Download or read book THE DRAGON OF GHENT A Legend of Belgium written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 424 In this 424th issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Belgium Legend, "THE DRAGON of GHENT?. AT ONE side of the Place Saint Bavon in the centre of Ghent, Belgium, rises the impressive carillon tower with its fifty-two singing bells. A long, long, time ago, a dragon began living on the top of the tower. Before then the dragon lived near Aleppo, one of the chief cities of the Saracens in northern Syria. He was such a tender-hearted old dragon that he was called The Weeping Dragon, because he wept large bucketfuls of tears whenever the Belgian crusaders and the Saracens fell to fighting as they were wont to do in the 7th and 8th Centuries. Where his tears fell the soil became unusually fertile, and there soon grew up, from this rich soil, a rare flower ? the tulip. A soothsayer, of ages past, had predicted that, if the Saracens and Belgians should ever stop fighting, the tears of The Weeping Dragon, whose name was Buccoleon, would dry up and his brown scales would turn to scales of pure gold. So it proved. For, when all the wars had come to an end, the dragon no longer felt like weeping, and his sombre, brown scales were gradually replaced by gleaming scales of gold. Now, one afternoon, as Buccoleon lay in the sun with his glittering scales, he decided it was time to return home. What happened next you ask?? Well, as you would expect in these circumstances,ÿ many things happened. To find the answers to this question, and any others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out! ------- Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. It is our hope that in looking up these place names, using Google Maps, that young people will be able to see images and read about other peoples and cultures from around the world. Through this activity, it is our hope that young people will not only increase their world geography but also increase their understanding and tolerance of other people and cultures. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. ======= KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children?s stories, Childrens, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, dragon of ghent, Buccoleon, Belgium, Flanders, low lands, low country, Taff, Aleppo, tulips, tower, Carillion, garden, scales, bell, Saracens, Muslim, moslem, Weep, tears, Danube, Flew, crusaders, victory, gold, Nyken, fly, flew, Constantinople, ÿÿÿÿÿ Nuremburg, fighting, Archers, flowers, potter, Turban, castle, turk, belfry, leader, Vienna, marsh, weather, vane, Charlemagne, tender-hearted, watchtowers, goldsmith, soothsayer, fortune teller, moonlight, fifty-two, 52, ISTANBUL, champion, knightly, Bosporus, Mynheer, mister, sir, Marmora, Clouds, babies, Syria, Assyria, Bugle, Horn

Download or read book The Spell of Flanders written by Edward Neville Vose and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Old Flanders Or Popular Traditions and Legends of Belgium written by Octave Delepierre and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Short History of Belgium written by Léon van der Essen and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Old Flanders Or Popular Traditions and Legends of Belgium written by Joseph Octave Delepierre and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Belgium from the Roman Invasion to the Present Day written by Emile Cammaerts and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Old Flanders or Popular traditions and legends of Belgium written by Octave Joseph Delepierre and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Belgium from the Roman Invasion to the Present Day written by Emile Cammaerts and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Belgian Fairy Tales written by William Elliot Griffis and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book Old Flanders Or Popular Traditions and Legends of Belgium written by Joseph Octave Delepierre and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Download or read book Belgium in History written by Sir Robert Andrew Allison and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Belgian Fairy Tales written by Griffis, William Elliot and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklore is an integrant part of Europe. It both expresses Europe’s history and influenced it in return. There are in Europe a rich amount of Fairy tales which made the fame of renowned collectors such as the Grimm brothers or Hans Christian Andersen. But for some country, few is actually known about the variety of their Fairy Tales outside their borders. The following list is a selection of the best Fairy Tales or pieces of literature for children collected in every European country. Folklore of the Low Countries, often just referred to as Dutch folklore, includes the epics, legends, fairy tales and oral traditions of the people of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. Traditionally this folklore is written or spoken in Dutch. Some of the Pre-Christian Dutch mythology took less sacred forms in the Middle Ages folklore and fairy tales, for example tales of the witte wieven, elf and kabouter continued, combining Christian and fairy tale elements. The mythology of Wodan on the Wild Hunt sailing through the sky, is thought to have been one of the tales that changed into tales of Christian Sinterklaas traveling the sky.

Download or read book Victorian Poetry written by Isobel Armstrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised form of romantic verse', and unearths its often subversive critique of nineteenth-century culture and politics.

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Download or read book History of the Belgians written by Adrien de Meeüs and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1962 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of Belgium from prehistoric times.