A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of animals until he meets a clever fox.

A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.

When Anansi the spider invites Turtle to a party just to play a trick on him, Turtle gets revenge at a party of his own.

When his sins threaten the lives of his beloved twin children, a Jewish man finally repents of his wicked ways.

During the Mexican Revolution, when a troop of hungry soldiers comes to a town where all the food has been hidden, they charm the townspeople into helping make a soup from water and a cactus thorn.

In this Southwestern version of Rumplestiltskin, Rosalinda is in debt to the strange little snake man Rattlestiltskin after he teaches her how to make tortillas so light they float in the air, but can she outsmart the trickster and keep her freedom?

Billy Lazroe, a sailor from Oregon, jumps into the ocean at the command of Davy Jones and falls in love with one of Davy's daughters.

Thinking his work in the fields is harder than his wife's work in the house, Mr. McTeague trades places with her for one day.

Don Aurelio falls in love with a witch who has a beautiful face but fails to heed her special instructions.

A retelling of a Russian fairy tale in which an archer assigned many dangerous quests by the greedy, cruel czar wins a crown and the woman of his dreams.