Vietnamese fairy tales

Once upon a time, in a small village a boy was born. The prophet talked that he would get married with a princess when he was sixteen years old. The prophecy fastly came to the king who was traveling incognito. The king who had bad heart didn't want his son-in-law's person having humble origin. He found the way to home of the child, put on in clothes of wealthy trader, brought some slaves with him. He pretended as a kind trader who had no child, and desired to have one. By sweet lies, the king convinced parent of the child. "You are poor." he said, "Give him to me. I will take of him." The couple refused till he gave them glittering golden bars. "It's his luck. His fate will be good." they thought so. Then, they gave their son to the king, thought that their son would grow up in wealth. The king put the child in a case, brought it, rode away. He stood on the edge and threw the case into a strong river. "So, my daughter did get rid

Once upon a time, in countryside lived an family. They were a happy family. Everyday, the father went to wood, the mother cooked and their daughter wove. That year, the sun burned their region hardly. Rivers and lakes were dried. Fields chapped. Their village turned wild because people people found the way to leave. The girl and her parent had to left there had mothing for them to eat. Hunger and thirst took the mother's health off. At last, she died. To have money to bury her mother, the girl sold herself to a trader. The trader had a plan he would brought her to city where the slave market was. He could get much money if he sold her there. The father didn't want to be apart from his daughter. He prayed to go with them. "Please! Bring me with you. I'm healthy and will be useful for you." The trader agreed. "Alright! You will take care of slaves and camels." said the trader. That's a long and hard journey. They had gone on many roads, come

In slums of a town a family lived. There had twelve children in the family and they were going to have the thirteen child. The father didn't know anymore people to become his child's godfather. Therefore, decided to invite a person he met on street to come and be his child's godfather. He went out in night and met the God first. God was wearing in nice clothes. On his head was a golden crown. Golden chains and rings were around his neck and fingers. The God knew the father's intention so before the father could say, the God said: "Poor of you. Poor of you son. I'll be pleased to become your son's godfather. I will look after him and also make him to be the happiest person on the world." "Who are you?" asked the father at one. "I'm God man.", the God answered him. "I don't want you to become my son's godfather God. You only care about wealthy people while the poor you ignore them." He left after refused

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." Sun was going to down. Drumbeats spread out in field. A drummer was going on the way to home. He strode passed a pond which was beside the way. "Oh! Beautiful!", he said, picking up a piece of cloth left on the shore. He put it in his pocket then left, kept beating and going. He came home and forgot the thing he had picked. Therefore, he went to bed and was going to sleep. "Drummer! Drummer! Wake up!" Some one was calling him in very light prety voice as like she was whispering. It's so dark he didn't see exactly what's it what he saw was something blurred white above his face. "What do you want?" he asked. "Please return my clothes." said the white shadow, "You took it on the shore." "Right!" he said, "I will give it to you but - Who are you?" "I am a princess, a bewwitched princess who's chained by an evil witch to live in Glass mountain. Today,

The next morning, Aladdin's mother managed to come the castle early but she didn't meet the king. People told her the castle opened each two days. Therefore, she came back told his son and advised him to be paitent. She had come to castle six time on the day the castle opened and always stood front of her king but he didn't pay attention to her. She might not get noticed though she came to there one hundred times because she was not people who came to sue. At the end of the sixth day, the king turned to the prime madarin and asked him. "Recently, I see a woman always appears in my trials. The woman bring a wrapper and stay in whole trials' time. Do you know what she comes for?" said the king. The prime mandarin didn't know more than the king. He said: "Oh my king, my dear king, women always bring little things to sue. Maybe, she come here to explain about a person who sold her bad wheat flour or somethingh like that." The answer didn't