GYPSY FOLK TALES - BOOK TWO - 39 illustrated Gypsy tales E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This second volume is a treasure chest of classic illustrated Gypsy Folklore stories and contains a further 39 Gypsy stories, tales and legends from Transylvania, Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia, Poland, England, Wales and Scotland.

Herein you will find stories like “The Black Dog of the Wild Forest”, “The Three Dragons”, “The Brigands and the Miller's Daughter”, “Bobby Rag”, “De Little Fox”, “The Green Man of Noman's Land”, “The Tinker and His Wife” plus many, many more.

Once again, the stories have been illustrated by Dutch artist Maggie Gunzel whose art has stayed true to the stories themselves.
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 their culture to the Gypsy lifestyle. Simply stated, these stories are their stories, but in an earlier form.

So take some time out and curl up with this book. Be swept back in time to another place, where the carefree lifestyle of the Gypsy rules and the burdens of today are forgotten - albeit temporarily.
In buying this book you will have donated towards the relief of the underprivileged people of Romania through the Relief Fund for Romania.
 

Leseprobe

Gypsy Folk Tales

Book Two

Illustrated Edition

Compiled and Edited by

Francis Hindes Groom

newly Illustrated by

Maggie Gunzel

© 2013

Originally published by

Hurst and Blackett, London

[1899]

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Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London

[2013]

Gypsy Folk Tales

Book Two – Illustrated Edition

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2013

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 © 2013

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)

without the prior written permission of the publisher or illustrator.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2013

ISBN-13: 978-8-822812-14-8

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Website

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Frontispiece:

The dog and the maiden.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the teachers and storytellers

who keep folklore and history alive

through the telling and re-telling

of these tales

Philanthropy

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 editing and compiling this unique collection of

Gypsy Folk Tales

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

Publisher’s Note

In his original work, Francis Hindes Groome published 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. This is the second book in the series and contains 39 Gypsy folk tale.

Also in the original work are fifty-eight introductory chapters giving a detailed background and history of the Gypsy peoples from around the world.

Our objective was to produce a volume of Gypsy folk tales, which would be just that. As such we have elected to include only three of those introductory chapters which are in Book One but omitted from Book Two.

John Halsted

Abela Publishing

BOOK TWO

Gypsy Tales and Stories from

Transylvania

Slovakia

Moravia

Bohemia

Poland

England

Wales

and

Scotland

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER IV TRANSYLVANIAN GYPSY STORIES

No. 37.--The Creation of the Violin

No. 38.--The Three Golden Hairs of the Sun-King

No. 39.--The Dog and the Maiden

No. 40.--Death the Sweetheart

CHAPTER V SLOVAK, MORAVIAN, AND BOHEMIAN GYPSY STORIES

No. 41.--The Three Girls

No. 42.--The Dragon

No. 43.--The Princess and the Forester's Son

No. 44.--The Three Dragons

CHAPTER VI POLISH-GYPSY STORIES

No. 45.--Tale of a Foolish Brother and of a Wonderful

Bush

No. 46.--Tale of a Girl who was sold to the Devil,

and of her Brother

No. 47.--The Brigands and the Miller's Daughter

No. 48.--Tale of a Wise Young Jew and a Golden Hen

No. 49.--The Golden Bird and the Good Hare

No. 50.--The Witch

CHAPTER VII ENGLISH-GYPSY STORIES

No. 51.--Bobby Rag

No. 52.--De Little Fox

No. 53.--De Little Bull-calf

CHAPTER VIII WELSH-GYPSY STORIES

No. 54.--Jack and his Golden Snuff-box

No. 55.--An Old King and his three Sons in England

'I Valín Kalo Pāni'

No. 56.--The Five Trades

No. 57.--Ashypelt

No. 58.--Twopence-Halfpenny

No. 59.--The Old Smith

No. 60.--The Old Soldier

No. 61.--The Dragon

No. 62.--The Green Man of Noman's Land

No. 63.--The Black Lady

No. 64.--The Ten Rabbits

No. 65.--The Three Wishes

No. 66.--Fairy Bride

No. 67.--Cinderella

No. 68.--Jack the Robber

No. 69.--The Fool with the Sheep

No. 70.--The Tinker and his Wife

No. 71.--Winter

No. 72.--The Black Dog of the Wild Forest

CHAPTER IX SCOTTISH-TINKER STORIES

No. 73.--The Brown Bear of the Green Glen

No. 74.--The Tale of the Soldier

No. 75.--The Fox

No. 76.--The Magic Shirt

De New Han’

CHAPTER IV

TRANSYLVANIAN GYPSY STORIES

No. 37.- The Creation of the Violin

IN A HUT on a mountain, in a fair forest, lived a girl with her four brothers, her father, and her mother. The sister loved a handsome rich huntsman, who often ranged the forest, but who would never speak to the pretty girl. Mara wept day and night, because the handsome man never came near her. She often spoke to him, but he never answered, and went on his way. She sang the song:

'Dear man from a far country,Slip your hand into mine;Clasp me, an you will, in your arms;Lovingly will I kiss you.'

She sang it often and often, but he paid no heed. Knowing now no other succour, she called the devil. 'O devil, help me.' The devil came, holding a mirror in his hand, and asked what she wanted. Mara told him her story and bemoaned to him her sorrow. 'If that's all,' said the devil, 'I can help you. I'll give you this. Show it to your beloved, and you'll entice him to you.' Once again came the huntsman to the forest, and Mara had the mirror in her hand and went to meet him. When the huntsman saw himself in the mirror, he cried, 'Oh! that's the devil, that is the devil's doing; I see myself.' And he ran away, and came no more to the forest.

Mara wept now again day and night, for the handsome man never came near her.; Knowing now no other succour for her grief, she called again the devil. 'O devil, help me.' The devil came and asked what she wanted. Mara told how the huntsman had run away, when he saw himself in the mirror. The devil laughed and said, 'Let him run, I shall catch him; like you, he belongs to me. For you both have looked in the mirror, and whoso looks in the mirror is mine. And now I will help you, but you must give me your four brothers, or help you I cannot.' The devil went away and came back at night, when the four brothers slept, and made four strings of them, fiddle-strings--one thicker, then one thinner, the third thinner still, and the thinnest the fourth. Then said the devil, 'Give me also your father.' Mara said, 'Good, I give you my father, only you must help me.' Of the father the devil made a box: that was the fiddle. Then he said, 'Give me also your mother.' Mara answered, 'Good, I give you also my mother, only you must help me.' The devil smiled, and made of the mother a stick, and horsehair of her hair: this was the fiddle-stick. Then the devil played, and Mara rejoiced. But the devil played on and on, and Mara wept. Now laughed the devil and said, 'When your beloved comes, play, and you will entice him to you.' Mara played, and the huntsman heard her playing and came to her. In nine days came the devil and said, 'Worship me, I am your lord.' They would not, and the devil carried them off. The fiddle remained in the forest lying on the ground, and a poor Gypsy came by and saw it. He played, and as he played in thorp and town they laughed and wept just as he chose.

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No. 38.- The Three Golden Hairs

of the Sun-King

A RICH, MIGHTY KING once went hunting, and wandered himself in a great forest. Towards evening he came to a hut, in which lived a poor charcoal-burner. The king asked the poor man his way to the city.

The charcoal-burner answered, 'Sir, the way to the city you could not find by yourself, and to-day I cannot go with you for my wife lies sick, and this very night will bring a child into the world. Lie down here then in the side room, and to-morrow I will guide you to the city.'

The king took the offer, and lay down in the side room; but he could not close an eye for the moaning of the charcoal-burner's wife. Towards midnight she bore a beautiful boy, and now it was quiet in the hut. Yet still the king could not sleep. He got up from his couch, drew near the door, and looked through a chink into the room where the sick woman lay. He could see her sleeping in her bed; her man, fast asleep too, lay behind the stove; and in its cradle was the new-born child, with three ladies in white standing round it.