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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 ...
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’.
The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 426, "The Two Girls, the Bear, and the Dwarf": a pair of sisters welcome a bear into their house; the next summer, the girls rescue an ungrateful dwarf three times; at the end of the tale, the bear defeats the dwarf (who cursed him in the first place) and becomes a human prince.
Watkin was an English professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. His first novel, On Borrowed Time, published in 1937, remains his best known work.. It won the National Book Award as Bookseller Discovery of 1937, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.
Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton , Surrey, lived in Sweden , Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama .
Set in the English countryside, it features the adventures of four gnomes who may be the last of their race. At the same time it features the countryside during three seasons of the year. Watkins-Pitchford won the 1942 Carnegie Medal recognising The Little Grey Men as the year's best children's book by a British subject .
Watkins Books asked her to write a book investigating the way science was turning to consciousness studies and meditation for answers to the world's problems. This expanded into an examination of the elements in our surroundings and inside ourselves that make people happy so that the book became an exploration of and a guide to positive things ...
Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE (25 July 1905 – 8 September 1990) was a British naturalist, an illustrator, art teacher and a children's author under the pseudonym "BB". He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for British children's books .