Popular tales and fictions : their migrations and transformations
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Popular tales and fictions : their migrations and transformations
- Publication date
- 2002
- Topics
- Folklore, Fairy tales, Tales, Fairy tales, Folklore, Tales
- Publisher
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
- Collection
- americana
- Book from the collections of
- unknown library
- Language
- English
- Volume
- 2
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xxxi, 585 pages ; 26 cm
Originally published: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood & Sons, 1887
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxxi) and index
2 v. in 1]: v. 1. Invisible caps and cloaks : shoes of swiftness : the inexhaustible purse, etc. ; Gold-producing animals ; Adventures with giants, trolls, ghúls, etc. ; Dragons and monstrous birds ; Petrifying victims : life-tokens : tests of chastity ; Bird-maidens ; Subaqueous fairy halls : forbidden rooms : Cupid and Psyche legends ; Fairy hands : magic barks ; The thankful beasts : secrets learned from birds ; The good man and the bad man ; The ungrateful serpent ; The hare and the tortoise ; Note: The origin of fables ; The four clever brothers ; Cumulative stories ; Aladdin's wonderful lamp ; Note: Life depending on some extraneous object ; The hunchback and the fairies ; The enchanted horse ; The demon enclosed in a bottle : contracts with the evil one, etc. ; "The ring and the fish" legends : men living inside monstrous fish ; Note: Luminous jewels ; Magical transformations -- v. 2. The three graziers and the alewife ; Note: Precocious children ; The silent couple ; Note: The book of the forty vazírs ; The sharpers and the simpleton ; The cobbler and the calf ; "The heir of Linne" ; Note: Story of King Shah Bakht and his vizír ; Whiitington and his cat ; The tailor's dream ; The three travellers and the loaf ; Note: Sending one to an older and the oldest person ; The merchant and the folk of Falsetown ; The robbery of the king's treasury ; Note: Marking a culprit ; Llewellyn and his dog Gellert, of Killhart ; The lover's heart ; The merchant, his wife, and his parrot ; The elopement ; Note: Falling in love through a dream ; Little Fairly ; The lady and her suitors ; How a king's life was saved by a maxim ; Irrational excess of sorrow ; The intended divorce ; The three knights and the lady : the three hunchbacks, etc. ; Note: Women betraying their husbands ; The advantages of speaking to a king ; The lost purse ; An ungrateful son ; Chaucer's "Pardoner's tale" ; Note: On resuscitation in folk-lore ; The lucky imposter ; "Don't count your chickens until they are hatched!" ; The favourite who was envied ; The miller's son; or, Destiny ; "Luckily, theyre not peaches."
xxxi, 585 pages ; 26 cm
Originally published: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood & Sons, 1887
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxxi) and index
2 v. in 1]: v. 1. Invisible caps and cloaks : shoes of swiftness : the inexhaustible purse, etc. ; Gold-producing animals ; Adventures with giants, trolls, ghúls, etc. ; Dragons and monstrous birds ; Petrifying victims : life-tokens : tests of chastity ; Bird-maidens ; Subaqueous fairy halls : forbidden rooms : Cupid and Psyche legends ; Fairy hands : magic barks ; The thankful beasts : secrets learned from birds ; The good man and the bad man ; The ungrateful serpent ; The hare and the tortoise ; Note: The origin of fables ; The four clever brothers ; Cumulative stories ; Aladdin's wonderful lamp ; Note: Life depending on some extraneous object ; The hunchback and the fairies ; The enchanted horse ; The demon enclosed in a bottle : contracts with the evil one, etc. ; "The ring and the fish" legends : men living inside monstrous fish ; Note: Luminous jewels ; Magical transformations -- v. 2. The three graziers and the alewife ; Note: Precocious children ; The silent couple ; Note: The book of the forty vazírs ; The sharpers and the simpleton ; The cobbler and the calf ; "The heir of Linne" ; Note: Story of King Shah Bakht and his vizír ; Whiitington and his cat ; The tailor's dream ; The three travellers and the loaf ; Note: Sending one to an older and the oldest person ; The merchant and the folk of Falsetown ; The robbery of the king's treasury ; Note: Marking a culprit ; Llewellyn and his dog Gellert, of Killhart ; The lover's heart ; The merchant, his wife, and his parrot ; The elopement ; Note: Falling in love through a dream ; Little Fairly ; The lady and her suitors ; How a king's life was saved by a maxim ; Irrational excess of sorrow ; The intended divorce ; The three knights and the lady : the three hunchbacks, etc. ; Note: Women betraying their husbands ; The advantages of speaking to a king ; The lost purse ; An ungrateful son ; Chaucer's "Pardoner's tale" ; Note: On resuscitation in folk-lore ; The lucky imposter ; "Don't count your chickens until they are hatched!" ; The favourite who was envied ; The miller's son; or, Destiny ; "Luckily, theyre not peaches."
- Addeddate
- 2008-04-26 22:43:12
- Associated-names
- Goldberg, Christine
- Copyright-region
- US
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- populartalesand01clougoog
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t4zg6px40
- Isbn
-
1576076164
9781576076163
1576076172
9781576076170
- Lccn
- 2002015519
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.14
- Page_number_confidence
- 96.80
- Pages
- 531
- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Scanner
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 49239984
- Year
- 1887
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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