The Storyteller

Tired of being ridiculed, a child who resemble a hedgehog leaves home to spend years living amongst animals in the forest. He comes to the rescue of a lost king and as a reward asks for the first thing the king sees, which happens to be his daughter.

A brave young man sets off into the world, accompanied by a tinker, hoping to learn what fear is. After facing many dangers without fear, he discovers the truth closer to home.

The Storyteller recounts his own adventure as a wandering beggar who, after swindling the royal cook for a meal, must tell one story each day for a year or face death by boiling. After 364 successful days, he finds himself without a new tale.

A cruel king, after hearing a prophecy about a Luck Child (the seventh son of a seventh son) one day becoming king, tries to have the boy killed.

A soldier making his way home after 20 years of war removes small devils from a tsar's palace. After becoming the soldier's benefactor, the tsar falls ill.

After a troll kidnaps a young orphan and vows to make her life miserable, a white lion hears her wish and comes to her rescue. She later falls in love with a gardener, who gets cast in a spell by the troll's daughter just before their wedding.