When a boy is rude to an old woman, she bewitches him, allowing seven years to pass as quick as thought for the lad, and transforming him into an ugly dwarf. Will he ever find a way to return him to his original appearance?

A king asks his three sons in turn to defeat a creature who persists in destroying the animals in the forest. Will any of them succeed?

A poor woodcutter and his wife are unable to feed their children and decide to abandon them deep in the forest. Little do they know how clever their youngest child will prove to be!

An old woman adopts a boy whose parents have died, but he is rude and lazy rather than industrious and helpful. Unable to get him to change his ways, she turns him into an ass. Will he finally become the good worker she hoped him to be?

Two quarrelling rulers with a shared border agree that anyone crossing from one country to the other should be subject to punishment. After one of these rulers imprisons his own wazir for a perceived slight, he rides off alone and accidentally crosses the border into the neighboring country, where he is taken into custody and sentenced to die. Will he or the wazir ever walk free again?