The Crimson Fairy Book Classic Fairy Tales

The Crimson Fairy Book - 36 Classic Tales from Caryns eBooks -- Includes Lucky, Luck, The Hairy Man, Tiidu the Piper and numerous more. *** numerous tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told by mothers and nurses in Hungary; others are familiar to Russian nurseries; the Servians are responsible for some; a rather peculiarly fanciful set of stories are adapted from the Roumanians; others are from the Baltic shores; others from sunny Sicily;afewarefrom Finland, and Iceland, and Japan, and Tunis, and Portugal. No doubt numerous children will like to look out these places on the map, and analyze their mountains, rivers, soil, products, and fiscal policies, in the geography books. The peoples who tell the stories differ in colour; language, religion, and almost everything else; but they all love a nursery tale. The stories have mainly been adapted or translated by Mrs. Lang, a few by Miss Lang and Miss Blackley.