ENGLISH FAIRY AND OTHER FOLK TALES - 74 illustrated children's stories from Old England E-Book

Compiled & Retold by Edwin Hartland

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Herein you will find 74 illustrated children’s stories from Old England. This is a collection of fairy tales, folk tales and other stories categorised into Ghosts, Goblins, Fairies, Historical and Legends, Nursery Tales, Giants, and Witchcraft. Tales include, The Haunted House, The Witch And The Toad, The Fairy Thieves, The Fairy Funeral, Jack And The Bean-Stalk, The Legend Of The Sons Of The Conqueror, The Blinded Giant, The Demon Tregeagle, The Haunted Widower, Spectre-Dogs, The Wise Fools Of Gotham, and many, many more.

These tales serve to justify the title of “Merrie England”, a title which in older days was given to England, indicating the nation’s capacity for fun and humour among the English. The story of Tom Tit Tot, which opens the collection, is unequalled among all other folk-tales, for its combined sense of humour and dramatic power.

So take some time out and travel back to a period before television, or even radio for that matter, when families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma  or an uncle or aunt would delight and captivate their audience with stories passed on to them from their mothers, fathers and grandparents.
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Edwin Sidney Hartland (1848 – 1927) compiled and authored of works on folklore. His works include anthologies of tales, and theories on anthropology and mythology with an ethnological perspective
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Leseprobe

English Fairy and Other Folk Tales

Selected and Edited, with an Introduction by

Edwin Sidney Hartland

Illustrations by

C E Brock

London:

Originally Published by:

Walter Scott, London

[1890]

Resurrected by:

Abela Publishing, London

[2015]

ENGLISH FAIRY AND OTHER FOLK TALES

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

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Abela Publishing,

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United Kingdom

2018

ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

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Acknowledgements

Edwin Sidney Hartland1848 – 1927

Edwin Sidney Hartland was an author of works on folklore. His works include anthologies of tales, and theories on anthropology and mythology with an ethnological perspective

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contents

Jack The Giant-Killer

The Princess Of Canterbury

The Princess Of Colchester

Mr. Fox

"Tom Tit Tot."

Jack And The Bean-Stalk

Historical And Local

The Story Of Saint Kenelm

Wild Edric

Lady Godiva

The Legend Of The Sons Of The Conqueror

The Legend Of Becket's Parents

The Fause Fable Of The Lord Lathom

Whittington And His Cat

The Pedlar Of Swaffham

The Lambton Worm

Bomere Pool

Giants

The Origin Of The Wrekin

The Blinded Giant

Fairies

Worcestershire Fairies

The Fairy's Midwife

The Adventure Of Cherry Of Zennor

The Fairy Funeral

The Piskies In The Cellar

Edwin And Sir Topaz

The Two Serving Damsels

The Tulip Bed

The Fisherman And The Piskies

A Fairy Caught

Colman Grey

The King Of The Cats

A Myth Of Midridge

The Green Children

The Fairy Banquet

The Fairy Horn

The Fairy Fair

The Fairies' Caldron

The Cauld Lad Of Hilton

The Fairy Thieves

The Boggart

Ainsel

Legend Of The Rollright Stones

Goblins.

Dando And His Dogs.

The Demon Tregeagle

The Parson And Clerk

Outwitting The Bogie

The Hunted Hare

The Well Of St. Ludgvan

The Hedley Kow

Witchcraft

The Lord Of Pengerswick

The Witch And The Toad

Witch And Hare

The Hand Of Glory

Betty Chidley The Witch

The Bag Of Flour

Kentsham Bell

Ghosts

A Bishop's Ghost

A Clergyman's Ghost

The Haunted House

Ghost-Laying Stories

The Roaring Bull O' Bagbury

The White Lady Of Blenkinsopp

The Haunted Widower

The Ghost Of Rosewarne

The Lady With The Lantern

Spectre-Dogs

Billy B----'S Adventure

Drolls

The Wise Fools Of Gotham

The Three Wishes

The Miller At The Professor's Examination

Stupid's Mistaken Cries

The Three Sillies

Mr. Vinegar

Lazy Jack

The History Of Tom Thumb

Jack The Giant-Killer 1

"He Beheld With Terror A Huge Giant, Dragging Along A Fair Lady And A Knight"

IN the reign of King Arthur, there lived in the county of Cornwall, near the Land's End of England, a wealthy farmer who had one only son called Jack. He was brisk and of a ready lively wit, so that whatever he could not perform by force and strength he completed by ingenious wit and policy. Never was any person heard of that could worst him, and he very often even baffled the learned by his sharp and ready invention.

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In those days the Mount of Cornwall was kept by a huge and monstrous giant of eighteen feet in height, and about three yards in compass, of a fierce and grim countenance, the terror of all the neighbouring towns and villages. He lived in a cave in the midst of the Mount, and would not suffer any one else to live near him. His food was other men's cattle, which often became his prey, for whensoever he wanted food he would wade over to the main-land, where he would furnish himself with whatever came in his way. The good folk, at his approach, forsook their habitations, while he seized on their cattle, making nothing of carrying half-a-dozen oxen on his back at a time; and as for their sheep and hogs, he would tie them round his waist like a bunch of bandoliers. This course he had followed for many years, so that all Cornwall was impoverished by his depredations.

One day Jack, happening to be present at the town hall when the magistrates were sitting in council about the giant, asked what reward would be given to the person who destroyed him. The giant's treasure, they said, was the recompense. Quoth Jack, "Then let me undertake it."

So he furnished himself with a horn, shovel, and pickaxe, and went over to the Mount in the beginning of a dark winter's evening, when he fell to work, and before morning had dug a pit twenty-two feet deep, and nearly as broad, covering it over with long sticks and straw. Then strewing a little mould upon it, it appeared like plain ground. This completed, Jack placed himself on the contrary side of the pit, fartherest from the giant's lodging, and, just at the break of day, he put the horn to his mouth, and blew, Tantivy, Tantivy. This unexpected noise aroused the giant, who rushed from his cave, crying: "You incorrigible villain, are you come here to disturb my rest? You shall pay dearly for this. Satisfaction I will have, and this it shall be, I will take you whole and broil you for breakfast," which he had no sooner uttered, than tumbling into the pit, he made the very foundations of the Mount to shake. "Oh, giant," quoth Jack, "where are you now? Oh faith, you are gotten now into Lob's Pound, where I will surely plague you for your threatening words: what do you think now of broiling me for your breakfast? Will no other diet serve you but poor Jack?" Thus having tantalised the giant for a while, he gave him a most weighty knock with his pickaxe on the very crown of his head, and killed him on the spot.