Myrsina (Greek: Η Μυρσίνη) or Myrtle (Greek: Μυρτιά) is a Greek fairy tale collected by Georgios A. Megas [el] in Folktales of Greece. Other variants were collected...

Princess is a Greek fairy tale collected by Georgios A. Megas in Folktales of Greece. It is Aarne-Thompson type 938A, Misfortunes in Youth. A queen could...

Eastern Mediterranean is a turtle, which is the same animal of Greek variants. In the same vein, Greek scholar Georgios A. Megas [el] noted that similar...

intending to heal his wounds. A line of scholarship (e.g., Jan-Öjvind Swahn [sv], Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa Sr., Georgios A. Megas [el]) recognizes the independence...

What Is the Fastest Thing in the World? is a Greek fairy tale collected by Georgios A. Megas in Folktales of Greece. It is Aarne-Thompson type 875 and...

the story was the first written for a primarily child-aged audience. According to Greek folklorist Georgios A. Megas, fellow folklorist Michael Meracles...

fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, is a story that differs "from...

porridge. It is a late parallel to the Old Norse poem Grottasöngr, found in Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál. Georgios A. Megas collected a Greek variant...

Sister" is a Greek fairy tale collected by Georgios A. Megas in Folktales of Greece.: 54  It is Aarne-Thompson type 403A, The Wishes.: 225  A brother and...

Jean Traditions populaires de l'Asie Mineure Paris 1889 pp. 91-106 Megas, Georgios A. Folktales of Greece Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press...