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- Old Peter's Russian Tales - Children's Tales from Old Russia - Raising funds for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from John HalstedThis is a book of old Russian folklore retold for young people and the young at heart. The tales are a good sampling of Slavic märchen, or folk-tales. The stories in this book are those that Russian peasants tell their children and each other, or at least did tell their children before the ...
Views: 1376 - Legends and Popular Tales of the Basque People - Raising funds for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from John HalstedThis collection of Basque legends, fairy tales, ballads, and popular stories , translated by Mariana Monteiro and illustrated by Harold Copping, having their origin in the ancient traditions which formed a portion of the sacred inheritance bequeathed to the Basque people by their forefathers, ...
Views: 1330 - INDIAN FAIRY TALES - tales from the subcontinent of India - Raising funds for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from John HalstedSoils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are often the same in plot and incidents, if not in style. Most of the 27 tales in this volume of Indian fairy tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D Batten are known in the West in some form or other; how can we account for their ...
Views: 1775 - Australian Legendary Tales - The Jungle Book of Australia - Raising Funds for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from John HalstedAUSTRALIA makes an appeal to the fancy which is all its own. When the first white settlers arrived in Australia, all was novel, and, while seeming fresh, was inestimably old. The grey gum-trees did not resemble any European forest, but were antique, melancholy and featureless. In a continent of ...
Views: 1412 - Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends - Raising Funds for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2011 from John HalstedJewish folklore overflows with vivid stories that both entertain and teach. And why shouldnt it? The Jewish culture has branches in just about every nationality in the world but despite being exposed to different cultures it has retained it's distinctiveness. In 1919, "Aunt Naomi" (Gertrude ...
Views: 1365 - The Four Ancient Books of Wales - an Anthology of Dark-age Welsh Bardic Poetry - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2011 from John HalstedTHE dissolution of the religious houses in Wales during the reign of Henry VIII, and the dispersion of their libraries, led to many Welsh manuscripts passing into the hands of private individuals. Collections of Welsh manuscripts soon began to be formed by persons who took an interest in the ...
Views: 1518(2 votes) - Ananzi Stories - Children's Trickster tales from West Africa - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2011 from John HalstedANANZI or Ahnansi (Ah-nahn-see) "the trickster" is a cunning and intelligent spider and is one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore and culture. The Anansi tales are believed to have originated in the Ashanti tribe in Ghana. The word Anansi is Akan and simply ...
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