Jack Zipes is the editor and translator of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Princeton) and the editor of The Great Fairy Tale Tradition (Norton). He is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. Natalie Frank is an American artist currently living and working in New York City. Her work is held in multiple museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum.

List of Figures ix Preface xi Notes and Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Harry Potter, and Why Magic Matters 1 Part I The Humiliated Apprentice Tales Early Tales Lucian of Samosata, "Eucrates and Pancrates" (ca. 170 CE) 85 Francois Petis de la Croix, "The Story of the Brahmin Padmanaba and the Young Hassan" (1707) 88 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "The Pupil in Magic" (1798) 97 Nineteenth-Century Tales Robert Southey, "Cornelius Agrippa's Bloody Book" (1801) 101 Sir Walter Scott, "The Last Exorciser" (1838) 103 John Naake, "The Book of Magic" (1874) 103 Alfred Cooper Fryer, "The Master and His Pupil; or, The Magic Book" (1884) 105 Sheykh-Zada, "The Lady's Fifth Story" (1886) 110 Edith Hodgetts, "The Blacksmith and the Devil" (1890) 112 Twentieth-Century Tales Henry Thomas Francis, "The Rash Magician" (1916) 117 Richard Rostron, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (1941) 119 Richard Dorson, "The Mojo" (1956) 123 Harold Courlander, "The Do-All Ax" (1957) 124 Part II The Rebellious Apprentice Tales Early Tales Ovid, "Erysichthon and Mestra" (8 CE) 129 Rachel Harriette Busk, "The Saga of the Well-and-Wise-Walking Khan" (ca. 3rd Century to 11th Century) 136 Somadeva, "Bhavasarman and the Two Witches" (ca. 1070) 140 Farid al-Din 'Attar, "The Magician's Apprentice" (ca. 1220) 142 Giovan Francesco Straparola, "Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi" (1553) 144 Sangendhi Mahalingam Natesa Sastri, "The Deceiver Shall Be Deceived" (ca. 1770) 151 Nineteenth-Century Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, "The Nimble Thief and His Master" (1819) 163 Kazimierz Wladyslaw Woycicki, "The Sorcerer and His Apprentice" (1839) 166 Arthur and Albert Schott, "The Devil and His Pupil" (1845) 169 Ludwig Bechstein, "The Magic Combat" (1857) 174 Johann Georg von Hahn, "The Teacher and His Pupil" (1864) 178 Giuseppe Pitre, "The Tuft of Wild Beet" (1875) 184 Domenico Comparetti, "Oh, Relief!" (1875) 190 Francois-Marie Luzel, "The Magician and His Servant" (1885) 193 George Webbe Dasent, "Farmer Weathersky" (1888) 202 Jerome Curtin, "The Fisherman's Son and the Gruagach of Tricks" (1890) 209 Edith Hodgetts, "The Wonderful Trade" (1890) 218 Charles Swynnerton, "The Story of Ali the Merchant and the Brahmin" (1892) 227 Twentieth-Century Tales Leo Wiener, "The Tale of the Sorcerer" (1902) 243 Joseph Charles Mardrus, "The Twelfth Captain's Tale" (ca. 1904) 247 Fletcher Gardner, "The Battle of the Enchanters" (1907) 253 Peter Buchan, "The Black King of Morocco" (1908) 254 Cecil Henry Bompas, "The Boy Who Learnt Magic" (1909) 257 Edith Nesbit, "The Magician's Heart" (1912) 260 Claude-Marius Barbeau, "The Two Magicians" (1916) 272 Hermann Hesse, "The Forest Dweller" (1917) 274 Heywood Broun, "Red Magic" (1921) 281 Dean Fansler, "The Mysterious Book" (1921) 286 Elsie Clews Parsons, "The Battle of the Enchanters" (1923) 289 Romuald Pramberger, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (1926) 293 Seumas MacManus, "The Mistress of Magic" (1926) 296 Joseph Medard Carriere, "The Two Magicians" (1937) 306 John Mason Brewer, "The High Sheriff and His Servant" (1958) 311 Corinne Saucier, "The Man and His Son" (1962) 312 A. K. Ramanujan, "The Magician and His Disciple" (1997) 313 Part III Krabat Tales Joachim Leopold Haupt, "About an Evil Man in Gross-Sarchen" (1837) 323 Michael Hornig, "Krabat: A Legend from Folklore" (1858) 324 Georg Gustav Kubasch, "Krabat" (1865) 326 Edmund Veckenstedt, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice, I" (1880; Recorded by Hendrich Jordan) 329 Edmund Veckenstedt, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice, II" (1880; Recorded by Alexander von Rabenau) 331 Johann Goltsch, "The Story about Krabat" (1885) 333 Georg Pilk, "The Wendish Faust Legend" (1900) 334 Jerzy Slizinski, "Krabat" (1959) 344 Biographies of Authors, Editors, Collectors, and Translators 349 Filmography 365 Bibliography 369 Selected and Chronological List of Sorcerer's Apprentice Tales 387 Index 397