The Three Wishes

Once there lived a woodcutter with his wife. He used to cut wood in the forest and sold them in the market. This was the only means of his livelihood.

One day, he went to cut wood in the forest. He suddenly heard a voice. "Please help me." He looked down and saw a fairy under the tree. He saved her.

Gabriele

“I’d like to thank you for saving my life. Go back home and make three wishes. Then, all three wishes will come true,” the fairy said. The woodcutter ran into the house. “Oh! Dear,first make a delicious meal, and then I will surprise you." We only have some soup. I wish we had some sausages too,” cried the wife. Suddenly, some sausages appeared on the table. “Oh no! A fairy gave us three wishes. Now we only have two left! You wasted a wish!

Oh, I wish these sausages were stuck in your nose!” shouted

the woodcutter. Suddenly, the sausages stuck in his wife’s nose.

Isa

“What’s going on here? Ahhh!” cried his wife. “Now, we’ve used up two wishes. But oh, how funny you look. Ha! Ha! Ha!” the woodcutter laughed. His wife was getting angrier, “I’ve sausages stuck in my nose. Why are you laughing? Help me! Oh, I wish” “No! No! Please, stop! Be careful what you say! We have only one wish left. First, let’s try to take the sausages out of your nose,” the woodcutter advised. So, they tried to take the sausages out of her nose. They put grease on them and pulled. They pulled and pulled some more! But the sausages were still stuck in her nose. The woodcutter and his wife were very sad. “What should we do now? I wanted to wish for a big house and food but only one wish is left. But I can’t live with the sausages in my nose.

“We have no choice. We must make our last wish to get the sausages out of your nose!” The wife was relieved and wished to remove the sausages from her nose. And finally the sausages came out of her nose. “What a waste! I was going to wish for some  firewood to keep us warm this winter" His wife said, “Honey, I really thank you for using last wish for me.” Both of them realized that they were happy before the three wishes. And they could be happier without them. At last, they ate the sausages for supper and enjoyed their meal. They both loved each other’s company and lived happily ever after.

Hungarian folk tale

Bulgárföldi Általános Iskola 4.a , Hungary

illustration: 5th class Castel dell'Aquila Primary School

ITALY

Flower Fairy

Buğlem Arsalan - Ataturk Primary School Istanbul Turkey

Flower Fairy

Flower Fairy was a small and beautiful fairy , with golden hair and blue eyes as the clear sky of spring . It was very cheerful and lively . The fairy 's passion was to paint flowers . He had a bucket of paints and a charming brush . At the fall of night , when all they went to bed , she flew the sky in all parts . She spent all night painting flowers . The flowers stood in the top , right , and waiting with patience to come fairy to them dressed in the colors of the rainbow . No one knew she was the one fairy, in the night , it gave flowers colors like the beautiful .

In one night , after  flowers wild in the center of the forest , arrived at a garden of a palace surrounded by a fence. Do not see any flower . She sawa strange cottage in the center of the garden .  Not seeing any flower to paint , fairy say she must eneter to be sure.

Şevval Koç-Zümra Karataş-Rüzgar Aras -Yavuz Arslan /Ataturk Primary School Istanbul Turkey

- No, fairy ! don't enter! scream flowers wild in the outside garden . Here lives a witch.She doesn’t like flowers and do not let the one to enter ! But the sigh was heard from again ... on and through the fence , saw a flower small and delicate , but not have any color .        

- I feel like the only one ! She  said and crying . Bees and butterflies do not come and to me that it is beautiful , and I have no one kind of color .        

- No May cry ! I will give you beautiful colour ! said the fairy .        

Steps beyond the fence in time the flowers a begging to not enter the garden .

- Flowers , I want  help on this little flower ! is it the sad ! I want  to give some color to a make she  happy ! said the fairy .        

Steps beyond the fence in time the flowers a begging to not enter the garden .

Şeyma Doğan -Berrak Toprak-Arda Oğuz-Çınar Hızır/Ataturk Primary School IstanbulTurkey

- Flowers , I want  help on this little flower ! is it the sad ! I want  to give some color to a make she  happy ! said the fairy .        

- Quick ! witch has since May sleeps ! Go you and paint this flower before to wake up from sleep ! said a bird that was sitting on the branch of a tree .         

So , fairy has knelt next flower the ugly , and has started to paint . But when touched the flower , when , suddenly , someone one pulled the legs and began to scream: 

- What are you doing here ? That was the witch!

Poor fairy , try to say witch she wanted only her paint the flower a little .

- What ? to paint a flower ??No way! Then , take a bucket of paint in hand fairy , and put it overthrow the head.        

- Oh no ! My paints ! the fairy screams in horror and begins to cry .          

Beyza Kork-Ömer Söndür- Siem Çimşir/Ataturk Primary School Turkey

             It was at that moment that a miracle happened . From those drops of paint on the ground , they have sprouted yellow flowers. The whole garden was in soon full of flowers yellowish, tiny and very beautiful . How many will drop as they reached the nose witch , were transformed and they in flowers . The witch who hates flowers , is very upset . She could not stop the flowers from blooming and didn't like their scent at all . So , run furiously to check them , they pack things , and go on to seek another forest in which to move. 

             Fairy was so happy when the witch left! He laughed and passed quickly among the flowers singing with joy . Flowers , bees and butterflies sang along with her. After the sun go to the east , little fairy go back into the world of fairy tales . 

 ROMANIAN FOLK TALE

COLEGIUL NAȚIONAL ”ELENA CUZA”,CRAIOVA,DOLJ,ROMANIA

Illustration:

The students of Ataturk Primary School Istanbul Turkey

Alaattin Portakal

The prince and

the wood fairy

One fine spring morning the prince goes out on his horse to walk in the wood.

He arrives near a river descending from his horse to pick a beautiful flower with a bewitching smell. What a surprise, he discovered a fairy sleeping on the giant petal of this flower. The young man tries to wake her up but the poor one does not move.             

So he takes her to his kingdom to take care of her. The days pass and the beautiful fairy begins to adapt to the new life in the castle and it is the prince himself who takes care of her.We see her sad, the prince decides to marry her to give her back her smile. But what to do it is necessary that the little fairy will have the same size as the prince. who goes to see the wizard of the wood Medor who gives him a magic ring to put it in the left finger of the beautiful fairy who transforms immediately into a beautiful princess in love with him. What a misfortune! The princess refuses to dance with her husband who begins to worry.

One day, the princess leaves the castle and goes into the woods. On his return the prince did not find his wife. Quickly he takes his horse and goes out into the woods to find him. Near the river the amorous prince discovers that his wife is there. She dances to rhythmic music that the prince never heard.

_you dance my love? Come with me .

_ no I don't know how to dance, let me listen to this music which reminds me of something I lost. With these words the intelligent prince understood the secret of his wife and to make her happy he took her by the hand and told her about her adventure with her. The fairy has eyes full of tears although the fairies do not cry. 

 A little further away, the fairy world awaits the return of the fairy lost in the woods. A tear trickles down on the princess ring which returns to its normal size, flies in the sky is pauses on the hand of the prince disappointed and happy at the same time to see his love dancing in the air under the applause of the fairies.

LEILA OUSSAIEF TUNISIA

primary school teacher

Krib , Siliana , Tunisia

Illustration: Bulgárföldi Általános Iskola, 2.b Hungary

Alaattin Portakal - Turkey

Alaattin Portakal - Turkey Bald Boy and Emperor (Keloglan ile Padişah) 

Bald boy got the gold and when he was on his own way he saw a group of people beating up a cat. He said “take this piece of gold and stop beating him”. He rescues the cat and he and cat start to walk again. A while later, he saw couple of people beating up a dog. He again said “stop it, what are you doing?” and he saves the dog as well.

And then he continues to walk along with a dog and cat. When he almost has got near by to the town, he saw a crowd again and he saw woodchoppers trying to kill a snake. He could not able to stop himself again and says: “take this piece of gold and let him go.” And he also saves the snake.

The snake said: “The son of the Adam, I am the son of the snake emperor. I had argued with my dad and I hide over here. But they found me. I wanted to go back to my dad and if you want you can come along with me. Bald boy decided to go with the snake and soon after they introduce themselves to the snake emperor. Snake emperor feels so happy to see his son again and he wants to give a reward to the bald boy and he says: “make a wish, anything you want to” and at that moment prince snake whisper in his ear and says “ask him to give the seal under his tongue” and Bald boy says : “ I want your seal”

The emperor says that you ask for my most precious treasure. I am gonna give it to you because you saved my son. He says that whatever he wishes his wishes will become true with this seal and gives it to the bald boy. Bald boy got the seal, the dog and the cat and go back to his house. When his mother sees that he did not bring home nothing but a dog and cat she gets mad at him.

The day after bald boy says his mother and says go and ask for emperor’s young daughters’ hand. His mother says that, he would not give his daughters’ hand to you. But bald boy was so insist and she eventually went to the palace to ask for emperors’ daughters’ hand.

Emperor says if you build a big palace just across my palace then I can say okay. His mother returns back to home and tells what emperor wants from them.

Bald boy says: no worries, I can do it in five minutes. And he asks the seal to make a big palace. When emperor gets up the day after and sees the big palace built in a night he has to give his permission to him.

Bald boy moved into his new palace and he put his seal to the best place in it. One day in the absence of bald boy, some one comes to the home as a bead seller who is aware of the seal and he tries to sell beads to bald boys’ wife. His wife says that she does not have any money and this con man says you do not need to give me any money, you can get whatever you want to trade that seal as an exchange he says. Wife says ok and gives to bead seller and gives seal to him. He got the seal and cross the lake just right after. The palaces fall apart right away. The emperor takes her daughter back as well. When bald boy come back to the home with the cat and the dog and see what happened he feels so unhappy and feels so sad.

Cat says. I can find the seal but I can not get across the lake. Dog says, I can swim through lake and you can sit on me. They do that, and come to the man’s house. When they arrive to the home dog waited in front of the house and the cat catches a mouse and put hot pepper to the his tale. Later on he walked in and he put the mouse’s tale into the man’s nose. Therefore, the man sneezes and the seal under his tongue fall off. The cat catches the seal and along with the dog they run to the lake. The dog start swimming back to their place but in the middle of the lake cat drops the seal from his mouth and a fish swallow the seal. This time dog gets the responsibility and they both went to the fish market. The dog sniffs each fish and find out which one has the seal and show it to the bald boy. Bold boy buys that fish right away and they return back to their house.

Bald boy gets back his palace and his wife and for the honor of this new start he makes celebrities for 40 nights and 40 days. TURKİSH FOLK TALE Alaattin Portakal -Ataturk Primary School Istanbul Turkey / 3 B Classroom

Illustrations made by>

Huștea Selena

Sava Eveline

Burcă Eduard

Buică Irina

Colegiul Național ”Elena Cuza”,Craiova,Romania

Teacher-Ghenea Simona

illustration: Monica Frigerio - Como Rebbio Primary School - Italy/ Class 3B

Çorum Atatürk Primary School

The Golden Bird

Umut ŞENCAN

In times gone by there was a king who had at the back of his castle a beautiful pleasure-garden, in which stood a tree that bore golden apples. As the apples ripened they were counted, but one morning one was missing. Then the king was angry, and he ordered that watch should be kept about the tree every night.

Now the king had three sons, and he sent the eldest to spend the whole night in the garden; so he watched till midnight, and then he could keep off sleep no longer, and in the morning another apple was missing. The second son had to watch the following night; but it fared no better, for when twelve o'clock had struck he went to sleep, and in the morning another apple was missing. Now came the turn of the third son to watch, and he was ready to do so; but the king had less trust in him, and believed he would acquit himself still worse than his brothers, but in the end he consented to let him try. So the young man lay down under the tree to watch, and resolved that sleep should not be master.

When it struck twelve something came rushing through the air, and he saw in the moonlight a bird flying towards him, whose feathers glittered like gold. The bird perched upon the tree, and had already pecked off an apple, when the young man let fly an arrow at it. The bird flew away, but the arrow had struck its plumage, and one of its golden feathers fell to the ground: the young man picked it up, and taking it next morning to the king, told him what had happened in the night. The king called his council together, and all declared that such a feather was worth more than the whole kingdom. "Since the feather is so valuable," said the king, "one is not enough for me; I must and will have the whole bird."

So the eldest son set off, and relying on his own cleverness he thought he should soon find the golden bird. When he had gone some distance he saw a fox sitting at the edge of a wood, and he pointed his gun at him. The fox cried out, "Do not shoot me, and I will give you good counsel. You are on your way to find the golden bird, and this evening you will come to a village, in which two taverns stand facing each other. One will be brightly lighted up, and there will be plenty of merriment going on inside; do not mind about that, but go into the other one, although it will look to you very uninviting.''

"How can a silly beast give one any rational advice?" thought the king's son and let fly at the fox, but missed him, and he stretched out his tail and ran quick into the wood. Then the young man went on his way, and towards evening he came to the village, and there stood the two taverns; in one singing and dancing was going on, the other looked quite dull and wretched.

I should be a fool," said he, "to go into that dismal place, while there is anything so good close by." So he went into the merry inn, and there lived in clover, quite forgetting the bird and his father, and all good counsel.

As time went on, and the eldest son never came home, the second son set out to seek the golden bird. He met with the fox, just as the eldest did, and received good advice from him without attending to it. And when he came to the two taverns, his brother was standing and calling to him at the window of one of them, out of which came sounds of merriment; so he could not resist, but went in and revelled to his heart's content.

And then, as time went on, the youngest son wished to go forth, and to try his luck, but his father would not consent.

"It would be useless," said he; "he is much less likely to find the bird than his brothers, and if any misfortune were to happen to him he would not know how to help himself; his wits are none of the best." But at last, as there was no peace to be had, he let him go.

By the side of the wood sat the fox, begged him to spare his life, and gave him good counsel. The young man was kind, and said, "Be easy, little fox, I will do you no harm."

"You shall not repent of it," answered the fox, "and that you may get there all the sooner, get up and sit on my tail." And no sooner had he done so than the fox began to run, and off they went over stock and stone, so that the wind whistled in their hair. When they reached the village the young man got down, and, following the fox's advice, went into the mean-looking tavern, without hesitating, and there he passed a quiet night.

The next morning, when he went out into the field, the fox, who was sitting there already, said, "I will tell you further what you have to do. Go straight on until you come to a castle, before which a great band of soldiers lie, but do not trouble yourself about them, for they will be all asleep and snoring; pass through them and forward into the castle, and go through all the rooms, until you come to one where there is a golden bird hanging in a wooden cage. Near at hand will stand empty a golden cage of state, but you must beware of taking the bird out of his ugly cage and putting him into the fine one; if you do so you will come to harm." After he had finished saying this the fox stretched out his tail again, and the king's son sat him down upon it; then away they went over stock and stone, so that the wind whistled through their hair.

And when the king's son reached the castle he found everything as the fox had said: and he at last entered the room where the golden bird was hanging in a wooden cage, while a golden one was standing by; the three golden apples too were in the room. Then, thinking it foolish to let the beautiful bird stay in that mean and ugly cage, he opened the door of it, took hold of it, and put it in the golden one. In the same moment the bird uttered a piercing cry. The soldiers awaked, rushed in, seized the king's son and put him in prison.

The next morning he was brought before a judge, and, as he confessed everything, condemned to death. But the king said he would spare his life on one condition, that he should bring him the golden horse whose paces were swifter than the wind, and that then he should also receive the golden bird as a reward.

So the king's son set off to find the golden horse, but he sighed, and was very sad, for how should it be accomplished? And then he saw his old friend the fox sitting by the roadside.

"Now, you see," said the fox, "ail this has happened, because you would not listen to me. But be of good courage, I will bring you through, and will tell you how you are to get the golden horse. You must go straight on until you come to a castle, where the horse stands in his stable; before the stable-door the grooms will be lying, but they will all be asleep and snoring; and you can go and quietly lead out the horse. But one thing you must mind - take care to put upon him the plain saddle of wood and leather, and not the golden one, which will hang close by; otherwise it will go badly with you."

Then the fox stretched out his tail, and the king's son seated himself upon it, and away they went over stock and stone until the wind whistled through their hair. And everything happened just as the fox had said, and he came to the stall where the golden horse was: and as he was about to put on him the plain saddle, he thought to himself, "Such a beautiful animal would be disgraced were I not to put on him the good saddle, which becomes him so well." However, no sooner did the horse feel the golden saddle touch him than he began to neigh. And the grooms all awoke, seized the king's son and threw him into prison. The next morning he was delivered up to justice and condemned to death, but the king promised him his life, and also to bestow upon him the golden horse, if he could convey thither the beautiful princess of the golden castle.

With a heavy heart the king's son set out, but by great good luck he soon met with the faithful fox. "I ought now to leave you to your own ill-luck," said the fox, "but I am sorry for you, and will once more help you in your need. Your way lies straight up to the golden castle: you will arrive there in the evening, and at night, when all is quiet, the beautiful princess goes to the bath. And as she is entering the bathing-house, go up to her and give her a kiss, then she will follow you, and you can lead her away; but do not suffer her first to go and take leave of her parents, or it will go ill with you." Then the fox stretched out his tail; the king's son seated himself upon it, and away they went over stock and stone, so that the wind whistled through their hair.

And no sooner had the princess reached her father's bedside than he, and all who were in the castle, waked up, and the young man was seized and thrown into prison. The next morning the king said to him, "Thy life is forfeit, but thou shalt find grace if thou canst level that mountain that lies before my windows, and over which I am not able to see: and if this is done within eight days thou shalt have my daughter for a reward." So the king's son set to work, and dug and shovelled away without ceasing, but when, on the seventh day, he saw how little he had accomplished, and that all his work was as nothing, be fell into great sadness, and gave up all hope.

But on the evening of the seventh day the fox appeared, and said, "You do not deserve that I should help you, but go now and lie down to sleep, and I will do the work for you." The next morning when he awoke, and looked out of the window, the mountain had disappeared. The young man hastened full of joy to the king, and told him that his behest was fulfilled, and, whether the king liked it or not, he had to keep to his word, and let his daughter go. So they both went away together, and it was not long before the faithful fox came up to them.

"Well, you have got the best first," said he; "but you must know the golden, horse belongs to the princess of the golden castle." - "But how shall I get it?" asked the young man. "I am going to tell you," answered the fox. "First, go to the king who sent you to the golden castle, and take to him the beautiful princess. There will then be very great rejoicing; he will willingly give you the golden horse, and they will lead him out to you; then mount him without delay, and stretch out your hand to each of them to take leave, and last of all to the princess, and when you have her by the hand swing her up on the horse behind you, and off you go! nobody will be able to overtake you, for that horse goes swifter than the wind."

And so it was all happily done, and the king's son carried off the beautiful princess on the golden horse. The fox did not stay behind, and he said to the young man, "Now, I will help you to get the golden bird. When you draw near the castle where the bird is, let the lady alight, and I will take her under my care; then you must ride the golden horse into the castle-yard, and there will be great rejoicing to see it, and they will bring out to you the golden bird; as soon as you have the cage in your hand, you must start off back to us, and then you shall carry the lady away." The plan was successfully carried out; and when the young man returned with the treasure, the fox said, "Now, what will you give me for my reward?" - "What would you like?" asked the young man. "When we are passing through the wood, I desire that you should slay me, and cut my head and feet off."

That were a strange sign of gratitude," said the king's son, "and I could not possibly do such a thing." Then said the fox, "If you will not do it, I must leave you; but before I go let me give you some good advice. Beware of two things: buy no gallows-meat, and sit at no brook-side." With that the fox ran off into the wood.

The young man thought to himself, "That is a wonderful animal, with most singular ideas. How should any one buy gallows-meat? and I am sure I have no particular fancy for sitting by a brook-side." So he rode on with the beautiful princess, and their way led them through the village where his two brothers had stayed. There they heard great outcry and noise, and when he asked what it was all about, they told him that two people were going to be hanged. And when he drew near he saw that it was his two brothers, who had done all sorts of evil tricks, and had wasted all their goods. He asked if there were no means of setting them free.

Oh yes! if you will buy them off," answered the people; "but why should you spend your money in redeeming such worthless men?" But he persisted in doing so; and when they were let go they all went on their journey together.

After a while they came to the wood where the fox had met them first, and there it seemed so cool and sheltered from the sun's burning rays that the two brothers said, "Let us rest here for a little by the brook, and eat and drink to refresh ourselves." The young man consented, quite forgetting the fox's warning, and he seated himself by the brook-side, suspecting no evil. But the two brothers thrust him backwards into the brook, seized the princess, the horse, and the bird, and went home to their father.

"Is not this the golden bird that we bring?" said they; "and we have also the golden horse, and the princess of the golden castle." Then there was great rejoicing in the royal castle, but the horse did not, feed, the bird did not chirp, and the princess sat still and wept.

The youngest brother, however, had not perished. The brook was, by good fortune, dry, and he fell on soft moss without receiving any hurt, but he could not get up again. But in his need the faithful fox was not lacking; he came up running, and reproached him for having forgotten his advice.

"But I cannot forsake you all the same," said he; "I will help you back again into daylight." So he told the young man to grasp his tail, and hold on to it fast, and so he drew him up again. "Still you are not quite out of all danger," said the fox; "your brothers, not being certain of your death, have surrounded the wood with sentinels, who are to put you to death if you let yourself be seen." A poor beggar-man was sitting by the path, and the young man changed clothes with him, and went clad in that wise into the king's courtyard. Nobody knew him, but the bird began to chirp, and the horse began to feed, and the beautiful princess ceased weeping.

"What does this mean?" said the king, astonished. The princess answered, "I cannot tell, except that I was sad, and now I am joyful; it is to me as if my rightful bridegroom had returned." Then she told him all that happened, although the two brothers had threatened to put her to death if she let out anything.

The king then ordered every person who was in the castle to be brought before him, and with the rest came the young man like a beggar in his wretched garments; but the princess knew him, and greeted him well, falling on his neck and kissing him. The wicked brothers were seized and put to death, and the youngest brother was married to the princess, and succeeded to the inheritance of his father.

But what became of the poor fox? Long afterwards the king's son was going through the wood, and the fox met him and said, "Now, you have everything that you can wish for, but my misfortunes never come to an end, and it lies in your power to free me from them." And once more he prayed the king's son earnestly to slay him, and cut off his head and feet. So, at last, he consented, and no sooner was it done than the fox was changed into a man, and was no other than the brother of the beautiful princess; and thus he was set free from a spell that had bound him for a long, long time. And now, indeed, there lacked nothing to their happiness as long as they lived.

The Bird Girl

A Serbian folk tale , collected by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Once upon a time lived an old king with his son in a castle. The king told his son: " Dear son, it is time for you to find yourself a wife.Go and search!"

The son was searching and searching for the right girl all around the world, but he had no success. He was so miserable, that he decided to jump from a cliff. But then, an old man appeared in front of him.

Illustrated by Anna

Bulgárföldi Általános Iskola, Hungary

"I can help you,dear boy! Do you see those mountains? There lives an old woman who always carries a little bird on her lap. Get behind her, grab her, and ask for that little bird!

The young prince took the old mans advice. He got behind that old woman, pulled her hair and asked her for the little bird.

The bird was so sweet , that the prince kissed it!

Illusztrated by László

Bulgárföldi Általános Iskola, Hungary

Then, the little bird became a beautiful girl. She was enchanted

by that old woman, but now she was free!

They immediately fell in love, and decided to go back to the old kings castle.The girl gave the prince a magic stick and told him:

"Whatever you want, this stick will help you"

First, on the way they were attacked by wolves. The prince took his magic stick, put it on the ground and a giant anthill appeared .The wolves got scared and ran away.

Illusztrated by Tamara

Bulgárföldi Általános Iskola, Hungary

When they came in front of a steep hill, full of large stones, the prince took out his magic stick again. The stones turned into golden coins.

When they came in front of a deep river , again a stick helped them: it separated the water and they could cross it.

On the other way their kingdom waited for them.

They got married and lived happier ever after!

Illustration:

Bulgárföldi Általános Iskola, 4.b

Hungary

Teacher: Judit Suszterné Fükő

Prezzemolina

Once upon a time there was a husband and wife who lived in a nice house that directly overlooked the Fairy garden. The woman was expecting a baby and she had a great desire for parsley. She looked out onto her balcony and noticed, in the vegetable garden of the Fairies, a very large quantity of parsley. She then took a ladder, went down into the magic garden and ate it, in large quantities.

The days passed and every day the young woman ate the parsley of the enchanted garden. The fairies realized that someone was taking it. So they decided to go hiding to find the culprit. When the woman went down to the garden, a hidden fairy came out and said to her: "I finally discovered you!". The woman apologized, because she was expecting a baby and could not appease that strong desire. The fairies forgave her but told her that she should have called her daughter Prezzemolino (if boy) or Prezzemolina (if a girl).Furthermore, as soon as the girl became older, she would go away with the fairies.

Not long after, a beautiful female was born, her name was Prezzemolina and she grew up calm and happy. The parents forgot about the pact with the fairy.

One day on her way home, she met the fairies who said to her: "Child, tell mum to remember what she promised to give us." Mum thoughtlessly said to her: "May they take that thing too, my darling!"

The next day the Fairies grabbed Prezzemolina and left.

They showed the girl a black, black room where they kept the coal and asked her to clean it so that it would come back white and perfectly painted with a lot of birds. "Otherwise we'll eat you!" a fairy said. The girl was desperate. Someone knocked on the door.

Memé, the Fairy cousin, entered and promised to clean and paint the room in exchange for a single kiss.

Prezzemolina replied: “I prefer to be eaten by the fairies rather than being kissed by a man.” Memé decided to help her anyway: he beat his magic wand and the room

became all white and perfectly painted.Then Memé left. When the fairies returned, they asked her: "Tell the truth Prezzemolina, was Memé here?" But she anwered “No”

The next day the fairies talked to each other and asked themselves: "How can we eat Prezzemolina?" They ordered her to go to the Fata Morgana to get the Bel Jester's box. On the way, Prezzemolina met Memé who told her that the fairy Morgana would eat her. So Memé gave her two pots full of lard, to anoint the doors that would let her pass, -two loaves: "You will find two dogs biting each other, throw the loaves at him and they will let you pass.“Finally take this broom and give it to the baker, give it to him and he will let you pass. Then hold this needles, give them to the cobbler you will meet and he will let you pass”.

Prezzemolina took everything and started giving them to all the people who let her pass.

Arriving at the castle of Morgana, she knocked and immediately took the box of the Bel Jester and ran away. The fairy Morgana ordered the baker, the cobbler, the dogs and the door to stop that little girl: but everyone refused! So, only Prezzemolina and Meme’ remained  masters of everything.Now you will be my bride," said Memé and Prezzemolina finally gave him a kiss. They returned to the palace of the Fata Morgana. The cobbler became duke, the baker a marquise, the dogs became their pets ; the door remained there, and it was occasionaly greased.

And they  lived happily ever after

Italian fairy story

Castel dell'Aquila Primary School Italy (1st and 5th class)

Illustrations:Fatma Kul-Turkey

50.Yıl Secondary School

A Merchant has got three daughters: Carolina, Assunta and Bellindia.

He lost everything.

A day he was in a wood and stole a rose, but a ugly wizard saw him. The wizard asked he merchant to take Bellindia to his palace. Everyday the wizard asked Bellindia to marry him, but she refused the request.

Bellindia

Both the sisters of Bellindia married and she could partecipate, but she must return to the palace of the wizard, who gave her a gemstone. When the stone became dark, it means the wizard was ill.

Bellindia saw the gemstone was dark and the wizard was dying, so Bellindia said she would have married him.

Suddenly the wizard became a beautiful prince.

They married and they lived happy forever.

IC OCTAVIA, ROME, ITALY

Monica Frigerio

Como Rebbio Primary School, Italy

Saint Anthony's Gifts

Antonio got up at dawn, with the intention of helping the men who had come to meet him at the cave that weekend.

In the world there was no fire and the men, numb by the cold, had turned to him and begged him to get at least one spark for each or even a single flame (if he really could not do better!), Because there would be so much thought about sharing it.

First Antonio woke up the inseparable pig with which he shared a life of solitude:

«Piglet, my friend ... get up quickly, don't stay here and laze!

It is already now, the sun rises. Let's get ready to go! »

The animal, who slept like a dormouse in the best sheltered corner of the cave, with a ronfo turned to the other side, so that Antonio was forced to shake it. "

Piglet, don't you hear me?

It's already twenty past five! "

he shouted louder. "With the help of the good God, we must run to Hell: we will find fire there to give to my brothers.

But do you think about the poor ones? They are cold, they are in the dark ... they eat raw: they do not turn on the stove! "

The word stove had an immediate effect. Piglet - who along with a formidable appetite also had a desire, to become a famous cook (already seen with a starched hat and apron!) - opened his little blue eyes, stood up on all fours and grunted:

"Oink, oink, if Hell is the only place where they use fire,

for you who are a saint and for me who is next to you, taking some of it will be a game!

Well, why don't we hurry up, dear Antonio?

With the help of the good God, we reach the house of the devil! "

Having said that, Piglet combed his forelock, as he always did when he went for a walk, Antonio took his stick and, together, the two walked towards Hell.

Walk, walk, walk (and with the help of the good God!) Antonio and the pig soon arrived at the gate of Hell, behind which stood a mustachioed devil who smelled sulfur (and what else they should stink) the devils?)

The door was closed, so Antonio knocked.

"Hey, at home!" he called. "It's freezing outside, will you let us in?"

We are two, we want to warm up! "

Peering through the peephole, the devil had recognized the saint. So he opened the door and answered:

"In Hell there is no place for Saint Anthony, the hermit!

How did you dare to step forward? Do you believe me dumbfounded? "

Then, eyeing the pig and thinking that he could hide it and then cook it to perfection to munch it in peace, he added:

"The pig, on the other hand, yes, I can get him in

give him a nice pass.

Come in, piglet,

go and put yourself under my bed! "

Piglet did not repeat the invitation. He winked at Saint Anthony and slipped into Hell through the half-open door. 

Once inside, not only did he not take refuge under the bed of the devil concierge, but he began to run around every room, up and down the stairs, even in the elevator that led to the lower floors. And wherever it created havoc, it destroyed everything. Especially in the kitchen, where among uncovered pans, broken dishes, overturned mugs, ladles and tridents thrown in the air, he showed that no devil would be able to easily catch him, let alone put him in the pot.

When there was not even a corner of Hell that the pig had not turned upside down, Barbarossa, the leader of the devils, ordered the devil concierge to call the saint back and let him enter (in spite of all the rules of Hell! ) ... that his pig came to take it back in person, because he was fed up with that slaughterhouse!

So Antonio also crossed the threshold of Hell and, after he had calmed the piggy with a simple touch of the stick, he pretended to want to take advantage, at least for a moment, of that beautiful infernal warmth.

'Before I go home, Piglet and I stop to warm up the bones.

You allow it, don't you, devil Barbarossa? " for he asked the chief devil.

With a shrug, Barbarossa agreed to the request and returned to his own affairs.

Then Antonio sat on a sack of ash placed at the entrance of a long passageway and, as a devil passed, pum! ... down a beating on the back of one, down on the dry pumpkin on the other. Not to mention the trips, which with the stick were particularly successful!

This went on for a while, until an angry devil (he was affected by all three treatments: beat on the rump, beat on the empty pumpkin and tripping) tore the stick of the saint's hands and threw it with the tip between flames of a bonfire.

With a shrug, Barbarossa agreed to the request and returned to his own affairs.

Then Antonio sat on a sack of ash placed at the entrance of a long passageway and, as a devil passed, pum! ... down a beating on the back of one, down on the dry pumpkin on the other. Not to mention the trips, which with the stick were particularly successful!

This went on for a while, until an angry devil (he was affected by all three treatments: beat on the rump, beat on the empty pumpkin and tripping) tore the stick of the saint's hands and threw it with the tip between flames of a bonfire.

That was enough, because the piglet, which until a moment before had remained crouched at the saint's feet, began to run here and there, messing up the stacked wood, suffocating the burning torches, sprouting the pitchforks.

"Oh, he's getting agitated again, I have to calm him down!" Antonio exclaimed, with the most seraphic air of this land. "But how can I stop him without a stick?"

Now out of his anger, Barbarossa recovered the stick from the flames and returned it to its rightful owner.

After that, not before Antonio had touched his pig with his stick again, he snarled furiously:

“Grrr, you've finally calmed him down

this naughty pig!

Ah, by the horns of Beelzebub,

I do not intend to host you a minute longer!

"Pustola, Zampastorta ..." he thundered in the direction of two little devils, whose appearance corresponded perfectly to their name, "accompany them

outside my house

and make sure they don't find the way again! "

To the great relief of all the devils (except perhaps the porter devil, who had remained dry-mouthed), Antonio and the pig stopped their stay in Hell thus ... not without having obtained what the saint wanted, however. In fact, unbeknownst to Barbarossa and his subordinates, Antonio managed to take a little fire away. Where is it? Inside the tip of his stick! In short, the stolen fire was the spark that was hung on the stick when one of the devils had attempted to set it on fire, which was now burning brightly though invisibly.

Thanks to that one spark, Saint Anthony fueled and spread fire on earth, a precious and indispensable gift for men.

Jack ,the fairy and the big plant

Once upon a time, a widow lives with her three children.This family is very poor, that's why the

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Once upon a time ,a widow lives with her three children. This family was very poor. they have only a hen. Seeing her children cry from hunger,she asked Jack, the youngest child to sell the hen in the market and with the mony he will have, he will buy something to eat.

While he go back home, he finds a beggar crying. He was cold and hungry. His clothes are torn. So Jack has pity on this man and gives him all the money that he had.

When he returns home, he tells his mother all the story.

She was happy but sad because she doesn't know what to eat her children.

The second day, he goes to the forest. suddenly, a fairy appears and asked him the cause of his sadness.When he tells her his story,she gives him a towel . When he opens it, he find gold coins.

Because it's too late ,he spend the night in a hotel and gives the towel as a price for that night to hotel owner.

The next day, he decides to return to the forest,perhaps,he meets that fairy again.He had what he wished.

This time,the fairy gives him some beans and asked him to grow them.

That night, all the family spend the night without eating.

The next morning, he finds his room shaded: a big tree goes up to the sky near his window.

So ,he decides to climb it.

Arrived at the top, he discovers a castle . In this castle, a giant sleeping next to a henin a cage.

So he releases the animal,descends quickly and cuts the trunk.

Every day, the hen lays a golden egg. The family becomes rich and lives happily.

Halima Jawadi/Tunisia

Students' Names

Melliti Yassmine - Jawadi Amal

Mejri Med Aziz - Jridi Yassine

The Lion and the Mouse

An Aesop fable

9th Primary School of Iraklio Attikis

A lion was asleep in the sun one day. A little mouse came out to play. The little mouse ran up the lion’s neck and slid down his back. The lion caught him with a great big smack! ‘I’m going to eat you!’ the lion roared, his mouth open wide. ‘No, no, please don’t!’ the little mouse cried. ‘Be kind to me and one day I’ll help you.’ ‘

I’m a lion! You’re a mouse! What can you do?’ The lion laughed, very hard, and the mouse ran away. But the mouse was out walking the very next day. He heard a big roar, and squeaked when he saw the king of the jungle tied to a tree. But the mouse had a plan to set him free. The mouse worked quickly and chewed through the rope. The lion said, ‘Oh little mouse, I had no hope. You were right, little mouse – thank you, I’m free. You’re the best friend there ever could be!

Illustration:



Castel dell' Aquila Primary School Italy

VAIVA AND THE STORY OF THE RAINBOW

Lithuanian fairy tale

There is a beautiful story from Lithuania about a fairy called Vaiva. Perkūnas the thunder god was in love with Vaiva but she was in love with a mortal man. A musician called Straublus. Perkūnas took Vaiva into the skies and forced her to live there with him. Vaiva had a colorful belt that she threw from the skies to earth to Straublus. 

This belt was the rainbow. During the rain, Straublys stretches the belt of Vaiva across the sky, while Perkūnas is angry and shouts in thunder. It was believed it is the rainbow that cause the rain.

1 b, Ariogala gymnasium, Lithuania

Illustration: 9th Primary School of Iraklio Attikis

LAURINO AND THE RED ROSES

Italian fairy tale

Once upon a time, Laurino, King of the elves, lived in his castle and he loved his roses very much. He had fenced them with a golden thread.

He fell in love with the princess Similda and captured her with his magical cloak. 

Theodoric, king of the Goths, left with his knights to look for the princess and went to the red mountain with red roses. Theodoric found Similda and captured king Laurino. 

Laurino, with a spell, turned roses into stones, by day and by night, but he forgot the sunset. 

That's why, sometimes, at sunset, mountain turned red.

Illustration:

1 b, Ariogala gymnasium, Lithuania

Teacher:

Saulė Tiškuvienė

Illustration:

Primary School 2 March 34 Rouhia Tunisia

Teacher: Hssan Touaibi

Students' Names

Ballali Ahmed- Dridi Yoser-Jawadi Fidea -

fairy garden story