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"Cap-o'-Rushes" is an English fairy tale published by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales. [1]Jacobs gives his source as "Contributed by Mrs. Walter-Thomas to "Suffolk Notes and Queries" of the Ipswich Journal, published by Mr. Lang in Longman's Magazine, vol. xiii., also in Folk-Lore September, 1890".
Story of the Two Lack-Tacts of Cairo and Damascus (837–840) Tale of Himself Told By the King (912–917) Appendix I - Catalogue of Wortley Montague Manuscript Contents; Appendix II; Notes on the Stories Contained in Vol IV of "Supplemental Nights", by W. F. Kirby; Notes on the Stories Contained in Vol V of "Supplemental Nights", by W. F. Kirby
The newborn Princess Bedelia of Arapathia is blessed by three good fairies with the gifts of beauty, grace (ala Sleeping Beauty), &... Common sense.Eighteen-years later, a dragon takes up residence on a mountain in the kingdom, demanding a princess to devour, or else it would turn its fiery-breath down on the kingdom.
But the princess saves herself by making a "princess dummy" out of straw and filling it with boiling pitch and tar. The princess dresses the straw dummy in one of her own gowns, then goes to the dragon's cave where she offers herself as a sacrifice. The unwitting dragon swallows the dummy whole, and the pitch and tar explode inside the dragon's ...
The Turnip Princess was the second modern publication of Schönwerth's collections, being preceded by Original Bavarian Folktale, edited and translated by Charlotte Wolf.. While Wolf's edition focus mostly on stories that appear in a 1850s collection published by Schönwerth himself, Eichenseer's contain mostly those stories that were discovered only recent
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of bedtime stories for children by Oscar Wilde, first published in May 1888.It contains five stories that are highly popular among children and frequently read in schools: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Remarkable Rocket."
"The Wise Princess” is a British fairy tale about a princess who knows everything, except for true happiness. It was written in the second half of the nineteenth century by Mary De Morgan . The tale first appeared in “The Tale of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories” along with six other tales, published by Macmillan and Co. in 1886.
Published: 1 January 1965 to 16 September 1967 [1] Artists: Leslie Otway, [3] Jean Sidobre [4] Daughter of a governor in the West Indies, Alona Richards' daring and habit of taking on any challenge in front of her soon earns the girl the nickname "The Wild One".