Resultados Editorial "Saga Egmont" en Cuentos y leyendas

A father had two sons. The younger, when asked by his father what he would like to learn to support himself, said he would like to learn to shudder. A sexton told the father that he could teach the boy. After teaching him to ring the church bell, he sent him one midnight to ring it and came after him, dressed as a ghost. The boy demanded an explanation. When the sexton did not answer, the boy, unafraid, pushed him down the stairs, breaking his leg.

Once upon a time, when the Queen gave birth to a baby princess, Angels came down and gave the infant blessings. However one evil Angel set a curse that would make the princess prick her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel and die. Another Angel set a magic on the princess that she would sleep, instead of dying, for a hundred years until a prince comes and awakes her from her sleep. At the age of 16, the princess gets her finger pricked by the sprindle, and falls asleep. After 100 years, a prince hears about a beautiful princess sleeping in the castle...

A queen gives birth to a baby daughter, a girl with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. She is named "Snow White". Sadly, the Good Queen, Snow White's mother, dies during childbirth. After a year has passed, Snow White's father, the King, takes a new and second wife, who is very beautiful, but a wicked and vain woman. The new queen, Snow White's evil stepmother, possesses a magic mirror, which she asks every morning, "Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" The mirror always replies: "My Queen, you are the fairest one of all."

The tale is set during King Arthur's reign. The witty Jack encounters terrible giants, each one more threatening and dangerous than the others. They devour cattle, emprison women, and maintain the country in a state of fear and confusion; but, armed only with his brain and a few magical objects he gathered, Jack will gain the advantage and slay the monsters.

Cendrillon est une jeune fille, douce et bonne, qui sert de domestique et de souffre-douleur à sa méchante belle-mère et aux filles de celle-ci. Aidée par sa marraine la fée, elle apparaîtra cependant, resplendissante et mystérieuse, au bal du Prince. Aussitôt séduit, il la retrouvera grâce à la "petite pantoufle de vair" qu'elle a laissée sur place en s'enfuyant trop vite, à minuit... Ce conte est interprété par Fabienne Prost, pour la plus grande joie des petits et des grands.

"La Belle au Bois dormant" est un conte populaire écrit par Charles Perrault. À l'occasion du baptême de leur fille, le roi et la reine organisent une fête somptueuse, invitant famille, amis et sept fées marraines bienveillantes de l'enfant. Chacune d'elles offre un don à la princesse : beauté, grâce, etc. Brusquement une vieille et méchante fée, qui n'a pas été invitée, se présente et lance à la princesse un charme mortel : à l'âge de ses quinze ou seize ans, la princesse se piquera le doigt sur le fuseau et en mourra.

"The Emperor's New Clothes" is one of the most famous tales by Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a situation where "no one believes, but everyone believes that everyone else believes". An emperor whose only interest in life is fashion meets two weavers. They claim to be able to make him a new suit with special fabric, invisible to those who are unfit for their positions. What follows is a tale of embarassment, and a valuable lesson about society as a whole.

Hansel and Gretel are young children whose father is a woodcutter. When a great famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's abusive second wife decides to take the children into the woods and abandon them there so that she and her husband will not starve to death, because the children eat too much. The woodcutter opposes the plan but finally and reluctantly submits to his wife's scheme. They are unaware that in the children's bedroom, Hansel and Gretel have overheard them.

A wealthy widowed merchant lives in a mansion with his three daughters. All are equal in beauty, but the youngest, Beauty, is kind and pure of heart; while the two elders, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain and secretly taunt and treat Beauty more like a servant than a sister. The merchant eventually loses all of his wealth in a tempest at sea.

Une petite fille, appelée Blanche-Neige car elle a la peau blanche comme la neige, s'enfuit de chez elle pour échapper aux mauvais traitements de la nouvelle femme de son père. Blanche-Neige trouve refuge dans une cabane, cachée au fin fond de la forêt. Cette maison est habitée par sept nains qui l'accueillent avec grand plaisir. Mais Blanche-Neige est toujours poursuivie par la très méchante femme de son père, qui veut à tout prix l'empoisonner. Un classique du genre à redécouvrir !

Once upon a time, there was a wealthy widower who married a proud and haughty woman as his second wife. She had two daughters, who were equally vain and selfish. By his first wife, he'd had a beautiful young daughter, a girl of unparalleled goodness and sweet temper. The stepmother and her daughters forced the first daughter into servitude, where she was made to work day and night doing menial chores.

A king had a beautiful wife and a rich castle, including a marvelous donkey whose droppings were gold. One day his wife died, after making him promise not to marry except to a woman whose beauty and attributes equaled hers. The king grieved, but was, in time, persuaded to seek another wife. It became clear that the only woman who would fit the promise was his own daughter.

Misère et famine règnent dans le pays. Un bûcheron et sa femme n'ont plus de quoi nourrir leurs sept garçons. Un soir, alors que les enfants dorment, les parents se résignent, la mort dans l'âme, à les perdre dans la forêt. Heureusement, le benjamin de la fratrie, surnommé "Petit Poucet" en raison de sa petite taille, espionne la conversation. Prévoyant, il se munit de petits cailloux blancs qu'il laissera tomber un à un derrière lui afin que lui et ses frères puissent retrouver leur chemin.

La Petite Sirène vit sous la mer auprès de son père, le roi de la mer, de sa grand-mère et de ses cinq sœurs. Lorsque la petite sirène atteint l'âge de quinze ans, elle est autorisée à nager jusqu'à la surface pour contempler le monde extérieur. Elle aperçoit un navire avec un beau prince de son âge. Une tempête se déclenche, le navire chavire et le prince tombe à l'eau. Elle le sauve en le ramenant, inconscient, au rivage. Mais une jeune femme surgit et la sirène s'éclipse.

Bluebeard is a wealthy aristocrat, feared and shunned because of his ugly, blue beard. He has been married several times, but no one knows what became of his wives. He is therefore avoided by the local girls. When Bluebeard visits one of his neighbours and asks to marry one of his two daughters, the girls are terrified, and each tries to pass him on to the other. Eventually he talks the younger daughter into visiting him, and after hosting a wonderful banquet, he persuades her to marry him.

Aladin est un jeune homme pauvre et sans ressources. Il devient l'élève d'un maître qui dispose de pouvoirs magiques. Au terme d'un long voyage, le maître lui demande d'aller chercher une lampe, en lui confiant pour cela un objet magique mineur. Mais Aladin préfère conserver la lampe pour lui-même : le maître l'abandonne alors dans les ténèbres de la grotte où gisait la lampe, et part. Mais la lampe est hantée par un grand génie... Aladin parvient à maîtriser les pouvoirs de la lampe et devient ainsi riche et puissant.

Snow White and Red Rose are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage. They are very good little girls, they love each other dearly, and their mother is very fond of them. Dark-haired Red Rose is outspoken and cheerful and loves to play outside. Fair-haired Snow White is quiet and shy and prefers doing housework and reading.

Un bonhomme de neige ne connaît rien du monde ; comment le pourrait-il ? Son fidèle ami le chien tente de partager sa sagesse. Mais voilà que le bonhomme tombe amoureux, et de la façon la plus désespérée : le poêle qui luit derrière la vitre, et duquel il ne pourra jamais se rapprocher... Entre-temps, arrive le dégel qui lentement le fond. Ce conte rare et mélancolique est l'un des chefs-d'œuvre d'Andersen, certainement sa pièce la plus personnelle et la plus touchante. Il est interprété par Fabienne Prost, dont la voix douce emporte l'imagination des petits et des grands.

A fairy gives an ugly prince named Ricky the gift of conferring wit upon the one he loves the best. Prince Ricky of the Tuft comes to a kingdom with two princesses. The elder one is beautiful but unintelligent and the younger one is intelligent but ugly. The elder princess is saddened that her ugly but smart sister receives more attention than her. One day as the elder princess was going for a walk in the forest to ease her sorrow, she is approached by Ricky who had fallen in love with her after seeing portraits of her that circulated. Ricky asks how a person so beautiful as she can be so sad, to which she responds that she is sad because she is beautiful but lacks intelligence. Ricky then bestows the gift of intelligence on the elder princess for a promise of marriage.

"Le Vaillant petit Tailleur", ou "Sept d'un coup", est un conte populaire allemand recueilli par les frères Grimm et dont les premières versions remontent au XVIe siècle. Le petit tailleur saura utiliser toute son astuce et son intelligence pour surmonter une série d'aventures fantastiques, dont il triomphe par ruse jusqu'à réussir à obtenir la moitié du royaume et la main de la princesse. Ce conte classique et plein d'aventures met à l'honneur l'intelligence et la surprise il saura faire rêver petits et grands grâce à l'interprétation de Fabienne Prost.