Herein are 26 illustrated tales about the goblins, fairies, elves, pixies, and ghosts of Lancashire for children. As you can see this book is not only about goblins but rather about the many beings which inhabit the lands of the Fairy Kingdom.Herein you will find stories like:The White DobbieThe Skriker, or ShriekerThe Unbidden GuestThe Fairy's SpadeThe King Of The FairiesThe Captured FairiesThe Pillion LadyThe Fairy Funeral

Europe had the Grimm Brothers and the UK and English speaking nations had Andrew Lang. Here is Lang's YELLOW FAIRY BOOK, yet another of his Many Cloloured Fairy Books. This extraordinary volume contains 37 old and forgotten folk and fairy tales including stories like stories Lovely Ilonka, Lucky Luck, The Hairy Man, To Your Good Health! and The Story of the Seven Simons. It also contains Russian, German, French, Icelandic, American (Red) Indian, and other tales from around the world.

This collection of 18 Romanian folk and fairy tales contains translations of tales from Romanian which, however, comprise but a small portion of the inexhaustible treasure that exists in the nation. While the originals are scattered throughout Romanian literature this volume is an excellent companion to “Roumanian Fairy Tales and Legends” ISBN: 978-8-827544-00-6 which contains a further 15 children’s tales from Romania.Given Romania’s long and diverse cultural history, it is no sur...

The Saga of Erik the Red is thought to have been composed before 1265AD on the Norse exploration of North-America. The saga also details the events that led to Erik the Red's banishment to Greenland and Leif Ericson's preaching of Christianity as well as his discovery of Vinland (America) after his longship was blown off course. By geographical details, this place is thought to be present-day Newfoundland, and was probably the first European discovery of the American mainland, some five ce...

Herein you will find 74 illustrated children’s stories from Old England. This is a collection of fairy tales, folk tales and other stories categorised into Ghosts, Goblins, Fairies, Historical and Legends, Nursery Tales, Giants, and Witchcraft. Tales include, The Haunted House, The Witch And The Toad, The Fairy Thieves, The Fairy Funeral, Jack And The Bean-Stalk, The Legend Of The Sons Of The Conqueror, The Blinded Giant, The Demon Tregeagle, The Haunted Widower, Spectre-Dogs, The Wise Foo...

In this volume of Korean Folk Tales, you will find 53 stories from the ancient Korean kingdoms of Silla and Balhae. Herein you will find stories like Charan, The Story Of Chang To-Ryong, A Story Of The Fox, Cheung Puk-Chang, The Seer, Yun Se-Pyong, The Wizard, The Wild-Cat Woman and many, many more.These stories have their roots in the equally ancient eastern religions of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism and have been translated from an old manuscript of Korean Folklore and transl...

Herein are 25 illustrated fairy stories for children compiled by the Bros. Grimm. The stories in this 2nd volume by Evelyn Sharp are the original stories and not the retellings of fairy stories. Herein is a veritable feast of folklore drawn from ages past. In this volume you will find the perennial favourites of The Goose-Girl, Hansel And Grethel, Snow White, Cinderella, Thumbling, or Thumbelina, Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin plus 18 others, not yet popularised by Disney.The full ta...

On the borders of the “Land o’ Dreams” and broad daylight, the real and the unreal are so strangely blended that children are puzzled to know where the boundary lies. It is from this land that these 28 illustrated bedtime stories in this volume are taken.Herein you will find stories like:The EatyoupThe Tell-Tale GoblinThe Peacock ButterfliesThe Little China ShepherdessHow The Buttercup Grew YellowInquisitive Mr. Possum...

We invite you to enjoy Georgian Folk Tales, a collection of 38 traditional children’s stories from the Republic of Georgia, Mingrelia and Guria translated by Marjorie Wardrop. Herein you will find stories of princes, kings, viziers, wicked stepmothers, princesses, fools, speaking serpents, and simple folk who make good - abound in the pages of this delightful volume. The 28 Mingrelian proverbs are a bonus and provide additional insight into the culture of the region.Many o...

In this volume you will find tales of Enchantments, Wizards, Witches, Magic Spells, Nixy Queens, Giants, Fairy White Reindeer, and glittering Treasures from the Amber lands bordering the Baltic Sea -- Lapland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. There is a mass of East Baltic folklore from which to choose which gives but a feeble idea of the extent of Baltic folk-lore.Herein you will find 41 stories like The Battle Of The Wizards, Kari Woodencoat, The Living Kantele, The Rainb...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 159In this 159th story in the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the children’s favourite of THE MASTER CAT, or, Puss in Boots. A miller’s son inherits a bag and a cat and thinks his world has come to an end. However, the cat can speak and he does have brains. With nothing left to lose, he puts his trust and his future in the cats hands, and so the adventure begins.....……. Download and read this story to find out how the cat uses his ...

Numberless stories of the little Ancient People of England’s West Country of Cornwall and Devon used to be told. In olden times cottagers often repeated to each other on winter evenings as they sat round the peat fires, and some of these Enys Tregarthen has retold 13 of the most enduring in this illustrated volume.The Legends in this volume are:The Adventures of a Piskey in Search of his LaughThe Legend of the Padstow DoombarThe Little Cake-bird