The story of one young woman who was imprisoned for seven years for loving the wrong prince...and what she finds when she fights her way out. The creature is the Rarog! A friendly little dude who will give you good luck! Or a tornado at which you throw knives!
Two stories, two small things making enormous problems.
Magic swords, Viking legends, dwarves, ice queens, and enchanted rose gardens, this story of Dietrich of Bern and the Dwarf King Laurin has a bit of everything.
Three stories of monsters from Japanese folklore.
A story from Kashmir folklore about love, marriage, and murder.
The Saga of Half and His Heroes from Icelandic folklore starts with Odin spitting in a family's ale and only gets stranger from there.
What to do if your teen spends three years crying. Or, for the teens out there, how to get back at your dad because all he did was threaten you while you cried for three years.
Two stories from Japan!
The story of Harap Alb (Povestea lui Harap Alb) from Romanian folklore has it all. Like, it really does try to jam as many fairy tale tropes in as possible, but it actually works. It's a fun story with a little bit of everything. Oh, and talking lettuce.
I mean, if you style your beard to a point so that it looks like an enormous bird's beak, you can't really fault an insult comedy pro princess for taking some shots at it. It's "King Thrushbeard" by the Grimm brothers. The creature is a giant whose career path involves working for kings, [...]