Clever Grethel
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
Release Date: 01/26/2019
The Three Little Men in the Woods
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
Belching up toads, paper dresses, beheadings and murder, this story has them all. I love this Grimm fairytale from the Philip Pullman collection, and I hope you do too?
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The Old House
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
An old man in velvet pantaloons is befriended by a little boy with a toy soldier, however the soldier is NOT happy about this, has a tantrum and finds himself lost in the cracks and buried in an open grave, only to be found years later.
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The Marriage of Mrs. Reynard
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
Reynard the Fox is a bit tricky and tricks his wife that he's dead to see if she'll marry again ... never a good plan.
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Tamlane
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
Childhood sweethearts Tamlane and Janet were all set until he 'disappeared' before their wedding day. He was off with the fairies (that's what you get for riding your horse 'widershins' around the hill), but it's OK, because she rescues him, by knocking him off his horse and holding on really tight while he changes into lots of things, then she chucks him in a pond. Perfect love story on so many levels. A dark Scottish story in origin, this one is from Joseph Jacobs English Fairy Tales.
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The Dog and the Sparrow
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
A very clever and vengeful sparrow gets his own back after his buddy the dog comes a cropper. Many things get chopped with an axe by accident and many other things get pecked out ... corks and eyes mostly. The moral? Please feed your dogs yummy things and don't underestimate a sparrow!
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The Blinded Giant
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
A very short story about a boy called Jack, a bone bread eating giant and his favourite dog ... shame about the dog.
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The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
A 'lucky' boy escapes death is helped by two old ladies (because he was so polite and good looking) is very courageous ... and also a bit of a know it all.
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Snowdrop
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
So there's a narcissistic cannibalistic witch Queen, a Prince who thinks it would be cool to have a pretty dead girl in a glass coffin for a trophy and 7 little people who, while kind at heart, should get an education on domestic labor stereotypes. Nothing to see here.
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The Golden Bird
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
Youngest son rides fox, gets girl and gold.
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The Old Witch
Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
Independently wealthy senior citizen robbed by teen and locked in oven. Harsh.
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