Rare discovery in the world of fairy tales—now for the first time in English! With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost—until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schönwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre. CONTENTS PART I: TALES OF MAGIC AND ROMANCE THE TURNIP PRINCESS THE ENCHANTED QUILL THE IRON SHOES THE WOLVES THE FLYING TRUNK KING GOLDENLOCKS THE BEAUTIFUL SLAVE GIRL THREE FLOWERS THE FIGS THE ENCHANTED MUSKET THE THREE ABDUCTED DAUGHTERS THE PORTRAIT ASHFEATHERS TWELVE TORTOISES THUMBNICKEL HANS THE STRONG MAN LOUSEHEAD SEVEN WITH ONE BLOW! THE BURNING TROUGH THE KING’S BODYGUARD THE SCORNED PRINCESS PART II: ENCHANTED ANIMALS THE TALKING BIRD, THE SINGING TREE, AND THE SPARKLING STREAM THE WEASEL THE KNIGHT’S SASH THE GIRL AND THE COW THE CALL OF THE SHEPHERD’S HORN THE MARK OF THE DOG, PIG, AND CAT THE THREE-LEGGED GOATS THE TRAVELING ANIMALS THE SNAKE’S TREASURE THE SNAKE SISTER “FOLLOW ME, JODEL!” THE TOAD BRIDE PRINCE DUNG BEETLE PART III: OTHERWORLDLY CREATURES THE THREE SPINDLES THE LITTLE FLAX FLOWER WOODPECKER THE RED SILK RIBBON TWELVE BRIDES THE HOWLING OF THE WIND HANS DUDELDEE THE BELT AND THE NECKLACE DRUNK WITH LOVE ANNA MAYALA IN THE JAWS OF THE MERMAN THE KING’S RING THE THREE GOLDEN CROWNS NINE BAGS OF GOLD TWO BROTHERS TRICKING THE WITCH THE ENCHANTED FIDDLE THE DEVIL AND THE FISHERMAN THE EXPERT HUNTER A POT OF GOLD IN THE OVEN CONTESTS WITH THE DEVIL WOUD AND FREID PART IV: LEGENDS THE MOUSE CATCHER, OR THE BOY AND THE BEETLE PEARL TEARS FLOUR FOR SNOW HOYDEL PART V: TALL TALES AND ANECDOTES THE TALKER THE CLEVER TAILOR LEARNING HOW TO STEAL “DON’T GET MAD!” OFERLA PART VI: TALES ABOUT NATURE SIR WIND AND HIS WIFE THE ICE GIANTS WHY SNOW IS WHITE THE SUN TAKES AN OATH THE SUN’S SHADOW WHAT THE MOON TRIED TO WEAR THE SINGING TREE
