What giants are afraid of

Once a man found a ladybird crying upon a rose.

When he asked why the ladybird was crying, she replied,

"I have no spots upon my shell".

So the man dipped his paintbrush into a pot of black paint and painted six black spots upon the ladybirds shell.

In return the ladybird told the man the secret of what giants are afraid of, then it flew away.

Now, three days and a fortnight later, the man heard that a giant had carried off the kings daughter and was offering her hand in marriage in exchange for her safe return.

And so the man set out to the cave of the giant and when the giant saw him approaching the cave, he picked up his spiky club and came out to hammer him with it.

But then the man took out a little squeaking mouse from a bag and placed it upon the giants foot and, seeing the mouse, the giant was so frightened that it ran away like a coward.

Then the man, rescuing the princess, took her home to her palace and, soon after, they were married.

And the man even built the mouse a little mouse palace as a reward for scaring away the giant.

But the mouse got lonely living alone in his palace and asked the man if he could go and search for his family and bring them back to live with him and, when the man agreed, the mouse left the palace.

However, it was not long before word spread among the giants that the man knew their secret fear and so the king of the giants sent his son, Gogor, who was the tallest, strongest and bravest of all the giants to kill the man.

And the giant Gogor came one day and lifted the entire roof off of the royal palace and was about to eat the terrified people inside when suddenly the giant heard a sound like a hundred mice squeaking coming from far below and, looking down, he saw a hundred mice crawling across his right shoe.

The mouse who had left earlier had returned, you see and brought his whole family back with him

And while Grogor was brave enough to face one mouse, when he saw a hundred mice he just lost all his courage and ran away, telling his fellow giants, "Leave that man alone. He's got a whole army of mice protecting him".

Then, as a reward for saving the palace, the man built the mouse and his family a mouse sanctuary and then the mice, the man and the kings daughter all lived happily ever after.