British folk tales and legends
Subtitle: a sampler
By: [compiled by] Katharine M. Briggs
Publisher: Paladin
Published: 1977
Place of publication: St Albans
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780586082379
Subjects: Tales; Legends
Other titles: British folktales and legends :
Work titles: Dictionary of British folk tales in the English language. Selections
Notes: "[The author has] taken [her] Dictionary of British folk-tales (Part A, 2 volumes published in 1970 and Part B, 2 volumes published in 1971 ...) and selected a sampler ..."--Introduction.

This selection originally published: London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.
Table of contents: title: Fables and exempla. Belling the cat; title: The bum bee; title: The farmer and his ox; title: Fairy tales. Allison Gross; title: Ashey pelt; title: The dead moon; title: The flight of the birds; title: The Gobborn seer; title: The golden ball; title: Jack and the giants; title: The king of the black art; title: King Herla; title: The man who wouldn't go out at night; title: The old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle; title: Tom Tim Tot, with its sequel, The gipsy woman; title: Jocular tales. Austwick Carles : II; title: The Austwick Carles and the watch : V; title: The best way to die; title: Box about; title: The cuckoo-penners; title: The dog that talked; title: Dutch courage; title: An exorcism; title: Good and bad news; title: The man that stoles the parson's sheep; title: The miller's eels; title: The Painswick ancients; title: The secret agent; title: The three sillies; title: The two pickpockets; title: Yorkshire follies : the considerate bandsman; title: Novelle. Adam Bel, Clym of the Clough and William of Cloudesley; title: Cap O'Rushes; title: The king of the liars; title: Mr. Fox; title: The professor of signs; title: The tale of Ivan; title: The three good advices; title: The ungrateful sons; title: Nursery tales. The cattie sits in the kiln-ring spinning; title: The endless tale; title: The old man at the white house; title: Sir Gammer Vans; title: Teeny-tiny; title: The three bears; title: The three wee pigs; title: The wee, wee mannie; title: Black dogs. The black dog of Tring; title: The guardian black dog; title: Lyme Regis black dog legend; title: Bogies. The boggart; title: The buttery spirit; title: The farmer and the boggart; title: Nuckelavee; title: The white bucca and the black; title: Devils. The black rider; title: Dando and his dogs; title: The devil at the card party; title: The devil at Little Dunkeld Manse; title: A minister molested; title: The prize wrestler and the demon; title: Dragons. The dragon of Wantley; title: The gurt vurm of Shervage Wood; title: King Arthur and the dragon; title: The Linton worm; title: The Longwitton dragon; title: Fairies. Anne Jefferies and the fairies; title: The broken bilk; title: The brownie; title: The captured fairies; title: The fairy dwelling on Selena Moor; title: The green children; title: Horse and hattock; title: Inkberrow's ting-tang; title: Jeannie's granny sees a fairy; title: Johnnie in the cradle; title: -The laird of Balmachie's wife; title: The midwife; title: Sir Godfrey Macculloch; title: The white powder.; title: Ghosts. The Bishopsthorpe ghost; title: The Bussex Rhine, and king's Sedgemoor; title: Croglin Grange; title: The death "bree"; title: A doctor's strange experience; title: The drummer of Airlie; title: The ghost of Gairnside; title: The grateful ghost; title: John Rudall and the ghost of Dorothy Dinglett; title: Lady Howard's coach; title: A lay ghost-layer; title: The lord protector; title: Sammle's ghost; title: The silken shawl; title: The six dead men; title: The treasure of Downhouse; title: Giants. Brutus and Corineus; title: The giant bolster; title: The giant of Carn Galva; title: The giants of Stowey; title: The origin of the Wrekin : II; title: Wade and his wife; title: Historical traditions. Burke and hare; title: Cromwell in Glasgow; title: Drake as a wizard; title: Dream portending the death of William Rufus; title: Flood law in the fens; title: Folk-memory of Chaucer; title: The ghost's "evidence"; title: The grey goose feathers; title: King Richard and the penitent knight; title: Marshall's elm; title: The Oxford student; title: Pudsay the coiner; title: The sons of the conqueror; title: The warden of the marshes; title: Local legends. The beasts' thorn; title: Canobie Dick and Thomas of Ercildoun; title: The church of Fordoun; title: The cook at Combwell; title: Crawls; title: The gold of Largo Law; title: Guinevere's comb; title: The horn of Egremont; title: The murder hole; title: The old house of Balhary; title: Owen Parfitt; title: The pedlar of Swaffham; title: The rollright stones; title: The sale of a wife; title: Simmer water; title: Trapping the plague; title: The wimblestone; title: Saints. The Crowza stones; title: Men with tails; title: St. Adelme; title: St. Aloys and the lame nag; title: St. Augustine at Long Compton; title: St Uncumber; title: St. Wulfric and the greedy boy; title: Ushen and St. Patrick; title: The supernatural. The anchor; title: The curate of Axholme; title: The dart of death; title: The dream house; title: The escaping soul; title: The green lady of Cromarty; title: The hand of glory; title: The shepherd and the crows; title: A vision at Dunino; title: The waff; title: The wandering Jew; title: Witches. The black hen; title: The blacksmith's wife of Yarrowfoot; title: The counter-charm; title: The elder-tree witch; title: The ferryman; title: Friar Bacon; title: The hare's parliament; title: Jakey Bascombe and the cob; title: The laird of Pittarro; title: Molly Cass and the nine of hearts; title: Mother Shipton; title: The silver sixpence; title: The unbidden ghost; title: The witch of Berkeley; title: Witches at Hallowe'en; title: Miscellaneous legends. Farmer Hewlett's amends; title: The foreign hotel; title: The good magpie; title: The stolen corpse; title: The wooden legs.