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  • FOLKLORE AND LEGENDS OF GERMANY - 30 German folk and fairy tales

    30 Legends and Folktales from the Rhineland

    A great read for children and great for reading around a fire on a cold winter night!Herein you will find 30 old legends and from Germany. Some will be familiar but most less so, and may even seem to be a new find for you the reader. Even if you haven’t read some of these stories, you can rest assured that all will entertain. You can also be sure the general lesson these stories convey is the sure ... Read more

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  • THE SHOEMAKERS APRON - 20 Czech and Slovak Childrens Stories

    Twenty Illustrated Slavic Children's Stories

    THIS book contains 20 Czech and Slovak folk and fairy tales translated and retold in English by Parker Fillmore, with excellent illustrations and decorations by Jan Matulka.Drawn from original Slavic sources, and chosen for their variety of subject and range of interest with tales like The Twelve Months, Zlatovlaska The Golden-Haired, The Shepherd's Nosegay, Smolicheck, The Nickerman's Wife, ... Read more

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  • A BOOK OF GIANTS - 25 stories about giants through the ages

    Giants and Giantesses through the ages

    Mankind has ever been fascinated by extraordinary aspects of humanity, but none so much as giants.Many ancient gods, and indeed kings and emperors, were said to be vast in size: witness, for instance, the colossal statues of Egypt, China or the South Seas. But the palm for bigness must go to those giant beings whom we find amid the chaos in the East: like that Tiamat from whom the Babylonian god ... Read more

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  • POLISH FAIRY TALES - illustrated children's tales from Poland

    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 ... Read more

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  • PATRAÑAS - 50 Illustrated Legendary and Traditional Spanish Stories

    The literal translation of “Patrañas” is humbug or nonsense. When used in the context of folklore and legends it can be taken to mean tall storiesIn seeking inspiration to create a book, in essence a story, it is seldom found in one item or a single occurrence, but more often when a number of these coalesce into a climax of sorts, resulting in a “Eureka moment”. And so it was with the creation of ... Read more

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  • THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF - A Tale from the Arabian Nights

    Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 229

    Series Book 229 - Baba Indaba Children's Stories
    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 229In this 229th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates a tale from the early times of the world – The Cat that walked by Himself.This is a story from the time when the tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, the Sheep was wild, and even the Pig was wild—as wild as wild could be—and they ... Read more

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  • A RUSSIAN GRANDMOTHER’S WONDER TALES - 50 Children's Bedtime Stories

    More folklore from Mother Russia

    An ancient Hopi parable states “He who tells stories, rules the world.” The stories which this Russian grandmother tells can be found, with many others, in a collection of “Tales and Legends of South Slavonia.” Here they have been sketched with the background of Russian peasant village life as it existed in some parts of Southern Russia. Because of this, the narrator has been careful to clothe ... Read more

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  • Maidu Folklore Myths and Legends - 18 legends of the Maidu people

    by Anon E. Mouse ...
    The Maidu live in the central Sierra Nevada of California, to the north of Yosemite. They were not particularly numerous to begin with and were decimated by the incursion of Europeans.These 18 folklore stories, myths and legends were collected by linguist, Roland B. Dixon at the beginning of the 20th century. In these texts Coyote is the central character. He is first seen in the company of Earth ... Read more

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  • GYPSY FOLK TALES - BOOK ONE 36 Illustrated Gypsy Tales

    36 Gypsy Children's Stories from Turkey, Romania and Bukowina

    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 ... Read more

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  • THE CAT AND THE MOUSE - A Fairy Tale from Persia

    Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 324

    by Anon E. Mouse ...
    Series Book 324 - Baba Indaba Children's Stories
    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 324In this 311th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Persian Fairy Tale - "THE CAT AND MOUSE”.ONCE upon a time, a long, long ago and far, far away, there once lived in the Persian city of Kerman a cat like unto a dragon—a longsighted cat who hunted like a lion; a cat with fascinating eyes and long whiskers and sharp teeth. Its body ... Read more

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  • POPULAR BASQUE LEGENDS AND TALES - 13 Children's illustrated Basque tales

    Children's Tales from the Iberian Peninsula

    In this volume you will find 13 illustrated Popular Tales from the Basque region of Spain. Here you will find tales like Aquelarre, Arguiduna, The Song of Lamia, the Prophecy of Lara, the Virgin of the Five Towns in which mermaids, heroes, magical horns and ghosts abound.If you have ever travelled through the province of Galicia in North Western Spain, you can’t fail to notice the Celtic ... Read more

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  • SCOTTISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES - 85 Scottish Children's Stories

    85 Scottish Fairy & Folk Tales, Myths, Legends and Children's Stories

    This book, compiled by Sir George Douglas, contains not just fairytales but also tales of kelpies, brownies, stories of animals - foxes, crows, frogs and stories of mermen and comic tales as well.Contained herein are eighty-five stories like:The Story of the White Pet,The Fisherman and the Mermen,The Seal-Catcher’s Adventure,The Frog and the Crow,Habitrot, The Wee Bunnockand many, many more.In the ... Read more

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