Hmar Folk Tales
Author: Lal Dena
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9788171722815
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A Book of Paintings on Themes from the Hills of Northeast India
Author: Sujata Miri
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 8170998697
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Author:
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First edition of a collection of Hawaiian folk tales by various authors and compiled by Thomas G. Thrum. In a note included about this book, Thrum writes, "In response to repeated requests, the compiler now presents in book form the series of legends that have been made a feature of 'The Hawaiian Annual' for a number of years past."
Favorite Folktales from Around the World
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0804152861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
The Development of Folk-Tales and Myths
Author: Franz Boas
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 1473378184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Development of Folk-Tales and Myths' is an anthropological work on the origins and progress of fiction. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia. Even though Boas had a passion the natural sciences, he enrolled at the University at Kiel as an undergraduate in Physics. Boas completed his degree with a dissertation on the optical properties of water, before continuing his studies and receiving his doctorate in 1881. Boas became a professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in 1899 and founded the first Ph.D program in anthropology in America. He was also a leading figure in the creation of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Franz Boas had a long career and a great impact on many areas of study. He died on 21st December 1942.
The Folk-tales of the Magyars
English Fairy and Other Folk Tales
Author: Edwin Sidney Hartland
Publisher: London : W. Scott
Published: 1890
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of traditional English tales about legendary people and events, fairies, giants, witches, goblins, and ghosts. The editor defines a "Saga" as a "traditional narrative which is believed to be true, and which relates to some definite human person... or to some definite locality, or to the power and deeds of some deity or supernatural being or race of beings." A Nursery Tale, or Märchen is not believed to be true and its end is fortunate: Jack "must" escape the giant. A "Droll" is just that: Droll.
Folk Tales and Fables of the World
Author: Marboro Books
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781566198905
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The Folktale
Folk Tales and Fables of the World
Author:
Publisher: Gramercy
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780517641811
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