"In this new collection of unusual folk tales, the author invites the reader to travel far and wide - magic adventures spanning several countries and cross oceans to the remotest corners of the world - even Hell and the domains of the Sun, Moon and Wind. Against such backdrops are set tales of courage, bravery and love. A gypsy confronts a dragon with only a magic feather to help him. A fiddler, by his daring, delivers a repentant landowner from eternal torture by dancing devils. There are tales of bewitched princes and princesses, of ogrish trolls who must be slain, tales peopled by a host of goblins, dwarves, mannikins, wizards, witches and magic animals of every kind." --Inside jacket flap.