# Once Long Ago

Once Long Ago: Folk & Fairy Tales of the World is a book of 70 fairy tales from many countries and cultures. The tales are told by Roger Lancelyn Green and illustrated by Vojtěch Kubašta. The book was published in 1962 by Golden Pleasure Books in London and reprinted in 1966 (second edition) and 1967 (third edition). It is out of print.
The book is notable for the wide variety of its tales, most of which will be unfamiliar to readers from English-speaking countries, such as "The Nung-Guama" (Chinese), "The Voice of Death" (Romanian), and "Long, Stout, and Sharpeyes" (Czech). More familiar tales include "Little Snow White" and "The Sleeping Beauty."

## Contents

All wording and spelling appears as in the original book.
| Title | Country/Culture |
| The Boy and the Wolves | American Indian |
| The Son of the Wolf Chief | American Indian |
| The Blacksmith and the Devil | American Negro |
| The Prince and the Fairy | Arabian |
| Zoulvisia | Armenian |
| The Bunyip | Australian |
| The Nyamatsanes | Basuto |
| The Story of Yara | Brazilian |
| The Fairy Wife | Chinese |
| The Nung-Guama | Chinese |
| The Young Man and the Sea Maid | Cretan |
| Long, Stout and Sharpeyes | Czech |
| Hans, the Mermaid's Son | Danish |
| The Magic Book | Danish |
| The Treasure Thief | Egyptian |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | English |
| Coat of Rushes | English |
| The Three Bears | English |
| The Six Sillies | English |
| Sedna and the Hunter | Eskimo |
| The Dragon of the North | Estonian |
| The Hungry Beasts | Finnish |
| The Twelve Dancing Princesses | Flemish |
| Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose | Flemish |
| The Sleeping Beauty | French |
| Puss in Boots | French |
| Cinderella | French |
| Little Snow White | German |
| The Singing, Soaring Lark | German |
| The Three Treasures | German |
| The Fisherman and his Wife | German |
| The Hungry Prince | Ancient Greek |
| The Princess Atalanta | Ancient Greek |
| Yannikas and Marika | Modern Greek |
| The Boy and the Dragon | Modern Greek |
| The Grateful Animals | Hungarian |
| The Witch in the Stone Boat | Icelandic |
| The Lucky Adventurer | Indian |
| The Black Thief | Irish |
| The Leprechaun | Irish |
| The Frog Princess | Italian |
| The Cat Lovers | Japanese |
| The Foolish Giant | Lapp |
| The Three Princes | Lithuanian |
| The Wonderful Twins | Mexican |
| The Cunning Tortoise | Nigerian |
| Why the Sea is Salt | Norse |
| Soria Moria Castle | Norse |
| The Magic Bird | Persian |
| The Prince and the Maiden | Peruvian |
| The Glass Mountain | Polish |
| The Bones of Djulung | Polynesian |
| The Prince and the Dove | Portuguese |
| The Magic Mirror | Rhodesian |
| The Two Kings | Rhodian |
| The Voice of Death | Romanian (spelled "Rumanian" in the text) |
| Koshchei the Undying | Russian |
| The Witch in the Wood | Russian |
| Childe Roland | Scottish |
| The Brown Bull of Norrowa | Scottish |
| The Three Beggars | Serbian |
| The Cunning Shoemaker | Sicilian |
| The half-chick | Spanish |
| The Water of Life | Spanish |
| The Coward | Sudanese |
| The Prince and the Fox | Swedish |
| The Griffin | Swiss |
| Abu Nowas and his Wife | Tunisian |
| Madschun | Turkish |
| The Fairy of the Lake | Welsh |

## Related works

A stripped-down version of the book, titled Once Upon a Time: Folk and Fairy Tales of the World, was also published in 1962 by Golden Press (New York) and The Musson Book Company (Toronto). This edition used the same illustrated layouts, but only half (35) of the tales, for a total of 140 pages.