There was once a good-wife who longed for a child, and so went to visit an old Witch, who gave her a barleycorn to plant in a flower-pot, promising that something would come of it. As soon as the ...

For my money, this is without a doubt the story of the week. For years we’ve been hearing how the Grimm fairy tales were a lot more horror-based and bloody than the sanitized versions we’ve been ...

Herein you will find 74 illustrated children’s stories from Old England. This is a collection of fairy tales, folk tales and other stories categorised into Ghosts, Goblins, Fairies, Historical and ...