The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)

37 old and forgotten fairy and folk tales from around the world

This volume contains 37 old and forgotten folk and fairy tales including stories like stories Lovely Ilonka, Lucky Luck, The Hairy Man, To Your Good Health! and The Story of the Seven Simons.

But why republish fairy tales? Well, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world?  The ancient Greeks, the old Egyptians, the Hindus, and even the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

Raising funds for a Worthy Cause

There was a time a hundred or so years ago when the president of the Folk Lore Society believed it was not acceptable for the editors of the day, Messers Lang, Jacobs and Campbell, to publish fairy books. Their reply was that they did not see any harm in it, and they were ready to 'put  themselves on their country,' and be tried by a jury of children. Thank goodness the jury won and tahnk goodness attitudes at the folklore society have changed as well.

33% of the publisher’s profit from the sale of this book will be donated to the Temi Charitable Trust in the viallage of Gremi in the province of Kakheti in the Republic of Georgia. ‘Temi’ means ‘community’ in Kartuli, the Georgian language.