POLISH FAIRY TALES - illustrated children's tales from Poland E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Herein are classic folklore selections from a large collection made by A. J. Glinski in 1862. These fairy tales come from a far and distant past and may even date from primitive Aryan times. They represent the folklore current among the peasantry of the Eastern provinces of Poland, and also in those provinces formerly known as White Russia.

In this 148 page volume, with 19 exquisite and beautiful colour plates by Cecile Walton, you will find the stories of:

• The Frog Princess,
• Princess Miranda And Prince Hero,
• The Eagles,
• The Whirlwind,
• The Good Ferryman And The Water Nymphs,
• The Princess Of The Brazen  Mountain and
• The Bear In The Forest Hut.

Poland is on the little known “Amber Road”, a trade route that extends from St Petersburg, on the Baltic Sea and goes South through Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria and Slovenia to Italy on the Mediterranean Sea. As such it is not surprising to find these six exquisite tales embedded in Polish folklore. In olden days not only were goods and amber traded but so were stories and tales.

Fairy tales were originally told to teach the young the lessons of life. In olden times it was often necessary to teach that good people had to make a stand against evil, or else evil would rule. Sometimes this meant following a path that paralleled that of the forces of evil – and this had to be learned at a young age. In these tales the defeat of the evil protagonist is always guaranteed. Fairy tales continue to be popular and continue to be used to teach these lessons, for it would seem that the forces of evil have not yet learned from history that Good always wins!

10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities by the Publisher.
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Leseprobe

Polish Fairy Tales

TRANSLATED from A J. GLINSKI

By

MAUDE ASHURST BIGGSILLUSTRATED By

CECILE WALTON

Originally Published by

John Lane The Bodley Head - LONDON[1920]

Resurrected by

Abela Publishing - London

[2018]

POLISH FAIRY TALES

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

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.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2018

Ebook

ISBN: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

Paperback

ISBN-13: 978-1-909302-67-9

email

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Website

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“The pictures in this book are dedicated to my sons .... Gavril and Teddy."

Cecile Walton.

Frontispiece:The Horse Appears In The Storm - The Whirlwind.

Acknowledgements

Abela Publishing

acknowledges the work that

MAUDE ASHURST BIGGS

did in translating and editing

Polish Fairy Tales

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

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10% of the net profit from the sale of this book

will be donated to Charities.

Tales From Poland

These are selections from a large collection made by A. J. Glinski, printed at Wilna in 1862. These fairy tales come from a far past and may even date from primitive Aryan times. They represent the folklore current among the peasantry of the Eastern provinces of Poland, and also in those provinces usually known as White Russia.

They were set down by Glinski just as they were related to him by the peasants.

In the translation it was of course necessary to shorten them considerably; the continual repetition—however quaint and fascinating in the original—cannot easily be reproduced. Portions, too, are often told in rhyme, or in a species of rhyming prose that we associate with the ancient ballad. The obvious likenesses between these and the folklore of Germany, the Celtic nations, or to the Indian fairy-tales, will strike every reader.

Maude Ashurst Biggs.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TALES FROM POLAND

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE FROG PRINCESS

PRINCESS MIRANDA AND PRINCE HERO

THE EAGLES

THE WHIRLWIND

THE GOOD FERRYMAN AND THE WATER NYMPHS

THE PRINCESS OF THE BRAZEN MOUNTAIN

THE BEAR IN THE FOREST HUT

APPENDIX

Illustrations

Frontis: The Horse Appears in the Storm

The Little House Turns

The Way Home

Through the Telescope

The Dragon who Kept Watch

The Children Transformed

The Old Man Blesses the Princess

To Trick the Basilisk

The Bride Carried off by the Whirlwind

The Horse Appears in the Storm

The Dwarf Defeated

The Good Ferryman Captures the Mermaid

The Purse that was Ever Full

The Meeting of the Sisters

The Fight for the Magic Boots

The Prince Steals the Wings

The Truant Wife is Captured

The Mouse Saves the Good Little Girl

The Good Little Girl is Sent Away

The Reward of the Good Little Girl

POLISH FAIRY TALES

The Frog Princess