Tukang Jahit Yang Gagah

A tailor was working in his workshop when a woman selling jam passed by. He called her in but bought only a quarter pound of jam, much to her dismay. He spread the jam on a piece of bread and laid it near him, and went on stitching more gallantly than ever. All the while the smell of the jelly wafted through the air and attracted flies who flew to partake. The tailor shooed them off at first but the flies relented and return. Not being able to stand it any longer the tailor grabbed a ragged cloth and beat among the flies mercilessly. When he stopped he counted seven dead flies. Impressed with himself, he decided the whole town should know of his feat and hastened to cut out a belt upon which he proceeded to stitch in capital letters "SEVEN AT ONE BLOW!"

A while later he felt that his workshop and this town just wasn't big enough for his worship and so he decided that the world should know of what he'd done. So he fastened the belt around himself and collected old cheese from the cupboard. On his way out, he spotted a bird that'd gotten itself caught in a bush and pocketed it.

The road led over a mountain and when he reached the topmost peak he spied a terrible giant sitting there. The tailor bravely approached him and greeted him. He asked the giant whether he would like to accompany the tailor who was off to seek his fortunes. The giant answered contemptuously but the tailor undoing his coat revealed his special belt. The giant reading what was written upon it immediately assumed that it meant the tailor had slain seven men in one blow! To test whether the tailor spoke the truth, the giant picked up a stone and squeezed it so hard that water came out of it. He then challenged the tailor to do the same.

The tailor confidently drew from his pocket the old cheese he'd brought with him and squeezed it so that the whey ran out of it. The giant couldn't believe his eyes, but he tested the tailor further. The giant picked up a stone and threw it so high that it was nearly out of sight! The tailor confidently stepped forward and assured the giant that while the stone the giant threw fell back to earth, the stone that he would throw wouldn't. So he felt in his pocket, took out the bird, and threw it into the air. The bird, free once more, immediately took flight and didn't return. The giant was flabbergasted but hid it and challenged the little tailor further still. He led the tailor to a felled oak tree and told the tailor to help him carry it. The tailor agreed but on the condition that the giant carried the branch while he carried the foliage, the heavier part. So the giant carried the tree while the little man, who was behind the giant, climbed and sat on the branches. A little way further, the giant, under the heavy part of the tree, was tired out and told the little tailor that he had to let go. So the tailor quickly alighted the tree and pretended to carry the tree with both arms as the giant set it down. They went a little farther and presently came upon a cherry-tree. The giant took hold of the topmost branches and pulled them downwards and gave it to the tailor, bidding him to eat the ripest cherry fruits. But as the little tailor held the branch, the giant let go. The cherry tree sprang back, and the little tailor was caught into the air. When he dropped down again on the other side of the tree, the giant questioned how such a strong man could not hold a mere cherry tree down. The tailor answered that he had "jumped" over the tree because there were hunters shooting down in the bushes. He then challenged the giant to do the same. The giant attempted to vault the tree, but became caught in the branches and so, once more the tailor got the better of the giant.

The giant then offered the little tailor accomodations at his den, with his friends, and the tailor gladly accepted. That night as the tailor slept in a corner of an extremely roomy bed, the giant awoke and taking a great iron staff beat the bed through supposing he's made an end of that grasshopper of a tailor. The following morning the giants went into the wood and forgot all about the little tailor. But when they saw him coming after them alive and merry, they thought he was going to kill them and ran away in all haste.

So little tailor marched on, and when he had gone a great way he entered the courtyard belonging to a King's palace and lay down and fell asleep. In the meanwhile some of the villagers, came up to him and reading what was written on his belt, hurried to the king and told him that such a worthy and useful great lord (the tailor) would be very useful indeed should war break out and that he ought not to be allowed to depart at any price. The king then sent a messenger to ask the great lord would he consent to serve in the King's army. When the tailor awoke he told the messenger that that was precisely why he had come and so he was received very honorably and given separate dwelling too. But the other soldiers did not like him and so they went to the king to request for their discharge. The king felt sorry to lose all his faithful servants because of one stranger. But he did not dare dismiss the little tailor for fera he should kill all the King's people, and place himself upon the throne.

And so the king devised a plan to get rid of the little tailor for good. He summoned him to court and told him that there were two giants who dwelt in the wood who caused great damage. He told the tailor that should he successfully over come both the giants he would give him his only daughter in marriage and half his kingdom as dowry. He also sent a hundred horsemen along with the tailor for assistance. But the tailor told the king that for a man who could slay seven at one blow, there were no need for hundreds to slay just two.

But the horsemen followed him nonetheless and when they came to the border of the wood, the tailor told his escort to stay here while he went and dealt with the giants and sprang into the wood. He looked for the giants and soon caught sight of the two asleep under a tree. The tailor filled his pockets with stone and climbed the tree up to an overhanging bough - seating himself just over the slumbering giants. From here he let one stone after another fall on the chest of one of the giants. This went unnoticed by the giant for some time but at last he woke up and pushed his friend asking him why he was hitting him. The other giant replied that his friend was probably dreaming. They went back to sleep and the tailor let fall another stone, this time on the second giant. He aroused with a start and questioned his friend. And the first giant replied that he'd done no such thing. They went back to sleep and this time the tailor let fall a weightier stone upon the first giants chest causing him to spring up and strike his friend. The two giants began fighting among each other with such fury that at last they both lay dead upon the ground. The tailor got down from the tree, drew his sword and gave each giant a few hacks across the chest and went back to the horsemen.

The tailor then returned to the king to claim his promised boon but the king proposed another task to the tailor before he could claim his daughter and half his kingdom. The king told the tailor of a unicorn who did great damage in the wood. He wanted the tailor to secure him. And so the tailor, taking with him a rope and an axe, went out into the wood and told the horsemen to wait outside. He did not have to look far for the unicorn came charging at him. The tailor remained standing until the animal was quite near, then slipped behind a tree causing the unicorn to strike his horn so deep into the trunk that he became stuck. He put the rope around the unicorns neck, freed the horn from the tree and led the animal back to the King's court.

But the king did not yet wish to give the tailor his promised reward and so set him a third task. The tailor was to secure a wild boar which had done great damage in the wood. The tailor went into the wood and when the boar caught sight of the tailor he ran at him but the nimble hero rushed into a chapel and jumped quickly out of a window on the other side. The boar ran after him, and when he got inside the door shut after him, and there he was imprisoned, for the creature was too big to jump out of the window too. Then the little tailor called the huntsmen that they might see the prisoner with their own eyes; and then he betook himself to the king, who now, whether he liked it or not, was obliged to fulfil his promise, and give him his daughter and the half of his kingdom. So the wedding was celebrated with great splendour and little joy, and the tailor was made into a king.

One night the young queen heard her husband talking in his sleep. He revealed that he was a nothing more than a tailor. And so, she went to her father the next morning and begged him to set her free. The king told his daughter to leave her bedroom door open, he would get his guards to bind the tailor in his sleep and carry him off to a ship, and he shall be sent to the other side of the world. The king's water-bearer, hearing all, went to the little tailor and disclosed to him the whole plan. 
At night he lay down as usual in bed, the queen had left the door unlocked. The little tailor, who only pretended to be asleep, began to murmur plainly, “Now, boy, make me that waistcoat and patch me those breeches, or I will lay my yard measure about your shoulders! I have slain seven at one blow, killed two giants, caught a unicorn, and taken a wild boar, and shall I be afraid of those who are standing outside my room door?” And when the guards heard the tailor say this, they fled away and none of them would venture to attack him. And so the little tailor all his lifetime remained a king.