Benedikte Naubert (1756-1819) was a highly educated bourgeois woman wrote over fifty historical novels in the period when the Age of Enlightenment gave way to Romanticism. She also wrote many fairy tales, and this collection, published as a kind of sequel to the "Folk Tales of the Germans" by Johann Karl August Musäus, features an earnest proto-feminist perspective. Presented here are six tales: "Erdmann & Marie: A Legend from Rübezahl," "The Elf King's Daughter," "The Hamel Children, or The Fairy Tale of the Knight St. George," "Ottilie," "The Legend of St. Julian," "The Maiden's Leap and the Horse's Trot," and "The Woman in White."