Fairylando

There was once a rich man whose wife was very sick. One day, she called her only daughter to come near her bed, and said, “Dear child, be of good character and God will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from heaven, and will be with you.”  And then she closed her eyes and died. The girl did as her mother told her and we His new wife was the meanest and proudest woman that was ever seen nt every day to her mother’s grave and wept.

Once, there lived a little boy and his grandparents. One day, his grandmother decided to make a gingerbread man for the little boy. She mixed some eggs and some flour and made it into dough.

Once upon a time, in a kingdom far far away, there lived a handsome prince who wanted to marry a real princess. If only he knew a way to tell which princesses were real.

Once upon a time there were three bears. The bears lived together  in the woods. The Little Wee Bear was Baby Bear, the Middle-sized Bear  was  Mama Bear, and the Great Big Bear was Papa Bear. Their house had furniture and cutleries  the size of each bear. Baby bear’s bowl, spoon, chair and bed were very little. Mama bear‘s bowl, spoon, chair and bed were all medium-sized. Papa bear’s bowl, spoon, chair and bed were very big.  

Once, there lived a pretty little girl with her mother. They lived in small village not so far away. The little girl was always barefoot because she and her mother were too poor to buy her a pair of shoes. The little girl’s name was Karen.

Once upon a time, there was a duck. She lived in the forest. One day she laid some eggs. There was one very big egg among the eggs she laid.

Six animals lived on one farm – a dog, a cat, a goat, a lamb, a duck and a hen. Everyone did their job and so it took many years. Only once did the animals quarrel and started blaming themselves for the other having an easier job. In the end, they decided to test which of them would be right.

The godfather fox Eliška was cunning. After all, the way foxes are. A sow also lived on the farm not far from her burrow. She didn’t dare to face her, because it would be a big bite for her, but Eliška heard that the sow Květuška has four piglets – three girls and one boy. And it was them who she wanted.

An abandoned house stood in one county far from the people. It was a haunted house, from the look of it. People didn’t even go there. When they had to pass this way, they stayed as far away from the house as possible. Everyone knew that ghosts lived in it. There was a rumor that they are evil. But that was not true.