The science of fairy tales

The incident of the recovery of the bride not found in all the stories--New Zealand sagas--Andrianòro--Mother-right--The father represented under a forbidding aspect--Tasks impo...

The belief in changelings--Precautions against changing--Motives assigned for changing--Attempts frustrated--How changelings may be known--Their physical characteristics--Device...

Retrospect--The fairies of Celtic and Teutonic races of the same nature as the supernatural beings celebrated in the traditions of other nations--All superstitions of supernatur...

The story of Rhys and Llewelyn--Dancing for a twelvemonth--British variants--Lapse of time among the Siberian Tartars--German and Slavonic stories--The penalty of curiosity and...

Before we quit the subject of fairy births, we have a few more stories to discuss. They resemble in their general tenor those already noticed; but instead of one or other of the...

The story not an early one--Its weirdest developments European--Stories of short time appearing long--Mohammed's night-journey and its variants--The Sleeping Hero, a heathen god...

The narratives with which we have hitherto been occupied belong to the class called Sagas. But our discussions of them have led us once and again to refer to the other class men...

The stories we have hitherto considered, relating to the supernatural lapse of time in fairyland, have attributed the mortal's detention there to various motives. Compulsion on...

The tale of Elidorus--Celtic and Teutonic stories of theft from supernatural beings--The thief unsuccessful--Cases of successful robbery--Robbery from the king of the serpents--...

A tale, the scene of which is laid near Beddgelert, runs, as translated by Professor Rhys, in this way:--"Once on a time, when a midwife from Nanhwynan had newly got to the Hafo...

The art of story-telling--Unity of human imagination--Definition of Fairy Tales--Variable value of Tradition--Story-telling and the story-teller among various peoples--The conne...

Fairy Tales, as defined in the previous chapter, fall under two heads. Under the first we may place all those stories which relate to definite supernatural beings, or definite o...