English Fairy Tales
JACK
AND THE BEANSTALK
"Fee-fi-fo-fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he
dead, I'll have his bones to grind my bread." Yes its the classic
English fairy tale of a boy who climbs a magical beanstalk to battle a
giant in the sky.
THE
STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
Three
little pigs and one wolf with some very good lungs.
JACK
THE GIANT-KILLER
A
giant is destroying the countryside and so a reward is offered for his
destruction. Jack takes up the mantle of hero and through a simple trap
slays the giant. But his victory brings more giants hungry for revenge
and the taste of Englishmen.
THE
PIED PIPER OF FRANCHVILLE
When
an English town is tormented by rats a piper comes to the rescue,
playing a marry tune to lead the rats away but the when the town
refuses to pay the Pied Piper his due he comes back for revenge.
THE
STORY OF THE THREE BEARS
Most
people are familar with this story as having a little girl but in
Joseph Jacobs original telling it was an old lady and not a little girl
who stole the bears food.
TOM
TIT TOT
The
English version of the Rumpelstiltskin story.
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