The fourth volume of Czech Folk Tales on sale, Jaroslav Otčenášek (editor)

In recent days, the Academia Publishing House has published the fourth volume of collected Czech folk tales, which contains the third volume of tales of magic from the field of presentation „About supernatural adversaries“. Here you can find e.g. a popular story about a sorcerer’s apprentice, tales about young man who wants to know fear, a story about a spirit freed from a curse, a notorious story about Hansel and Gretel, stories about a brother’s meeting with a monster, about a boy who steals a treasure from a giant, the adventure of Jack and his magic bean, and especially the very popular and colorful story of the time about the blacksmith and his repeated deception of death.

Each folk tale is supplemented with information about the narrator and the place and year of writing (if known) as well as an expert folkloristic commentary. The texts are presented as they were either published by collectors and folklorists, or as they are in manuscripts. The existing dialect elements are preserved, only the German texts are translated into literary Czech, even though the original is in a dialect.

The distributor of the book is Academia.