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2. The Old Witch - Wikipedia

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   Neil Watkins has researched the story of ‘The Old Witch’. In "The Watkins Book of English Folktales" PP.55-60 Watkins records that the story was told by a nine year old girl called Nora to Ellen Chase in Deptford (now in Greater London) in 1892. Ellen Chase gave her copy of the story to Mrs Gomme, who then sent it to Joseph Jacobs.

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. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. Jude Law Was Told to 'Get a Suntan and Find Your Swagger' as ...

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   Jude Law is opening up about how he nailed his breakthrough performance as dreamy millionaire playboy Dickie Greenleaf in The Talented Mr. Ripley. “I imagine, like, being on the beach, the notes ...

8. 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.

9. Poll: Majority of Americans support Trump's plan to declare ...

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   (The Center Square) – A majority of Americans support President-elect Donald Trump's plan to declare a national emergency over the border crisis, according to a new poll. Declaring such an ...