Fairytales Archive

Aesop’s Fables, Uncategorized

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A Story of a Mother

A mother desperately seeks her child taken by Death, confronting sorrow and difficult choices.

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#death, #grief, #loss, #love, #mom, #mommy, #mother, #mothersday, #sadstory, crying, family, Hans Christian Andersen, life, losing a child, Mother’s day, motherhood, sacrifice, sad, writing

The Red Shoes

A poor girl named Karen suffers due to her red shoes, leading to her redemption.

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#ballet, #dancing, #HansChristianAndersen, #redShoes, #Story, Dancing, fiction, Han Christian Andersen, short-story, story, The Red Shoes, writing

The Darning Needle

A darning needle’s pride leads to misadventures and reflections on worth and identity.

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#HanschristenAndersen, #needlework, #pride, #selflove, #selfworth, #sewing, books, diy, Hans Christian Andersen, knitting, quilting, Story about confidence, writing

Russian FairyTale: At the Pikes Behest

Once upon a time there was an old man who had three sons. Two of them were bright fellows, the third, called Yemélia, was a bit of a fool. While his brothers worked, Yemelia spent the whole day lying on the stove and took no interest in anything. One day Yemelias two brothers had gone…

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Russia, Uncategorized

#magic, #russian, #russianfairytale, #Story, #wishes, fantasy, fiction, fish, hiking, short-story, Stories, writing

The Little Mermaid

By Hans Christian Andersen Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the finest corn-flower, and as transparent as the purest glass. But it is very deep, much deeper indeed than any anchor-chain can fathom; many steeples would have to be piled one on the top of the other…

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#HansChristianAndersen, #love, #sisters, #TheLittleMermaid, books, fantasy, fiction, Han Christian Andersen, love story, mermaids, The Little Mermaid, writing

The Rose Elf

By Hans christen Andersen in the midst of a garden grew a rose-tree; upon it were many, many roses; in one of them, the most beautiful of all, lived an elf. He was so very small that no human eye could perceive him. Behind every petal of the rose he had a bedroom. No child…

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#elves, #Fairytale, #HanschristenAndersen, #magic, #Story, dnd, Elves, fairytale, fantasy, fiction, Hans Christen Andersen, Magic, short-story, story, writing

Rudyard Kipling: How The Camel got His Hump

In the beginning of years, when the world was so new-and-all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, there was a Camel, and he lived in the middle of a Howling Desert because he did not want to work; and besides, he was a Howler himself. So he ate sticks and thorns…

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