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Old Witch Boneyleg

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

Originally published
  
1978

Genre
  
Fairy tale

Illustrator
  
Kilmeny Niland

Publication date
  
1978

Pages
  
95 pp

Author
  
Ruth Manning-Sanders

Publisher
  
Angus & Robertson

Country
  
Australia

Kilmeny Niland books
  
An Aussie Night Before C, Blossom Possum: The Sky i, An Aussie Day Before Christmas, A bellbird in a flame tree, Fair Dinkum Aussie C

Old Witch Boneyleg is a 1978 anthology of 13 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. This is a companion volume to The Haunted Castle. The book's title story is a Baba Yaga tale, although it does not mention the witch by name.

Table of contents

  1. Old Witch Boneyleg (Russia)
  2. The Bunyip (Australia)
  3. The Farmer and the Water Fairies (Iceland)
  4. Iron Hans (Transylvania)
  5. Two Minutes (Russia)
  6. The Broken Pitcher (France)
  7. Natasha Most Lovely (Russia)
  8. The King's Beard (Greece)
  9. The Gold Stag (German soldier story)
  10. The Dancing Pigs (Germany)
  11. Giant Babolna (Hungary)
  12. The Cauld Lad of Hilton (England)
  13. Tossen the Fool (Denmark)

References

Old Witch Boneyleg Wikipedia