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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Folklore of the British Isles Quiz
Red Riding Hood and the Wolf from "Journeys through Bookland" by Charles Herbert Sylvester, 1922. (Brothers Grimm, Little Red Riding Hood, fairy tales)
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Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Norwegian author
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen
Asbjørnsen and Moe
Norwegian authors
Ansky, S.
S. Ansky
Russian writer
Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius
Lithuanian author
Elias Lönnrot
Finnish folklorist
Alecsandri, Vasile
Vasile Alecsandri
Romanian author
Aleksandr Afanasev
Russian historian and scholar
Johann Rudolf Wyss
Swiss writer and editor
Vilmos Diószegi
Hungarian folklorist, linguist, and ethnographer
Ovid Densușianu
Romanian author
John Brand
English writer
Achim von Arnim, oil painting by an unknown artist
Achim von Arnim
German writer
F. Reinhold Kreutzwald
Estonian physician, folklorist, and poet
Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
American author
Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist
Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta
Angolan scholar
Bernard Binlin Dadié
Ivorian author

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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Folklore of the British Isles Quiz
Red Riding Hood and the Wolf from "Journeys through Bookland" by Charles Herbert Sylvester, 1922. (Brothers Grimm, Little Red Riding Hood, fairy tales)
Grimm’s Fairy Tales Quiz