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The Shoemaker's Apron: A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

Chapter 53: Transcriber's Notes:
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About This Book

A retelling of twenty folk and fairy tales drawn from Czech, Moravian, and Slovak oral and collected sources. The collection mixes richly imagined Slavic fairy tales, simple nursery stories, clever folktales, and comic devil tales; many are adapted from recorded variants and reshaped for English-speaking children. Recurring motifs include magical helpers, tests of wit and virtue, encounters with supernatural figures, and practical cleverness that resolves troubles. The arrangement groups longer narrative tales with shorter nursery items and devil stories, and illustrations and decorations accompany the retellings.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Punctuation errors corrected without note. Country-side and countryside both used, story-teller and storyteller both used.
The remaining corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text will appear.
Page 103, "as" changed to "was" (Smolicheck knew what was happening).
Page 117 Budlinek corrected to Budulinek.
Page 185, "hords" changed to "hordes" (hordes of fish and frogs).
Page 194 down corrected to town (lives in the next town.)
Page 220 wornout corrected to worn-out (old worn-out measure).
Page 276, "good-by" changed to "good-bye" for consistency (bade his wife good-bye).