'HUNDREDTH DOVE' SOURCE
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1) I am trying to track down the source or sources for an English folktale which I have heard titled "The Hundredth Dove" but it might have another title in collections. It is about a king who asks a fowler to capture 100 doves to be served at the royal wedding feast. Finally there is only one left and, though the dove speaks and offers treasures to the fowler, his sense of duty to the king wins out and he breaks its neck, only to learn that the intended queen (who had dove-like features) has mysteriously disappeared. A sad and powerful tale!--and one for these scary times, in which the doves of peace are trying in vain to be heard...

2) This is from
Jane Yolen's page:
THE HUNDREDTH DOVE
Illustrated by David Palladini
T. Y. Crowell 1977
ISBN# 0-690-01366-3 Crowell hardcover
ISBN# 0-690-01366-3 Schocken paperback
Six of these seven fairy tales are totally original--"The Hundredth Dove," "The Maiden Made of Fire," "The Wind Cap," "The White Seal Maid," "The Promise," "The Lady and the Merman." The seventh, "Once A Good Man," was based on an old story. This was the third collection of fairy tales I wrote and together with The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Moon Ribbon led to my being called the Hans Christian Andersen of America. Putting the stories in a single volume was the idea of my astute and wonderful editor Ann K. Beneduce, and she had a hand in all my fairy tales for many years after. There were editions in England and Japan.

(This web page updated 11/13/03)