Womenfolk and fairy tales
By: Edited by Rosemary Minard ; illustrated by Suzanna Klein.
Contributors: Klein, Suzanna,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Fairy tales.; Women  -- Folklore.
Description: This collection of folk and fairy tales has the theme of a girl or women who is the moving force in each story.
Table of contents: title: Leodhas, S. N. The stolen bairn and the Sìdh.; title: Chang, I. C. The Chinese red riding hoods.; title: De La Mare, W. Molly Whuppie.; title: Jacobs, J. Mr. Fox.; title: The brothers Grimm. The twelve brothers.; title: Hearn, Lafcadio & others. The old woman and her dumpling.; title: Lang, A. The forty thieves.; title: Jacobs, J. Kate Crackernuts.; title: De La Mare, W. Clever Grethel.; title: Jacobs, J. Cap o' Rushes.; title: Leodhas, S. N. The lass who went out at the cry of dawn.; title: Stamm, C. Three strong women (a tall tale from Japan).; title: Asbjornsen and Moe. The husband who was to mind the house.; title: Asbjornsen and Moe. East of the sun and west of the moon.; title: Arnott, K. Unanana and the elephant.; title: Leodhas, S. N. The woman who flummoxed the fairies.; title: Fillmore, P. Clever Manka.; title: Asbjornsen and Moe. The three sisters who were entrapped into a mountain.