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What are the four major European folktales?

Pandora's Box, Damocles Sword, Mystery of the Sphinx, Little Shepherd.

According to the website, there are four major folk stories in Europe: Pandora's Box, the sword of Damocles, the mystery of the Sphinx and the shepherd who didn't grow up. Folk stories can be divided into five categories according to their contents: fantasy stories, animal stories, life stories, folk fables and folk jokes.

Folk stories are one of the important themes of folk literature. Broadly speaking, folk stories are oral literary works in the form of fictional prose created and disseminated by working people, which are the general name of all folk prose works, and some places also call them "nonsense", "old sayings" and "ancient classics".