From The Woodcutter's Son and Other English Tales Retold, written and illustrated by Violet Moore Higgins, 1917.   Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

From Doubt and Other Things by Elihu Vedder, 1922.

"Nick in trouble," from The Crosier, the Shears and the Cloven Hoof by C. A. Muirtoune, 1853.

From Mighty Mikko, a Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Parker Fillmore, 1922.

From Typical Tales of Fancy, Romance, and History from Shakespeare's Plays, 1892.

From Into Mexico and Out by Joseph Steffens, 1916.

From The Book of Nature Myths by Florence Holbrook, 1902.

From The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins, 1862.  See also our Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.

 From the Collection of Tried Receipts Contributed by Various Charlestown House-keepers and Published in Behalf of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Charlestown ( Mass.) Branch of the Boston Y.M.C.A, 1893.

From The Men in the Moon or The Devil to Pay, illustrated by George Cruikshank, 1820.

When an onion sings, potato eyes will get teary.  From Vegetable Verselets for Humorous Vegetarians by Margaret Hays, 1911.

Here's someone minding his P's, if not technically his P's and Q's.  From Songs of Singularity or Lays for the Eccentric by the London Hermit, Walter Parke, 1875.

"The Uranologia of Mr. Bartley ... The grand transparent scene of the system."  From London Lions for Country Cousins by Horace Wellbeloved, 1826.

From The Prescription, Therapeutically, Pharmaceutically, Grammatically and Historically Considered by Otto Augustus Wall, 1898.

Here's what comes of a swallowed cherry seed, from Laugh and Grow Wise by Senior Owl, 1856.