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'Lady White and Lady Yellow' is the story of two chrysanthemums, one of whom becomes the crest of the Daimyo.

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'The Pumpkin Giant' is an outstandingly silly tale of the origin of the pumpkin, and the perfect beginning to Halloween week!

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In today's poem from "The Topaz Story Book", Gabriel Setoun brings us a different side of Jack Frost than we're used to seeing.

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'Winter's Herald' is my absolute favorite story to tell at the beginning of autumn. A story of the warnings of the first frost and of neighborly compassion, it's the perfect October folktale.

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"It is a quaint and pretty tale | Six hundred summers old, | When in the green Tyrolean vale, | The peasant folk is told."

- 'The Sickle Moon', A Tyrolean Harvest Legend

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"Each year at harvest time she invited the poor peasants of the neighbourhood to come and glean in her field, and take home with them as much grain as they needed for winter use." - The Scarf of the …

“I am the least important of the four seasons and am scarcely lord in my own land,” he said. “I serve two jealous masters and have to please them both. But my power extends so far that I can give you…

The votes have been tallied and today we begin "The Topaz Story Book" with an Introduction, a poem and 'Nipon and the King of the Northland'!

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Today brings us the final story from Wilhelm Ruland's "Legends of the Rhine". 'Stavoren' is a tale filled with hubris and honestly it doesn't end well for anyone involved.

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The penultimate story in "Legends of the Rhine", 'Lohengrin', is a tale that should be very familiar to opera lovers as well as fans of tales of chivalry.

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This is the final week of "Legends of the Rhine" and it's ending with three amazing tales, beginning with the story of the hero 'Siegfried'.

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In today's conclusion of 'The Cathedral Builder of Cologne' we discover the result of the bet between Master Gerhard and the Devil.

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Yet another "deal with the Devil" in the Rhine valley, but this time Master Gerhard of Ryle has a secret on his side.

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'Jan and Griet' is certainly not a love story, but it is the tale of what "might have been".

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Ever wonder where the goblins you read about in folklore and fairytales have gone? Blame Mrs. Cotton from Cologne.

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'Richmodis of Aducht' is a non-ghost story all about true love, the plague with grave robbers sprinkled in for good measure.

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We're starting the week with a ghost story, an origin tale and a story of a pious pilgrim all wrapped into one with 'The Roman Ghosts'.

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A drunken noble being relieved of his trousers seems like the right kind of energy to end the week on, no?

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The saddest story that I've told in a long while, 'The High Cross at Godesberg' was no way to end the week. So I've combined this two part tale to give us a happier note on Friday.

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Have you ever been so upset with a bird that you wanted to banish it forever? St. Bernhard has.

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