1900-1909

“Hansel and Grethel.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 43-63.

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:18:47 +0000

“Hansel and Grethel.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 43-63. Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/09/2024 - 07:18

Tale Summary

There was once a poor woodcutter, who had a wife and two children from a previous marriage, but not enough money to feed them well. When a great famine came, his wife convinced him that they should leave the brother and sister, named Hansel and Grethel, in the woods so as not to have more mouths to feed. The children overheard this, and Hansel snuck outside to gather up white pebbles which shone in the moonlight. The next morning the children were given bread and brought out into the woods, and all along the way he dropped these pebbles under the guise that he was saying goodbye to his cat. Deep into the forest, the woodcutter and his wife told the children to rest, and that they would wake them up when they had finished chopping wood. They thought that they were close by because they could hear an ax, but it was really a branch the woodcutter had tied with a string to make noise in the wind. That night the two followed the glow of the pebbles in the moonlight back to their parent’s house, and their father was very happy. Another famine soon came and the woman talked her husband into the same deed, and although Hansel overheard, he could not leave to gather pebbles because the door was locked. The next morning on their way through the woods, he let fall a trail of crumbs from his bread under the guise that he was saying goodbye to his dove. That night when the children tried to follow the trail back home, they found that birds had eaten all of the crumbs and became very lost. On the third morning after leaving their father’s house, they saw a beautiful white dove who sang a pretty song, and when they followed it they were led to a house made of sweets. They began eating it, and when a voice from inside asked who was there, they said it was the wind and continued eating. A little old woman invited them inside and they had a delicious dinner before going to sleep. The kind woman was, in reality, an evil witch who ate children, and in the early morning she grabbed Hansel and shut him up in a cage. Next she grabbed Grethel and made her cook for her brother until he got fat enough to eat, while she only got morsels. Every morning the witch felt Hansel’s fingers through the bars to see if he was ready, but he always held out a little bone which tricked the witch because she had poor eyesight. After four weeks of this the witch was so impatient that she decided to eat him and began making preparations. She told Grethel to crawl into the oven to see if it was hot enough, wanting to trick her into getting inside so she could bake her. Grethel perceived this and asked if the witch could show her how, and so when she stuck her head in the girl pushed her inside and killed her. She released her brother and the two of them gathered pearls and precious stones from the house before setting off. They walked until they came to a large piece of water with no bridge, but a little white duck carried them across one at a time. They found their house again and their father was overjoyed and told him that his wife had died. The children presented their riches and all of their troubles were gone.

Fairy Tale Title

Hansel and Grethel

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Gilbert James

Common Tale Type

Hansel and Gretel

Tale Classification

ATU 327A

Page Range of Tale

pp. 43-63

Full Citation of Tale

“Hansel and Grethel.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 43-63.

Original Source of the Tale

Brothers Grimm

Tale Notes

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Book Title

A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Book Author/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Illustrator(s)

Gilbert James

Publisher

Siegle Hill & Co; The H.B. Claflin Company

Date Published

1900

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

This book includes six tales, most of which are the Grimm Brothers' best-known tales including Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Rumplestilskin, Hansel and Grethel, The Rabbit’s Bride, and The Shreds. The illustrations are simple but beautiful and a few pages are decorated with floral motifs. It is a very small book that appears adapted for children.

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“The Shreds.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 29-30.

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:57:37 +0000

“The Shreds.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 29-30. Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/05/2024 - 06:57

Brothers Grimm

Tale Summary

There was once a maiden who was very pretty, but also very lazy. Whenever she tried to spin she would become inpatient, and whenever there was a knot she would rip it out and throw the thread on the ground. Whenever this happened, her servant-girl would gather up the scraps and was eventually able to weave a beautiful dress for herself out of them. A man fell in love with the lazy maiden, but on the evening before the wedding, the servant-girl was twirling in the pretty dress and the bride-to-be let it slip that she had woven it from her scraps. The bridegroom realized that he did not want to be with the lazy maiden, and married the industrious maid instead.

Fairy Tale Title

The Shreds

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Gilbert James

Common Tale Type

Tale Classification

Page Range of Tale

pp. 29-30

Full Citation of Tale

“The Shreds.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 29-30.

Original Source of the Tale

Brothers Grimm

Tale Notes

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Book Title

A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Book Author/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Illustrator(s)

Gilbert James

Publisher

Siegle Hill & Co; The H.B. Claflin Company

Date Published

1900

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

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"The Witch in the Stone Boat.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 274-278.

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 14:05:10 +0000

"The Witch in the Stone Boat.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 274-278. Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 08/04/2024 - 08:05

Andrew Lang

Tale Summary

There was once a handsome prince named Sigurd whose aging father desired to see his son married before he died. He told him that there was a beautiful princess who lived in a certain country who would be a fitting wife, and so Sigurd set off. When he arrived, the King readily agreed to the marriage, but on the condition that the prince stay as long as he could because the King himself was too old to rule. Sigurd agreed only when he was also granted permission to visit his home country when his father died. He and the princess were married and had a child, and when the boy was two years old news came of the death of Sigurd’s father, and so the family boarded a ship to visit and pay their respects. During the journey they came to a dead calm and the wind would not blow, and they were stuck at sea. One day, the prince had gone below deck to sleep while his wife played with their son. A stone boat came alongside the ship, and an ugly Witch snatched the Queen and stole her beautiful clothes and put them on, becoming like her. She placed the Queen in the boat, cursing her to go to her brother in the Underworld, and when she was out of sight the baby began to cry. The witch took him below deck and scolded Sigurd, who was surprised because his wife had never before done that. The ship reached the kingdom he was now to rule over and he was crowned King, but his son would not stop crying until he got a good nurse for him, and everyone noticed that his wife had changed dramatically. One day, two young fellows of the court listened to her talking to herself alone in her room, and heard that when she yawned a little, she was a young maiden, when she yawned half-way then she was half troll, and when she yawned fully she was a troll altogether. The two saw through a crack that she did transform in this way after a full yawn, and saw also that her brother, a three-headed Giant, came up from the floor and shared a trough of meat with his sister. One evening, the nurse who took care of Sigurd’s child saw a beautiful woman dressed in white and wearing a chain appear from the floor, who held the baby gently before returning to the ground. This happened the next evening, and the woman said “two are gone, and one only is left” before disappearing. The nurse told the King the whole story, and he hid in the child’s room with a sword in his hand, and when the woman appeared he recognized her as his wife and cut the chain, causing loud crashing noises. She told him the story of what had happened to her, and that she had gone to the Underworld where a three-headed Giant wished to marry her, but she refused to consent until she had visited her son for three nights. He had put a chain around her that he had fastened to his own waist, and the crashing sounds were him plummeting to his death. The King had the Witch stoned and then torn to pieces by untamed horses, and he and his Queen lived happily together and the nurse was married to a nobleman

Fairy Tale Title

The Witch in the Stone Boat

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Common Tale Type

The Outcast Queens and the Ogre Queen

Tale Classification

ATU 462

Page Range of Tale

pp. 274-278

Full Citation of Tale

"The Witch in the Stone Boat.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 274-278.

Original Source of the Tale

Tale Notes

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Book Title

The Yellow Fairy Book

Book Author/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co.

Date Published

1906

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York
Bombay

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States
India

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

Book Notes

Though this book is written in prose with more difficult language than other books of fairy tales in the collection, the Preface says this book is written for children.

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"Hermod and Hadvor.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 301-307.

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:35:43 +0000

"Hermod and Hadvor.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 301-307. Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 08/04/2024 - 07:35

Andrew Lang

Tale Summary

There was once a beautiful princess named Hadvor who had a foster brother named Hermon. They were inseparable and pledged their love to one another when they were children. The Queen one day became sick, and before she died she had her husband promise to marry only the Queen of Hetland the Good if he again decided to take a wife. Some time passed and he set sail and came to a clearing in the woods after he found land, where he found three women. One was sad and played the harp, dressed beautifully and seated in a golden chair, the second was younger and finely dressed, seated in a less grand chair, and the third wore a green cloak and was maid to the other two. He told the one in the golden chair why he had come to the country, and she responded that she was Hetland the Good, and that she was seated with her daughter and maid, and that all three of them had escaped their land after it was plundered by pirates. He took them home and married her. Before long, the King went of to war, and the Queen asked Hermod to marry her daughter, but he refused, and she cursed him to live on a desert island where he would be lion by day and man by night, and that he would always think of his love for Hadvor which would cause him sorrow. He would never be freed until Hadvor burned the lion’s skin. He replied by cursing her, so that as soon as he was released she would become a rat and her daughter a mouse, and the two would fight each other in the hall until he killed them. Hadvar became friends with Olof the maid, who told her what had happened to Hermon and that the queen and her daughter were really ugly witches. Also, the queen had a brother in the Underworld who was a three-headed Giant who she would turn into a handsome prince to marry Hadvar to, and that to prevent this she should wait until he created a hole in the castle to pour hot pitch into. Olof additionally revealed that she had been stolen from her parents by the queen, but that her green cloak protected her from harm. Some time after the King returned home, Hadvor heard a loud rumbling under the castle and poured hot pitch into where the floor opened up. The next morning the Queen found her Giant brother dead, and cast a spell on his body to appear as a handsome prince before going to her husband and accusing the princess of killing her young brother. She was allowed to pick a punishment, which was to be that Hadvor should be buried in a grave-mound beside her would-be husband. Olof knew of the plan and told the princess how to protect herself: she should wear a cloak while in the mound the giant’s ghost would appear with two dogs and he would ask her to cut off pieces of his leg to feed them, but she must refuse until he told her how to get to Hermon. She must also make sure to keep her cloak loosely fastened because he would then let her stand on his shoulders to get out of the mound as a trick and try to drag her back down with it. She did all this and learned where Hermon was, and that she could get there by making shoes out of the skin of the giant’s feet, which she did, and made it to the island where he was kept but was stopped by tall cliffs once she arrived. She fell asleep and dreamed that a tall woman told her that she had let down a rope for the princess to climb, and had also left a clew (a ball of thread) which would show her the way, and a belt which would keep her from feeling faint from hunger. She used these things to make her way to a cave, and lay down inside under a couch. That evening she heard a lion enter, and then heard the sound of a man, who she recognized as Hermod. She waited until he was asleep and burned the lion skin, and then they were reunited. They wondered how they would escape the island and Hadvor told him about her dream, and he replied that there was a witch who could help them, and so they visited her and her fifteen sons. She said that the Giant had turned into a whale, but she would lend them a boat and if they were in danger they could summon her. While they sailed they saw him approaching and so called upon the witch, and a huge whale followed by fifteen smaller ones had a battle with the first whale and beat it. When they arrived back at the castle the King was overjoyed but the Queen and her daughter had disappeared, and there was a mouse and a rat fighting in the hall that no one could get rid of. Hermod killed them with his sword and they became the bodies of the two ugly witches. He explained the whole story to his father, and then was married to Hadvor and inherited the kingdom, while Olof married a handsome nobleman.

Fairy Tale Title

Hermod and Hadvor

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Common Tale Type

Enchanted Prince Disenchanted

Tale Classification

ATU 444

Page Range of Tale

pp. 301-307

Full Citation of Tale

"Hermod and Hadvor.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 301-307.

Original Source of the Tale

Tale Notes

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Book Title

The Yellow Fairy Book

Book Author/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co.

Date Published

1906

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York
Bombay

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States
India

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

Book Notes

Though this book is written in prose with more difficult language than other books of fairy tales in the collection, the Preface says this book is written for children.

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"The Steadfast Tin-Soldier.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 308-312.

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 01:06:32 +0000

"The Steadfast Tin-Soldier.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 308-312. Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 08/03/2024 - 19:06

Andrew Lang

Tale Summary

Once upon a time there were 25 tin soldiers, all brothers, made of the same old spoon, who were a birthday gift to a little boy. There was one who had only been made with one leg, but was sturdy all the same. He was set on the table by the children with other toys, including a pretty little cardboard castle with a little lady who was a dancer, posed with one leg so high in the air that it disappeared. When he saw the lady with one leg, the soldier resolved that she was the wife for him, but he thought her too fine to live in the little box he shared with his brothers. He hid behind a snuffbox and watched her, and when night fell all the toys were playing with each other (except for the tin-soldiers who had been put away and could not lift the lid from their box) and at midnight a little black imp came out of the snuffbox and teased the tin-soldier with one leg. The next morning he was placed by a window and fell from it, 3 storeys to the ground, maybe because of the imp. The boy looked for him but could not find him because the soldier did not think it fitting for him to cry for help while in uniform, and so he lay there when it began to rain. Two street boys found him and placed him in a little paper boat and he went down a dark tunnel where a rat asked for his passport, but he bravely sailed on while the creature chased him. Where the tunnel ended there was a little waterfall which he fell down, bold and always thinking of the little dancer, and was swallowed by a fish which was soon caught and brought to a market where it was bought by the family of the little boy. The cook found him and brought him back to the same table where he was before and he saw the dancer still on one leg, as steadfast as he was. The little boys, for no reason unless it was the imp who made them, threw him into the stove and he suffered there from heat and from love. A door opened and a draught caught the little dancer and she flew into the stove with him and died with him. The next morning, the maid found the soldier melted down into the shape of a heart, while nothing was left of the dancer but her burnt gilt rose.

Fairy Tale Title

The Steadfast Tin-Soldier

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Common Tale Type

Tale Classification

Page Range of Tale

pp. 308-312

Full Citation of Tale

"The Steadfast Tin-Soldier.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 308-312.

Original Source of the Tale

Hans Christian Andersen

Tale Notes

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Book Title

The Yellow Fairy Book

Book Author/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co.

Date Published

1906

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York
Bombay

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States
India

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

Book Notes

Though this book is written in prose with more difficult language than other books of fairy tales in the collection, the Preface says this book is written for children.

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"Blockhead-Hans.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 313-318.

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 14:20:25 +0000

"Blockhead-Hans.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 313-318. Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 08/03/2024 - 08:20

Andrew Lang

Tale Summary

Once upon a time a King’s daughter proclaimed that she would marry whichever man who best chose his words, and two brothers resolved to win her hand. They were very intelligent, with one who had memorized the whole Latin dictionary as well as three year’s issues of the local paper, and the second knew everything about laws of corporations and states. Their father gave them a black one and a white one for each, respectively, and they set off for the castle. Just then, their younger brother, who was called Blockhead-Hans because he was very stupid, appeared and heard where they were going and decided he also would like to try his hand. Because his father would not give him a horse, he rode his goat up to his brothers and showed them a dead crow which he found on the way, saying that he would give it to the princess. A little ways on, he found an old wooden shoe without the top and was even more excited to give it to the King’s daughter. Even further on, he found a pile of mud and had the same jubilation and filled his pockets with it. When they arrived at the castle, huge numbers of suitors were being organized into tightly packed rows, six in each, and numbered according to their time of arrival. The princess welcomed man after man who did not please her, and the brothers saw all who she turned away. When the brother who knew the dictionary had his turn, he realized that he had quite forgotten it all. In her room, which was very hot, there were mirrors everywhere and in every window there were reporters and an editor who wrote down what he said to publish in the papers. He mentioned the heat, and she answered that she was grilling chickens that day, but he could think of no response and was taken away. The next brother had the same experience and was also rejected. Then it was Blockhead-Hans’s turn, and he rode in on his goat, exclaiming that it was very hot. When she said she was roasting chickens, he asked if he could roast his crow along with them. She gladly consented, but asked if he had something to cook it in. He proudly presented his old shoe, but she asked him where he would find soup. He poured some of the mud into the shoe, and the princess was delighted and proclaimed that she would marry him, but warned him that the reporters were writing down everything that was being said. Blockhead-Hans turned to the editor and flung mud from his pockets right into his face and he was soon married to the princess.

Fairy Tale Title

Blockhead-Hans

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Common Tale Type

The Hero Catches the Princess with Her Own Words

Tale Classification

ATU 853

Page Range of Tale

pp. 313-318

Full Citation of Tale

"Blockhead-Hans.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 313-318.

Original Source of the Tale

Hans Christian Andersen

Tale Notes

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Book Title

The Yellow Fairy Book

Book Author/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co.

Date Published

1906

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York
Bombay

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States
India

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

Book Notes

Though this book is written in prose with more difficult language than other books of fairy tales in the collection, the Preface says this book is written for children.

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"The Nightingale.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 291-300.

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 13:42:12 +0000

"The Nightingale.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 291-300. Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 08/03/2024 - 07:42

Andrew Lang

Tale Summary

Once upon a time, the Emperor of China lived in a magnificent palace surrounded by a wonderful garden in front of the sea and the woods, and in those woods a nightingale with the sweetest voice lived. Travelers came from around the world to visit her, and many books praised her. The Emperor had not heard of the bird until he read one of these books given to him by the Emperor of Japan, and told his First Lord to find it, but it was to no avail. The Lord told him it was probably made-up, but the King threatened to trample the whole court underfoot that evening if it was not found. A poor little girl in the kitchen said she knew the bird well, and heard it while carrying scraps of food to her sick mother through the wood. The First Lord promised her a top spot in the kitchen and leave to see the Emperor at dinner if only she led the way to the nightingale and she agreed. On their way they heard a cow mooing and everyone was convinced it was the bird, and further along they mistook croaking frogs as well. When they finally found the bird they asked if she would sing for the Emperor and she agreed, and then sang a marvelous song, thinking that he was in front of her. They invited her to the palace and she consented, and everything was beautifully prepared. She sang for the Emperor so sweetly that tears came to his eyes, and she would accept no payment. Everyone in the court was pleased with her song and she was made to stay and had her own cage, and was given permission to walk twice in the day and once at night with a silken string keeping her near, which was no way to live. One day, the Emperor received a gift from the Emperor of Japan, a little mechanical nightingale made with precious stones, who could sing as well as the real one. The two birds were made to sing a duet, but they did not perform well together, and so the artificial nightingale sang the same song 33 times by itself. During this time, the real nightingale had flown out the window. Everyone thought that she was very ungrateful, and said that they still had the better bird anyway, and so the mechanical nightingale was highly praised and the real one was banished from the kingdom. One evening while the Emperor lay in bed listening to it, the bird suddenly stopped singing, and a clockmaker said it must only be played very seldomly as its parts were worn down and could not be replaced, and so it only sung once a year. Five years later, the Emperor fell ill and a new Emperor was chosen, as the old one was likely to die. His court abandoned him in his bed to instead pay their respects to their new lord, and so he laid in silence. He wished he had music to help him through, but because there was no one to wind up the mechanical bird, it could not sing. Suddenly, a beautiful song came from the window, and the Emperor saw that it was the real nightingale, and his life began to return to him. He asked how he could reward her, and she said that it still pleased her that he wept the first time he heard her song, and she sang him a lullaby. After the night passed he was strong and well again and asked the bird to stay with him. She said she could not do that, but would visit and sing for him, as she loved his heart better than his crown, but asked him never to tell anyone he had a little bird who told him everything. She left and his servants came to look at the dead Emperor, and he wished them a good morning.

Fairy Tale Title

The Nightingale

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Common Tale Type

Tale Classification

Page Range of Tale

pp. 291-300

Full Citation of Tale

"The Nightingale.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 291-300.

Original Source of the Tale

Hans Christian Andersen

Tale Notes

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Book Title

The Yellow Fairy Book

Book Author/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co.

Date Published

1906

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York
Bombay

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States
India

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

Book Notes

Though this book is written in prose with more difficult language than other books of fairy tales in the collection, the Preface says this book is written for children.

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"The Tinder-Box .” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 265-273.

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 17:26:50 +0000

"The Tinder-Box .” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 265-273. Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/01/2024 - 11:26

Andrew Lang

Tale Summary

There was once a soldier who was returning home from war, who met an old witch on the road. She said he deserved riches, and pointed him to a hollow tree which he could let himself down into by climbing to the top, using a rope she would hold onto. At the bottom would be a large hall with three doors with their keys in the locks. She would give him her apron, because in the first room was a chest with a large-eyed dog on top, and he should place it on the apron so he could take all the copper money he would like. In the second room would be a dog with even rounder eyes, but he could take care of him in the same way and take silver. The third room had gold and a dog with even larger eyes, which would calm once on the apron. In return, the witch only asked him to bring an old tinder-box which her grandmother had forgotten there. He followed her instructions in each room, and came up laden with gold, but would not give her the tinder-box until she told him its value, and cut off her head when she would not speak. The soldier then went to a splendid town and got the finest clothes, and was told that the King had a beautiful daughter but that no one could see her, for she was in a great copper castle, kept there because of a prophecy that she would marry a common soldier. He became a great lord and took care of those in need, but at last he ran out of money and had to move into an attic where none of his friends visited. He could not even afford a light, so one night he tried kindling a light with the tinder-box, but as soon as it sparked the copper-guarding dog appeared and asked what his bidding was. He asked for money, and the dog soon reappeared with a purse, and soon the soldier was rich again. If he rubbed the tinder-box once, the copper-guarding dog came, if he rubbed twice, the silver-guarding dog would come, and three times meant the gold-guarding dog would appear. He had one of the dogs fetch the princess one night and kissed her while she was sleeping before she was returned to the castle. When she awoke, she told her parents about what a strange dream she had about the soldier, and so a lady-in-waiting was made to keep watch the next night, and sure enough the dog returned and took her to the soldier’s house. The lady followed and made a cross on his door to mark it, but the clever soldier drew the same cross on every other house so that the King and Queen were confused. The next night, the Queen tied a sack of buckwheat with a little hole to the princess’s neck, and on her way to the soldier it left a clear trail and the next day he was arrested and sentenced to a hanging. The soldier promised four shillings to a shoemaker’s apprentice to fetch his tinderbox, which he had left at home, and before he was to be hanged he earnestly asked if he could smoke one last pipe of tobacco, which the King could not refuse. The soldier rubbed the box once, twice, and three times so that all three dogs appeared, and he asked them to help him not be hanged. The dogs fell upon the council and the King and Queen, throwing them high in the air so that they were smashed to pieces when they came back down. The soldiers, afraid, said he would be King and marry the Princess, and so the two were happy and had a wonderful wedding feast.

Fairy Tale Title

The Tinder-Box

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Common Tale Type

The Spirit in the Blue Light

Tale Classification

ATU 562

Page Range of Tale

pp. 265-273

Full Citation of Tale

"The Tinder-Box .” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 265-273.

Original Source of the Tale

Hans Christian Andersen

Tale Notes

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Kaeli Waggener, 2024

Book Title

The Yellow Fairy Book

Book Author/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co.

Date Published

1906

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York
Bombay

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States
India

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

Book Notes

Though this book is written in prose with more difficult language than other books of fairy tales in the collection, the Preface says this book is written for children.

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"The Blue Mountains.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 256-264.

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:38:47 +0000

"The Blue Mountains.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 256-264. Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/01/2024 - 07:38

Andrew Lang

Tale Summary

There was once a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman who were serving in the army, and ran away at the first chance they had. They wandered without food or drink for two days in a great forest filled with wild beasts, and the next morning the Scotsman climbed a tree and saw a castle on a hill far away and left for it without telling his companions. He reached the castle that night and was disappointed to find locked doors and no smoke coming from the chimneys, when a window opened and a beautiful woman appeared. She let him in, and he entered a large room with many men lying asleep. She fed him and he slipped into a slumber with the others. That night, surrounded by wild beasts, the Englishman also saw the castle in the distance, and the same thing happened to him as it did to the Scotsman. The next day, the Irishman also made it to the same place, but when he was given food and drink he refused to touch it until he learned who the woman was. She revealed that she was an enchanted Princess, and that her father had promised that the first man who released her from her spell would have a third of his kingdom, and all of it when he died, as well as her hand in marriage. She had been there sixteen years and no man had ever asked her name, and they all were asleep in the big room. She told him that if she could get a man to stay in a certain room from ten o’clock until midnight for three nights, she would be freed, and the Irishman willingly agreed to this. He was not there long when he heard knocking on the door but he would not open it, and so it was broken down and those outside came in and gave him a horrible beating until midnight. In the morning the princess appeared and rubbed him with something from a bottle that healed him, but he was unwilling to do the same thing a second night. She convinced him to stay, and he received an even worse beating. The next night she pleaded with him to stay, and he received the worst beating yet, but in the morning he was healed by the princess and released her from her spell. She told him that she must leave but that she would be back in several days in a carriage drawn by four gray horses. Although he protested, she disappeared before his eyes after she gave him a rod that would wake the sleeping men. A little lad who was the princess’s servant arrived to wait on him, and told the Irishman that the princess would come the next morning at nine o’clock, but when he went out to greet her the lad stuck a pin in his back which made him fall asleep. He told the princess that the Irishman was still sleeping and so she said he must meet her the next day. The lad took the pin out of the man’s back and he woke up, and was very sorry and confused that he missed her. The same thing happened the next morning, and the princess warned that he would never see her again if he did not show up on time. Again, the next morning the lad pricked the Irishman, and the princess was very sad, and gave the lad a sword to give to the man. This he did, and then vanished. The man was heartbroken, and used the rod to wake his two companions, giving them riches before sending them on their way and awakening the rest of the men. He then resolved to search the world for the princess, and so traveled for three years, at the end of which he was so downtrodden that he drew out the sword to kill himself. He noticed an inscription which read “you can find me in the Blue Mountains” and so he took heart and searched for someone who could tell him the way. He came across a little house, and the old man inside said that he had lived there for three hundred years, and in that time the Irishman was the only human he had seen. He spent the night there while the old man scoured a book which contained the history of the world to learn about the Blue Mountains, but he could not find it and instead sent the Irishman to see his brother, who lived nine hundred miles away. He blew a whistle, and the Irishman found himself there. The exact same events transpired, and he was whistled away to another brother’s house, who said that he was the master of all the birds in the world and would ask if they knew the location of the Blue Mountains. He called them all together and asked each one, but no one had heard of it until a giant Eagle showed up and apologized for being late, but that she flew a long way from the Blue Mountains. She told them that a marriage was being prepared for the princess, who had refused to marry for three years because she had not given up hope on the Irishman. The bird said that she would carry him, but that her price would be threescore cattle, cut into quarters which he must feed her every time she looked over her shoulder. The Irishman and the old man killed and quartered that many by evening and then the man mounted the Eagle and set off. As they came to the borders of the kingdom, however, he ran out of meat and threw a stone at the bird which sent them tumbling down, but he was lucky enough to land in the bay in front of the palace. He was reunited with the princess just in time, and they had a great wedding feast that lasted for a year and a day.

Fairy Tale Title

The Blue Mountains

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Common Tale Type

The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife, The Eagle as helper

Tale Classification

ATU 400, ATU 537

Page Range of Tale

pp. 256-264

Full Citation of Tale

"The Blue Mountains.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 256-264.

Original Source of the Tale

Tale Notes

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Kaeli Waggener, 2024

Book Title

The Yellow Fairy Book

Book Author/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co.

Date Published

1906

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York
Bombay

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States
India

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

Book Notes

Though this book is written in prose with more difficult language than other books of fairy tales in the collection, the Preface says this book is written for children.

Traditional

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"Prince Ring.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 237-248.

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:37:00 +0000

"Prince Ring.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 237-248. Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/31/2024 - 13:37

Andrew Lang

Tale Summary

There was once a King and a Queen who had a daughter named Ingiborg, and a son named Ring. One day he was hunting a deer with his men and became lost, so they all went in different directions. The Prince wandered for a while until he was graciously received by a woman sitting next to a big barrel, in which he saw a beautiful gold ring. She told him he could take it if he was able, but the further he reached into the water the deeper it became, until the woman pushed him inside, sealed it, and threw it out to sea. After some time he knocked against some rocks, and so he kicked out the bottom of the barrel and swam to shore and then climbed up high cliffs to see that he was on a very pleasant island. He was there several days when a Giant picked him up and carried him to his house, and he and his wife treated the prince like their child. The Giant had shown the prince all his rooms except for the parlor, which made him very curious, and one day he tried to peek inside. In the room was a huge dog, which said “choose me, Prince Ring” and he went away afraid. After some time the Giant knew he had not much time left to live, and so offered to take the prince back to the mainland as well as give him anything he wanted. He chose the dog, and the Giant brought the two of them to the mainland and promised the Prince that he would have ownership of the island and all that was on it after he died within two weeks. Ring walked with the dog, who said his name was Snati-Snati and advised that he ask a nearby King to keep the two of them for the winter. They were granted this, and the King’s men laughed at the dog. After several days the King took a liking to Ring, but he had a counselor named Red who became very jealous of him and asked for a wood-cutting contest the next morning. Snati-Snati heard this and advised the Prince to ask for two axes, and so when the two men went their separate ways into the woods the next morning, the dog used one of the axes to work alongside the Prince, and so he won the competition. Red was all the more jealous, and told the King that he should test Ring’s valliance even more by having him kill two dangerous wild oxen, flay them, and bring back the skin and horns in the same day. The King reluctantly agreed and again the dog helped the Prince with the task. Red was determined to destroy Ring because the King had taken such a liking to him, and so he reminded the King of a gold cloak, gold chess-board, and gold piece that he had lost about a year before, and suggested that Ring should find them and bring them back by Christmas and be given the hand of the princess in marriage. Soon before Christmas, the King gave Ring this task, and Snati-Snati told him to gather up all the salt he could carry. The Prince did this and slung it in a sack over the dog’s back and was led by him to a steep cliff. The dog pulled him up to the top, and after a while, on Christmas Eve, they came to a cave in which four trolls were sleeping beside a fire which they were cooking porridge on. Snati-Snati told Ring to pour the salt into the food, and the trolls woke up soon after he did this. The old hag troll woke up and complained about the salt, although the others did not mind, but soon she was so thirsty that she made her daughter run out to get water from a nearby river. The younger troll agreed only when her mother told her she could bring the bright gold chess piece, but when she got to the water Ring and Snati-Snati drowned her. Next, the hag sent her son, who demanded the gold cloak, but he was drowned too when he reached the river. Next, she sent her husband, who took the gold chess-board, and was also drowned. Before the two reached the cave, however, the husband troll’s ghost came at them and they managed to master him again. The dog told the Prince that they had to defeat the old hag in the cave, and that she was the worst witch that had ever lived, and to kill her one of them must pour the hot porridge on her and the other must hit her with red-hot iron. They succeeded, and took the King’s three treasures, along with many other riches, back to the castle in time. Ring was then betrothed to the princess and celebrated for his prowess. The dog asked if he could sleep in the prince’s bed, while the Prince slept where Snati-Snati usually rested on the floor. After a short time the dog came back and told Ring that he could return to his bed, but to be careful not to meddle with anything there. Meanwhile, Red came to the King to show him that his hand had been cut off and blamed the Prince, and the King said that whichever one of them was responsible should be hanged. Snati-Snati warned Ring, and the King was invited to his chamber, and shown a missing hand which still grasped a sword, and Ring said that Red had tried to kill him but he defended himself. Red was hanged and the Prince married the princess. The night of the wedding, the dog asked to sleep by their feet, and in the middle of the night the Prince saw the dog skin on the ground and a handsome man on the bed. He said that his name was also Ring and that he was a King’s son whose father had married an evil witch who placed him under a spell that could only be broken if a Prince of the same name allowed him to sleep at his feet on his wedding night. He added that his witch stepmother had learned of the bridegroom she set to destroy him, and it was she who was the deer who got him lost, the woman who tried to drown him in the barrel, and the old hag which he had just killed. After celebrations, he and the King’s men took all the treasure from the island home with them, and the dog Prince was married to Ingiborg and given Ring’s father’s kingdom. The first Prince Ring lived with his wife and father-in-law, who gave him half the kingdom while he lived and the whole of it after his death.

Fairy Tale Title

Prince Ring

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Common Tale Type

Enchanted Prince Disenchanted

Tale Classification

ATU 444

Page Range of Tale

pp. 237-248

Full Citation of Tale

"Prince Ring.” The Yellow Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906, pp. 237-248.

Original Source of the Tale

Tale Notes

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Kaeli Waggener, 2024

Book Title

The Yellow Fairy Book

Book Author/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Illustrator(s)

Henry Justice Ford

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co.

Date Published

1906

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York
Bombay

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States
India

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

Book Notes

Though this book is written in prose with more difficult language than other books of fairy tales in the collection, the Preface says this book is written for children.

Traditional

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