After the witches capture the night fairies, Weeny Witch helps them escape and discovers that she too is a night fairy, stolen years before by the witches.

    A selchie, a seal transformed into human form, lives on land with a lonely fisherman and his wife, until the day a great storm threatens the fisherman's life.

    Includes "The Headless Horseman, " "The Kindly Ghost, " and "The Leg of Gold."

    Then, one Halloween, a real witch comes and carries her off to the Wicked Witches Kingdom.

    Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition—stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us."This is a fine, homely feast, immediately intelligble. . . ."—Times Educational Supplement ". . . should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories."—Choice "This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man's attempts to comprehend his world."—Quartet "Folktales of England is by all odds the most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques."—Ernest W. Baughman, Journal of American Folklore

    From these islands have come myths of the raging, lonely sea, the misty moors, and the fabled people who have lived there.In Sea-Spell and Moor-Magic, Sorche Nic Leodhas recounts ten stories from different islands in the Hebrides, including one from the mythical land of Eilean-h-oige. From the baker who won the heart of a princess, to the lord who sailed to avenge an insult to his king, to the lass who saved the life of a water bull, these lovely tales show the beauty and mystery of the Scottish Western Isles.

    # Mind Your Own Business# The Little Toy Gun# The Untidy Gnome# The Two Runaways# The Enchanted Book# Big-Eyes the Frog# The Surprising Sister# Greedy Gubbins# The Toy Telephone# Red Button Land# Clever Old Green-Eyes# Pop-Pop-Pop!# She Didn't Want to Go# Poor Dicky Duck# 'My Goodness!'# The Doll on the Christmas Tree# Which Would You Do?# He Would Slam the Door!

    43 stories include "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Nix Nought Nothing," and many more. 65 illustrations.

    Each era has seen variations in the roles of he Prince, the Odette-Odile Swan Queen, the Queen Mother, as performed by distinguished dancers, and as portrayed by notable graphic artists. Petipa borrowed from a German legend; the present retelling goes back to a different traditional version to let the reader know that the sorcerer's wickedness was defeated by Prince Siegfried, and the lovers were united.