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Long ago, there lived a man known as the Great Montezuma.Great Mystery Power had made the people and things that inhabited this world, and Montezuma was granted the power to look after this creation. Montezuma was glad to lead.First, he divided the people into nations and taught them how to build homes, how to hunt, how to reap harvests, and how to make their own clothing. For a long time, he was a good leader. Montezuma's friend Coyote felt proud of him.Coyote's descendants and the descendants of Montezuma became good friends and allies.Coyote soon noticed, however, that Montezuma's power was making him too proud. He began to think that he was the most powerful being in the world, that he needed no one's help and no one's guidance, and he forgot about the many gifts he had received from t ...

All the other creatures liked to visit Mister Wolf who lived down in the swamp, but then the summer grew hotter and the mosquitoes began to get bad in the swamp. So one night, Mister Fox came to visit Mister Wolf's house, and he began to worry because those mosquitoes were as large as life and twice as ferocious, and they were chasing him all over the place. Pretty soon, Mister Fox was chasing those mosquitoes and swatting them. But when Mister Wolf caught him doing that, he said, "No one can swat my mosquitoes." And he sent Mister Fox away. Then Mister Mole came by, but he began to swat at the mosquitoes, too, and Mister Wolf showed him the door. Then came Mister Mink. He, too, swat at the mosquitoes and was immediately sent away. All the other animals tried to visit, too, but every one o ...

King Lir of Ireland had four lovely children who had soft skin, sweet voices, and gentle temperaments. Their stepmother, a Druid with magical powers was jealous of the love their father had for them. She decided she would cast a spell upon them. She struck them with a fairy wand and turned them into snow-white swans."You will remain as swans for nine hundred years," cried their stepmother. "Until St. Patrick comes to Ireland and brings the Christian faith, you will not be free." The stepmother looked at the swans. She felt stricken with sadness at the spell she had cast, but alas, she had no power to undo it. When King Lir learned of what had happened, he went to his wife's father, King Bove, and told him what his daughter had done. King Bove was furious. At once he struck her with his fai ...

Once upon a time a farmer named Jules nursed an injured robin back to health. He was a kind and generous man. But Jules' heart also was aching because he loved a girl named Brigitte. But Brigitte didn't care about Jules. One day, he heard a tiny voice call, "Don't despair, Jules." Jules peered down among the reeds, and there he saw a green frog. The green frog was actually a Brownie. "I owe you a favor," the brownie said. "The korigans who dwell in this country declared war on all the brownies, so we brownies are always hiding. We usually take on animal shapes." "But why do you owe me a favor?" asked Jules. He was very confused, for he knew nothing of the war between the korigans and brownies, and in fact he had never known that brownies lived on this land. "I am the robin you saved," the ...

Three children were gathering raspberries for their mother, who had promised she would make them raspberry treats. By late afternoon Lars' basket was the heaviest of all, and Liv's was full, too. Even little Aina had nearly filled her small basket. So the children hurried home and set their berries upon the kitchen table. Suddenly their mother screamed. "A worm!" she cried. Lars rushed forward. "Squash it!" he cried, but Aina swooped up the worm and ran out the door. Liv ran after her, calling, "Run, Aina, run. Save the poor worm!"They ran until they no longer heard their brother's panting breath. They stopped, and Aina let the worm go. The girls then turned to walk home, but they heard a rustling sound among the raspberry canes. They turned just in time to see a grizzled old man with a lo ...