Authors:Katharine M. Briggs, Ruth L. Tongue,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: folktales, world, england
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1968-09-15
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0226074943
ISBN-13: 9780226074948
If wonder tales are not abundant in England, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition—stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us. "This is a fine, homely feast, immediately intelligble. . . ."—Times Educational Supplement ". . . should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories."—Choice "This is
Author:
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: folktales, world, american, native, helped, thunder, girl
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1402732635
ISBN-13: 9781402732638
Welcome the second book in the Folktales of the World series! Engaging, inspirational, and above all entertaining, these legends come from Native American peoples across the U.S. Richly illustrated with original art, they capture a wide range of belief systems and wisdom from the Cherokee, Cheyenne, Hopi, Lenape, Maidu, Seminole, Seneca, and other tribes. The beautifully retold tales, all with informative introductions, range from creation myths to animal fables to stirring accounts of bravery and sacrifice. Find out how stories first came to be, and how the People came to the upper world. Mee
Authors:Brenda E. F. Beck, Peter J. Claus, Praphulladatta Go
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: folktales, world, india
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 1999-04-15
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0226040836
ISBN-13: 9780226040837
Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages, Folktales of India opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales collected from tribal areas, peasant groups, urban areas, and remote villages in north and south India, and the distinctive boundary regions of Kashmir, Assam, and Manipur. The tales in this collection emphasize universal human characteristics—truthfulness, modesty, loyalty, courage, generosity, and honesty. Each story is meant to be savored individually with special attention given to the great ran
Author: Hasan M. El-Shamy
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: folktales, world, egypt
Number of Pages: 406
Published: 1982-10-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0226206254
ISBN-13: 9780226206257
In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy’s English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved."This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distribution studies of folktales. In the face of the recent anthropological trend to use folkloric materials for extra-folkloric purposes, the preemin
Author: Reidar Christiansen
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: folktales, world, norway
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 1968-09-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226105105
ISBN-13: 9780226105109
Often lacking the clear episodic structure of folktales about talking animals and magic objects, legends grow from retellings of personal experiences. Christiansen isolated some seventy-seven legend types, and many of these are represented here in absorbing stories of St. Olaf, hidden treasures, witches, and spirits of the air, water, and earth. The ugly, massively strong, but slow-witted trolls are familiar to English-speaking readers. Less well-known, but the subject of an enormous number of legends, are the more manlike yet sinister "huldre-folk" who live in houses and try to woo human girl
Author: J. Hinton Knowles
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: kashmir, folktales
Number of Pages: 524
Published: 2003-06-05
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0766162761
ISBN-13: 9780766162761
1893. Kashmir as a field of folklore literature is, perhaps, not surpassed in fertility by any other country in the world; and yet, while every year witnesses the publication of books on the subject from Bengal, Bombay, Madras, Panjab and other parts, this field has remained almost ungleaned. Rev. Knowles sought to present these tales in a purely literary form as to give them in a fair translation. He hopes that they will prove a real contribution toward the increasing stock of folklore which is doing so much to clear away the clouds that envelop much of the practices, ideas and beliefs which
Author: Diane Tong
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: folktales, gypsy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1989-04-19
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0156379899
ISBN-13: 9780156379892
Stretching back over the ages, the Gypsy oral tradition has accumulated a vast and diverse treasure of folktales. The 80 stories published in this volume are gathered from 31 countries. 16-page photo insert.
