Parker Fillmore
Parker Fillmore, author of "The Laughing Prince", was a collector and editor of fairy tales from Czechoslovak tales and Slavic folklore. The Laughing Prince is classified as Slavic fairy tales, but the collection is also compromised of fairy tales and folklore for Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, Russia, the Ukraine, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Poland and others. I have gone to Czech, Slovakian, and Moravian sources. All these stories appear in many versions in the...See more
Parker Fillmore, author of "The Laughing Prince", was a collector and editor of fairy tales from Czechoslovak tales and Slavic folklore. The Laughing Prince is classified as Slavic fairy tales, but the collection is also compromised of fairy tales and folklore for Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, Russia, the Ukraine, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Poland and others. I have gone to Czech, Slovakian, and Moravian sources. All these stories appear in many versions in the different folklore collections made by such native writers as Erben, Nemcova, Dobsinsky, Rimavsky, Benes-Trebizsky, Kulda. They represent the folk-tale in all stages of its development from the bald narrative of The Bird with the Golden Gizzard which Kulda reports with phonographic exactness, to Nemcova's more elaborate tale, Prince Bayaya, which is really a mosaic of two or three simpler stories. I have included Katcha and the Devil for the sake of its keen humor, which is particularly Czech in character; The Betrothal Gifts to show how a story common to other countries is made most charmingly local by giving it a local background; The Three Golden Hairs to contrast it with a famous German variant which it seems to me is much inferior to the Slavic version; and several fine stories of the prince gone off on adventures which in common with the folktales of all Europe show a strong Oriental influence. Fairy tales by Parker Fillmore: - Beauty and the Horns - The Story of an Enchanted Maiden - The Best Wish - The Story of Three Brothers and an Angel - The Betrothal Gifts: The Story of Kubik and the Frog - The Bird with the Golden Gizzard: The Story of Two Brothers - The Dragon's Strength - The Story of the Youngest Prince Who Killed the Sparrow - The Devil's Hide: The Story of the Boy Who Wouldn't Lose His Temper - The Enchanted Peafowl - The Story of the Golden Apples, the Wicked Dragon, and the Magic Horse - The Enchanted Grouse: The Story of Helli and the Little Locked Box - The Forest Bride: The Story of a Little Mouse Who Was a Princess - Familiar Faces I: Mary, Mary, So Contrary! - Familiar Faces II: Jane, Jane Don't Complain! - Familiar Faces III: Susan Walker, What a Talker! - The Flaming Horse: The Story of a Country Where the Sun Never Shines - The Girl in the Chest - The Story of the Third Sister Who was Brave and Good - Grandfather's Eyes: The Story of Three Wicked Yezinkas - The Golden Spinning-Wheel: The Story of King Dobromil and the Good Dobrunka See less