GYPSY FOLK TALES - BOOK ONE 36 Illustrated Gypsy Tales E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This book is a treasure chest of 36 classic Gypsy Folk Tales and Stories, and makes fascinating reading for those interested in folklore in general, but especially for those interested in the Roma, or Gypsy, people. Within you will find Gypsy stories from Turkey, Romania and Bukowina. Stories like “The Dead Man's Gratitude”, “Baldplate”, “The Vampire”, “The Golden Children”, “The Gypsy and the Dragon”, “Happy Boz’ll” and many, many more. The stories are further enhanced by the numerous impressive illustrations recently completed by the Dutch artist and illustrator, Maggie Gunzel, who, unlike many illustrators of the 19th C. and 20th C, has stayed true to the subject matter. Francis Hindes Groome collated and prepared this collection, making only few changes and remaining true to the original stories, so to let the written story enchant us as if it were being presented in the vernacular. In his various other works, Groome raises the point that Europe possibly owes a great deal of its folklore heritage to Gypsies, who brought tales from East to West. If this is the case, then even the most rooted of Europeans must attribute a portion of his culture to the Gypsy lifestyle. Simply stated, these stories are his stories, but in an earlier form. 10% of the net sale from this book will be donated to the Relief Fund for Romania.  

Leseprobe

Gypsy Folk Tales

Book One

Illustrated Edition

Compiled and Edited by

Francis Hindes Groom

newly Illustrated by

Maggie Gunzel

© 2012

Originally published by

Hurst and Blackett, London

[1899]

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Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London

[2012]

Gypsy Folk Tales - Book One

Illustrated Edition

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2012

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

The illustrations contained herein are copyright of

Maggie Gunzel © 2012

and may not be reproduced in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system)

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Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2012

ISBN-13: 978-x-xxxxxx-xx-x

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Frontispiece:

The Gypsy and the Vampire

Story 5

Dedication & Philanthropy

This book is dedicated to the teachers and storytellers

who keep folklore and history alive

through the telling and re-telling of these tales

A percentage of the net from the sale of this book

will be donated to

The Relief Fund for Romania

Acknowledgements

The Publisher acknowledges the work that

Francis Hindes Groome

did

in compiling a collection of

Gypsy Folk Tales

in a time well before any electronic media was in use.

Also, thanks to

Maggie Gunzel

for the many hours spent illustrating this book.

'PAZORRHUS'

I AM no folklorist; I have merely dabbled in folklore as a branch of the great Egyptian Question, which includes also intricate problems of philology, ethnology, craniology, archæology, history, music, and what not besides. But for twenty years I have been trying to interest folklorists in Gypsy folk-tales. Vainly so far; and during those twenty years there have died Dr. Paspati, Dr. Barbu Constantinescu, Dr. Franz von Miklosich, Dr. Isidore Kopernicki, M. Paul Bataillard, and John Roberts, the Welsh-Gypsy harper: with them much has perished that folklorists should not have willingly let go. Meanwhile, however, a Rómani Grimm has arisen in Mr. John Sampson, the librarian of University College, Liverpool. With unparalleled generosity he has placed his collections at my free disposal--I trust I have not made too lavish use of them,--and has read, moreover, every page of the proofs of this volume, enriching it from the depths of his knowledge of 'matters of Egypt.' Another, a very old friend, to whom my debt is great, is the Rev. Thomas Davidson, author of the admirable folklore articles in Chambers's Encyclopædia; he has lent me scores of scarce works from his unrivalled folklore library. Others to whom I owe acknowledgments are: Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. W. R. S. Ralston, Mr. W. A. Clouston, Dr. Hyde Clarke, Professor Bensly (all five also dead), Mrs. Gomme, Mr. H. Browne of Bucharest, Mr. Robert Burns, Lord Archibald Campbell, Mr. Archibald Constable, Mr. H. T. Crofton, Professor Dobschütz of Jena, Mr. Fitzedward Hall, Dean Kitchin, Mr. William Larminie, Mr. David MacRitchie, M. Omont of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Dr. David Patrick, Dr. Fearon Ranking, Mr. Rufus B. Richardson of Athens, Professor Sayce, and Dr. Rudolf von Sowa of Brünn. And, finally, I would thank in advance whoever may send me corrections, additions, or suggestions on the subject of Gypsy folk-tales.

FRANCIS HINDES GROOME.

137 WARRENDER PARK ROAD,    EDINBURGH.

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Publishers Note

In FHG’s original work are fifty-eight introductory chapters giving a detailed background and history of the Gypsy peoples from around the world.

As our objective was to produce a volume of Gypsy folk tales, which would be just that, we have elected to include only three of those introductory chapters as background information.

Also, the original work contained seventy-six Gypsy folk stories. In order to keep the work to a more manageable and affordable size, we have elected to spilt the original volume into two volumes, each containing thirty-six stories.

John Halsted

Abela Publishing

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BOOK ONE

Tales and stories from

Turkish Gypsies

Roumanian Gypsies

and

Bukowina Gypsies

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Distribution of Gypsies.

Story-Telling a living Gypsy art.

Theory

CHAPTER I TURKISH-GYPSY STORIES

No. 1.--The Dead Man's Gratitude

No. 2.--Baldpate

No. 3.--The Riddle

No. 4.--Story of the Bridge

CHAPTER II ROUMANIAN GYPSY STORIES

No. 5.--The Vampire

No. 6.--God's Godson

No. 7.--The Snake who became the King's Son-in-law

No. 8.--The Bad Mother

No. 9.--The Mother's Chastisement

No. 10.--The Three Princesses and the Unclean Spirit

No. 11.--The Two Thieves

No. 12.--The Gypsy and the Priest

No. 13.--The Watchmaker

No. 14.--The Red King and the Witch

No. 15.--The Prince and the Wizard

No. 16.--The Apples of Pregnancy

CHAPTER III BUKOWINA GYPSY STORIES

No. 17.--It all comes to light

No. 18.--The Golden Children

No. 19.--The Two Children

No. 20.--Mare's Son

No. 21.--The Deluded Dragon

No. 22.--The Gypsy and the Dragon

No. 23.--The Seer

No. 24.--The Prince, his Comrade, and Nastasa the Fair

No. 25.--The Hen that laid Diamonds

No. 26.--The Winged Hero

No. 27.--Tropsyn

No. 28.--The Beautiful Mountain

No. 29.--Pretty-face

No. 30.--The Rich and the Poor Brother

No. 31--The Three Brothers

No. 32.--The Enchanted City

No. 33.--The Jealous Husband

No. 34.--Made over to the Devil

No. 35.--The Lying Story

No. 36.--Happy Boz’ll

List of Illustrations

Out of her mouth fell a dragon

Three Birds perched on the galleon

He lowered the letter into the well

The Vampire

The snake who became the King’s God-son

Take my horse with twelve wings

He left her big with child

He set his bugle in his mouth

The king took the corpse, hung it up, and set soldiers to watch it

When he had made the key, he went back to try it in the door

The emperor, when he heard it, came down from his throne

The king bought ten ducats' worth of victuals and locked them

away

The lad took his heroic club and hurled it

The Apples of Pregnancy

The two doves became two boys

Two fishermen saw the chests and laid hold of both

They lowered him into a cave

The dragon climbed into the cherry tree

There in the earth was a palace

The Seer

The Prince, his comrade and Natasa the Fair

The hen that laid diamonds

She was lying lifeless on the bed

In the meadow they saw a light

Peter Pretty Face attacked the dragons

They washed the Emperor’s daughter

And thither came three crows

She laid him on the table and put him all together

She saw her husband carrying water

…whilst the Devil was making a hole in the rock

Introduction

Distribution of Gypsies.

No race is more widely scattered over the earth's surface than the Gypsies; the very Jews are less ubiquitous. Go where one will in Europe, one comes upon Gypsies everywhere--from Finland to Sicily, from the shores of the Bosporus to the Atlantic seaboard. Something under a million is their probable number in Europe; of these Hungary claims 275,000, Roumania 200,000, Servia (Serbia) 38,000, and Bulgaria 52,000. How many Gypsies there are in Great Britain I have not the vaguest notion, for there are no statistics of the slightest value to go by.