Blue Mountains and Other Fairy Tales

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• Publisher: Sovereign
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781910343777
• Edition: 0

There were once a Scotsman and an Englishman and an Irishman serving in the army together, who took it into their heads to run away on the first opportunity they could get. The chance came and they took it. They went on travelling for two days through a great forest, without food or drink, and without coming across a single house, and every night they had to climb up into the trees through fear of the wild beasts that were in the wood. On the second morning the Scotsman saw from the top of his tree a great castle far away...

Table of contents

• THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
• KING FROST
• THE GREEN MONKEY
• THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
• THE SIX SWANS
• THE DRAGON OF THE NORTH
• STORY OF THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES
• THE GOLDEN CRAB
• THE IRON STOVE
• THE DRAGON AND HIS GRANDMOTHER
• THE DONKEY CABBAGE
• THE LITTLE GREEN FROG
• THE SEVEN-HEADED SERPENT
• THE GRATEFUL BEASTS
• THE GIANTS AND THE HERD-BOY
• THE INVISIBLE PRINCE
• THE CROW
• HOW SIX MEN TRAVELLED THROUGH THE WIDE WORLD
• THE WIZARD KING
• THE NIXY
• THE GLASS MOUNTAIN
• THE THREE BROTHERS
• THE BOY AND THE WOLVES, OR THE BROKEN PROMISE
• THE GLASS AXE
• THE DEAD WIFE
• IN THE LAND OF SOULS
• THE WHITE DUCK
• THE WITCH AND HER SERVANTS
• THE MAGIC RING
• THE FLOWER QUEEN’S DAUGHTER
• THE FLYING SHIP
• THE SNOW-DAUGHTER AND THE FIRE-SON
• THE DEATH OF THE SUN-HERO
• THE WITCH
• THE HAZEL-NUT CHILD
• THE STORY OF BIG KLAUS AND LITTLE KLAUS
• PRINCE RING
• THE SWINEHERD
• HOW TO TELL A TRUE PRINCESS
• THE TINDER-BOX
• THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT
• THUMBELINA
• THE NIGHTINGALE
• HERMOD AND HADVOR
• THE STEADFAST TIN-SOLDIER
• BLOCKHEAD-HANS
• A STORY ABOUT A DARNING-NEEDLE