The Voices at the Window
He shall come upon a white bed on the road, and he shall desire to rest upon it, and the moment he rests upon it he shall burst; and whoever hears and tells him of this thing shall become stone right up to the neck!’” And with these words he leaped from the horse, and the horse became stone right up to its neck. “That therefore, my master, was why I did what I did, and I pray thee pardon me.”
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The Bird with the Golden Gizzard: The Story of Two Brothers
Category: Czechoslovak folktale
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The Wood Maiden: The Story of Betushka and the Golden Birch Leaves
Category: Czechoslovak folktale
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The Golden Spinning-Wheel: The Story of King Dobromil and the Good Dobrunka
Category: Czechoslovak folktale
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In a village there lived two men who had the self-same name. Both were named Claus. But one of them owned four horses, and the other owned only one horse; so to distinguish between them people called the man who had four horses Big Claus, and the man who had only one horse Little Claus. Now I'll tell you what happened to these two, for this is a true story.
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