tell stories they change the three to whatever they like. The version noted here is the most common/known) |- ! scope="row" | Armenian (Western) | () || There was, there was not... | (}|| 3 apples fall from the sky/heaven - one for the writer/author, one for the storyteller, one for the listener Note: (the three apples can "be given" to different people, when people tell stories they change the three to whatever they like. The version noted here is the most common/known) |- ! scope="row" | Assamese | () || Long time ago... | Unknown || Unknown |- ! scope="row" | Asturian | || There was once... | || And so the tale is finished. |- ! scope="row" | Azeri | || There was, (and) there was not... | Unknown || Unknown |- ! scope="row" | Basque | || Once upon a time... | | ... and it was or it was not, come in in the pumpkin and come out in the square of... (name of a town). |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2"| Bengali | || Once there lived a king | rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | My story ends and the spinach is eaten by the goat. (cf A Goat eats the root of a herb unlike cows, so being consumed by goats figuratively means something being irreversibly ended.) |- | || In some country, there was... |- ! scope="row" | Breton | || Once upon a time... | | ...and they lived happily and had many children. |- ! scope="row" rowspan="2"| Bulgarian | rowspan="2"|() | rowspan="2"| There was, once upon a time... | () || ...and they lived happily until the end of their days |- | () | ...and for three days they ate, drank and had fun. |- ! scope="row" rowspan="5" | Catalan | || There was a time... | | Here's a cat, here's a dog, this tale is already melted. And here's a dog, here's a cat, this tale is finished. |- | || Time was time... | | And they were happy and they ate candies. |- | || This was and was not... | | Tale told, tale finished |- | || This went and was... | | And they lived many years of happiness. |- | || This occurred in those ancient times | | They were very happy, had many children, and still would live if they had not