FAIRY TALES, VOLUME I BY MARION FLORENCE LANSING

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<p class=""first"" style=""margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;

margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white"">airy Tales, of which this is the

first volume, follows without break an earlier book, Rhymes and Stories,

and is made up chiefly of <span lang=""DE"">Märchen</span>, or nursery

tales, with a few drolls, or comic anecdotes. The term “fairy tale” has been

used in its popular sense as including “tales in which occurs something

‘fairy,’ something extraordinary,—giants, fairies, dwarfs, speaking animals. It

must also be taken to cover tales in which what is extraordinary is the

stupidity of the actors.”<p></p></p>



<p style=""margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;

text-align:justify;background:white"">The tales are

usually romantic, with a definite plot, but without emphasis on the point of

their being fact or fiction. They do not locate the hero in history or require

a definite time or place, but begin with “Once upon a time, in a certain town

or village,” or with some equally indefinite introduction. They deal with the

supernatural, and always end well for the hero or heroine. They have usually

been retold from their original traditional form by some skilled story-teller.

Very few are distinctly English, though those from other lands have been

adopted by English-speaking peoples.<p></p></p>



<p style=""margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;

text-align:justify;background:white"">Sagas, of which

“Jack the Giant Killer” is an example, differ from the other classes in having

definite localities and dates assigned to them. They have been reserved

for Tales of Old England, which immediately follows in the series.

We have been compelled to omit from these volumes many tales which are worthy

favorites, but with at least as many fairy stories as are here collected every

child should be familiar. The aim has been to give a proportionate

representation to each of the great story-tellers, and to each kind of story,

and to introduce the best examples of the leading motifs of folklore. The

original sources have been sought out in every case,—in English chapbooks, in

collections of 1696 and 1795, in German and Old French,—and these versions have

been carefully and minutely compared with the best versions of later times and

of the present. Besides the scholarly interest attaching to such research, the

practical effect has been to simplify the stories by dropping off the fanciful

additions made by successive editors and returning to the beautiful simplicity

and the clear, forceful language of these wonderful products of the

story-teller’s art.<p></p></p>



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who was very poor, but he had a beautiful daughter. Now it happened that he ha