Illustration by John D. Batten featuring the apple tree hiding a girl from the old witch.
The Old Witch is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his 1894 book, More English Fairy Tales.[1] It is also included within A Book of Witches by Ruth Manning-Sanders and A Book of British Fairy Tales by Alan Garner.
It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls. Others of this type include Frau Holle, Shita-kiri Suzume, Diamonds and Toads, Mother Hulda, Father Frost, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Enchanted Wreath, The Three Heads in the Well, and The Two Caskets.[2] Literary variants include The Three Fairies and Aurore and Aimée.[3]
^Joseph Jacobs (illustrated by John Dickson Batten), "The Old Witch", More English Fairy Tales, D. Nutt, 1894, 243pp at sacred-texts.com (also at Google Books)
^Heidi Anne Heiner, "Tales Similar to Diamonds and Toads" Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
^Jack Zipes, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm, p 543, ISBN 0-393-97636-X
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