page_title: Gossip from the Forest (Maitland book)
section_title: The chapters: the forests and the retold tales
hierarchical_section_title: Gossip from the Forest (Maitland book) / The chapters: the forests and the retold tales
caption_attribution_description: Bremen Town Band, Bremen, Germany. Taken by Adrian Pingstone in 1990 and released to the public domain.
context_page_description: Gossip from the Forest: the Tangled Roots of our Forests and Fairytales is a 2012 book by Sara Maitland about the connections between forests and fairytales in Northern Europe. It is structured around accounts of walks through 12 forests in Scotland and England, one per month of the year, and 12 associated retellings of traditional fairytales, and was published by Granta.
  Maitland has described the book as "a hybrid book ... history and photographs and nature and politics and science and anthropology and fiction and, indeed, gossip."
context_section_description: March
  Airyolland Wood, Dumfries and Galloway
  "Thumbling"
  April
  Saltridge Wood, near Stroud, Gloucestershire
  "The White Snake"
  May
  The New Forest, Hampshire
  "Rumpelstiltskin"
  June
  Epping Forest, Greater London and Essex
  "Hansel and Gretel"
  July
  The Great North Wood, Dulwich, Sydenham and Norwood, London
  "Little Goosegirl"
  August
  Staverton Thicks (and Staverton Park), Suffolk
  "The Seven Swans' Sister" - see "The Six Swans"
  September
  Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
  "The Seven Dwarves"
  October
  Ballochbuie, near Braemar and the Forest of Mar, Aberdeenshire
  "Rapunzel"
  November
  Kielder Forest, Northumberland
  "Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf"
  December
  The Purgatory Wood, near New Luce, Dumfries and Galloway
  "The Four Comrades" - see "Town Musicians of Bremen"
  January
  Glenlee: woods at this house near New Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway
  "Dancing Shoes" - see "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
  February
  Knockman Wood, Cree Valley, Galloway Hills
  "The Dreams of the Sleeping Beauty"
caption: The Four Comrades / Town Musicians of Bremen, statue in Bremen
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