Marchen

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It was part of their day's work; but following them came a detachment of Germans singing "Marchen Rote," and then the battery of six guns and then the Kansans.

From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen

Marchen changed to Märchen to fit rest of text.

From Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Bryant, Sara Cone

Dr. Gerland, in his Alt Griechische Marchen in der Odyssee, his shown that the story makes part of the collection of Somadeva, a store of Indian tales, of which 1200 A.D. is the approximate date.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

Marchen certainly did set out from mediaeval India, and reached mediaeval Europe and Asia in abundance.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

For ideals of love—here—in America to-day—we are referred to Grimm's Marchen; to Cinderella, the Goose Girl, Beauty and the Beast, and the Sleeping Beauty!

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins