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The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many ...
The Green Fairy Book (1902). Leonora Blanche Lang (née Alleyne; 8 March 1851 – 10 July 1933) was an English writer, editor, and translator.She is best known as variously the translator, collaborator and writer of The Fairy Books, a series of 25 collections of folk and fairy tales for children she published with her husband, Andrew Lang, between 1889 and 1913.
Lang selected and edited 25 collections of stories that were published annually, beginning with The Blue Fairy Book in 1889 and ending with The Strange Story Book in 1913. They are sometimes called Andrew Lang's Fairy Books although the Blue Fairy Book and other Coloured Fairy Books are only 12 in the series.
"Hans My Hedgehog" (German: Hans mein Igel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 108). The tale was translated as Jack My Hedgehog by Andrew Lang and published in The Green Fairy Book. [1] It is of Aarne-Thompson type 441. [5] [6]
Two older brothers abused the youngest son, Peter.An old woman advised him to run away. When he did, she told him he should go to a certain tree, where he would find a man asleep and a swan tied to a tree; he should take the swan without waking the man, and everyone would fall in love with its plumage, but when they touched it, he could say "Swan, hold fast" and they would be prisoners.
The tale has been variously translated as The Enchanted Snake, by author Andrew Lang for The Green Fairy Book, [4] as The Serpent Prince, by illustrator Edmund Dulac, [5] also as The Serpent Prince for a 1849 publication, [6] as Grannonia and the Fox, [7] and by Nancy Canepa as The Serpent.