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

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

When the Germans stopped singing "Marchen Rote," the boys heard Watts McHurdie's high tenor voice start up "The Dutch Companee," and the crowd that was lining the street cheered and cheered.

From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen

Dr. Gerland, in his Alt Griechische Marchen in der Odyssee, his shown that the story makes part of the collection of Somadeva, a store of Indian tales, of which 1200 A.D. is the approximate date.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

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