A series of five stories: "Miserly Barka" revolves around the efforts of various persons to dispose of the body of a miserly old woman; "When the Oak Leaves Fall" tells of how a drunken peasant makes a deal with the devil, whom that man subsequently outwits; "Fearless Franta" relates how the father

A series of five stories: "Miserly Barka" revolves around the efforts of various persons to dispose of the body of a miserly old woman; "When the Oak Leaves Fall" tells of how a drunken peasant makes a deal with the devil, whom that man subsequently outwits; "Fearless Franta" relates how the father of a young man who is afraid of nothing arranges for his son to spend a night in a tavern where the spirits of the dead gather to gamble and cavort; "A Dream Fulfilled" is about an elderly farmer who squanders his money playing the lottery, and "Fimfarum" centers on a blacksmith with a scheming, unfaithful wife who is forced to perform a variety of impossible tasks.