Chapter 21

of early fancy 167

e. Fairy tales owe their origin to a combination of all these theories 167

II. The transmission of fairy tales 167

1. The oral transmission of fairy tales 167

a. Examples of transmission of fairy tales: _Jack the Giant-Killer_, _Dick Whittington_, etc. 168

2. Literary transmission of fairy tales 170

a. An enumeration of the literary collections and books that have handed down the tales; as _Reynard the Fox_, the _Persian King-book, The Thousand and One Nights_, Straparola's _Nights_, Basile's _Pentamerone_, and Perrault's _Tales of Mother Goose_ 170

b. French publications of fairy tales 179

1) The tales of Perrault 179

2) Tales by followers of Perrault 181

3) A list of tales from the time of Perrault to the present time 183