Astride her white palfrey, surrounded by a nimbus of silver-blond hair, Jasmine was a vision to strike a man mute with desire. But the violet-eyed love child of

In the war-torn kingdom of Kadia, love blossoms in the most unexpected places. Arum, a soldier bound by duty, finds himself captivated by Meenakshi, the princes

ONCE, in olden times, there was a merchant whose wife had died, leaving him three daughters. The eldest two were plain of face and hard of heart and cared for n

Reproduction of the original: Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin