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Tales of Magic and Mystery

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Illustrator
  
Christopher Quaile

Publication date
  
1985

Pages
  
128 pp

Originally published
  
1985

Genre
  
Fairy tale

Country
  
Great Britain

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

ISBN
  
0-416-46530-7

Author
  
Ruth Manning-Sanders

Publisher
  
Methuen Publishing

OCLC
  
12478438

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

Tales of Magic and Mystery is a 1985 anthology of 11 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.

Table of contents

  • Foreword
  • 1. The Water Nick and the Bear (Denmark)
  • 2. Tell Me Your Dream (Russia)
  • 4. The Stork (Bulgaria)
  • 5. The Eggshell (Gipsy)
  • 6. The Three Pinks (Spain)
  • 7. The Old Man and the Lambkin (Greek Islands)
  • 8. Cow Crumpie (Bulgaria)
  • 9. Ookah's Bagpipe (Estonia)
  • 10. The Black Dort (Schleswig-Holstein)
  • 11. The Conceited Dragon (North American Indian)
  • Note from last page: "For permission to retell The Old Man and the Lambkin the author and publishers wish to thank Eric Roth-Verlag, publishers of Die Reise im Goldenen Schiff."
  • References

    Tales of Magic and Mystery Wikipedia