Collected Item: ““The Dragon and the Prince.” The Crimson Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903, pp. 80-92.”
Full bibliographic citation (MLA)
“The Dragon and the Prince.” The Crimson Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903, pp. 80-92.
Title of the complete book/anthology (not a single chapter/fairy tale)
The Crimson Fairy Book
The name of the author or editor of the complete book/anthology (leave blank if none are listed)
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s) of the book/anthology (leave blank if none are listed)
Henry Justice Ford
City where the book/anthology was published
London
The country where the book/anthology was published (use United States for US publications)
England
The publisher of the book/anthology (as written on the title page)
Dover Publications
Date of publication (or date range from the library catalog, if no dates are listed in the book)
1903
The decade the book was published (use the drop down menu)
1900-1909
The fairy tale type (use the drop down menu)
Dragon Slayers
What is special about this version of the tale?
The protagonist uses real animals (dogs, falcon) to help him defeat the different layers of the dragons strength.
A brief summary of the plot that highlights any unique variations
Once upon a time there were three princes. The first and second both tried to hunt a hare, but it turned into a dragon and ate them both. The third asked an old woman to help him discover the dragon’s weakness. She learned that his power was inside of the dragon, inside of a boar, inside of a hare, inside of a pigeon, inside of a sparrow. The prince fought the dragon, used his dogs to catch the boar and the hare, and used his falcon to catch the pigeon. He spared the sparrows life in exchange for information where he could find his brothers. He then marries the king's daughter, and frees a village’s-worth of people from the dragons hidden place, including his brothers.
The original source of the fairy tale, if easily identifiable (Straparola, Basile, de Beaumont, Perrault, Grimm, etc.)
A Serbian fairy tale collected by Albert Wratislaw
A link to a digital copy of the book
https://archive.org/details/crimsonfairybook00lang/page/92/mode/2up
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