Long ago in Greece there lived a beautiful little girl named Doricha. When she was only a child, pirates kidnapped her and sold her into slavery. Doricha's master sailed with her to a great seaport ...

Some folk and fairy tales are like narrative snowballs. At the core there’s a fragment of fancy or a long-ago real event that has picked up so many accretions through the rolling years that, by the ...

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