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  2. English Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

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    English Fairy Tales is a book containing a collection of 41 fairy tales retold by Flora Annie Steel and published in 1918 by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London. It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham and entails a variety of fairy tales featuring mythical creatures , heroic figures, and moral lessons .

  3. Revolting Rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Revolting Rhymes is a 1982 poetry collection by British author Roald Dahl.Originally published under the title Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes, it is a parody of traditional folk tales in verse, where Dahl gives a re-interpretation of six well-known fairy tales, featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after finishes.

  4. Mabinogion - Wikipedia

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    The first modern publications of the stories were English translations by William Owen Pughe of several tales in journals in 1795, 1821, and 1829, which introduced usage of the name "Mabinogion". [8] In 1838–45, Lady Charlotte Guest first published the full collection we know today, [ 9 ] bilingually in Welsh and English, which popularised ...

  5. Mother Goose - Wikipedia

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    Mother Goose's name was identified with English collections of stories and nursery rhymes popularised in the 17th century. English readers would already have been familiar with Mother Hubbard, a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published the satire Mother Hubberd's Tale in 1590, as well as with similar fairy tales told by "Mother Bunch" (the pseudonym of Madame d'Aulnoy) [4] in the 1690s. [5]

  6. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, which have only been identified as children's literature since the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, which adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented ...

  7. The King of the Cats - Wikipedia

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    The King of the Cats (or The King o' the Cats) is a folk tale from the British Isles. [1] The earliest known example is found in Beware the Cat , written by William Baldwin in 1553, [ nb 1 ] though it is related to the first-century story of " The Death of Pan ".

  8. English folklore - Wikipedia

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    The black dog is a common motif in folklore and appears in many traditional English stories and tales. They often denote death and misfortune close at hand and appear and disappear into thin air. [24] A boggart is, depending on local or regional tradition, a malevolent genius loci inhabiting fields, marshes or other topographical features. The ...

  9. Traditional story - Wikipedia

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    Other tall tales are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the European countryside, the American Old West, the Canadian Northwest, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Tall tales are often told so as to make the narrator seem to have been a part of the story. They are usually humorous or good-natured. The line ...