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Marchen contained all the horror and all the fantasy that anybody could want, and as long as Lily was in charge of that weird little trio, things held together.
seanan_mcguire: The Three Sisters: Fantasy, Horror, and Marchen. seanan_mcguire 2009
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Marchen was reduced, cleansed and simplified, becoming "fairy tales" and getting regulated to the nursery, where they were taught alongside Mother Goose and her kin.
seanan_mcguire: The Three Sisters: Fantasy, Horror, and Marchen. seanan_mcguire 2009
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If you want to write more Marchen, I am totally in favor.
seanan_mcguire: New story, Twitterfic results. seanan_mcguire 2009
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_Marchen_, it is rather their smallness and astuteness than their youth that commands admiration, though they are often very precocious.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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[6] These will be found in Grimm's Marchen as numbers 60, 90-93, 111, 57, and 97. 5.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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It was part of their day's work; but following them came a detachment of Germans singing "Marchen Rote," and then the battery of six guns and then the Kansans.
A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1906
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When the Germans stopped singing "Marchen Rote," the boys heard Watts
A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1906
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The boatman, by the way, was either not well acquainted with _Marchen_ -- Celtic nursery-tales such as Campbell of Islay collected, or was not much interested in them, or, perhaps, had the shyness about narrating this particular sort of old wives 'fables which is so common.
Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878
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Dr. Gerland, in his Alt Griechische Marchen in der Odyssee, his shown that the story makes part of the collection of
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878
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Ballads: as to the influences which directed the selection of certain themes of Marchen for poetic treatment, and the processes by which identical ballads were distributed throughout Europe.
A Collection of Ballads Andrew Lang 1878
amandak commented on the word Marchen
German; fairy tale, folklore
October 11, 2022