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FAIRY TALES OF THE SLAV PEASANTS AND HERDSMEN -20 illustrated Slavic tales
20 illustrated tales and stories from the Slavic people
2017
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Originally published in French, Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen features 20 folk tales from the Slavic countries and territories. Very few of the 20 fairy tales included in this volume have been presented before in an English dress; this will doubtless enhance their value in the eyes of the young folk, for whom, principally, they are intended.Herein you will find tales like The Twelve Months - the story of Marouckla, who is set seemingly impossible tasks by her stepmo...
OLD PETERS RUSSIAN TALES - 20 illustrated Russian Children's Stories
Illustrated Tales from the Steppe and Forests of Russia
2018
EN
This is a book of 20 illustrated Russian folk and fairy tales retold for young people and the young at heart. The tales are a good sampling of Slavic folklore. The stories in this book are those that Russian peasants tell their children and each other.In this volume you will find the stories of Baba Yaga and the Girl with the Kind Heart, The Fool Of The World And The Flying Ship, The Cat Who Became Head-Forester, The Golden Fish, Salt, The Christening In The Village and many more. T...
GYPSY FOLK TALES - BOOK TWO - 39 illustrated Gypsy tales
39 illustrated Gypsy children's stories from Transylvania, Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia, Poland, England, Wales and Scotland
2017
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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 aga...
Welsh Fairy Tales And Other Stories
24 Welsh Tales
2018
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This volume contains 24 tales collected in and around Wales by P. H. Emerson whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception of the French story, they were written as they were told to the collector. In most cases he amended them as little as possible, preferring to record the stories as told, staying true to the original, so that the written story would enchant readers as though it were being presented by the storyteller.Herein you will find stories like...
LEGENDS of the IROQUOIS - 24 Native American Legends and Stories
24 American Indian Myths and Legends
2018
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THESE 24 Iroquois legends and stories have been told in the homes of the Iroquois for many centuries; long before the white man arrived on the North American continent. The perusal and study of these stories will, it is believed, give as much pleasure to the reader, as they have given the compiler. Of special interest is the “Legend of Hiawatha” made famous fifty years earlier by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Some of the stories and lengends in this volume are:The Birth of the ...
2018
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In this unique volume, you will find a collection of 25 illustrated folk tales and stories drawn from all four corners of Africa. Because each region has different cultures and customs, each story too, has it differences, some more distinct than others.Herein you will find stories like:The Elephant's ChildThe Story Of MzilikaziMophene, Leeba And NkweHow Ingwe Got His SpotsThe Beast Of Prey, Eater Of PeopleHow The Kifaru Came By His Skin
2018
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THE BOOK OF NOODLES or Simpletons Fools and Their Follies is a book filled with unique collection of Noodle-tales for children from around the world.But what is a Noodle? After a fashion, the typical noodle in popular tales "points a moral". These poor fellows follow their instructions only too literally, and with a firm conviction that they are thus doing a very clever thing. But the consequence is almost always ridiculous. They practically show the fallacy of the old saw that "fo...
FAIRY TALES from SPAIN - 19 Illustrated Spanish Children's Stories
Tales and Lore from Iberia
2018
EN
In this volume you will find 19 fairy tales and folklore from Spain plus a few from other countries brought back to Spain by sailors and travellers in the heyday of their great navy. Compiled by J. Munoz Escamez, these 19 Spanish tales are further enhanced by the eight colour plates by W. Matthews.Here you will find uniquely Spanish tales like: The City of Fortune, The Garden of Health, Carabi! Carabo!, The Author of the Wall, The Devil's Tournament, The Treasure of the Dragon, The ...
NORTH CORNWALL FAIRIES AND LEGENDS - 13 Legends from England's West Country
Legends of Cornish Pixies and Fairies
2018
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Numberless stories of the little Ancient People of England’s West Country of Cornwall and Devon used to be told. In olden times cottagers often repeated to each other on winter evenings as they sat round the peat fires, and some of these Enys Tregarthen has retold 13 of the most enduring in this illustrated volume.The Legends in this volume are:The Adventures of a Piskey in Search of his LaughThe Legend of the Padstow DoombarThe Little Cake-bird
2018
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The THIRD BOOK OF DRAGONS is the third instalment following in the footsteps of Edith Nesbit’s “The Book of Dragon’s” and John Halsted’s compilation “The Second book of Dragons”. Here, John Halsted, author and folklorist, has compiled “The Third Book of Dragons” from numerous sources as before.In this book you will find 12 illustrated tales of dragons and serpents drawn from the mists of time. Some are friendly dragons which provide wisdom and direction to the heroes of our stories...
2018
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These 12 illustrated children’s stories have been taken from the heart of “Holy Russia.” From an area that covers the Ukrainian Steppe from Kiev to Novgorod, in the West, to the borders of the Caspian Sea in the East.Herein are the stories of:Ilya And Cloudfall,Ilya Meets Svyatogor And Parts With Him,Ilya And Nightingale The Robber,Ilya And Falcon The Hunter,The Adventure Of The Burning White Stone,How Quiet Dunai Had Brought The Princess A...
2017
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These stories have been taken from the great mass of unwritten lore that is to the boys and girls of the Shan mountain country of Burma what "Rapunzel", “Snow White” and "Cinderella" are to Western children.Herein you will find 9 illustrated Shan stories like, How Boh Han Me Got His Title, Story Of The Princess Nang Kam Ung, How The Hare Deceived The Tiger, How The World Was Created, How The King Of Pagan Caught The Thief and more.In Shan folk-lore the hero does not "marry a...











