Marchen

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For ideals of love—here—in America to-day—we are referred to Grimm's Marchen; to Cinderella, the Goose Girl, Beauty and the Beast, and the Sleeping Beauty!

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

In Marchen, it is rather their smallness and astuteness than their youth that commands admiration, though they are often very precocious.

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.

It was part of their day's work; but following them came a detachment of Germans singing "Marchen Rote," and then the battery of six guns and then the Kansans.

From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen

Marchen certainly did set out from mediaeval India, and reached mediaeval Europe and Asia in abundance.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

Marchen changed to Märchen to fit rest of text.

From Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Bryant, Sara Cone