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English Fairy and Other Folk Tales

75 entries · 9 sections

by Edwin Sidney Hartland

Nursery Tales

Jack the Giant Killer The Princess of Canterbury The Princess of Colchester Mr Fox Tom Tit Tot Jack and the Bean-stalk

Historical and Local

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

Giants

The Origin of the Wrekin The Blinded Giant

Fairies

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

Goblins

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

Witchcraft

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

Ghosts

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

Drolls

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