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Step into deep woods where cleverness matters, magical gifts change lives, and kindness faces the test.
In Polish Fairy Tales, A. J. Gliński gathers stories from Poland’s oral tradition. Kings and peasants, clever youths and cruel stepmothers share a Slavic world of forests, villages and castles. Enchanted creatures and magical gifts bring wonder, while bold deeds put character to the test.
These separate tales explore courage, cleverness and the memory of a people. Gliński preserves stories from a Poland without independence, where folk tales carry a country’s voice. Within them, kindness, bravery and patience earn rewards, while pride, greed and cruelty bring trouble. Simple rhythms and repeated patterns invite you to read aloud.
What you’ll discover
- A people’s living memory Discover folk stories that preserve Poland’s voice through familiar wonders and tests of character.
- From cottages to castles Explore humble homes, royal courts and deep woods where ordinary lives meet enchantment.
- Courage meets cleverness Meet brave and resourceful figures whose choices reveal the value of kindness and patience.
- Patterns to listen for Enjoy three tasks, three brothers or three journeys, with rhythms that reward reading aloud.
- The promise of justice Find the fairy-tale pleasure of goodness rewarded and cruelty brought to account.
Who will love it
You will love this book if you enjoy brave princes, clever heroines, talking animals and magic helpers, and if you like folk tales where kindness earns its reward and cruelty meets its match.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A prince finds a clever bride in a marsh
- A sleeping island waits for one brave rescuer
- A sister's love carries her to the edge of death
- A bride is stolen and a prince searches for her
- A kind ferryman is tested by a cruel king
- A prince's lost wife lives on a mountain of brass
- A forest hut rewards the girl who works
Who’s who
- The youngest princeShoots his arrow into a marsh and must marry the frog who sits on it, trusting her wisdom.
- The frog princessA daughter of the Queen of Light, hidden in a frog's skin, who weaves and bakes with the help of the winds.
- Princess MirandaQueen of a green island, who freezes suitors with her gaze and waits in a tower for the knight she dreams of.
- Prince HeroA knight in a golden helmet who sets out with a magic horse and a self-fighting mace to free her.
- KoscieyThe wicked king of the Underground realm, who puts a whole island to sleep because he wants to marry Miranda.
- Princess LadnaA king's daughter who loves Prince Dobrotek and is carried off by a dwarf magician in a whirlwind.
- Prince DobrotekLadna's bridegroom, who calls on the Grey Seer-horse to win back his bride.
- The youngest ferrymanA poor, generous ferryman who carries the needy without payment and is tested by an old man and a cruel king.
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Fiabe polacche
A prince shoots an arrow to choose his bride, and a talking frog sits on it when it lands.
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What would you do if your bride were a frog and she asked you to trust her? Polish Fairy Tales, retold by A.
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A prince finds a clever bride in a marsh
In The Frog Princess, an old king tells his three sons to marry, and the best wife will win her husband the crown. The princes shoot arrows from a tower and must wed wherever they land. Two arrows reach a senator's daughter and a gentleman's daughter, but the youngest prince's arrow falls into a marsh, where a frog sits on it and offers it back in return for marriage.
The frog keeps her bargain, and the prince hides her at home. When the king demands a carpet and then a cake from each daughter-in-law, she sings to the winds. Seven maidens float down on sunbeams and finish the work in minutes, and her carpet and cake win praise. She then tells her husband that she is a princess, kept in a frog's skin for seven years by her mother, the Queen of Light, to hide her from enemies.
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What is Polish Fairy Tales about?
It is a collection of seven Polish folk tales. They tell of enchanted princesses, brave princes, wicked sorcerers and magic helpers, with kindness and loyalty at their heart.
Who is Kosciey in Polish folk tales?
Kosciey is a wicked enchanter and king of the Underground realm, whose name means Boney. In this book he puts Princess Miranda's island to sleep, and his life is hidden inside an egg.
Who is Jandza in these stories?
Jandza, pronounced Yen-jar, is an old woman who lives in a little house on crooked legs. She gives Prince Hero advice about Kosciey's hidden life.
The author
A. J. Gliński
Polish folklorist
A. J. Gliński was Antoni Józef Gliński, a Polish collector of folk tales who lived from 1817 to 1866. He lived in Vilnius, now in Lithuania. His collection Bajarz polski was published there in 1853. Tales from this collection later appeared in English under the title Polish Fairy Tales.
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