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Author: Neil Philip
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With more than 100 memorable tales, this extensive collection brings together stirring stories from all parts of Scotland--from the vibrant Gaelic traditional Highlands and Islands to the enduring legends handed down by the Lowland Scots.
Author: Neil Philip
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
Published: 1993-07-01
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780844667294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Folk Tales Authors
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2016-11-03
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0750978945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This enchanting collection of stories gathers together folk tales from across England in one special volume. Drawn from The History Press' popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers performing in the country today, including prominent figures Taffy Thomas MBE, Hugh Lupton and Helen East. From hidden chapels and murderous vicars to travelling fiddlers and magical shape-shifters, this book celebrates the distinct character of England's different customs, beliefs and dialects, and is a treat for all who enjoy a good yarn.
Author: Ruth Tongue
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-26
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1000155986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, first published in 1970, Ruth L. Tongue has collected a number of county folk tales recorded by her from childhood onwards, from old people, village children and farm round-the-fire sessions. Many of the beliefs embodied in the gipsy and witchcraft tales are still in practice today among the travelling people and locally ‘gifted’ healers. The tales reveal a good deal of fairy lore, some tree lore, including ghostly trees like Crooker, and the ‘uncanny’ Black Dog makes his appearance in more than one tale. The collection includes several of the long fireside tales which would be told on succeeding evenings on winter nights round the kitchen fire, and rhozzums from various localities.
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Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0141392541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle' In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral tales, collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four great Russian writers: Alexander Pushkin, Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov and Andrey Platonov. In his introduction to these new translations, Robert Chandler writes about the primitive magic inherent in these tales and the taboos around them, while in the afterword, Sibelan Forrester discusses the witch Baba Yaga. This edition also includes an appendix, bibliography and notes. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler With Sibelan Forrester, Anna Gunin and Olga Meerson
Author: Gordon Jarvie
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2008-10-02
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0141900202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chosen combination of old favourites such as Tam Lin, Thomas Rymer and Adam Bell, as well as more modern stories by master story-tellers like Andrew Lang, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and John Buchan.
Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781566199469
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