TALES OF FOLK AND FAIRIES - 15 eclectic folk and fairy tales from around the world E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Herein are 15 tales and children’s stories from around the world - Scotland, Louisiana, Scandinavia, Serbia, Arabia, Russia, Persia and Bengal. There is even a Cossack tale, a Norse tale and a Hindu tale.Of note is the tale THE HISTORY OF ALI COGIA from the Arabian Nights and the Scandinavian tale of THE MAGIC PIPE. Importantly, as in any good collection of fairy tales and folklore, there is also the story of THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH, as the truth will always be told in the end. Unusually there is the Russian tale of  THE FROG PRINCESS - usually such marchen have a Frog Prince as well. But you will have to read this story to see if there is a happy ending. And what would an anthology of fairy tales and folklore be without a story about fairies. The volume is completed with the story of DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES which carries a warning to all   Never Try And Outsmart A Fairy!Nowhere in this volume will you find a perennial favourite, which makes this volume even more interesting and unique, for these stories have not been seen or read for many a year, except, maybe, by members of our older generations who may have had them read to them by their Grandparents when they were children.So sit back and enjoy this eclectic volume of fairy tales and folklore from around the world and know that in buying this volume you will have also donated to a charity somewhere in the world, for the publisher donates 33% of the net profit from every copy sold to charities.

Leseprobe

TALES OF

FOLK AND FAIRIES

ILLUSTRATED and RETOLD

BY

KATHARINE PYLE

Originally Published by

Little, Brown, And Company

Boston

[1929]

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Resurrected by

Abela Publishing

London

[2014]

Tales of Folk and Fairies

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2014

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

2014

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.AbelaPublishing.com

ISBN-13: 978-8-826485-29-4

He took out his pipe and blew a tune.

CONTENTS

THE MEESTER STOORWORM

JEAN MALIN AND THE BULL-MAN

THE WIDOW’S SON

THE WISE GIRL

THE HISTORY OF ALI COGIA

OH!

THE TALKING EGGS

THE FROG PRINCESS

THE MAGIC TURBAN, THE MAGIC SWORD AND THE MAGIC CARPET

THE THREE SILVER CITRONS

THE MAGIC PIPE

THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH

LIFE’S SECRET

DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

He took out his pipe and blew a tune.

Seeing no one, the creature dropped on its knees and bellowed, “Beau Madjam!”

She sat down beside the hearth and took off her head.

Then the demon flew out through the window and away through the night.

The Princess took the cup and drank.

The Rajah brought the girl down, while the crowscircled about his head.

TALES OF

FOLK AND FAIRIES

THE MEESTER STOORWORM

A Story from Scotland

THERE was once a lad, and what his real name was nobody remembered, unless it was the mother who bore him; but what every one called him was Ashipattle. They called him that because he sat among the ashes to warm his toes.

He had six older brothers, and they did not think much of him. All the tasks they scorned to do themselves they put upon Ashipattle. He gathered the sticks for the fire, he swept the floor, he cleaned the byre, he ran the errands, and all he got for his pains were kicksand cuffs and mocking words. Still he was a merry fellow, and as far as words went he gave his brothers as good as they sent.

Ashipattle had one sister, and she was very good and kind to him. In return for her kindness he told her long stories of trolls and giants and heroes and brave deeds, and as long as he would tell she would sit and listen. But his brothers could not stand his stories, and used to throw clods at him to make him be quiet. They were angry because Ashipattle was always the hero of his own stories, and in his tales there was nothing he dared not do.

Now while Ashipattle was still a lad, but a tall, stout one, a great misfortune fell upon the kingdom, for a Stoorworm rose up out of the sea; and of all Stoorworms it was the greatest and the worst. For this reason it was called the Meester Stoorworm. Its length stretched half around the world, its one eye was as red as fire, and its breath was so poisonous that whatever it breathed upon was withered.

There was great fear and lamentation throughoutthe land because of the worm, for every day it drew nearer to the shore, and every day the danger from it grew greater. When it was first discovered it was so far away that its back was no more than a low, long, black line upon the horizon, but soon it was near enough for them to see the horns upon its back, and its scales, and its one fierce eye, and its nostrils that breathed out and in.