"This seed will grow into the child of your dreams. However... If your child does not live a happy life, she shall return to the form of a seed. And I shall come to reclaim her."
*note: this section only describes occasions up until the time point he is taken from.
Puss in Boots
The Peddler comes across a boy, who is crying over the corpses of his parents. The boy thinks that Peddler is a soldier of lord Carabus, who rules the region, and tells him to kill him as well. Peddler brushes off the comment, and instead, he gives the boy a clipping from a book; the text describes the marutago, a mystical cat that grants wishes.
Years later, Peddler, out for a stroll, finds a marutago with his legs cut off. The cat is on the brink of death, and after it begs him to, Peddler decides to save it, granting it new legs in form of boots. After Puss says goodbye to the human that he had fallen in love to - the same human that had cut off his legs - Peddler brings him with, taking him in as his roommate.
Sleeping Beauty
Peddler gave a seed to a queen, who was desperate to have a child; the king was obsessed with beauty, and was an artisan; he never gave his wife the attention needed to conceive a child, and this caused the queen a lot of grief.
As it is not the Peddler's duty to oversee the growth of the children he grants to women, he then left, promising that if the child did not live a happy life, it would return to the form of a seed, and he would come to reclaim it. On the other hand, he comes, on the day of the child's celebration, to give the king a warning. That on the princess' fifteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on a spindle and fall into a deep slumber for one hundred years.
Due to the warning, the king burned all spindles in the kingdom, but Peddler realized that it had become more complicated, and not as he had anticipated. Because there was still one spindle in the castle, and fifteen years later, Peddler's prediction did indeed come true.But not in the way that he had foretold. Because the princess didn't die from touching the spindle, which the king had made. So the king strangled her to death, in an attempt to make her go to sleep, just as the Peddler had said she would.
The king used wax to preserve the princess' body, and laid her to rest on a splendid bed in the top of the north tower, and nobody was permitted to enter. After the death of the king and queen, the people living in the castle left, and roses grew around it.
A hundred years later, Peddler returns, and the castle is now surrounded by a thick wall of thorns; the place has become known as the Forest of Briars by now. Peddler sends dreams to a young woodsman who lives not all too far off. One day, Peddler appeared in front of the young man, cloaked and dressed as an old witch, telling him of what was in the middle of those thorns. A castle, with a beautiful princess that could only be awoken by a brave mans kiss, and as this hooded figure he saw off the young woodsman, who headed into the forest of thorns.
The Peddler saw the young woodsman make his way through the thorns, and saw him awaken the princess. He also saw the king, alive despite all the time that had passed, attempt to kill his daughter, so that she would not leave his side. The princess reminds her father, who had forgotten all about killing her, and she returns to a seed, thanking the woodsman for his help in freeing her from the darkness. The peddler collects the seed, appearing in front of the king as the witch that had foretold the future one hundred years ago. He tells the king that the princess had been destined to wake up after a hundred years of sleep, and marry the woodsman.
Hansel & Gretel
One day, Puss slams open the door while Peddler was occupied reading. The cat had returned with a plant that Peddler had asked for him to get from the north forest. Not at all long after, a voice calls from the door, and when Peddler opens, he finds two small children that gets terrified by his appearance.
After they calmed down over a cup of tea and tart, they told him that they had lost their parents, and had found themselves in front of Peddler's house. he says that they can spend the night in a guest room, and in the evening, he sees a flower on the floor, that the children dropped. Telling a protesting Puss to watch the house, Peddler heads out for a while, goes through a door, and goes to look for their parents.
When he returns, he finds the children cleaning the yard, and after dinner, he reads, while the children are left to their own devices. Later, they return, dirty and crying. They tell that they had followed Peddler's cat, since it had bilberries in its mouth, and they had been looking for those berries. According to their story, the cat lead them to a chasm, and it was mean. Peddler tells them that it's alright, and that they should go to bed. Later in the evening, they offer him tea, and after he drinks it, he collapses.
They tell Peddler that the tea was made on a plant that killed people, and that they had killed their parents who were going to abandon them. They were tired of living at Peddler's, and they intended to go to a town and get adopted by someone who would take pity on two poor children who had been captured by an evil witch.
Puss shows up, telling that it was mean to throw a cat into a put just because it scratched you once. Peddler tells Puss that the children aren't his seeds, because they are. He also was perfectly fine, despite the poison he was fed.
He shows the children the reason why he had been away; their parents were out in the garden, and it made the children terrified. Despite their pleas, Peddler opened the door to let their parents take them to the other side, so that they could finally be happy together.
Little Mermaid
The messenger bird arrived with a letter for the Grim Peddler, and while the contents was good he didn't like the name signed at the bottom of it.
After causing a ruckus of fury, Peddler heads for a castle located up on a cliff, ans id greeted by arms snaking around his body. He pries the Medicine Man off of him, and tells him to just give him the medicine he's described in the letter. Legs for a mermaid, that is. The Medicine Man tells Peddler that making the medicine isn't that hard, but there is the matter of payment to get to first. When it comes to the Medicine Man, he rather Peddler pays with his body, despite the Peddler not exactly liking that idea. But the Medicine Man takes what payment he wants, without listening to any protests. Groping and a reluctant make out session ended up being enough this time around, but it still leaves Peddler with a taste of disgust in his mouth and before he goes to see the mermaid, he goes home to get changed.
He then proceeds to go meet the mermaid,
Never Ending Tale
Red Riding Hood
The Nude King
Rumpelstitskin
Barutose(?)
Snow White
Frog Prince
Cinderella
Jack and the Beanstalk