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Folk Tales

Hungarian folk tales in historical collections and translations, with the Magyar and Székely collectors, their regions and their translators kept visible.

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The Folk-Tales of the Magyars — W. Henry Jones and Lewis L. KropfFifty-three Hungarian folk tales from the collections of Kriza, Erdélyi, Pap and Merényi, translated by W. Henry Jones and Lewis L. Kropf for the Folk-Lore Society in 1889, with an introduction on the Magyars and Székelys, their giants, fairies, witches and superstitions, and comparative notes drawing chiefly on Finnish and Lapp tales.