He who Married a Dumb Wife
Frangois Rabelais (149-?-1553)Rabelais was born at Chinon in Touraine during the last years of the Fifteenth Century. He studied medicine at Montpellier and then went to Lyon, where he practised and began writing. It...
The Priest and the Mulberries part 2
“God!” said he, “if any one now should cry `Gee up!` ” He thought and spoke the words at the same moment, whereat the mare was sud¬denly frighted, and springing forward on the instant...
The Priest and the Mulberries part 1
The Priest and the MulberriesAnonymous: 12th or 13th CenturyPractically nothing is known of the author of this pleasant little Fabliau. Compared with the great majority of surviving stories of its kind, it is remarkably...
The Jewish Mother
Biblical LiteratureIt is not surprising that the stories scattered so profusely through the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Talmud, should be mostly moral tales. They were told in order to illustrate a theological or...
The Haunted House
Pliny The Younger (62—II3 A.D.)The Letters of Pliny the Younger (known in Latin as C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus) give a pleasant and varied picture of Roman life at a time when the satirists were...
The Book of Ruth
The Book of Ruth (From the Old Testament)Into the extremely complicated questions of authorship, origin and development of the Old Testament it is not necessary to enter. Ruth is one of the most beautifully...
King Rhampsinitus and the Thief
Herodotus (484—424 B.C.)
Herodotus, the Father of History, is celebrated as a teller of tales. These he introduced into his History partly for purposes of elucidation and example, but partly also because he enjoyed writing...
Little Briarrose part 3
After long, long years, there came again a kings` son to that country, and heard how an old man told about the briar hedge; that there was a castle behind it, in which a...
Little Briarrose part 2
The king, who wanted to save his dear child from harm, sent out an order that all the spindles in the kingdom should be burned. But in the girl the gifts of the wise...
Little Briarrose part 1
Jakob Grimm (1775 – 1863) Wilhelm Grimm (1776 – 1859)The Brothers Grimm, as they are still affectionately called, were both scholars of high repute, and both professors at the University of Berlin.Though they contributed...
