The Lilac Fairy Book

Author and translator credits: see the 1st ed. for some detail notes.

• Contents from Dover reprint and Project Gutenberg.
• Two Pushtoo (Pashto) tales from Major Campbell, Feroshepore (Firozpur), Punjab, India.
• Three tales from Zacharias Topelius translated from the Swedish by Miss Harding.
• The Sea King's Gift, also from Topelius, translated by Miss Christie.
• All other translations(French, Portuguese, etc.) by Mrs.(Leonora) Lang.

• Six are from J.F. Campbell's collection Popular Tales of the West Highlands (though some take place in Ireland).
• The False Prince and the True is from Teofilo Braga's collection Contos Tradicionaes do Povo Portuguez.
• The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother is 'from the Portuguese'
• A Fish Story is from an Australian tale collected by R. H. Mathews and published in the journal Folk-Lore, Vol. XIX (1908).
• The Wonderful Tune is from T. Crofton Croker's collection Fairy Tales & Traditions of the South of Ireland.
• Three tales are from Lady Guest's translation of The Mabingion.
• The Brown Bear of Norway and The Three Crowns are wrongly attributed to Campbell's Popular Tales. They are actually from Patrick Kennedy's collection Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts.
• The Bones of Djulung is wrongly attributed to A. F. Mackenzie. It is a tale from the Macassar tribe of Celebes (Sulawesi), Indonesia translated by A.F. Chamberlain and published in the article A Macassar Cinderella in the journal Folk-Lore Vol. XIX (1908).