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Folk-lore and legends: English

The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is being lost, more rapidly in England, perhaps, than in any other part of the world. Our folk are giving up the old myths for new ones. Before remorseless “progress,” and the struggle for existence, the poetry of life is being quickly blotted out. In editing this volume I have endeavoured to select some of the best specimens of our Folklore. With regard to the nursery tales, I have taken pains to give them as they are in the earliest editions I could find. I must say, however, that, while I have taken every care to alter only as much as was absolutely necessary in these tales, some excision and slight alteration has at times been required. - Summary by Charles John Tibbits

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Introductory Note (Paul Mazumdar)
A Dissertation on Fairies Part 1 (Bill Boerst)
A Dissertation on Fairies Part 2 (Foon)
Nelly the Knocker (Dafni Ma)
The Three Fools (arjunanand)
Some Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham (Foon)
The Tulip Fairies (Sonnie Abdalla)
The History of Jack and the Giants (Linda Johnson)
The Fairies’ Cup (Gemma L Myers)
The White Lady (Gemma L Myers)
A Pleasant and Delightful History of Thomas Hickathrift (Linda Johnson)
The Spectre Coach (Linda Johnson)
The Baker’s Daughter (arjunanand)
The Fairy Children (Jessica Jiwon Choe)
The History of Jack and the Beanstalk (Fadi Qutub)
Johnny Reed’s Cat (Elizabeth P.)
Lame Molly (Elizabeth P.)
The Brown man of the Moors (Jonathan Paul Arnold)
How the Cobbler cheated the Devil (Jonathan Paul Arnold)
The Tavistock Witch (Jonathan Paul Arnold)
The Worm of Lambton (Linda Johnson)
The Old Woman and the Crooked Sixpence (arjunanand)
The Yorkshire Boggart (susanjhudson)
The Duergar (Linda Johnson)
The Barn Elves (Linda Johnson)
Legends of King Arthur (susanjhudson)
Silky (Paul Mazumdar)
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