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Review of story 13 - "Cat and Mouse in Partnership"

A cat and a mouse decide to live together as friends and store a huge pot of animal fat in the church for the winter. The cat gets cravings for it though, and goes to eat some in 3 separate instances, under the pretext that a cousin gave birth and she needs to be there. Eventually she eats it all, telling the mouse that her nephews' names are stuff like "Top Off",

Review of story 12 - "The Frog Prince"

A princess loses her golden ball (lol) in a spring, and a frog gets it back for her for the promise of letting him eat off of her plate and sleep in her bed. She runs away after getting the ball back, but the frog finds her castle and joins her for breakfast the second day. After sleeping in her bed for 3 nights, the frog transforms back into a very handsome prince.

Review of story 11 - The willow-wren and the bear

A bear insults the beautifully singing willow-wren's ugly nest and children, which results in a massive-scale war between the land animals and flying animals of the woods. Using cunning and their insect friends, the wren figure out how to defeat the land animals: they tell the bee to sting the fox (second in command)'s tail so that it drops it (their retreat signal)

Review of story 9 - The Twelve Dancing Princesses

12 princesses secretly go into a fantasy realm at night by a secret trapdoor in their room and dance with 12 princes. The king doesn't know why their shoes are always worn out in the morning, so he puts a flyer up for people to investigate, killing the ones who don't manage to find out where the princesses are going. (continued in comments)

Review of story 8 - The Dog and The Sparrow

Carter runs over a sparrow's malnourished dog friend so the sparrow makes it her life purpose to kill the carter. First she tricks him into killing his horses, smashing his own windows, and spills all his wine and gets her bird friends to eat all his corn, then she tricks his wife into killing him. What a brutal bird.

Review of story 7 - Briar Rose

Sleeping Beauty, except her name was Briar Rose due to the hedge that grew around the palace. Story has some interesting spiritual implications with the magic numbers (13 fairies, 13 astrological signs?...)and 100 year curse.

Review of story 6 - The straw, the coal and the bean

A straw, a coal and a bean luckily escape an old woman's attempt to cook a pot of beans. They decide to leave for a foreign country, and upon reaching a stream, the straw and the coal, after a failed attempt to use the straw as a bridge, fall and die. The bean laughs itself to death, but is found by a tailor who sews it back together with black thread.

Review of story 5 - "Old Sultan"

Okay this was super trippy and funny. A shepherd's old dog (Sultan) is saved from being put down by his friend, the wolf. The wolf then asks Sultan to not tell his master when he's gonna come hunt one of the sheep, but Sultan is faithful and tells him. As revenge, the wolf wants to fight Sultan with his friend, the boar. Sultan only has (continued in comments).

Review of story 4 - The Travelling musicians

The story we all know about 4 animals who escape slaughter, decide to go to the city to become musicians, and end up living in a house that they scare robbers out of by climbing on top of one another and "singing" :)

Review of story 3 - Jorinda and Jorindel

A shape-shifting old fairy kidnaps Jorindel's betrothed, Jorinda, and turns her into a bird, hiding her away in her castle along with other "birds" she's kidnapped.
Jorindel suffers for a while until he dreams of a purple flower that will help him save his love, and eventually finds it. He then goes to the castle and undoes all of the fairy magic, saving all the women.