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In Ribatejo, a good-natured friar, to whom people refuse begged food, decides to overcome such selfishness through a ruse: 'With this stone, I am capable of making a rich soup,' he says to a pair of gullible peasants... From the series Traditional Portuguese Tales.
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The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

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