The Red King and the Witch: Gypsy Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1965 anthology of 25 tales that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders

Ruth Manning-Sanders

Ruth Manning-Sanders was a prolific British poet and author who was perhaps best known for her series of children's books in which she collected and retold fairy tales from all over the world. All told, she published more than 90 books during her lifetime. The dust jacket for A Book of Giants...

. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.

This book was first published in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 in 1964, by Oxford University Press

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Table of contents

• Brian and the Fox
• The Deluded Dragon
• The Hen That Laid Diamond Eggs
• Bald Pate
• Jankyn and the Witch
• Sylvester
• The Red King and the Witch
• The Old Soldier and the Mischief
• The Riddle
• It All Comes To Light
• Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box
  Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box
  Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box is a Gypsy fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales. He listed as his source Francis Hindes Groome's In Gypsy Tents....
  
  
• The Brigands and the Miller's Daughter
• The Little Bull-Calf
  The Little Bull-Calf
  The Little Bull-Calf is an English Gypsy fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales.Marian Roalfe Cox, in her pioneering study of Cinderella, identified it as a "hero" type, featuring a male hero instead of the usual heroine....
  
  
• The Little Fox
• Tropsyn
• The Tinker and His Wife
• The Little Nobleman
• The Snake
• The Tale of a Foolish Brother and of a Wonderful Bush
• The Black Dog of the Wild Forest
• The Dragon and the Stepmother
• The Dog and the Maiden
• An Old King and His Three Sons of England
  The King of England and his Three Sons
  The King of England and his Three Sons is a Gypsy fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales. He listed as his source Francis Hindes Groome's In Gypsy Tents, where the informant was John Roberts, a Welsh gypsy....
  
  
• The Three Princesses and the Unclean Spirit
• Happy Boz'll

Note

In the book, it is stated: "For permission to retell two of the stories in this book, The Little Bull-Calf and The Little Fox, the author wishes to acknowledge her indebtedness to The Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society

Gypsy Lore Society

The Gypsy Lore Society was founded in Great Britain in 1888 to unite persons interested in the history and lore of Gypsies and rovers and to establish closer contacts among scholars studying aspects of such cultures. David MacRitchie was one of its founders and he worked with Francis Hindes Groome...

, and to the late Dr. John Sampson through his Literary Executor, Miss D.E. Yates, Litt.D."