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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
"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".
The princess wanders off and finds work with an old woman in her hut. Later, the king of Faraway Land and his son, after a hunt, go to the old woman's hut to eat, and the old woman orders the princess to prepare them dinner. The princess cooks some soup for the royal guests and lets a diamond ring slip inside.
The next day, she opens the last egg and it holds a pie with six singing birds. She gives it to a page, who tells her that the King takes sleeping potions at night. She bribes the page with the singing birds and tells him not to give the King a sleeping potion that night. The King, being awake, hears Florine and runs to the Chamber of Echoes.
In such stories, the transformed princess usually aids her sweetheart in a battle against a force of evil. In The Swan Princess , for example, Princess Odette is transformed into a swan , and she helps her lover triumph in a battle against the sorcerer Rothbart, who has the power to transform himself into a hideous beast (a manifestation of a ...
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.
Irish fairy tale collected Kennedy's in Fireside Stories of Ireland. Included by Joseph Jacobs in More Celtic Fairy Tales. Collected by Patrick Kennedy Dotterine The Child who came from an Egg: Estonian fairy tale, also known as The Egg-Born Princess (Estonian: Munast sündinud kuningatütar).