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　Heinz was lazy, and although he had nothing else to do but to drive his goat out to the pasture every day, he nevertheless groaned every evening when he returned home after finishing his day's work.
　　"It is in truth a heavy burden," h

The Clever Servant
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　How fortunate is the master and how well it goes within his household when he has a clever servant who, to be sure, hears his orders, but does not obey them, preferring instead to follow his own wisdom.
　　A clever Hans of this

A Riddling Tale
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　Three women were transformed into flowers which stood in a field. However， one of them was allowed to be in her own house at night. One time when day was approaching， and she would have to go back to her companions in the field and become

The Hurds
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　Once upon a time there was a girl who was beautiful, but lazy and negligent. When she had to spin she was so ill tempered that if there was a little knot in the flax, she at once pulled out a whole heap of it, and scattered it about on the grou

Choosing a Bride
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　There was a young herdsman who wanted very much to marry, and was acquainted with three sisters. Each one was just as beautiful as the other, so it was difficult for him to make a choice, and he could not decide to give the preference to

The Stolen Farthing
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　Once a father was seated at the dinner table with his wife and children. A good friend who had come to visit was eating with them. While they were sitting there the clock struck twelve, and the stranger saw the door open and a very pa

The Star Talers
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　Once upon a time there was a little girl whose father and mother had died, and she was so poor that she no longer had a room to live in, nor a bed to sleep in, and at last she had nothing else but the clothes she was wearing and a little

All-Kinds-of-Fur
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　Once upon a time there was a king, who had a wife with golden hair, and she was so beautiful that her equal was not to be found anywhere on earth.
　　It happened that she fell ill, and when she felt that she was about to die, she

The Three Feathers
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　Once upon a time there was a king who had three sons, two of whom were clever and intelligent, but the third one did not talk very much, was simple minded, and the only name they gave him was the Simpleton.
　　When the king beca

The Little Peasant
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　There was a village where all the peasants were rich except for just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant. He did not own a single cow, and had even less money to buy one with, but he and his wife would have liked to have

Sweetheart Roland
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
　　Once upon a time there was a woman who was truly a witch. She had two daughters, one ugly and wicked, whom she loved because she was her own daughter, and one beautiful and good, whom she hated, because she was her stepdaughter. The ste