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 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Marchen changed to Märchen to fit rest of text.
From Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Sara Cone Bryant
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 William Allen White
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 Andrew Lang
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 Alexander F. Chamberlain
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