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Article: Folk and Fairy Tales. A Handbook

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Folk and Fairy Tales. A Handbook. By D[ee] L. Ashliman. Greenwood Folklore Handbooks. Westport, CT Greenwood Press, 2004. viii + 268 pp., bibliography, index, illustrations.

Ehis handbook of Folk and Fairy Tales by D. L. Ashliman is intended for students, teachers, storytellers, and readers of folktales who want to know more about the stories that are so familiar to them. As Ashliman puts it, his handbook "examines the origins of these traditions and their development into the body of literature known today as folk and fairy tales" (vii). Ehe handbook has five chapters, each with its own introduction, and it contains numerous historical illustrations. Ehe first two chapters give a survey of ...

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