The "Town Musicians of Bremen" (German: Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten) is a popular German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1819.  It tells the story of four aging domestic animals, who after a lifetime of hard work are neglected and mistreated by their former masters. Eventually, they decide to run away and become town musicians in the city of Bremen. 

Amazon has it as an ebook - https://www.amazon.com/Bremen-Town-Musicians-Brothers-Grimm-ebook/dp/B00B7NHZ20 and The Book Depository has a physical copy if that is more your thing - https://www.bookdepository.com/Bremen-Town-Musicians-Brothers-Grimm/9780735843844

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The White Cat (French: La Chatte Blanche) is a French literary fairytale written by Madame d'Aulnoy and published in 1698. The "Animal Bride" story type was made popular by Mme. d'Aulnoy's literary opus and pointed that the tale type maintained a clear and vigorous tradition in the folklore of all of Europe", with more than 300 versions collected.

The tale of The White Cat was a product of the salon culture of the late 17th and early 18th century France, a period of prolific literary production by female writers.

Amazon has a great ebook that contains The White Cat story here - https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Stories-Classic-European-Childrens-ebook/dp/B00AQJ07QM/

The Book Depository has a collection of all of Madame d'Aulnoy's tales in physical form here - https://www.bookdepository.com/Fairy-Tales-Madame-DAulnoy-Countess-DAulnoy/9781410208316

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"How Six Made Their Way in the World" is a Grimms' fairy tale about an ex-soldier and his five companions with special abilities who through their feats obtain all of the king's wealth. The Grimms' main version is the one of many collected from storyteller Dorothea Viehmann, localized in Zwehren a version close to it known in Paderborn is also discussed in their notes.

"How Six Men got on in the World" (Hunt, 1884), "How Six Travelled through the World" (Wehnert, 1853) are among other English-translated titles given for this tale. A lesser known translation was given as Fritz and his Friends.

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