A persistent dream prompts a Norfolk tradesman to walk all the way to London in the hope of bettering his lot.

The leader of a wolf-pack makes some sheep an offer they’d better refuse.

After being outwitted once too often, Zeus decides to spite Prometheus by ruining the race of men.

In the last of his twelve labours, the hero must snatch the three-headed guard dog of the Underworld.

A stranger warns the people of Shorapur that they will come to regret their hospitality.

Two of Heracles’s labours are declared void, so to make up the number he is sent to find the Garden of the Hesperides.