98 Indian, Celtic, and English Fairy Tales.

This edition has three of the folklorist Joseph Jacobs's classic fairy tale books in one: Indian, Celtic, and English.

INDIAN FAIRY TALES

Indian Fairy Tales is twenty-nine stories taken from popular South Asian oral history; Indian tales carried across by crusaders, Gipsies, Mongol missionaries, traders, Jews, and travellers. Jacobs has selected the best from the Baluchi folk-tales, the Jatakas, the Bidpai, the Tales of the Sun, and the folk-tales of Kashmir.

CELTIC FAIRY TALES

Celtic Fairy Tales filled with magic, charm, adventure, and humour. The stories were collected from Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland. But be warned, not every story has a happy ending.

ENGLISH FAIRY TALES

English Fairy Tales is a classic collection of that describe the fantastic adventures of witches, princes, giants, princesses, and numerous talking animals. This is not the plain, watered-down versions with happy endings; these are the darker counterparts. With classics like Jack the Giant Killer, The Three Bears, Tom Thumb, The Three Little Pigs, and Jack and the Beanstalk, as well as lesser-known stories filled with action, magic, ghosts, imps, fairies, and lost love. Delve into the dark magical world of make-believe.

INDIAN FAIRY TALES included:

1. The Lion and the Crane

2. How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam

3. The Lambikin

4. Punchkin

5. The Broken Pot

6. The Magic Fiddle

7. The Cruel Crane Outwitted

8. Loving Laili

9. The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal

10. The Soothsayers Son

11. Harisarman

12. The Charmed Ring

13. The Talkative Tortoise

14. A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice

15. The Gold-Giving Serpent

16. The Son of Seven Queens

17. A Lesson for Kings

18. Pride Goes Before a Fall

19. Raja Rasalu

20. The Ass in the Lion's Skin

21. The Farmer and the Money-Lender

22. The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin

23. The Prince and the Fakir

24. Why the Fish Laughed

25. The Demon with the Matted Hair

26. The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess

27. Sun, Moon, and Wind go out to Dinner

28. How the Wicked Sons were Duped

29. The Pigeon and the Crow

CELTIC FAIRY TALES include:

1. Connla and the Fairy Maiden
2. Guleesh
3. The Field of Boliauns
4. The Horned Women
5. Conall Yellowclaw
6. Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
7. The Shepherd of Myddvai
8. The Sprightly Tailor
9. The Story of Deirdre
10. Munachar and Manachar
11. Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
12. King O'Toole and his Goose
13. The Wooing of Olwen
14. Jack and his Comrades
15. The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
16. The Story-Teller at Fault
17. The Sea-Maiden
18. A Legend of Knockmany
19. Fair, Brown and Trembling
20. Jack and his Master
21. Beth Gellert
22. The Tale of Ivan
23. Andrew Coffey
24. The Battle of the Birds
    25.Brewery of Eggshells
25. The Lad with the Goat-Skin

ENGLISH FAIRY TALES include:

1. Tom Tit Tot
2. The Three Sillies
3. The Rose-Tree
4. The Old Woman and Her Pig
5. How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune
6. Mr. Vinegar
7. Nix Nought Nothing
8. Jack Hannaford
9. Binnorie
10. Mouse and Mouser
11. Cap O' Rushes
12. Teeny-Tiny
13. Jack and the Beanstalk
14. The Story of the Three Little Pigs
15. The Master and His Pupil
16. Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse
17. Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box
18. The Story of the Three B

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