Stone Soup

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Stone Soup is a folk story from Europe about a hungry stranger who convinces townspeople to share small amounts of their food in order to make a meal using a stone as the main ingredient. 
Some variations use a nail or other inedible object instead. It is identified as tale type 1548 in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index. 
==References==
* Despite having no groceries, Cookie Monster convinces Ernie he can make him an entire dinner using only a cookie in the 1990 book Cookie Soup. The result has Ernie surprised: "I can't wait until Bert comes home. He'll never believe that we made this whole pot of soup with just one cookie!"
* The Storyteller becomes the protagonist of his own tale in The StoryTeller episode "A Story Short" when he attempts to fool the royal cook with his stone soup, but fails, and must atone for his foolery.
* Shadow tells the story in the Bear in the Big Blue House episode "Welcome to Woodland Valley."
* The short story "Crumb Soup" from Read, Giggle & Share: Fairy Tales!, credited from the folktale, tells the story using a crumb as the starting ingredient with additions from Ernie, Bert, Big Bird, and Mr. Snuffleupagus (who adds the cabbage).
==External links==
*"Stone Soup" Folk Tales, collected by D. L. Ashliman
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Category:Folklore