Need name or author of book of fairy tales!?

Question

I am looking for a book I read in my childhood--details are fuzzy. Help will be greatly appreciated!!
This is what I remember:
- collection of fairy stories
- published pre-1994 (could actually be old, maybe out of print)
- one of the stories involves a fairy's attendants being turned into stones by goblins and goblins trying to break into a castle during a ball
- same story has a ring (w/ butter in it?) someone wears to tell if someone is a goblin impersonating a fairy at the ball

I know it's a long shot, but I'm desperate to find it!

Answer 1

Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino perhaps. There are 200 tales in it listed in the site below. I have not read these but have read other of his books and they seem like fables and something you would like even if it is not the one you were looking for. Some of the titles that sound like what you may be talking about are:

The Magic Ring
The Three Castles
The King's Daughter Who Could Never Get Enough Figs
The Stolen Crown
The Sleeping Queen
Monkey Palace
The Enchanted Palace
The Palace of the Doomed Queen
The Man Who Robbed the Robbers

of course the rest are listed in the link

Answer 2

Spencers' Faerie Tales Red Book

Answer 3

Grimm Brothers

Answer 4

the finished undertaking of putting your hand on the bible to swear to tell the actual fact is fairly Hollywood delusion at this element. the final public of courts basically ask you to verify which you will tell the actual fact and a bible isn't delivered out. basically like entrapment and Miranda Rights, the swearing on a bible is fairly the stuff of movies.

Answer 5

Hmmm...might be John (somebody)'s Big Book