Szekler folk tales - I'll tell you

The Liar (Szekler folk tale)

Once there was a farmer who had lived with his wife for forty years and still had no children. One day they were talking together among the others about how wonderful it was that they had no children. The man says: "Don't worry, wife, we may have children, at least one.

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The stone soup (Szekler folk tale)

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Once upon a time, there was a poor soldier returning from war. He went from one village to the next, ragged and hungry, but he was never offered a morsel of bread or a warm soup. He went to one house and asked at the other. In some places the dog was let loose on him, in others

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Ildikó T. Fiser: The secret of the schoolbag
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in the sky, winking merrily at me,
shine with a silvery light in the dark,
their soft putty-clacking in the night like a dream-bell
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The Norway Rat (Sándor Erdős)
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The Shoes of the Water Snake (Sándor Erdős)
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Janó the lobster (Sándor Erdős)
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Elemér, the botsáska (Sándor Erdős)
Elemér the bot was munching on a leaf, all day long just
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Grasshopper on the beach (Sándor Erdős)
Paul the grasshopper went to the beach,got bored of the colour.
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The poisonous snake (Sándor Erdős)
Deep in the jungle under cool trees the viper puffed: - Again
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T Fiser Idiko: The three good friends
The dry earth longed for water, it cried to the Cloud, Give me lukewarm rain..
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T Fiser Idiko:My cloud cushion
I'd like a cloud cushion if I shake it, Instead of feathers on the trees, There are glistening drops of water, They fall asleep on branches.
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Ildikó T. Fiser: The little gardeners and the red monster
It was a beautiful spring morning. The sun was shining brighter and brighter in the crystal clear sky, its rays slowly illuminating every corner of the garden.
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Oli, the elephant with a cold (Zsófia Cseh-Dálnoky)
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