1.[STAN BOLOVAN][1]
2.[THE WONDERFUL BIRD][16]
3.[THE TWINS WITH THE GOLDEN STAR][30]
4.[YOUTH WITHOUT AGE AND LIFE WITHOUT DEATH][42]
5.[THE LITTLE PURSE WITH TWO HALF-PENNIES][56]
6.[MOGARZEA AND HIS SON][62]
7.[CUNNING ILEANE][70]
8.[THE PRINCESS AND THE FISHERMAN][84]
9.[LITTLE WILD-ROSE][91]
10.[THE VOICE OF DEATH][105]
11.[THE OLD WOMAN AND THE OLD MAN][110]
12.[THE PEA EMPEROR][113]
13.[THE MORNING STAR AND THE EVENING STAR][121]
14.[THE TWO STEP-SISTERS][130]
15.[THE POOR BOY][139]
16.[MOTHER'S DARLING JACK][164]
17.[TELLERCHEN][179]
18.[THE FAIRY AURORA][191]

Stan Bolovan.

nce upon a time, something happened. If it hadn't happened, it wouldn't be told.

At the edge of the village, where the peasants' oxen break through the hedges and the neighbors' hogs wallow in the ground under the fences, there once stood a house. In this house lived a man, and the man had a wife; but the wife grieved all day long.

"What troubles you, dear wife, that you sit there drooping like a frost-bitten bud in the sunlight?" her husband asked one day. "You have all you need. So be cheerful, like other folks."

"Let me alone, and ask no more questions!" replied the wife, and became still more melancholy than before.