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Edmund Dulac. Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book: Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations
Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book: Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
SNEGOROTCHKA
A RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE
THE BURIED MOON
AN ENGLISH FAIRY TALE
WHITE CAROLINE AND BLACK CAROLINE
A FLEMISH FAIRY TALE
THE SEVEN CONQUERORS OF THE QUEEN OF THE MISSISSIPPI
A BELGIAN FAIRY TALE
THE SERPENT PRINCE
AN ITALIAN FAIRY TALE
THE HIND OF THE WOOD
A FRENCH FAIRY TALE
IVAN AND THE CHESTNUT HORSE
A RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE
THE QUEEN OF THE MANY-COLOURED BEDCHAMBER
AN IRISH FAIRY TALE
THE BLUE BIRD
A FRENCH FAIRY TALE
BASHTCHELIK (OR, REAL STEEL)
A SERBIAN FAIRY TALE
THE FRIAR AND THE BOY
AN ENGLISH FAIRY TALE
THE GREEN SERPENT
A FRENCH FAIRY TALE
URASHIMA TARO
A JAPANESE FAIRY TALE
THE FIRE BIRD
A RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE
THE STORY OF THE BIRD FENG
A CHINESE FAIRY TALE
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Edmund Dulac
Published by Good Press, 2019
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So the next night as the dark began to fall they all trooped out into the marshes, each with a stone in his mouth and a twig of the witch-hazel in his hands. Never a word they spoke, but kept straight on; and, I'm telling you, there was not one among them but had the creeps and the starts. They could see nothing around them but bogs and pools and snags; but strange sighing whispers brushed past their ears, and cold wet hands sought theirs and tugged at the hazel twigs. But all at once, while looking everywhere for the coffin with the cross and the candle, they espied the big, strange stone, and it looked just like a coffin; while at the head of it was a black cross formed by the branches of the snag, and on this cross flickered a tiny light just like a candle.
When they saw these things they all knew that what the Wise Woman had told them was true: they were not far from their beloved Moon. But, being mighty feared of Bogles and the other Evil Things, they all went down on their knees in the mud and said the Lord's Prayer, once forwards, in keeping with the cross, and once backwards to keep off the Horrors of the Darkness. All this they said in their minds, without saying a word aloud, for they well knew what would happen to them if they neglected the Wise Woman's advice.
