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Tiresias | 盲眼先知泰瑞西斯
Tiresias, the blind prophet of Thebes, gained his condition and supernatural gifts after accident...
The Happy Family | 幸福的家庭
A pair of elderly white snails, believing themselves to be the world's most distinguished creatur...
A Handful of Clay | 一撮黏土
A handful of common clay dreams of glory but endures a harsh journey of being shaped, fired, and ...
Echo and Narcissus | 回声与那西塞斯
The myth tells of Narcissus, a youth so enamored with his own reflection that he spurns the nymph...
The Little Match Girl | 卖火柴的小女孩
On a freezing New Year's Eve, a poor, barefoot girl tries to sell matches on the street. Too afra...
The Sirens | 海妖塞壬
Odysseus outwits the deadly Sirens by having himself tied to the mast while his crew plugs their ...
The Man and the Satyr | 人与萨堤尔
A man warms his hands and cools his food by blowing with his mouth, leading a Satyr to renounce t...
A Handful of Clay | 一捧泥土
A handful of common clay dreams of glory but endures a harsh process of shaping and firing, only ...
The Man and the Satyr | 人与萨堤尔
A man's contradictory actions of blowing on his hands to warm them and on his food to cool it lea...
The Crow and the Fox | 乌鸦与狐狸
A crow with cheese is flattered by a fox into singing, causing her to drop her prize. This fable ...
The Eagle, the Jackdaw and the Shepherd | 鹰、寒鸦与牧羊人
A jackdaw, seeing an eagle successfully carry off a lamb, attempts to do the same but ends up tra...
The Stag and the Lion | 牡鹿与狮子
A stag escapes hunting dogs only to be captured by a lion in its supposed refuge, illustrating th...
The Crow and the Hen | 乌鸦与母鸡
A crow, overconfident in its safety, chooses to stay in Moscow as the populace flees an invading ...
The Man Who Could Do No Wrong | 从不错的人
A peasant trades his horse for increasingly less valuable items, culminating in a bag of mashed a...
Three Heroes Battle Lv Bu | 三英战吕布
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the coalition against Dong Zhuo faced his champion Lv Bu at Hulao...
The Pardoner's Tale | 赦罪僧的故事
A group of wicked youths, seeking Death, find gold under an oak tree. Greed leads them to betray ...
Scraping the Bone to Cure Poison | 刮骨疗毒
During the siege of Fancheng, General Guan Yu endured a painful bone-scraping surgery without ane...
Dickens and His Cat | 狄更斯与他的猫
A story about Charles Dickens and his Persian cat, who cleverly interrupted his reading by puttin...
The Sword in the Stone (I) | 石中剑（上）
King Uther Pendragon, with Merlin's magic, wins Igraine but must give up their newborn son Arthur...
Paper Becomes Precious in Luoyang | 洛阳纸贵
The idiom 'Paper becomes precious in Luoyang' originates from the story of Jin Dynasty writer Zuo...