The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales

The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (also published as Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World) is a collection of fairy tales collected, written, and edited by Angela Carter. Carter's collection and versions of fairy tales from around the world.

• Virago Book series

Editions

• 1992. Illustrations by Corinna Sargood. Virago Press Limited, 1992, Camden Town, London.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction by Marina Warner

1. Strong Minds and Low Cunning

• The Twelve Wild Ducks
• Old Foster
• Sahin
• The Dog's Snout People
• The Old Woman Against the Stream
• The Letter Trick
• Rolando and Brunilde
• The Greenish Bird
• The Crafty Woman

2. Up to Something - Balck Arts and Dirty Tricks

• Pretty Maid Ibronka
• Enchanter and Enchantress
• The Telltale Lilac Bush
• Tatterhood
• The Witchball
• The Werefox
• The Witches' Piper
• Vasilissa the Fair
• The Midwife and the Frog

3. Beautiful People

• Fair, Brown and Trembling
• Diirawic and Her Incestuous Brother
• The Mirror
• The Frog Maiden
• The Sleeping Prince
• The Orphan

4. Mothers and Daughters

• Achol and Her Wild Mother
• Tunjur, Tunjur
• The Little Old Woman with Five Cows
• Achol and her Adoptive Lioness-Mother

5. Married Women

• Story of a Bird Woman
• Father and Mother Both 'Fast'
• Reasons to Beat Your Wife
• The Three Lovers
• The Seven Leavenings
• The Untrue Wife's Song
• The Woman Who Married Her Son
• Duang and His Wild Wife
• A Stroke of Luck
• The Beans in the Quart Jar

6. Useful Stories

• A Fable of a Bird and Her Chicks
• The Three Aunts
• Tale of an Old Woman
• The Height of Purple Passion
• Salt, Sauce and Spice, Onion Leaves, Pepper and Drippings
• Two Sisters and the Boa
• Spreading the Fingers

• Publisher's note
• Notes by Angela Carter and Shahrukh Husain
• About the Editor and the Illustrator