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In Celtic folk tales high tides and valley floods are accounted for by the presence of a great beast in sea, loch, or river..Folk tales and legends have also survived through retel...dictionary.cambridge.org

Now the way to the forest lay through a town, and the sledge knocked down many people. The townsfolk cried: Hold him! Catch him! But Emelya paid no heed and onl...

There was once a man who had a Cat so old that he could not even catch mice...

Not that one. The bigger one! .Look at that rascal! said he about the first Wolf. It’s as though the earth had swallowed him! He’s never brought the water for...

But Fedko was quick. He dropped the reins and seized the hand. He held it as in a vice, and so strongly that no power on earth could have released it. Then he b...

The Fox saw that this was not the way to go about things, so one night she crept up to the house, threw some wheat grains under the window for the Cock to see a...