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The Devil might dress himself up as a business man, but he can't disguise his hooves. What do you do when a bear knocks on your door and demands your youngest daughter? St. Peter sleeps in a bread oven and a monk sets to sea on a millstone. Teaching geese to speak Latin and a boy so big that he sleeps on the roof and still his feet touch the ground. Then there's the hound that's stuck to the fox that's stuck to the goose that's stuck to the g...

Twenty eight folk and wonder tales taken from the collection of Evald Tang Kristensen and translated into English for the first time. A wife who thinks she's a chicken, a ventriloquist cow, magic purses, cloaks of invisibility, a knife that kills to order and imps by the sack-full, three hairs plucked from The Devil's backside and a girl that comes out of her coffin every night. Steak to order - just ask a troll to gouge it out of his foreh...

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Folk and Fairy Tales from Denmark is a collection of stories hitherto unavailable to English speaking audiences. Recorded at source by Danish folklorist Evald Tang Kristensen towards the latter part of the 1800s, they were told to him by storytellers from different social positions, the majority of whom were well versed in the hardships of the rural life of the times. The stories are brim full of shrewd observations, humour, invention, down to...

A man wearing his wifeÕs fur coat and a woolly balaclava is chained to a kennel in the backyard whilst another man delivers a side of bacon to The Devil. Fish trained to walk, devils in the stove, cats carrying coffins, ogres with a taste for fat little boys and beetles that do the housework Ð and then thereÕs the small matter of teaching a calf to talk. Thirty-eight folk and wonder tales from Denmark from Svend Grundtvig and his collectors.

A mix of bawdy, bloody and unusual tales taken from the collections of Evald Tang Kristensen. Now available for the first time in English translation.

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A dog that lives in a box no bigger than a walnut shell, a troll wearing Spanish Boots in bed and a dead Granny, who still manages to eat a cow. The most revolting cure for a royal belly-ache and princesses (pretty and not so pretty), giants, dragons, wicked stepmothers and vengeful imps, they're all here and much more beside. Tales taken from the collections of E Tang Kristensen now available for the first time in English translation.

A wife who thinks she's a chicken, a ventriloquist cow, a knife that kills to order and imps by the sack-full, three hairs plucked from The Devil's backside and a girl that comes out of her coffin at night. Was Kristen pregnant with a bull calf? Did the soldier from Altona really have two? A selection of folk, wonder and bawdy tales taken from the collections of Evald Tang Kristensen. Now available for the first time in English translation.

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Tales from Denmark is a collection of stories hitherto unavailable to English speaking audiences. Recorded at source by Danish folklorist Evald Tang Kristensen towards the latter part of the 1800s, They were told to him by storytellers from different social positions, the majority of whom were well versed in the hardships of the rural life of the times. The stories are brim full of shrewd observations, humour, invention, down to earth advice a...

A corpse rides over the sea on a coffin and a cat's mess is served up for dinner. Brownies dance on rafters. The Devil carries his skin under his arm and witches, so old that moss grows on their teeth. St. Peter sleeps in a bread oven while a boy sleeps on the roof of his house, his feet still touching the ground. Geese are taught Latin, a monk sets to sea on a millstone and there are enough trolls, ogres and dragons to shake a stick at - ther...