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The Water-Lily And The Gold Spinners | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Our Lang Fairy Tale for this episode is The Water-Lily and the Gold Spinners, which is a story about a prince who transforms himself into a crab, three cursed princesses, and a wicked witch whose love of cake proves her undoing...
Also featuring that apparently famous hero 'The Wizard of Finland.' Whoever he is!
If you are unfamiliar with the Lang Fairy Tales, these seminal collections were assembled between 1889 and 1913 by a married couple, folklorists and translators Nora and Andrew Lang, with most of the work done to compile them completed by Nora, also known as Leonora Blanche Alleyne…
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