known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many...
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variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited. He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School...
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Green fairy may refer to: Absinthe, an alcoholic beverage The Green Fairy Book (1892) in the series Lang's Fairy Books Fern the Green Fairy, one of the...
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Henry Justice Ford (category Illustrators of fairy tales)
when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children...
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Band. Berlin: C. Reimarus. 1845. pp. 122-123. "THE CROW from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books". mythfolklore.net. Retrieved 2016-05-28. Wójcicki, Kazimierz Władysław...
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Blockhead Hans (category Danish fairy tales)
translation (as "Blockhead Hans") appeared in Andrew Lang's 1894 The Yellow Fairy Book, although Lang gave no source for the tale. The tale has been variously...
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The Nunda, Eater of People (category African fairy tales)
Swahili Tales, as told by natives of Zanzibar (1870). Andrew Lang included it in The Violet Fairy Book (1901). It is Aarne-Thompson type 550, the quest for...
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A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in...
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Virgilius the Sorcerer (category British fairy tales)
Virgilius the Sorcerer is a fairy tale about the poet Virgil by Andrew Lang who included it in The Violet Fairy Book. Medieval legends attributed magical...
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Bluebeard (category French fairy tales)
detractor was Scottish folklorist Andrew Lang, selector and editor of the popular children's series Lang's Fairy Books. Lang was displeased with the Orientalist...
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