Excerpt from The Shoemaker's Apron: A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Brother-in-law (bearskin), Clever Manka (the Peasant's Clever Daughter), The Devil's Gifts (the Magic Gifts), The Candles of Life (the Strange Godfather and Godfather Death), The Shoe maker's Apron (brother Jolly). In all these tales the same incidents are presented but with a difference in spirit and in background that instantly marks one variant Teutonic and its fellow Slavic. Moreover, as stories, the German versions of these particular tales are neither as interesting nor as important as the Slavic versions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.