Forgotten Folk-tales of the English Counties (RLE Folklore) - 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 Forgotten Folk-tales of the English Counties (RLE Folklore) write by Ruth Tongue. This book was released on 2020-07-26. Forgotten Folk-tales of the English Counties (RLE Folklore) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Watkins Book of English Folktales
The Watkins Book of English Folktales - 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 Watkins Book of English Folktales write by Neil Philip. This book was released on 2022-10-11. The Watkins Book of English Folktales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art – when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find “Jack the Giantkiller”, “Tom Tit Tot” and other quintessentially English favourites, alongside interesting borrowings, such as an English version of the Grimms’ “Little Snow White” – as well as bedtime frighteners, including “Captain Murderer”, as told to Charles Dickens by his childhood nurse. Neil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale’s journey from mouth to page, and what has happened to them on the way. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their great verbal dash and daring.
Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore)
Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore) - 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 Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore) write by Herbert Halpert. This book was released on 2015-02-20. Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to collect as broad a spectrum of traditional material as possible, and Folktales of Newfoundland is notable not only for the number and quality of its narratives, but also for the format in which they are presented. A special transcription system conveys to the reader the accents and rhythms of each performance, and the endnote to each tale features an analysis of the narrator’s language. In addition, Newfoundland has preserved many aspects of English and Irish folk tradition, some of which are no longer active in the countries of their origin. Working from the premise that traditions virtually unknown in England might still survive in active form in Newfoundland, the researchers set out to discover if this was in fact the case.
New Forest Myths and Folklore
New Forest Myths and Folklore - 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 New Forest Myths and Folklore write by Brice Stratford. This book was released on 2022-08-25. New Forest Myths and Folklore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New Forest is an old, old forest. The stories, like the forest which defines them, are at once fresh and blossoming with each telling, but ever rooted in the deep, dark soil of our history and our heritage. From King Arthur and Robin Hood, to Rufus the Red and Bevis of Hampton, award-winning storyteller Brice Stratford guides you through the folk heritage and mythological past of Britain's most haunted national park, taking in five headed dragons, giant ettins, and shape-shifting pixies along the way.
Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes]
Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes] - 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 Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes] write by Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.. This book was released on 2016-02-12. Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.
