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Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs [1912]

  • The Lion and the Crane
  • How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam
  • The Lambikin
  • Punchkin
  • The Broken Pot
  • The Magic Fiddle
  • The Cruel Crane Outwitted
  • Loving Laili
  • The Tiger, The Brahman, and the Jackal
  • The Soothsayers Son
  • Harisarman
  • The Charmed Ring
  • The Talkative Tortoise
  • A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice
  • The Gold-Giving Serpent
  • The Son of Seven Queens
  • A Lesson for Kings
  • Pride Goeth Before a Fall
  • Raja Rasalu
  • The Ass in the Lion's Skin
  • The Farmer and the Money-Lender
  • The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin
  • The Prince and the Fakir
  • Why the Fish Laughed
  • The Demon with the Matted Hair
  • The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess
  • Sun, Moon, and Wind go out to Dinner
  • How the Wicked Sons were Duped
  • The Pigeon and the Crow

Roumanian Fairy Tales and Legends by Mrs. E. B. Mawr [1881]

  • Fairy Tales
    • The Slippers of the Twelve Princesses
    • The Ungrateful Wood-Cutter
    • The Hermit's Foundling with the Golden Hair
    • The Daughter of the Rose
    • The Twelve-Headed Griffin
    • Vasilica The Brave
    • Handsome is as Handsome Does
    • The Fisherman and the Boyard's Daughter
  • Legends
    • Manioli, A Legend of the 13th Century
    • The Fortress of Poinarii
    • The Gentle Shepherd
  • Historic Tales
    • Death of Constantin II. Brancovan
    • The Mother of Stephen the Great

Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens [1920]

  • The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill
  • The Boyhood of Fionn
  • The Birth of Bran
  • Oisin's Mother
  • The Wooing of Becfola
  • The Little Brawl at Allen
  • The Carl of the Drab Coat
  • The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran
  • Mongan's Frenzy

The Welsh Fairy Book by W. Jenkyn Thomas [1907]

  • The Lady of the Lake
  • Arthur in the Cave
  • The Curse of the Pantannas
  • The Drowning of the Bottom Hundred
  • Elidyr's Sojurn in Fairy Land
  • Rhys and Llywelyn
  • Lowri Dafydd Earns a Purse of Gold
  • The Llanfabon Changeling
  • Why the Red Dragon is the Emblem of Wales
  • Lyn Cwm Llwch
  • The Adventures of Three Farmers
  • Cadwaladr and his Goat
  • The Fairy Wife
  • Einion and the Lady of the Greenwood
  • The Green Isles of the Ocean
  • March's Ears
  • The Fairy Harp
  • Guto Bach and the Fairies
  • Ianto's Chase
  • The Stray Cow
  • Bala Lake
  • The Forbidden Fountain
  • Tudur ap Einion
  • The Fairy Walking Stick
  • Dick the Fiddler's Money
  • A Strange Otter
  • Fairy Ointment
  • Pergrin and the Mermaiden
  • The Cave of the Young Men of Snowdonia
  • Einion and the Fair Family
  • St Collen and the King of Fairy
  • Helig's Hollow
  • Owen Goes A-Wooing
  • The Fairy Reward
  • Why Deunant has the Front Door in the Back
  • Getting Rid of Fairies
  • The Mantle of Kings' Beards
  • Pedws Ffowk and St. Elian's Well
  • Magic Music
  • Sili go Dwt
  • Another Changeling
  • A Fairy Borrowing
  • Treasure Seeking
  • The Richest Man
  • St. Beuno and the Curlew
  • The Cat Witches
  • The Swallowed Court
  • What Marged Rolant Saw
  • Ned Puw's Farewell
  • Pennard Castle
  • The Man with the Green Weeds
  • Goronwy Tudor and the Witches of Llanddons
  • Robin's Return
  • The Harper's Gratuity
  • Six and Four are Ten
  • Envy Burns Itself
  • The Bride from the Red Lake
  • A Fairy Dog
  • Grace's Well
  • The Fairy Password
  • St. Winifred's Well
  • The Ancients of the World
  • Nansi Llwyd and the Dog of Darkness
  • An Adventure in the Big Bog
  • The Pwca of the Trwyn
  • John Gethin and the Candle
  • Fetching a Halter
  • Dai Sion's Homecoming
  • Melangell's Lambs
  • Syfaddon Lake
  • The Power of St Tegla's Well
  • The Men of Ardudwy
  • The Parti-coloured Cow
  • Striking a Corpse Candle
  • Hu Gadarn
  • The Devil's Bridge
  • The Martyred Hound
  • Twm of the Fair Lies
  • Black Robin
  • Llyn Llech Owen
  • A Ghostly Rehersal
  • A Phantom's Funeral
  • Why the Robin's Breast is Red

Fairy Legends and Traditions by Thomas Crofton Croker [1825]

  • The Legend of Knocksheogowna
  • The Legend of Knockfierna
  • The Legend of Knockgrafton
  • The Priest
  • The Young Piper
  • The Brewery of Egg-Shells
  • The Changeling
  • The Two Gossips
  • The Legend of Bottle Hill
  • The Confessions of Tom Bourke
  • Fairies Or No Fairies
  • The Haunted Cellar
  • Seeing is Believing
  • Master and Man
  • The Field of Boliauns
  • The Little Shoe
  • Legends of the Banshee
  • Legends of the Banshee
  • The Spirit Horse
  • Daniel O Rourke
  • The Crookened Back
  • The Haunted Castle
  • Fior Usga
  • Cormac and Mary
  • The Legend of Lough Gur
  • The Enchanted Lake
  • The Legend of O'Donoghue
  • The Lady of Gollerus
  • Flory Cantillon's Funeral
  • The Lord of Dunkerron
  • The Wonderful Tune
  • The Wonderful Tune
  • Hanlon's Mill
  • The Death Coach
  • The Headless Horseman
  • Diarmid Bawn, The Piper
  • Teigue of the Lee
  • Ned Sheehy's Excuse
  • The Lucky Guest
  • Dreaming Tim Jarvis
  • Rent-Day
  • Linn-Na-Payshtha
  • The Legend of Cairn Thierna
  • The Rock of the Candle
  • Clough na Cuddy
  • The Giant's Stairs

Tales of Fairies and of the Ghost World by Jeremiah Curtin [1895]

  • John Connors and the Fairies
  • Fitzgerald and Daniel O'Donohue
  • The Fairies of Rahonain and Elizabeth Shea
  • The Knights of Kerry - Rahonain Castle
  • The Cattle Jobber of Awnascawil
  • The Midwife of Listowel
  • Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts
  • Tom Daly and the Nut-Eating Ghost
  • Tom Connors and the Dead Girl
  • The Farmer of Tralee and the Fairy Cows
  • The Two Gamblers and the Fairies
  • The Girl and the Robber
  • Maurice Griffin and the Fairy Doctor
  • The Three Sisters and Their Husbands, Three Brothers
  • John Shea and the Treasure
  • St. Martin's Eve
  • James Murray and Saint Martin
  • Fairy Cows
  • John Reardon and the Sister Ghosts
  • Maggie Doyle and the Dead Man
  • Pat Doyle and the Ghost
  • The Ghost of Sneem
  • The Dead Mother
  • Tim Sheehy Sent Back to This World to Prove His Innocence
  • Tom Moore and the Seal Woman
  • The Four-Leafed Shamrock
  • John Cokeley and the Fairy
  • Tom Foley's Ghost
  • The Blood-Drawing Ghost
  • Murderous Ghosts

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W.Y. Evans-Wentz [1911]

  • Environment (section I, chapter I)
  • Taking of Evidence (Section I Chapter II part 1)
  • Taking Evidence (Section I, Chapter II, part 2)
  • Taking Evidence (Section I, Chapter II, part 3)
  • Taking Evidence (Section I, Chapter II, part 4)
  • Taking Evidence (Section I, Chapter II, part 5)
  • Taking Evidence (Section I, Chapter II, part 6)
  • Anthropological Examination (Section I Chapter III)
  • People of the Goddess Dana (Section II Chapter IV)
  • Brythonic Divinities (Section II Chapter V)
  • Celtic Otherworld (Section II Chapter VI)
  • Doctrine of Rebirth (Section II Chapter VII)
  • Testimony of Archaelogy (Section III Chapter VIII)
  • Testimony of Paganism (Section III Chapter IX)
  • Testimony of Christianity (Section III Chapter X)
  • Science and Fairies (Section IV Chapter XI)

Fairies by Gertrude M. Faulding [1913]

The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley [1870]

The Science of Fairy Tales by Edwin Sidney Hartland [1891].

  • Chapter I: The Art of Story-Telling
  • Chapter II: Savage Ideas
  • Chapter III: Fairy Births and Human Midwives
  • Chapter IV: Fairy Births and Human Midwives (continued)
  • Chapter V: Changelings
  • Chapter VI: Robberies from Fairyland
  • Chapter VII: The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland
  • Chapter VIII: The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland contd
  • Chapter IX: The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland contd.
  • Chapter X: Swan Maidens
  • Chapter XI: Swan Maidens contd.
  • Chapter XII: Conclusion

Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs [1892]

  • Connla and the Fairy Maiden
  • Guleesh
  • The Field of Boliauns
  • The Horned Women
  • Conall Yellowclaw
  • Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
  • The Shepherd of Myddvai
  • The Sprightly Tailor
  • The Story of Deirdre
  • Munachar and Manachar
  • Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
  • King O'Toole and his Goose
  • The Wooing of Olwen
  • Jack and his Comrades
  • The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
  • The Story-Teller at Fault
  • The Sea-Maiden
  • A Legend of Knockmany
  • Fair, Brown and Trembling
  • Jack and his Master
  • Beth Gellert
  • The Tale of Ivan
  • Andrew Coffey
  • The Battle of the Birds
  • Brewery of Eggshells
  • The Lad with the Goat-Skin

More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs [1894]

  • The Fate of the Children of Lir
  • Jack the Cunning Thief
  • Powel, Prince of Dyfed
  • Paddy O'Kelly and the Weasel
  • The Black Horse
  • The Vision of MacConglinney
  • Dream of Owen O'Mulready
  • Morraha
  • The Story of the McAndrew Family
  • The Farmer of Liddesdale
  • The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener
  • The Russet Dog
  • Smallhead and the King's Sons
  • The Legend of Knockgrafton
  • Elidore
  • The Leeching of Kayn's leg
  • How Fin went to the Kingdom of the Big Men
  • How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery
  • The Ridere of Riddles
  • The Tail

English Fairy and Other Folk Tales by Edwin Sidney Hartland, Illustrated by C.E. Brock [1890]

  • Jack the Giant Killer
  • The Princess of Canterbury
  • The Princess of Colchester
  • Mr Fox
  • Tom Tit Tot
  • Jack and the Bean-stalk
  • The Story of Sain Kenelm
  • Wild Edric
  • Lady Godiva
  • The Legend of the Sons of the Conqueror
  • The Lgend of Becket's Parents
  • The Fause Fable of the Lord Lathom
  • Whittington and his Cat
  • The Pedlar of Swaffham
  • The Lampton Worm
  • Bomere Pool
  • The Origin of the Wrekin
  • The Blinded Giant
  • Worcestershire Fairies
  • The Fairy Midwife
  • The Adventure of Cherry of Zennor
  • The Fairy Funeral
  • The Piskies in the Cellar
  • Edwin and Sir Topaz
  • The Two Serving Damsels
  • The Tulip Bed
  • The Fisherman and the Piskies
  • A Fairy Caught
  • Colman Grey
  • The King of the Cats
  • A Myth of Midridge
  • The Green Children
  • The Fairy Banquet
  • The Fairy Horn
  • The Fairy Fair
  • The Fairies' Caldron
  • The Cauld Lad of Hilton
  • The Fairy Thieves
  • The Boggart
  • Ainsel
  • Legend of the Rollright Stones
  • Dando and His Dogs
  • The Demon Tregeagle
  • The Pason and Clerk
  • Outwitting the Bogie
  • The Hunted Hare
  • The Well of St. Ludgvan
  • The Hedley Kow
  • The Lord of Pengerswick
  • The Witch and the Toad
  • Witch and Hare
  • The Hand of Glory
  • Betty Chidley The Witch
  • The Bag of Flour
  • Kentsham Bell
  • A Bishop's Ghost
  • A Clergyman's Ghost
  • The Haunted House
  • Ghost-Laying Stories
  • The Roaring Bull of Bagbury
  • The White Lady of Blenkinsopp
  • The Haunted Widower
  • The Ghost of Rosewarne
  • The Lady with the Lantern
  • Spectre-Dogs
  • Billy B----'s Adventure
  • The Wise Fools of Gotham
  • The Three Wishes
  • The Miller at the Professor's Examination
  • Stupid's Mistaken Cries
  • The Three Sillies
  • Mr Vinegar
  • Lazy Jack
  • The History of Tom Thumb

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Illustrated by John D. Batten [1890]

  • Tom Tit Tot
  • The Three Sillies
  • The Rose-Tree
  • The Old Woman and Her Pig
  • How Jack Went to Seek his Fortune
  • Mr Vinegar
  • Nix Nought Nothing
  • Jack Hannaford
  • Binnorie
  • Mouse and Mouser
  • Cap O' Rushes
  • Teeny-Tiny
  • Jack and the Beanstalk
  • The Story of the Three Little Pigs
  • The Master and His Pupil
  • Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse
  • Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box
  • The Story of the Three Bears
  • Jack the Giant-Killer
  • Henny-Penny
  • Childe Rowland
  • Molly Whuppie
  • The Red Ettin
  • The Golden Arm
  • The History of Tom Thumb
  • Mr Fox
  • Lazy Jack
  • Johnny-Cake
  • Earl Mar's Daughter
  • Mr Miacca
  • Whittington and His Cat
  • The Strange Visitor
  • The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh
  • The Cat and the Mouse
  • The Fish and the Ring
  • The Magpie's Nest
  • Kate Crackernuts
  • The Cauld Lad of Hilton
  • The Ass, The Table and the Stick
  • Fairy Ointment
  • The Well of the World's End
  • Master of all Masters
  • The Three Heads of the Well

More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Illustrated by John D. Batten [1894]

  • The Pied Piper
  • Hereafterthis
  • The Golden Ball
  • My Own Self
  • Black Bull of Norroway
  • Yallery Brown
  • Three Feathers
  • Sir Gammer Vans
  • Tom Hickathrift
  • The Hedley Kow
  • Gobborn Seer
  • Lawkamercyme
  • Tattercoats
  • The Wee Bannock
  • Johnny Gloke
  • Coat o' Clay
  • The Three Cows
  • The Blinded Giant
  • Scrapefoot
  • The Pedlar of Swaffham
  • The Old Witch
  • The Three Wishes
  • The Buried Moon
  • A Son of Adam
  • The Children in the Wood
  • The Hobyahs
  • A Pottle o' Brains
  • The King of England and his Three Sons
  • King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
  • Rushen Coatie
  • The King o' the Cats
  • Tamlane
  • The Stars in the Sky
  • News!
  • Puddock, Mousie and Ratton
  • The Little Bull-Calf
  • The Wee, Wee Mannie
  • Habetrot and Scantlie Mab
  • Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle
  • Catskin
  • Stupid's Cries
  • The Lambton Worm
  • The Wise Men of Gotham
  • Princess of Canterbury

Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies by William Crossing [1890].

  • Chapter I: The Moorland Haunts of the Pixies
  • Chapter II: The Pixies' Trysting Place
  • Chapter III: By the Peat Filled Hearth
  • Chapter IV: Lough Tor Hole. The Huccaby Courting
  • Chapter V: The Pixie at the Ockerry. Jimmy Townsend and his Sister Race
  • Chapter VI: The Ungrateful Farmer.--The Pixy Threshers.--Rewarding a Pixy
  • Chapter VII: Nanny Norrish and the Pixies.--The Ploughman's Breakfast.--The Pixy Riders.--Jan Coo
  • Chapter VIII: The Borrowed Colts.--The Boulder in the Room.--Vickeytoad.--Modilla and Podilla

A Peep at the Pixies, or Legends of the West by Anna Eliza Bray, Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne [1854]

  • Pixy Gathon, or, the Tailor's Needle
  • The Three Trials, or, the Story of Crabby Cross
  • The Seven Crosses of Tiverton, or, The Pixy Picket
  • Background Notes on the Seven Crosses of Tiverton
  • Fontina, or, The Pixies' Bath
  • The Lady of the Silver Bell
  • The Belfry Rock, or, The Pixies' Revenge

Andersen's Fairy Tales - by Andersen, Hans Christian

American Fairy Tales - by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

The box of robbers — The glass dog — The Queen of Quok — The girl who owned a bear — The enchanted types — The laughing hippopotamus — The magic bon bons — The capture of father time — The wonderful pump — The dummy that lived — The king of the polar bears — The mandarin and the butterfly.

Master Key, An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon The Mysteries Of Electricity, The - by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

Fairy-Land of Science , The - by Buckley, Arabella B.

Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning _ With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland - by Bunce, John Thackray

Fairy Tales From The Arabian Nights - by Dixon, E.

The Little House in the Fairy Wood - by Eliot, Ethel Cook

Welsh Fairy-Tales And Other Stories - by Emerson, Edited by P. H.

Pagan Papers - by Grahame, Kenneth

The romance of the road — The romance of the rail — Non libri sed liberi — Loafing — Cheap knowledge — The rural Pan — Marginalia — The eternal whither — Deus terminus — Of smoking — An autumn encounter — The white poppy — A Bohemian in exile — Justifiable homicide — The fairy wicket — Aboard the galley — The lost centaur — etc.

Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks - by Griffis, William Elliot

Welsh Fairy Tales - by Griffis, William Elliot

Grimm's Fairy Tales - by Grimm, Jacob

The golden bird — Hans in luck — Jorinda and Jorindel — The traveling musicians — Old sultan — The straw, the coal, and the bean — Briar Rose — The dog and the sparrow — The twelve dancing princesses — The fisherman and his wife - etc.

Blue Moon, The - by Housman, Laurence

The blue moon — A Chinese fairy-tale — The way of the wind — A capful of moonshine — The moon-stroke — How little Duke Jarl saved the castle — The white doe — The gentle cockatrice — The rat-catcher's daughter — etc.

Heroes, Or Greek Fairy Tales For My Children - by Kingsley, Charles

Blue Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew

The bronze ring — Prince Hyacinth and the dear little princess — East of the sun and West of the moon — The yellow dwarf — Little Red Riding-Hood — The sleeping beauty in the wood — Cinderella; or, the little glass slipper — etc.

Brown Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew

What the Rose did to the Cypress — Ball-Carrier and the Bad One — How Ball-Carrier finished his Task — The Bunyip — Father Grumbler — The Story of the Yara — The Cunning Hare — The Turtle and his Bride — etc.

Crimson Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew

Green Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew

Lilac Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew

Orange Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew

The Story of the Hero Makoma — The Magic Mirror From the Senna — Story of the King Who Would See Paradise — How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu — Ian, the Soldier's Son — The Fox and the Wolf — How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon — etc.

Pink Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew

Red Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew

The Twelve Dancing Princesses — The Princess Mayblossom — Soria Moria Castle — The Death of Koschei the Deathless — The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen — The Master Thief — Brother and Sister — Princess Rosette — The Enchanted Pig — The Norka — The Wonderful Birch — Jack and the Beanstalk — The Little Good Mouse — Graciosa and Percinet — The Three Princesses of Whiteland — The Voice of Death — The Six Sillies — Kari Woodengown — Drakestail — The Ratcatcher — The True History of Little Goldenhood — The Golden Branch — The Three Dwarfs — Dapplegrim — The Enchanted Canary — The Twelve Brothers — Rapunzel — The Nettle Spinner — Farmer Weatherbeard — Mother Holle — Minnikin — Bushy Bride — Snowdrop — The Golden Goose — The Seven Foals — The Marvellous Musician — The Story of Sigurd.

Violet Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew

Yellow Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew

The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership — The Six Swans — The Dragon of the North — Story of the Emperor's New Clothes — The Golden Crab — The Iron Stove — The Dragon and his Grandmother — The Donkey Cabbage — The Little Green Frog — etc.

Grey Fairy Book, The - by Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, Editor

The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts - by Maeterlinck, Maurice

Japanese Fairy Tales - by Ozaki, Yei Theodora

Counterpane Fairy, The - by Pyle, Katharine

Primary Reader, A : Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children _ Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children - by Smythe, E. Louise (Emma Louise)

 


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