The Goode Childe’s Book of Faerie Tales
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| The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd Many thanks to the Tate |
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Source book: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
The Goode Childe’s Book of Faerie Tales is a collection of scary stories featuring very scary fairytale monsters which once belonged to Tiffany’s Granny Aching. It features Jenny Green-Teeth: a water dwelling monster with big teeth and eyes like soup plates (8” across). Tiffany hits one with a frying pan when it turns up in the local river. There’s also the very creepy Headless Horseman.
Granny Aching’s library also included a dictionary, Diseases of the Sheep (Cloggets: a trembling of the greebs in hoggets which can lead to inflammation of the lower pasks; Scrabbity: a flaky skin condition, particularly around the lollets; and Steams. Turpentine seems to be a universal panacea.), and Flowers of the Chalk.
Tiffany Aching is an enquiring child who looks things up in books, and grows up to be a witch.
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