The Windfairies was dedicated to the children of Margaret Burne-Jones who had heard the first stories. There is less enchantment and more homliness and moral purpose in these, but ''Dumb Othmar'' with Hulda''s hallucinatory quest, accompanied by a glittering green snake, for her lover''s lost voice has echoes of the supernatural world of Hoffman''s ''The Golden Pot''. (Goodreads)
