| Kate Crackernuts | |
|---|---|
 Kate and the Fairy Baby | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | Kate Crackernuts |
| Also known as | Katie Crackernuts |
| Aarne–Thompson grouping | 306, 711 |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Orkney Islands |
| Published in | Longman's Magazine (1889) English Fairy Tales (1890) A Book of British Fairy Tales |
| Related | "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" |
"Kate Crackernuts" (or "Katie Crackernuts") is a Scottish fairy tale collected by Andrew Lang in the Orkney Islands and published in Longman's Magazine in 1889. Joseph Jacobs edited and republished the tale in his English Fairy Tales (1890).[1] 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.
- ^ Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales Kate Crackernuts.