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  Story source:  The Key of Gold  by Josef Baudis (1922). The Bear, the Eagle, and the Fish ONCE there was a count, and he had three daughters. All of them were young and as pretty as peacocks, but the youngest was the loveliest of them all. The count had little money to spend, for he had lost it all by gambling. And so — since he had to spend the time in some way or other — he used to go hunting. One day when he was out hunting, he lost his way in a forest, and he could not find his way out of it. Suddenly a big bear rushed out at him, shouting at the top of his voice. He said he would show him the way out of the forest and, besides, he would give him as much gold and silver as he wanted on one condition, and that condition was that the count should give him one of his daughters in marriage. Similar to previous story where a simple text is employed with very easy to follow plot lines. Keeping it simple will keep the folktale perspective intact and more in tune with ...

  Story source:  The Key of Gold  by Josef Baudis (1922). Sleepy John ONCE there was a lad named John, and he used to go to sleep always and everywhere. One day he came to an inn where some farmers were feeding their horses. So he crept into the cart, lay down on the straw, and went to sleep. When the farmers had driven some distance, they noticed John asleep in the cart. They thought: "What are we to do with him? We have a beer cask here. We'll put him in it and leave him in the forest." So they shut him in the cask and off they drove. Common 'one upon a time' set up for story. It is a folktale. If you want to do the same it would add its effect John went on sleeping in the cask for a long time. Suddenly he woke up and found himself in the cask, but he did not know how he had got into it, neither did he know where he was. There was something running to and fro near the cask, so he looked through the bunghole and saw a great number of wolves gathered under the roc...