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An illustration of a giant turnip being pulled by family and animals in a Russian village garden.

The Giant Turnip

In a small, quiet village nestled among the rolling fields of central Russia, spring had finally loosened the frost that had gripped the earth through the long winter. Smoke curled lazily from the chimneys of thatched cottages, and the distant forests echoed with the songs of returning birds. It was the time for planting, when the soil, soft and fragrant,

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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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