Marchen

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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

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 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

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

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