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Vocabulary: Tell the future

The Curse of the Pig

Nov 12, 2024

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Genre: Children’s

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Bone, Catch wind, Curse, Dragon, Forbid, Iron, Ladder, Mud, Pass by in a blur, Pork, String, Tell the future, Tie around, Transform, Wear out

Word Count: 4280

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

A princess finds a book that tells her future. When she grows up, she will have to marry a pig. The girl doesn’t want to believe it, but one day a pig comes knocking on her door. But things are not as they seem. This is a curse, and there has to be a way to break it…
Big Peter and Little Peter

Sep 7, 2021

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Genre: Philosophical

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Basket, Chop off, Heaven, Let someone out, Priest, Scared, Shove, Stupid, Tell the future, Woollen

Word Count: 2016

Original Author: Norwegian Myths

As Little Peter rode his horse, he held the basket so that the priest could not get out. ‘Help! Help!’ shouted the priest. ‘Shh!’ said Little Peter. ‘Do you hear that?’ They were by a river, and the priest listened to the water. ‘Most baskets do not talk, so if you can talk, you must be a magic basket. And I don’t like magic. I think I’ll throw you in the river!’