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Book Folktales of England   Ed  by Katherine M  Briggs and Ruth L  Tongue

Download or read book Folktales of England Ed by Katherine M Briggs and Ruth L Tongue written by Katherine M. Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Folktales of England

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katharine M. Briggs
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-05-19
  • ISBN : 022637582X
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Folktales of England written by Katharine M. Briggs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques.”—Journal of American Folklore Tales of unnatural beings, curses, and ghosts, tall tales, shaggy dog stories—this collection from a renowned British folklorist offers a wide historical range, as well as commentaries. If wonder tales are not as abundant in England as elsewhere, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition—stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us. This volume is a “fine, homely feast” for anyone interested in the folklore of the world (Times Educational Supplement). “Should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories.”—Choice “This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man’s attempts to comprehend his world.”—Quartet

Book Folktales of England  Ed  by Katharine M  Briggs and Ruth L  Tongue

Download or read book Folktales of England Ed by Katharine M Briggs and Ruth L Tongue written by Katharine M. Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Folk Tales and Legends

Download or read book British Folk Tales and Legends written by and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance of beautiful princesses and stout stable boys, sour-faced witches and kings with hearts of gold. Each tale is a masterpiece of storytelling, from the hilarious 'Three Sillies' to the delightfully macabre 'Sammle's Ghost'.

Book Folktales of England  ed

Download or read book Folktales of England ed written by Katharine Mary Briggs and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Folktales of England

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katharine M. Briggs
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1968-09-15
  • ISBN : 0226074943
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Folktales of England written by Katharine M. Briggs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968-09-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If wonder tales are not abundant in England, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition—stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us. "This is a fine, homely feast, immediately intelligble. . . ."—Times Educational Supplement ". . . should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories."—Choice "This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man's attempts to comprehend his world."—Quartet "Folktales of England is by all odds the most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques."—Ernest W. Baughman, Journal of American Folklore

Book A Dictionary of British Folk tales in the English Language

Download or read book A Dictionary of British Folk tales in the English Language written by Katharine Mary Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forgotten Folk tales of the English Counties  RLE Folklore

Download or read book Forgotten Folk tales of the English Counties RLE Folklore written by Ruth Tongue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 1970, Ruth L. Tongue has collected a number of county folk tales recorded by her from childhood onwards, from old people, village children and farm round-the-fire sessions. Many of the beliefs embodied in the gipsy and witchcraft tales are still in practice today among the travelling people and locally ‘gifted’ healers. The tales reveal a good deal of fairy lore, some tree lore, including ghostly trees like Crooker, and the ‘uncanny’ Black Dog makes his appearance in more than one tale. The collection includes several of the long fireside tales which would be told on succeeding evenings on winter nights round the kitchen fire, and rhozzums from various localities.

Book Folktales of England  Edited by Katharine M  Briggs

Download or read book Folktales of England Edited by Katharine M Briggs written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sampler of Jewish American Folklore

Download or read book A Sampler of Jewish American Folklore written by Josepha Sherman and published by august house. This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this American Folklore Series volume, Josepha Sherman presents the rich and varied folklore of the American Jew. This affectionate and unflinching examination of the traditions of American Jews offers insights for expert and casual students of folklore and makes an ideal gift for anyone interested in the origins of Jewish culture. Includes line drawings, collection notes, motif index, and bibliography.

Book Folktales of england  edited by k m  briggs and r l  tongue

Download or read book Folktales of england edited by k m briggs and r l tongue written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bluebeard

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  • Author : Casie E. Hermansson
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2010-03-05
  • ISBN : 1628467622
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Bluebeard written by Casie E. Hermansson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like “Mr. Fox,” native to England and America) in English: from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, through the twentieth century in music, literature, art, film, and theater. Chronicling the story's permutations, the book presents examples of English true-crime figures, male and female, called Bluebeards, from King Henry VIII to present-day examples. Bluebeard explores rare chapbooks and their illustrations and the English transformation of Bluebeard into a scimitar-wielding Turkish tyrant in a massively influential melodramatic spectacle in 1798. Following the killer's trail over the years, Casie E. Hermansson looks at the impact of nineteenth-century translations into English of the German fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the particularly English story of how Bluebeard came to be known as a pirate. This book will provide readers and scholars an invaluable and thorough grasp on the many strands of this tale over centuries of telling.

Book British Folktales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katharine Mary Briggs
  • Publisher : Pantheon
  • Release : 1977-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780394415895
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book British Folktales written by Katharine Mary Briggs and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from the author's Dictionary of British folk-tales in the English language.