A. J. Glinski

A. J. Glinski was Poland's master folklore writer, and his nation's equivalent of the Brothers Grimm. He spent many years in the mid-nineteenth century travelling all over his nation's lands, listening to and writing down the stories as told to him by the ordinary folk. In this manner, he captured Polish folklore as it truly was-the way that the peasants would tell their children as part of a wide-ranging oral tradition.