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" Fairy-tale (marchen) is with good reason distinguished from the Legend, though by turns they play into one another. Looser, less fettered than legend, the Fairy-tale lacks that local habitation, which hampers legend, but makes it the more homelike. "
Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend - Page 18
by Reimund Kvideland, Henning K. Sehmsdorf - 1988 - 429 pages
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Teutonic mythology, tr. by J.S. Stallybrass, Volume 3

Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 458 pages
...Fairy-tale lacks that local habitation, which hampers legend, but makes it the more homelike. The Fairy-tale flies, the legend walks, knocks at your door ; the one can draw freely out of the fulness of poetry, the other has almost the authority of history. As the Fairy-tale stands related...
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Teutonic Mythology, Volume 3

Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1883 - 462 pages
...Fairy-tale lacks that local habitation, which hampers legend, but makes it the more homelike. The Fairy-tale flies, the legend walks, knocks at your door ; the one can draw freely out of the fulness of poetry, the other has almost the authority of history. As the Fairy-tale stands related...
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Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction

Richard M. Dorson - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 574 pages
...lacks that local habitation, which hampers the legend, but makes it the more homelike. The fairy-tale flies, the legend walks, knocks at your door; the...poetry, the other has almost the authority of history. As the fairy-tale stands related to the legend, so does legend to history, and (we may add) so does...
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Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth

Alan Dundes - Fiction - 1984 - 372 pages
...another. Looser, less fettered than legend, the folktale lacks that local habitation which hampers legend, but makes it more home-like. The folktale...knocks at your door; the one can draw freely out of the fulness of poetry, 42. Erich Bethe, Marchen, Sage, Mythus (Leipzig, nd), p. 6. the other has almost...
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Contemporary Legend: A Reader

Gillian Bennett, Paul Smith - Legends - 1996 - 434 pages
...folklorists. Märchen was art, while Sage was merely history, as Jakob Grimm wrote in 1844: "The fairy-tale flies, the legend walks, knocks at your door; the...poetry, the other has almost the authority of history" (Degh 1972:72). Although this view of legend as the pedestrian cousin of Märchen now seems ironically...
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Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture

Charles W. Joyner - History - 1999 - 398 pages
...See also Jacob Grimm's metaphoric comparison of legend and Marchen: "The fairy tale flies, the legend knocks at your door; the one can draw freely out of...poetry, the other has almost the authority of history." Deutsche Mythologie (1844), quoted by Degh in "Folk Narrative," 72. 15. SeeJ. R. Rayfield, "What Is...
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The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 598 pages
...Fairy-tale lacks that local habitation, which hampers legend, but makes it the more homelike. The Fairy-tale flies, the legend walks, knocks at your door; the one can draw freely out of the fulness of poetry, the other has almost the authority of history. As the Fairy-tale stands related...
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Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale

Danielle Marie Roemer, Cristina Bacchilega - Fiction - 2001 - 278 pages
...Marchen and into legend. He reinscribes Jacob Grimm's oftenquoted 1844 statement that "The fairy-tale flies, the legend walks, knocks at your door; the...poetry, the other has almost the authority of history" (qtd. in Degh 72). In another sense, however, reasons for Carter's ostensible shift from "the fullness...
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