More English Fairy Tales

Synopsis

More English Fairy Tales is a collection of traditional folk tales of England, compiled and rewritten by the American historian Joseph Jacobs and John Dickson Batten.

Jacobs mentions in the preface that “ I have taken English tales wherever I could find them, one from the United States, some from the Lowland Scotch, and a few have been adapted from ballads, while I have left a couple in their original metrical form. I have rewritten most of them, and in doing so have adopted the traditional English style of folk-telling, with its "Wells" and "Lawkamercy" and archaic touches, which are known nowadays as vulgarisms.”

Out of more than 30 stories, some of them include The pied piper, The Golden ball, My own self, Three feathers, The hedley kow, The Wee Bannock, The three cows, The blinded giant, The Pedlar of Swaffham, The three wishes, The buried Moon, The children in the wood, and The king of England and his three sons.

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