Stone Soup
EUROPEAN FOLK STORY
Nail soup; Rock soup; Shadow soup; Smoke Soup; Button soup; Wood soup; Axe soup; Miracle soup; Soupstone; Stone soup
Stone Soup is a European folk story in which hungry strangers convince the people of a town to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal that everyone enjoys, and exists as a moral regarding the value of sharing. In varying traditions, the stone has been replaced with other common inedible objects, and therefore the fable is also known as axe soup, button soup, nail soup, and wood soup.