A king sent two brothers to kill a wild boar. Whoever brought the wild boar back would receive the king's daughter in marriage. The youngest son who was innocent and kind hearted set out to kill the boar and with the help of a dwarf managed to do so. The older brother ended up at a party and was jealous that his brother killed the boar. He tricked his brother and murdered him claiming the prize for himself. He wed the daughter of the king and years later a shepherd found the bones of the murdered brother and they sang the story of what happened. The king found out and ordered the living brother to be drowned.
An old dog was soon to be killed by his master because he was of no use anymore. The dog's wolf friend made a plan to steal his masters baby and let Sultan save him and bring him back. This plan worked and the master was full of joy and decided to keep Sultan around and treat him royally. The wolf felt as if Sultan owed him a favor and went to take his master's sheep. Sultan had told his master about the wolf and the master was able to catch the wolf in the act, saving his sheep. The wolf was mad and wanted to fight with sultan but was frightened by Sultan's three legged cat friend and eventually they called a truce.
A stepmother hated her stepdaughter and stepson. She bewitched the children turning the boy into a fish and the girl into a lamb. The fish swam sadly in the pond and the lamb walked lonely in the meadow. Guest came to the castle one day and the stepmother sent the cook out to kill the lamb for dinner. After hearing the lamb talk to the fish, the cook knew the stepmother must have put a curse on the kids. He took them to a lady who had been the nurse of the little girl and knew it was her. She undid the curse and sent the children away to live happily.
Death got beat up by a giant and a youth came by and helped him back up. Death was grateful the boy helped him but could not negotiate with him. Death made the youth a promise that he would give the youth a warning before he came to take him away. The boy lived day by day, cheerfully. He began to be sick and his health declined. The youth knew Death would bring his messengers first so he was hoping to be healthy again before his time would come. Then one day Death came and told him he had one hour left. The youth did not realize that the sickness and bad health was Death's messengers.
Adam and Eve had several children and some were beautiful and some were ugly. Hearing that the Lord would be visiting their home, Eve hid the ugly children. The Lord came and blessed all of her pretty children and this made Eve think that he would share his blessing with her ugly children also. She brought the children out and the Lord blessed them also. Eve thought that the Lord did not share his blessings equally. The Lord explained to her that the world needs many different things to function and each child would play an equal part no matter what the position was.
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