A Book of Magic Horses

by Ruth Manning-Sanders, Robin Jacques

This is an anthology of 16 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

Contents:

1. The Dapple Horse (France)
2. Rubizal's Black Horse (Bohemia)
3. Beedul-a-bup! (Jamaica)
4. The Adventures of Gregor (Poland)
I. The Fisherman and the Devil
II. The Hut in the Desert
III. The White Horse

5. Whoa-ho! (Russia)
6. The Straw Horse (Russia)
7. The Princess in the Iron Tower (Bohemia)
I. How Baldwin Found the Princess
II. Baldwin Meets Ismainy the Sorceress
III. Baldwin Frees the Princess
IV. Ismainy's Last Trick

8. Malegy's Palfrey (Netherlands)
9. What Came of Quarreling (Africa)
10. Franz the Garden Boy (Denmark)
I. The White Mare
II. The Princess

11. Master Billy (Cornwall)
12. Monster Grabber and the King's Daughter (Latvia)
I. The Requiem
II. Monster Grabber
III. The King's Daughter

13. The New Horse (Schleswig Holstein)
14. The Beauty of the Golden Star (Sicily)
15. How Jack Made His Fortune (Cornwall)
16. Wits But No Money (Russia)

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Ruth Manning-Sanders, youngest daughter of an English minister, describes her childhood as “extraordinarily happy. . . with kind and understanding parents and any amount of freedom.” She read omnivorously, and she and her two sisters wrote and acted their own plays. A Shakespeare scholar at Manchester University, she later married Cornish artist George Manning-Sanders. They began married life in a horse drawn caravan, and traveled to all parts of the British Isles.
Mrs. Manning-Sanders has collected folk and fairy stories from around the world and she published more than 90 books during her lifetime.