Stories like this often fall into specific categories or "archetypes" designed to convey life lessons or information:
Impressed by the woodcutter’s honesty, Mercury rewarded him by giving him all three axes—the iron, the silver, and the gold. 35913mp4
Once, a poor woodcutter was busy cutting a tree on the bank of a river. Suddenly, his iron axe slipped from his hand and fell into the deep water. The woodcutter was devastated because he had no money to buy a new one, and the axe was his only means of earning a living. He sat by the river and began to weep. Stories like this often fall into specific categories