The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Baring‐Gould, Sabine

Baring‐Gould, Sabine (1834–1924),
English folklorist. His voluminous output ranging from devotional works to guide books includes many retellings and compilations of myths and legends. Early works include The Book of Were‐Wolves (1865) and The Silver Store (1868), versified legends from medieval, Jewish, and Christian sources. In A Book of Fairy Tales (1894) he retold French and English stories, and included two of his own: ‘Pretty Marushka’ and ‘Don't Know’. In Old English Fairy Tales (1895) and The Crock of Gold (1899) he reworked stories from ancient ballads, incorporating fragments from many different sources which ‘I have taken the liberty of embroidering’.

Gillian Avery

Bibliography

Dickinson, Bickford Holland Cohan, Sabine Baring‐Gould: Squarson, Writer and Folklorist, 1834–1924 (1970).

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