The Seven Wishes
Olle Niklasson is a thirteen-year-old boy who is exceptionally ugly, lazy, and stupid. His hair resembles a dried juniper bush, his cheeks like swollen fly agaric mushrooms, and he is so lazy he barely moves when he falls. Even the magpies laugh at him. One day in the forest, Olle sees a viper staring down a frog that is slowly crawling toward the snake's open mouth. Too stupid and lazy to intervene with a stick, he nonetheless shouts at the frog for being foolish. This breaks the snake's spell, and the frog escapes. The frog is revealed to be a fairy queen who had been punished for mocking a