Heroes and villains, monsters and spirits adorn the pages of Andrew Lang\047s third collection of fairy talesThere was once upon a time a castle in the middle of a thick wood where lived an old woman quite alone, for she was an enchantress. In the daytime she changed herself into a cat or a night-owl, but in the evening she became like an ordinary woman again. She could entice animals and birds to come to her, and then she would kill and cook them. If a pretty girl came within her boundary, the old enchantress changed her into a bird, and shut her up in a wicker cage. She had quite seven thousand of such cages in the castle with very rare birds in them.""Andrew Lang\047s famous legacy of fairy books is here continued with the publication of the third title.