The poor man sends his three sons to be servants, for nice clothes, wine and a wife. The faith of the smallest boy, Martin, is the hardest, as he performs his task at a toad, but after all his award will be the nicest, his will be the princess conjured into the toad, and he becomes the king.

There was a king, who was very sad, because nobody could heal her lame daughter. Köcsög Jankó also takes off to try his luck. He helps an old lady, who in gratitude tells how he can heal the lame daughter of the king with the help of the golden bell. To receive the wonder-maker bell, he must overcome many difficulties, but Jankó with his magical characteristics and craft also tricks the giant king, and also makes harmless the long-bear Bakarasz, and finally heals the lame daughter of the king, and this way wins the marriage of the girl, and also acquires the kingdom.

Once upon a time a poor widower gets ill and dies – but she cannot leave anything to her daughter. The daughter leaves home to beg, but for no good, nobody gives her anything, they rather send her to work. However, the girl was very lazy – she rather tried to get ahead with her shrewdness. She also tricks the king, who sells his castle to the person who does not bargain a bit. This is how she gets into the castle, which has as many windows as there are days, and it has as many doors as there are weeks, and as many rooms, as there are months. At night she lets in a mysterious big black cat – which she bribes to herself and finds out her secret – as with this cat curious things happen every night.

The king sent off his children from home, because they could not find a finance or fiancée for themselves in their own country. They wander until they arrive at a tree with a wonderful power. With the leaves of the tree and with the life water, which they draw from the spring next to the tree they heal the ill prince in the next country, in which the daughter of the king finds the companion of her life. The prince wanders further, and with the help of a mysterious smith master – hiding in a golden calf – ambushes the signs of the daughter of the king, who is free to be married, under her left armpit, and therefore he wins the marriage of the girl – also finding the companion of his life.