Marchen

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

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

For a very rich collection of such explanatory legends regarding stones and marks in Germany, see Karl Bartsch, Sagen, Marchen und Gebrauche aus Meklenburg, Wien, 1880, vol. ii, pp.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

When the Germans stopped singing "Marchen Rote," the boys heard Watts McHurdie's high tenor voice start up "The Dutch Companee," and the crowd that was lining the street cheered and cheered.

From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen

In Marchen, it is rather their smallness and astuteness than their youth that commands admiration, though they are often very precocious.

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.