Shita-kiri Suzume
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Shita-kiri Suzume, translated literally into "Tongue-Cut Sparrow", is a traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects
Katsushika Hokusai ukiyo-e
Diamonds and Toads
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Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him "Les Fées" or "The Fairies". Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book. It was illustrated b
Shita-kiri Suzume
…Greed only leads to one's own demise. The tale is classified as Aarne–Thompson type 480, "The Kind and the Unkind Girls." Others of this type include Diamonds and Toads, Mother Hulda, The Three Heads of the Well, Father Frost, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Enchanted Wreath, The Old Witch and The Two Caskets…
Illustration by Gustave Doré
The younger daughter and the fairy.
The younger daughter and her mother: the gift.
The elder daughter and the fairy.