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A Cauldron of Witches

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Illustrator
  
Scoular Anderson

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

Originally published
  
1988

Genre
  
Fairy tale

Country
  
Great Britain

Publication date
  
1988

Pages
  
127 pp

Author
  
Ruth Manning-Sanders

Publisher
  
Methuen Publishing

Similar
  
Folk and Fairy Tales, Fox Tales, A Choice of Magic, A Book of Mermaids, Peter and the Piskies: Cornish F

A Cauldron of Witches is a 1988 anthology of 12 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It was the final published book in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders, who died in October 1988 at age 102.

Table of contents

  • Foreword
  • 1. The Little Grey Donkey (Sweden)
  • 2. The Amber Witch (Norway)
  • 3. Witch Longnose and her Cat Periwinkle (Cornwall)
  • 4. The Witch in the Wood (Germany)
  • 5. Wolfgang and the Witches (Bohemia)
  • 6. Tow-how and the Witch (Papua New Guinea)
  • 7. Martin and the Lions (Tyrol)
  • 8. The Giant on the Mount (France)
  • 9. Elsa and the Witch (Russia)
  • 10. The Witch's Flute (Bulgaria)
  • 11. The Whirlwind's Castle (Finland)
  • 12. Moti-katika and the Water Witch (South-east Africa)
  • References

    A Cauldron of Witches Wikipedia