“There was once a woman who lived with her daughter in a beautiful cabbage-garden; and there came a rabbit and ate up all the cabbages.”

“Once on a time the cock and the hen went to the nut mountain, and they agreed beforehand that whichever of them should find a nut was to divide it with the other.”

“There lived in a certain village a poor old woman who had collected a mess of beans, and was going to cook them.”

“Near a great forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife and his two children; the boy’s name was Hansel and the girl’s Gretel.”

“There was once upon a time a King who had a daughter, and he caused a glass-mountain to be made, and said that whosoever could cross the other side of it without falling should have his daughter to wife.”

“In times past there lived a King and Queen, who said to each other every day of their lives, ‘Would that we had a child!'”