Folk and Fairy Tales

Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1978 anthology of 25 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. In fact, the book is mostly a collection of tales published in previous Manning-Sanders anthologies. Stories are pulled from A Book of Dragons, A Book of Mermaids, A Book of Witches, A Book of Dwarfs, A Book of Devils and Demons, A Book of Kings and Queens, A Book of Magic Animals, A Book of Giants, A Book of Ogres and Trolls, A Book of Wizards, A Book of Enchantments and Curses and A Book of Monsters.

There are also five previously unpublished stories. (Numbers 21 through 25 in the table of contents.)

It is preceded by the anthology A Choice of Magic (1971), another collection of (mostly) previously published Manning-Sanders tales.

Table of contents

 * Introduction
 * 1. My Lord Bag of Rice (Japan)
 * 2. Merman Rosmer (Scotland)
 * 3. The Old Witch (England)
 * 4. The Skipper and the Dwarfs (Jutland)
 * 5. Something Wonderful (Finland)
 * 6. Selim and the Snake Queen (Greek Isles)
 * 7. Jon and His Brothers (French Canada)
 * 8. The Monster with Seven Heads (Madagascar)
 * 9. The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body (Norway)
 * 10. The Little Tailor and the Three Dogs (Germany)
 * 11. The Silver Penny (Hungary)
 * 12. Vasilissa Most Lovely (Russia)
 * 13. Fin M'Coul and Cucullin (Ireland)
 * 14. King Josef (Czechoslovakia)
 * 15. Long, Broad and Sharpsight (Bohemia)
 * 16. The Knights of the Fish (Spain)
 * 17. The Girl in the Basket (Italy)
 * 18. The Monster in the Mill (Macedonia)
 * 19. The Lost Prince (Iceland)
 * 20. Lilla Rosa (Sweden)
 * 21. Smoke Bones (North American Indian)
 * 22. The Magic Roots (South America)
 * 23. The Sailor and the Devil (Holland)
 * 24. Sausages (Transylvania)
 * 25. The Caribou Wife (Alaska)