Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Spells of Enchantment brings together the best literary fairy tales ever written, arranged to provide a sense of the history and evolution of this ancient genre. Focusing on the work of the most gifted writers of the great Western literary movements from classical times to the present. Jack Zipes’s collection shows how some of literature’s most creative minds have tried their hand at mixing the magic ingredients of the fairy tale–and how the genre has been marvelously transformed according to each writer’s particular genius.

Including more than sixty tales by such master practitioners of the art as Perrault, Voltaire, Goethe, Hoffmann, Hawthorne, Wilde, Yeats, Hesse, Thurber, Calvino, Philip K. Dick, Robert Coover, and Angela Carter, this authoritative, original, and unique volume is sure to bewitch readers of all ages.

The Smile of the Sphinx • (1991) • short story by Ingeborg Bachmann (trans. of Das Lächeln der Sphinx? 1949)
When the Clock Strikes • (1980) • short story by Tanith Lee
The Fisherman and His Soul • (1891) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
Cinderella Continued, or the Rat and the Six Lizards • (1984) • short story by Guillaume Apollinaire (trans. of La suite de Cendrillon, ou Le rat et les six lézards 1919)
Cupid and Psyche (excerpt) • [Cupid and Psyche] • (1951) • short fiction by Apuleius [as by Lucius Apuleius]
The Merchant’s Two Sons • (1932) • short story by Giambattista Basile (trans. of Lo mercanto 1634)
xi • Introduction (Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture) • (1991) • essay by Jack Zipes
xxx • A Note on the Texts and the Acknowledgments (Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture) • (1991) • essay by Jack Zipes
xxxiv •  Cupid and Psyche (The Golden Asse) • (1923) • interior artwork by Jean de Bosschère
28 • Of Feminine Subtlety • (1824) • short story by unknown
32 • The Pig Prince • (1894) • short story by Giovanni Francesco Straparola (trans. of Galeotto 1551) [as by Giovanni Straparola]
37 •  Night the Second: The First Fable (The Nights of Straparola) • (1894) • interior artwork by Edward Robert Hughes [as by E. R. Hughes]
45 •  The Merchant (The Pentameron) • (1952) • interior artwork by Michael Ayrton
48 • Ricdin-Ricdon • (1991) • novelette by Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier de Villandon (trans. of Ricdin-Ricdon 1705) [as by Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier]
85 • Riquet with the Tuft • (1989) • short story by Charles Perrault (trans. of Riquet à la Houppe 1697)
88 •  Riquet à la Hoppe (Les Contes des Fees) • (1890) • interior artwork by unknown
91 • Green Serpent • (1989) • novelette by Comtesse d’Aulnoy (trans. of Serpentin vert 1698) [as by Marie-Cathérine d’Aulnoy]
96 •  Green Serpent (D’Aulnoy’s Fairy Tales) • (1923) • interior artwork by Gordon Browne
115 • Parslinette • (1991) • short story by Charlotte Rose Caumont de la Force (trans. of Persinette 1697)
122 • Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari-Banou • (1991) • novelette by Antoine Galland (trans. of Histoire de prince Ahmed et de la fée Pari-Banou 1717)
157 •  Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari-Banou • (unknown) • interior artwork by unknown
160 • The Queen Fantasque • (1991) • short story by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (trans. of La Reine fantasque 1758)
172 • The White Bull • (1905) • novelette by Voltaire (trans. of Le taureau blanc 1774)
174 •  The White Bull (Zadig and Other Romances) • (1926) • interior artwork by Henry Keen
199 • Libussa • (1991) • novella by Johann Karl August Musäus (trans. of Libussa 1782)
200 •  Libussa (Volksmärchen der Deutschen)? • (1842) • interior artwork by Ludwig Richter
233 • The Philosophers’ Stone • (1991) • novelette by Christoph Martin Wieland (trans. of Der Stein der Weisen 1786)
258 • The Fairy Tale • (1962) • novelette by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of Das Märchen? 1795) [as by Johann Wolfgang Goethe]
281 • Eckbert the Blond • (1991) • novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Der blonde Eckbert 1797)
293 •  Der Blonde Eckbert (Märchen und Erzählungen)? • (1968) • interior artwork by Frank Ruddigkeit
296 • A Wondrous Oriental Tale of a Naked Saint • (1991) • short story by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (trans. of Ein wunderbares morgenländisches Märchen von einem nackten Heiligen? 1797)
300 • Hyacinth and Roseblossom • (1991) • short story by Novalis (trans. of Hyazinth und Rosenblüthe? 1802)
304 • The Mines of Falun • (1969) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Die Bergwerke zu Falun 1819)
312 •  The Mines of Falun (The Tales of Hoffmann) • (1943) • interior artwork by Hugo Steiner-Prag
325 • The Lady of Gollerus • (1991) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
326 •  The Lady of Gollerus (Great Fairy Tales of Ireland) • (1973) • interior artwork by Richard Hook (British)
330 • Snow White and Rose Red • [KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)? • 161] • (1987) • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Schneeweißchen und Rosenroth? 1837) [as by Wilhelm Grimm]
333 •  Snow-White and Rose-Red (Household Stories) • (1853) • interior artwork by E. H. Wehnert
337 • Bluebeard’s Ghost • (1843) • short story by William Makepeace Thackeray
357 • Feathertop • (1852) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of Feathertop: A Moralized Legend)
373 • The Shadow • (1949) • short story by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Skyggen 1847)
376 •  The Visit of the Shadow (Stories and Tales) • (1864) • interior artwork by A. W. Bayes
383 • Spiegel the Cat • (1946) • novelette by Gottfried Keller (trans. of Spiegel, das Kätzchen? 1855)
392 •  Spiegel the Cat (Legends and People) • (1953) • interior artwork by Joseph Low
410 • Hinzelmeier: A Thoughtful Story • (1983) • novelette by Theodor Storm (trans. of Hinzelmeier: Eine nachdenkliche Geschichte 1850)
429 • The Day Boy and the Night Girl • (1879) • novelette by George MacDonald (variant of The History of Photogen and Nycteris: A Day and Night Mährchen)
459 •  The Day Boy and the Night Girl • (1882) • interior artwork by Arthur Hughes
462 • The Griffin and the Minor Canon • (1885) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
472 •  The Griffin and the Minor Canon (The Queen’s Museum and Other Fanciful Tales) • (1906) • interior artwork by Frederick Richardson
474 • The Three Clever Kings • (1880) • short story by Mary de Morgan
480 •  The Three Clever Kings (The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories) • (1880) • interior artwork by Walter Crane
483 •  For I Have Seen Wonderful Things (A House of Pomegranates) • (1891) • interior artwork by Charles Ricketts
509 • Where to Lay the Blame • (1894) • short story by Howard Pyle
512 •  Where to Lay the Blame (Twight Land) • (1894) • interior artwork by Howard Pyle
515 • The Tale of the 672nd Night • (1983) • short story by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (trans. of Das Märchen der 672. Nacht? 1895)
528 •  A Chinese Fairy-Tale (The Blue Moon) • (1904) • interior artwork by Clemence Housman
529 • A Chinese Fairy-Tale • (1901) • short story by Laurence Housman
536 • The Queen of Quok • (1901) • short story by L. Frank Baum
537 •  The Queen of Quok • (1901) • interior artwork by Ike Morgan
544 • Dreams That Have No Moral • (1902) • short story by W. B. Yeats [as by William Butler Yeats]
552 • The Five Boons of Life • (1902) • short story by Mark Twain
555 • The Story of Jubal, Who Had No “I” • (1913) • short fiction by August Strindberg (trans. of Jubal utan jeg 1903)
561 • How Treason Came to Russia • (1932) • short story by Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. of Wie der Verrat nach Russland kam 1900)
564 • The Story of the Fairy Tale • (1907) • short story by Carl Ewald
566 • The Seven Wives of Bluebeard • (1920) • novelette by Anatole France (trans. of Les sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue 1909)
572 •  The Seven Wives of Bluebeard (Golden Tales of Anatole France) • (1927) • interior artwork by L. A. Patterson
583 • The Vegetational Fatherhood • (1991) • short story by Mynona (trans. of Die vegetabilische Vaterschaft 1913)
588 • The Kith of the Elf-Folk • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany
600 • The Forest Dweller • (1991) • short story by Hermann Hesse (trans. of Der Waldmensch 1919)
609 • The Three Wishes • (1991) • short story by Kurt Schwitters (trans. of Die drei Wünsche? 1925)
613 • The Seventh Dwarf • (1991) • short story by Franz Hessel (trans. of Der siebte Zwerg 1926)
615 • The Fairy Tale About Technology • (1991) • short story by Alfred Döblin? (trans. of Das Märchen von der Technik? 1935)
618 •  The Little Girl and the Wolf (Fables for Our Time) • (1940) • interior artwork by James Thurber
619 • The Girl and the Wolf • (1939) • short story by James Thurber (variant of The Little Girl and the Wolf)
620 • The Fairy Tale of the King • (1991) • short story by Georg Kaiser (trans. of Das Märchen des Königs? 1943)
622 • The Fairy Tale About Common Sense • (1991) • short story by Erich Kästner? (trans. of Das Märchen von der Vernunft? 1948)
628 • The Tale of the Singing Branch, the Bird of Truth, and the Water of Youth • (1953) • short story by Henri Pourrat (trans. of Conte de la branche qui chante, de l’oiseau de vérité, et de l’eau qui fait devenir jeune 1948)
635 • The King of the Elves • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
652 • The Enchanted Palace • (1962) • short story by Italo Calvino (trans. of Il palazzo incantato 1956)
658 • Five Men and a Swan • (1957) • short story by Naomi Mitchison
672 • Bluebeard’s Daughter • (1935) • novelette by Sylvia Townsend Warner
686 • The Crow • (1991) • short story by Christoph Meckel (trans. of Die Krähe? 1975)
692 • Prince Ferrix and the Princess Crystal • [Bajki robotów (Robots’ Fables)] • (1974) • short story by Stanisław Lem? (trans. of Z dzieła cyfrotikon, czyli o dewijacyach, superfiksacyach a waryacyach serdecznych: o Królewiczu Ferrycym i Królewnie Krystali? 1965) [as by Stanislaw Lem]
699 •  O królewiczu Ferrycym i królewnie Krystalii (Cyberiada) • (1965) • interior artwork by Daniel Mróz?
701 • Sleeping Beauty • (1991) • short story by Günter Kunert? (trans. of Dornröschen? 1972)
702 • Hans My Hedgehog • (1991) • short story by Janosch (trans. of Hans mein Igel 1972)
703 •  Hans mein Igel (Janosch erzählt Grimms Märchen) • (1972) • interior artwork by Janosch
704 • The Dead Queen • (1973) • short story by Robert Coover
712 •  The Lady and the Merman (Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk) • (1982) • interior artwork by David Wiesner
713 • The Lady and the Merman • (1976) • short story by Jane Yolen
716 • Rumpelstiltskin • (1991) • short story by Rosemarie Künzler? (trans. of Rumpelstilzchen 1976)
718 • Tom Thumb Runs Away: A Christmas Story • (1983) • short story by Michel Tournier (trans. of Le fugue du petit Poucet 1978)
729 • The Tiger’s Bride • (1979) • short story by Angela Carter
745 • The Princess and the Frog • (1981) • short story by Robin McKinley
772 • Pichounetta and the Sergeant of Arles • (1989) • short story by Michael de Larrabeiti