Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten FolktalesSleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles, outwit the Devil, and rescue friends and family from all sorts of dangers and evil spells. These stories and many others like them were gathered by scholars from all the countries of Europe, but are usually left out of the popular collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were supposed to be beautiful, innocent, and passive. |
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ALISON LURIE answer asked Baba Yaga baker's daughter began bird birdie black geese bread brother Cap o'Rushes castle Children's Literature Clever Gretchen cloak clothes cook cottage cried danced dark tower door dough dress Elena fairy father Forgotten Folktales gave George Dasent giant giant's house giant's wife gold Gone is gone hair Hand of Glory haugh Wood heard horse husband iron shoes Janet judge Kate KATE CRACKERNUTS Katie king knocked lady laughed lived looked Maid Maleen Manka marry master Mastermaid Mizilca Molly Whuppie morning Mother Holle never night old woman opened oven peasant pulled queen rode Rosa sack shoot sister Sleeping Prince slipped snoring soon stable Stanuta story stranger Sultan supper thought threw told Tomlin took tower trees true bride ugly princess walked wedding Wilhelm Grimm witch woke