Marchen

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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.

For a very rich collection of such explanatory legends regarding stones and marks in Germany, see Karl Bartsch, Sagen, Marchen und Gebrauche aus Meklenburg, Wien, 1880, vol. ii, pp.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

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

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

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