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  • How the Beggars Came to Town | Moral Stories

    How the Beggars Came to Town | Moral Stories
    2025/04/18
    Concerned by beggars in his kingdom, the compassionate but naive Prince Lilimond believes his father's taxes are causing starvation. Granted his birthday wish to be King for a day, Lilimond plans to give gold from the treasury to all beggars. However, he is overwhelmed by crowds, including many wealthy impostors seeking handouts. Learning to discern genuine need from greed, he successfully aids the truly poor with far less gold than expected, realizing the complexities of charity and governance and gaining respect for his father's advisors, ultimately understanding that while compassion is vital, careful judgment is needed to help effectively.
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    20 分
  • A Christmas Dream and How it Came True | Moral Stories

    A Christmas Dream and How it Came True | Moral Stories
    2025/04/18
    "The Little Traveler" follows a young boy who bravely embarks on a long journey, leaving his loving mother but assured of her thoughts. He encounters a series of obstacles – streams, a river, a dark river, and the sea – but consistently finds help and a way forward, whether through a swan, the wind, a carpenter, a small boat, or a ship, often hearing the encouraging refrain, "There is always a way." After overcoming each challenge, the boy sends a message of love back to his mother, demonstrating their enduring connection despite the distance. Ultimately, after reaching a faraway land and longing for home during a storm, a magical rainbow bridge appears, leading him back to his mother's arms, highlighting themes of courage, perseverance, resourcefulness, and the comforting strength of the parent-child bond even during separation and challenges.
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    36 分
  • How the Monkey and the Goat Earned Their Reputations | Folk Tales

    How the Monkey and the Goat Earned Their Reputations | Folk Tales
    2025/04/18
    This fable contrasts two journeys where a deceitful tiger invites first a naive goat and then a clever monkey to visit a friend. The goat foolishly trusts the tiger, facing danger in a marsh, going hungry while the tiger eats ripe bananas, and ultimately getting framed and beaten for the tiger's theft of a lamb, explaining how easily fooled people became known as "the goat." In contrast, the shrewd monkey refuses the tiger's dangerous instructions, eats the good bananas himself, stays alert, and cleverly ensures the tiger is caught covered in blood after killing the lamb, thus avoiding blame and outsmarting the bully.
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    9 分
  • Uncle Wiggily and the Crab | Animal Stories

    Uncle Wiggily and the Crab | Animal Stories
    2025/04/17
    While searching for his fortune by the sea, Uncle Wiggily the rabbit faces disappointment when a potential diamond is revealed to be glass by an eel, and later gets his paw trapped under a stone—a trick set by a cunning wolf. Just as the wolf prepares to torment him, a clever horseshoe crab, disguised as a nearby stone, whispers a plan. Uncle Wiggily baits the proud wolf into jumping onto the disguised crab, who then uses its sharp tail to prick the wolf, causing him to flee in discomfort. The horseshoe crab then frees the grateful rabbit, showing how quick thinking and unexpected help can overcome adversity and trickery.
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    8 分
  • My Lord Bag of Rice | Japan Tales

    My Lord Bag of Rice | Japan Tales
    2025/04/17
    This Japanese folktale tells of Fujiwara Hidesato, a brave warrior who confronts a giant dragon blocking a bridge, only to learn it is the Dragon King. The King asks Hidesato to defeat a monstrous centipede that is plaguing his underwater kingdom. Hidesato agrees and, after his first two arrows fail, cleverly uses his last arrow coated with saliva to kill the giant creature. As a reward for his bravery and ingenuity, the grateful Dragon King gifts Hidesato magical items, including a bag of rice that never empties, an endless roll of silk, and a pan that cooks anything, ensuring Hidesato's prosperity and earning him the nickname "My Lord Bag of Rice."
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    6 分
  • The Old Oak Tree’s Last Dream | Christmas Stories

    The Old Oak Tree’s Last Dream | Christmas Stories
    2025/04/17
    This story follows a wise, 365-year-old Oak tree contemplating its long life compared to the fleeting, joyful existence of a Day-fly, offering perspectives on time and happiness. As winter arrives, the tree enters its sleep and, on Christmas Eve, experiences a magnificent dream of ascending towards heaven, bringing all the creatures and plants of its forest home along in a vision of perfect unity and eternal joy. While the tree dreams this peaceful release, a fierce storm fells it in reality; however, its passing is framed as a beautiful, transcendent final journey coinciding with its dream, gently exploring themes of life cycles, community, memory, and finding peace in mortality, underscored by the hopeful message of Christmas.
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    16 分
  • Henny-penny | Moral Stories

    Henny-penny | Moral Stories
    2025/04/17
    In "Henny-penny," a chicken mistakenly believes the sky is falling after being hit by corn and embarks on a panicked journey to inform the king. Along the way, she accumulates a following of other birds (Cocky-locky, Ducky-daddles, Goosey-poosey, Turkey-lurkey) who join her without question. Their naive group is then intercepted by the cunning Foxy-woxy, who tricks them into taking a supposed shortcut, leading them instead into his den where he eats them one by one, until only Henny-penny escapes due to a last-minute warning. This folktale serves as a cautionary lesson about the dangers of hysteria, blindly following others, and the importance of critical thinking when faced with alarming information or trusting strangers.
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    5 分
  • Pippo | Fairy Tales

    Pippo | Fairy Tales
    2025/04/17
    This story follows Gagliuso, a poor man's youngest son who inherits only a cat, while his brother receives a useful sieve. Initially despairing, Gagliuso benefits from the cat's extraordinary cunning as it steals gifts for the king, pretending they are from Gagliuso, and orchestrates elaborate deceptions to portray him as immensely wealthy. These tricks lead the king to offer his daughter's hand in marriage along with a significant dowry, making Gagliuso rich. However, the tale serves as a cautionary lesson: Gagliuso quickly forgets the cat's instrumental role in his success, revealing his ungrateful nature, which prompts the disappointed cat to abandon him, leaving him to fend for himself and highlighting the importance of gratitude and the pitfalls of relying solely on others' efforts.
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    5 分