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The turnip princess : and other newly discovered fairy tales / Franz Xaver von Schönwerth ; compiled and edited with a foreword by Erika Eichenseer ; translated with an introduction and commentary by Maria Tatar ; illustrations by Engelbert Suss.

by Schönwerth, Franz Xaver von, 1809-1886, author.

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New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2015.

Folklore -- Germany -- Bavaria.

Fairy tales -- Germany -- Bavaria.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2015302549-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2015302549-d.html

9780143107422 (paperback)

0143107429 (paperback)

Penguin classics.

xx, 264 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Tales of magic and romance -- Enchanted animals -- Otherworldly creatures -- Legends -- Tall tales and anecdotes -- Tales about nature.

The turnip princess -- The enchanted quill -- The iron shoes -- The wolves -- The flying trunk -- King Goldenlocks -- The beautiful slave girl -- Three flowers -- The figs -- The enchanted musket -- The three abducted daughters -- The portrait -- Ashfeathers -- Twelve tortoises -- Thumbnickel -- Hans the strong man -- Lousehead -- Seven with one blow! -- The burning trough -- The king's bodyguard -- The scorned princess -- The talking bird, the singing tree, and the sparkling stream -- The weasel -- The knight's sash -- The girl and the cow -- The call of the shepherd's horn -- The mark of the dog, pig, and cat -- The three-legged goats -- The traveling animals -- The snake's treaure -- The snake sister -- "Follow me, Jodel!" -- The toad bride -- Prince Dung Beetle -- The three spindles -- The little flax flower -- Woodpecker -- The red silk ribbon -- Twelve brides -- The howling of the wind -- Hans Dundeldee -- The belt and the necklace -- Drunk with love -- Anna Mayala -- In the jaws of the merman -- The king's ring -- The three golden crowns -- Nine bags of gold -- Two brothers -- Tricking the witch -- The enchanted fiddle -- The Devil and the fisherman -- The expert hunter -- A pot of gold in the oven -- Contests with the Devil -- Woud and Freid -- The mouse catcher, or, The boy and the beetle -- Pearl tears -- Flour for the snow -- Hoydel -- The talker -- The clever tailor -- Learning how to steal -- "Don't get mad!" -- Oferla -- Sir Wind and his wife -- The ice giants -- Why snow is white -- The sun takes an oath -- The sun's shadow -- What the moon tried to wear -- The singing tree.

Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost-- until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Available for the first time in English, the tales are violent, dark, full of action, and upend the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes.

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