Fairy Tale Magic - A collection of 54 children's fairy tales such as Mother Holle, The Barley Thief, Hans in Luck, The Sweet Porridge, The Barley Grain, The Tale of Cockaigne, The Play Angel, Prince Golden Beetle, The Seven White Deer, The Man in the Moon, and many more. Illustrated with 12 black-and-white plates. Unlike legends and myths, fairy tales are entirely fictional, and their plots are not bound by time or place. However, the distinction, especially between mythological legends and fairy tales, is often blurred, as both genres are closely related. A well-known example is the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, which is considered by Friedrich Panzer to be a 'softened' version of the Brünnhilde legend from the Nibelungen saga. In this context, the Waberlohe can be seen as a diminutive form of the rose hedge, and the Norns as trivialized into fairies. Characteristic of fairy tales is, among other things, the presence of...