{"product_id":"fairies-and-witches-fairytales-and-mysteries-of-the-supernatural-paperback","title":"Fairies and Witches: Fairytales and Mysteries of the Supernatural - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKytka Hilmarova\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eKarel Weinfurter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFairies and Witches: Fairytales and Mysteries of the Supernatural\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than a century ago, in 1920, the Prague publisher Alois Hynek issued a collection of Czech and Central European tales called O vílách a čarodějích. Its compiler was Karel Weinfurter - writer, translator, and one of the foundational figures of Czech mysticism and the occult. For Weinfurter, fairy tales were never just amusements for children. He spent his life studying the hidden and the unseen, and he read these old stories as something stranger and older than bedtime reading: vessels for what people once believed about the supernatural world pressing in at the edges of the ordinary one. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated into English by Kytka Hilmarova, that collection now reaches readers far beyond Bohemia for the first time.\u003cbr\u003eInside are devils outwitted by peasants, princesses stranded on burning mountains, enchanted horses, werewolves, and Krakonos - the temperamental spirit of the Krkonose Mountains who has haunted the Czech imagination for centuries. By turns funny, eerie, and genuinely unsettling, these tales keep the rough edges that later, gentler retellings tend to sand away. Good wins, but it has to earn it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHilmarova's translation stays faithful to Weinfurter's originals while letting them breathe in English, preserving their strangeness and moral weight rather than prettifying them for modern tastes.\u003cbr\u003eAmong the stories you'll find: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Devil and the Peasant\u003cbr\u003eThe Princess on the Fiery Mountain\u003cbr\u003eThe Enchanted Horse\u003cbr\u003eKrakonos\u003cbr\u003eWerewolf\u003cbr\u003eThe Elf and the Cook\u003cbr\u003eThe Devil's Flute \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e...and many more, drawn from a Central Europe where the line between the everyday and the supernatural ran thin - and was not always safe to cross.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53454364180787,"sku":"9781943103317","price":20.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/cHgN6JQWzP9781943103317.webp?v=1783052548","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/fairies-and-witches-fairytales-and-mysteries-of-the-supernatural-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}