In the puzzling tale of the Doomed Prince   we encounter a prince who never really grows to adulthood. His fate is foretold by the H...

In the Lithuanian fairy tale Godmother Death (full text below), neither man nor god reign supreme. Rather, both characters engage in a lif...

Godmother Death A man and a woman were living in abject poverty when God gave them a gift of a small child. They thought to themselv...