Beauty and the Beast | Enchantment | France |
Beauty takes her fathers place as a Beast's prisoner, learns to love him, but betrays him unknowingly at the advice of her family. When she learns of her betrayal, she returns to him, almost to late and breaks his enchantment turning him into a prince. | ||
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Believe it or Not | ||
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Billy Goats Gruff | Anthropromophism | |
Three goats trick a troll into letting them pass his bridge. | ||
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Bluebeard | Wit and Wisdom | |
A bride opens a door her new husband forbid her to open, and discovered the bloody bodies of his former wives. When he finds out he is about to kill her when her brothers burst onto the scene and rescue her. | ||
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The Boy Who went Forth to Learn what Fear was | Wit and Wisdom | |
A simple boy goes forth into the world, and does a great many brave and foolish things. Eventually he wins great fortune and the daughter of a king. | ||
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The Bremen Town Musicians | Anthropromorphism | Grimm |
A group of animals on their way to become musicians in the town of Bremen, stop to defeat a band of robbers along the way. | ||
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Briar Rose | Enchantment | |
Cursed by an uninvited fairy at her Christianing, a princess named Briar Rose pricks her finger on a spindle and falls into an enchanted sleep for 100 years. | ||
Otherwise Known As: Sleeping Beauty; The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood | ||
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The Bronze Ring | ||
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The Brother and Sister | Enchantment | Grimm |
A brother and sister excape from their stepmother who is a witch, but the stepmother curses the brother turning him into a deer. The sister and her brother live peacefuly in the woods until the brother inadvertantly leads the king and his hunters to the sister's cottage, where the king falls in love with the sister and marries her. | ||
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The Bun | ||
An ungrateful bun refuses to be eaten and runs away from it's maker. | ||
Otherwise Known As: The Gingerbread Man | ||
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