2. TRADITIONAL SPANISH TALES
Most of the traditional tales that
Spanish flocklore has are similar to
some European countries. We are
going to show you a selection of them.
4. LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
• This tale is about a girl who walks through
the woods to deliver food to her sick
grandmother. And she finds a wolf in the
forest. The wolf tries to eat little red riding
hood and her grandmother, but finally he
fails and run away.
6. GOLDILOCKS
• Goldilocks goes far from home and arrives
upon the house of the three bears. First
sitting in all of their chairs and tasting all of
their porridge, then lying in all of their beds
she finds the little baby bears the most
suitable for her in all three cases.
8. THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
• Three little pigs leave home to seek their fortunes.
Two pigs build their houses of flimsy materials. The
wolf blows down their houses and eats them up. The
third pig builds his house out of brick, which the wolf
cannot blow down. The wolf then asks the pig to get
turnips, pick apples, and go to the fair. Each time the
pig goes an hour earlier, tricking the wolf. At the fair,
the pig sees the wolf. The pig escapes by rolling home
in a butter churn. The wolf comes to the pig's house,
climbs onto the roof, and jumps into a pot of boiling
water.
10. CINDERELLA
• Cinderella's father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two
daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies,
Cinderella's wicked stepmother turns her into a servant in her
own house. Meanwhile, across town in the castle, the King
determines that his son the Prince should find a suitable bride and
provide him with a required number of grandchildren. So the King
invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball,
where his son will be able to choose his bride. Cinderella has no
suitable party dress for a ball, but her friends the mice, lead by
Jaques and Gus, and the birds lend a hand in making her one, a
dress the evil stepsisters immediately tear apart on the evening of
the ball. At this point, enter the Fairy Godmother, the pumpkin
carriage, the royal ball, the stroke of midnight, the glass slipper,
and the rest, as they say, is fairy tale history.
12. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
• Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil witch
Maleficent - who declares that before Aurora
reaches her 16th birthday she will die by a
poisoned spinning-wheel. To try to prevent
this, the king places her into hiding, in the
care of three goodnatured - but not too
bright - fairies.