VERY STRANGE FAIRY TALES ("Bardzo Dziwne Bajki") (1916) was Makuszy¿ski's first book of Polish fairy tales - he had previously published ARABIAN ADVENTURES ("Awantury arabskie") in 1913, which drew heavily on the legends and fairy tales of the Middle East. VERY STRANGE FAIRY TALES collects the previously published "Kopytko The Shoemaker and Kwak The Duck" (1912) along with three other original tales, "Princess Marysia, The Black Swan And The Ice Mountain",...