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2. The Old Witch - Wikipedia

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   The Old Witch is an English fairy tale published by Joseph Jacobs in his 1894 book, More English Fairy Tales. [1] It is also included within A Book of Witches by Ruth Manning-Sanders and A Book of British Fairy Tales by Alan Garner. Neil Watkins has researched the story of ‘The Old Witch’.

3. The Three Spinners - Wikipedia

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   Two versions collected from England 'The Gypsy Woman' from Suffolk (The Watkins Book of English Folktales by Neil Philip pp. 103-105) and 'Duffy and the Devil' from Cornwall (Bottrell Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Vol. 2, by William Bottrell, 1873 pp.11-26) both conclude without the use of magic, instead plain trickery ...

4. 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 .

5. Category:English fairy tales - Wikipedia

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   English fairy tales, short stories that belong to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic , enchantments , and mythical or fanciful beings. Subcategories

6. English folklore - Wikipedia

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   The folktales, characters and creatures are often derived from aspects of English experience, such as topography, architecture, real people, or real events. [4] English folklore has had a lasting impact on English culture, literature, and identity. Many of these traditional stories have been retold in various forms, from medieval manuscripts to ...

7. Richard Chase (folklorist) - Wikipedia

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   Authority on English-American literature, compiling of folk tales and game, primarily Appalachian Richard Thomas Chase [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (February 15, 1904 – February 2 1988) [ 3 ] was an American folklorist and an authority on English-American folklore.

8. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

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   Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...

9. Ruth Tongue - Wikipedia

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   Ruth Tongue was born in Handsworth. She was the third and youngest child of Edwin Tongue, a Congressional Minister, and his wife Mabel Jones. The family moved to Taunton during Ruth's early childhood, and then to Middlesex in 1909.