Kate Crackernuts | English Fairy Tales

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“Kate Crackernuts” is a Scottish fairy tale collected by Andrew Lang. Joseph Jacobs edited and republished the tale in his English Fairy Tales (1890). The tale is about a princess who rescues her beautiful sister from an evil enchantment and a prince from a wasting sickness caused by dancing nightly with the fairies. The tale has been adapted to a children’s novel and a stage play.