Folk Tales from Moor and Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Folk Tales from Moor and Mountain write by Winifred Finlay. This book was released on 1970. Folk Tales from Moor and Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In Search of the Swan Maiden
In Search of the Swan Maiden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of the Swan Maiden write by Barbara Fass Leavy. This book was released on 1995-07-01. In Search of the Swan Maiden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York Times Book Review This is a study of the meaning of gender as framed by the swan maiden tale, a story found in the folklore of virtually every culture. The swan maiden is a supernatural woman forced to marry, keep house, and bear children for a mortal man who holds the key to her imprisonment. When she manages to regain this key, she escapes to the otherworld, never to return. These tales have most often been interpreted as depicting exogamous marriages, describing the girl from another tribe trapped in a world where she will always be the outsider. Barbara Fass Leavy believes that, in the societies in which the tale and its variants endured, woman was the other--the outsider trapped in a society that could never be her own. Leavy shows how the tale, though rarely explicitly recognized, is frequently replayed in modern literature. Beautifully written, this book reveals the myriad ways in which the folktales of a society reflect its cultural values, and particularly how folktales are allegories of gender relations. It will interest anyone involved in literary, gender, and cultural studies.
The Celtic Breeze
The Celtic Breeze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Celtic Breeze write by Heather McNeil. This book was released on 2001-10-15. The Celtic Breeze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Delve into a world of kelpies, mermaids, selkies, ghosts, warlords, and fairies. This collection gives you Celtic tales, previously unrecorded or only found in obscure compilations. Mostly collected by the author on her ancestral home of the Isle of Barra in the Hebrides, these lesser-known tales from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales are supported by a brief history of the Celts, a glossary of the Gaelic integrated in the stories, an appendix of superstitions about fairy protection, and bibliographies that reflect the author's extensive research. Seventeen ballads collected almost one hundred years ago and excerpts from the author's journal of travels in Scotland make this book a unique and valuable resource for anyone who tells stories.
Welsh Folk-lore: a Collection of the Folk-tales and Legends of North Wales
Welsh Folk-lore: a Collection of the Folk-tales and Legends of North Wales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Welsh Folk-lore: a Collection of the Folk-tales and Legends of North Wales write by Elias Owen. This book was released on 1896. Welsh Folk-lore: a Collection of the Folk-tales and Legends of North Wales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Delaware's Forgotten Folk
Delaware's Forgotten Folk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Delaware's Forgotten Folk write by C. A. Weslager. This book was released on 2012-07-05. Delaware's Forgotten Folk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "It is offered not as a textbook nor as a scientific discussion, but merely as reading entertainment founded on the life history, social struggle, and customs of a little-known people."—From the Preface C. A. Weslager's Delaware's Forgotten Folk chronicles the history of the Nanticoke Indians and the Cheswold Moors, from John Smith's first encounter with the Nanticokes along the Kuskakarawaok River in 1608, to the struggles faced by these uniquely multiracial communities amid the racial and social tensions of mid-twentieth-century America. It explores the legend surrounding the origin of the two distinct but intricately intertwined groups, focusing on how their uncommon racial heritage—white, black, and Native American—shaped their identity within society and how their traditional culture retained its significance into their present. Weslager's demonstrated command of available information and his familiarity with the people themselves bespeak his deep respect for the Moor and Nanticoke communities. What began as a curious inquiry into the overlooked peoples of the Delaware River Valley developed into an attentive and thoughtful study of a distinct group of people struggling to remain a cultural community in the face of modern opposition. Originally published in 1943, Delaware's Forgotten Folk endures as one of the fundamental volumes on understanding the life and history of the Nanticoke and Moor peoples.
