Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1978 anthology of 25 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

In fact, the book is mostly a collection of tales published in previous Manning-Sanders anthologies.

There are also five previously unpublished stories.

It is preceded by the anthology A Choice of Magic (1971), another collection of (mostly) previously published Manning-Sanders tales.

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