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"The Glass Mountain" (Polish: Szklanna Góra) is a Polish fairy tale, translated from the original Polish into German as Der Glasberg. [1] The tale was also compiled by Hermann Kletke and sourced as from Poland. [2] Andrew Lang included a translation into English in The Yellow Fairy Book. Further publications followed suit, keeping the name. [3 ...
About the Golden-Haired Boy (Polish: O chłopcu złotowłosym) is a Polish fairy tale first collected by ethnographer Karol Mátyás. It is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as ATU 314, "Goldener". It deals with a friendship between a king's son and a magic horse that are forced to flee for their lives due to the boy's ...
King Kojata or The Unlooked for Prince or Prince Unexpected (Polish: O królewiczu Niespodzianku) is a Slavonic fairy tale, of Polish origin. [1] Louis Léger remarked that its source ( Bajarz polski ) was "one of the most important collections of Polish literature".
Polish fairy tales (7 P) U. UFO sightings in Poland (3 P) W. Witchcraft in Poland (1 C) Pages in category "Polish folklore" The following 33 pages are in this ...
The Troubles of a Gnome (Polish: Kłopoty Kacperka góreckiego skrzata) is a children's book by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. First published in 1926, the novel is set in Cieszyn Silesia and features the titular gnome, Kacperek. According to some literary scholars, it is considered "one of the most beautiful Polish fairy tales".
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
Polish artist's impression of a wiła. According to Natalie Kononenko, the vilas are female spirits of nature, of an ambivalent relationship with humans. In fairy tales, they may act with malice towards them (killing people, destroying crops), but may also help the hero by giving him magical objects and mounts. [3]