The Bride from the Red Lake - This is a story of a man who fell in love with a nymph in a lake. He begged the nymph's father to let the nymph be his wife. Her father agreed as long as the man never struck her with clay. They lived happily until one day, as they planted a tree, he tossed some of the dirt on his shovel over his shoulder for luck and some of it accidentally hit her.
The Devil's Bridge - The woman was grieving because her only cow was trapped on the other side of a flooded river. A man dressed like a monk heard her cries and agreed to build a bridge but at the cost of the first living thing to cross the bridge. Not wanting to lose her cow, or herself, to him she came up with a plan to get her dog to cross the bridge first. Thus tricking the man.
The Martyred Hound - This story a prince was set out to go hunting and called for his dogs. One of them did not come. When the prince returned from his hunt, his dog greeted him, but the prince saw that the dog's face was covered in blood. Going inside, he found his child's cradle had been overturned and the child did not answer when called. The prince immediately thought the worst and killed the dog. Then the prince heard his child from under the overturned cradle and saw the dead wolf. The dog had killed the wolf and saved the child, but it was too late, the dog was now dead. This reminded me greatly of Lady and the Tramp where Tramp kills a rat in the baby's room and is sent off to the pound because it is thought that he was attacking the baby.
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