Clever Gretchen and other forgotten folktales
By: retold by Alison Lurie ; illustrated by Margot Tomes
Contributors: Tomes, Margot
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crowell
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9780690039443; 9780690039436
Subjects: Tales; Folklore
Description: Folktales about heroines, "fair maidens [who] can fight and hunt as well as any man, defeat giants, answer riddles, outwit the Devil, and rescue friends and relatives from all sorts of dangers and evil spells."
Table of contents: title: Clever Gretchen.; title: Manka and the judge.; title: The black geese.; title: Mizilca.; title: The baker's daughter.; title: The mastermaid.; title: Molly Whuppie.; title: The hand of glory.; title: Maid Maleen.; title: Kate Crackernuts.; title: The sleeping prince.; title: Cap o'Rushes.; title: Gone is gone.; title: Mother Holle.; title: Tomlin.