User blog comment:Mools/The king has donkey ears/@comment-3094893-20101018033623

I'm American and I've never heard of the story. I just read the translation, so I knew what I was reading when I saw it. But some peoples comments were like "Hetalia is so freaking random," which it is, but must be even more so when that story comes out of no where. XD

Growing up I learned about Aesop's fables, some fairy tales, and not much else. Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Princess and the Pea, etc.

Now I feel like reading up on those....