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A girl takes plums from a witch’s tree, and the witch takes her prisoner in return. Will the witch’s son help the girl, or stay loyal to his mother?

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If you’ve never read or heard of the Japanese ghost stories of Lafcadio Hearn, you are in for a real ghost story lover’s treat.

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Let's let go of the layered look and bring summer sunshine on the parts of our bodies we usually conceal in shame and body negativity.

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A lazy lad takes an easy position but is too lazy to even do that properly. While snooping in a room he was not supposed to enter, he finds a book of magic – and everything changes.

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Did you know that there is a type of large wooden hammer called a beetle? That may help this Cinderella-like story make a little more sense!