The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales

List of Figures Preface Notes and Acknowledgments Introduction The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Harry Potter, and Why Magic Matters PART I. THE HUMILIATED APPRENTICE TALES Early Tales Lucian of Samosata, "Eucrates and Pancrates" (ca. 170 CE) François Pétis de la Croix, "The Story of the Brahmin Padmanaba and the Young Hassan" (1707) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "The Pupil in Magic" (1798) Nineteenth-Century Tales Robert Southey, "Cornelius Agrippa's Bloody Book" (1801) Sir Walter Scott, "The Last Exorciser" (1838) John Naaké, "The Book of Magic" (1874) Alfred Cooper Fryer, "The Master and His Pupil; or, The Magic Book" (1884) Sheykh-Zāda, "The Lady's Fifth Story" (1886) Edith Hodgetts, "The Blacksmith and the Devil" (1890) Twentieth-Century Tales Henry Thomas Francis, "The Rash Magician" (1916) Richard Rostron, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (1941) Richard Dorson, "The Mojo" (1956) Harold Courlander, "The Do-All Ax" (1957) PART II. THE REBELLIOUS APPRENTICE TALES Early Tales Ovid, "Erysichthon and Mestra" (8 CE) Rachel Harriette Busk, "The Saga of the Well-and-Wise-Walking Khan" (ca. 3rd Century to 11th Century) Somadeva, "Bhavašarman and the Two Witches" (ca. 1070) Farīd al-Dīn 'Attār, "The Magician's Apprentice" (ca. 1220) Giovan Francesco Straparola, "Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi" (1553) Sangendhi Mahalingam Natesa Sastri, "The Deceiver Shall Be Deceived" (ca. 1770) Nineteenth-Century Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, "The Nimble Thief and His Master" (1819) Kazimierz Wladyslaw Woycicki, "The Sorcerer and His Apprentice" (1839) Arthur and Albert Schott, "The Devil and His Pupil" (1845) Ludwig Bechstein, "The Magic Combat" (1857) Johann Georg von Hahn, "The Teacher and His Pupil" (1864) Giuseppe Pitrè, "The Tuft of Wild Beet" (1875) Domenico Comparetti, "Oh, Relief!" (1875) François-Marie Luzel, "The Magician and His Servant" (1885) George Webbe Dasent, "Farmer Weathersky" (1888) Jerome Curtin, "The Fisherman's Son and the Gruagach of Tricks" (1890) Edith Hodgetts, "The Wonderful Trade" (1890) Charles Swynnerton, "The Story of Ali the Merchant and the Brahmin" (1892) Twentieth-Century Tales Leo Wiener, "The Tale of the Sorcerer" (1902) Joseph Charles Mardrus, "The Twelfth Captain's Tale" (ca. 1904) Fletcher Gardner, "The Battle of the Enchanters" (1907) Peter Buchan, "The Black King of Morocco" (1908) Cecil Henry Bompas, "The Boy Who Learnt Magic" (1909) Edith Nesbit, "The Magician's Heart" (1912) Claude-Marius Barbeau, "The Two Magicians" (1916) Hermann Hesse, "The Forest Dweller" (1917) Heywood Broun, "Red Magic" (1921) Dean Fansler, "The Mysterious Book" (1921) Elsie Clews Parsons, "The Battle of the Enchanters" (1923) Romuald Pramberger, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (1926) Seumas MacManus, "The Mistress of Magic" (1926) Joseph Médard Carrière, "The Two Magicians" (1937) John Mason Brewer, "The High Sheriff and His Servant" (1958) Corinne Saucier, "The Man and His Son" (1962) A. K. Ramanujan, "The Magician and His Disciple" (1997) PART III. KRABAT TALES Joachim Leopold Haupt, "About an Evil Man in Groß-Särchen" (1837) Michael Hornig, "Krabat: A Legend from Folklore" (1858) Georg Gustav Kubasch, "Krabat" (1865) Edmund Veckenstedt, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice, I" (1880; Recorded by Hendrich Jordan) Edmund Veckenstedt, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice, II" (1880; Recorded by Alexander von Rabenau) Johann Goltsch, "The Story about Krabat" (1885) Georg Pilk, "The Wendish Faust Legend" (1900) Jerzy Slizinski, "Krabat" (1959) Biographies of Authors, Editors, Collectors, and Translators Filmography Bibliography Selected and Chronological List of Sorcerer's Apprentice Tales Index