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An illustration of Tom Thumb dropping stones to mark a path in a dark forest.

The Tale of Tom Thumb

In the quiet countryside of France, where fields stretched wide but harvests were often uncertain, there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Their home was small, their meals meager, and their days filled with hard labor. They had seven sons. Feeding so many mouths was a struggle in the best of times, but these were not the best of

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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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