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Parchment-style artwork of the Giant Serles throwing a rock at a fleeing tailor, Austrian folktale scene.

The Giant Serles: Am Austrian Folktale that Teaches Lessons on Pride and Recklessness

High in the Austrian Alps, where peaks rise like frozen waves and clouds drift low over pine-covered valleys, stands Mount Serles, a mountain said to hold the slumbering spirit of a giant. To this day, villagers in the Tyrol region speak in hushed tones of the Giant Serles, whose temper shaped both the land and the lives of those who

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1 An artwork of the golden-bearded man at the milk-white brook, Hungarian folktale scene

The Gold‑Bearded Man

Once upon a time, in the heart of Hungary’s wide and gently rolling plain, in the region of Nagykőrös, there lived a
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