- Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud
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Frances Jenkins Olcott
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Lots of stories and poems about elves, faeries and other wonderful wee folk. All read for you by LibriVox people who love them so what more could you ask for? If you want a break from the harsh 'real' world, come relax for awhile in fairyland where troubles are solved by magic and perhaps a kiss or two. (phil c)
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- Chapters
- Dedication and Foreword
- Around! Around! in Fairy Rings
- Adventures of Robin Goodfellow, Old English
- The Potato Supper, Irish
- The Milk-White Calf and the Fairy Ring, Irish
- The Wood-Lady, Bohemian
- The Dance of the Fairies
- “’Tis the Midnight Hour”
- Monday! Tuesday! Irish
- The Greedy Old Man, Cornish
- Legend of Bottle Hill, Irish
- The Brown Dwarf
- “And will you come away, my Lad?”
- The Boy who found the Pots of Gold, Irish
- The Ragweed, Irish
- The Bad Boy and the Leprechaun, Irish
- Tom and the Knockers, Cornish
- The Knockers’ Diamonds, Cornish
- Skillywidden, Cornish
- The Leprechaun, or Fairy Shoemaker
- Glad Little, Sad Little, Bad Little Elves
- Little Redcap, Irish
- The Curmudgeon’s Skin, Irish
- Judy and the Fairy Cat, Irish
- The Boggart, English
- Ownself, English
- The Sick-Bed Elves, Chinese
- How Peeping Kate was Piskey-Led, Cornish
- One-Eyed Prying Joan’s Tale, Cornish
- The Fairy Folk
- “Their Dwellings be,”
- The Fairy’s Servants, Basque
- The Pixies, English
- The Brownie of Blednoch, Scottish
- Elsa and the Ten Elves, Swedish
- Piskey Fine! and Piskey Gay! Cornish
- The Fairy Wedding, Swedish
- The Tomts, Swedish
- Song of the Elfin Miller
- “Over Hill, over Dale,” Shakespeare
- Kintaro the Golden Boy, Japanese
- The Flower Fairies, Chinese
- The Fairy Island, Cornish
- The Four-Leaved Clover, Cornish
- The Gillie Dhu, Scottish
- How Kahukura learned to make Nets, New Zealand
- Echo, the Cave Fairy, From the Island of Mangaia
- The Isles of the Sea Fairies
- “But we that live in Fairyland,” Old Ballad
- The Magic Ferns, Cornish
- The Smith and the Fairies, Scottish
- The Coal-Black Steed, English
- The Girl who was stolen by the Fairies, Irish
- The Girl who danced with the Fairies, Irish
- Elidore and the Golden Ball, Welsh
- At the Court of Fairyland
- Fairy Godmothers and Wonderful Gifts
- Cinderella
- Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
- Prince Chéri
- Toads and Diamonds
- Blanche and Rose
- The Enchanted Watch
- Queen Mab
- “A Little Knight and Little Maid
- Fairy Do-Nothing and Giant Snap-’Em-Up
- Timothy Tuttle and the Little Imps
- Butterfly’s Diamond
- Little Niebla
- Little Tiny
- The Immortal Fountain
- The Story of Childe Charity
- The Shining Child and the Wicked Mouche
- Mabel on Midsummer Day
- “Oh! where do Fairies hide their Heads?
- The Fairies’ Passage
- Old Winter’s Fairyland
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