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Parchment-style illustration of Dick Whittington with his cat overlooking London, English folktale scene.

Dick Whittington and His Cat

In the days when London was a city of narrow lanes and towering stone buildings, when merchants’ carts rattled over uneven cobbles and the River Thames carried ships from distant lands, there lived a poor boy named Dick Whittington. He was young, alone, and possessed of little more than hope. Orphaned early in life, Dick had grown up hearing tales

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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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