Barrayaran Tales

The tales Barrayarans told each other included the following:

• Folk tales featured the Baba Yaga, who ate bad children, traveled in a magic flying mortar, and who at least once ground her enemies’ bones in said mortar.
• Another tale told of a mutant who could not be killed, because he hid his heart in a box on a secret island far from his fortress.
• There were old tales where the count gave an unsuitable suitor three impossible tasks.
• Folk tales generally ended with the Count’s daughter getting married; the Princess’s mother always died young.
• Vorthalia the Bold and the Thicket of Thorns.
• Vorthalia the Bold and the search for Emperor Xian Vorbarra’s lost scepter
• Vorthalia the Loyal.
• Witch’s name-day gift, aka Witch’s christening gift.