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 Tower Legends written by Bertha Palmer Lane and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Belgian Fairy Tales written by William Elliot Griffis and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 274 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 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:

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 The Dragon in World Mythology and Culture written by Robert M. Sarwark and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragons are everywhere, seemingly hidden in plain sight. These mythological reptilian monsters date far into known human history in nearly every part of the world and are still prevalent in today's media and entertainment. The wide cultural, geographical, and linguistic diffusion of dragons or dragon-like creatures shows how modern humans have influenced each other through shared tales of monsters while simultaneously hinting at a shared genesis. This book introduces dragon myths and legends from around the world by following human culture's shared evolutionary past via language, folklore, the arts, and commerce. Dragons in folklore, literature, and pop culture are analyzed from Eastern and Western perspectives, leading to a dual analysis of dragons in today's popular culture and media. While other books on the topic have focused primarily on classical sources, or on cataloging various dragon tales in general, this work identifies the subtle yet profound ways in which the dragon figure or related motifs have slyly entered into our collective psyche as participants in the modern, interconnected world.

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 William Elliot Griffis and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Belgian Fairy Tales" by William Elliot Griffis. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book The Tree Dispensary written by Christina Stapley and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tree Dispensary explores the history, folklore and medicinal uses of native European trees, beautifully illustrated with the author's own photographs.The book presents a thorough and deep appreciation of trees as the author has experienced them through everyday life, as a herb historian and practising herbalist. Categorised into seasons, each of the 30 tree chapters covers cultivation, cookery, foraging, crafts, history, botany, medicinal use and mythology. Original herbals are used as source material for the historical section, allowing voices from the past to speak for themselves. A 'Herbalists Reference' for each tree includes medicinal uses, dosage and constituents and reflects the author's own extensive experience of using these wonderful tree remedies. 'For years as a herbalist I had been walking about looking down for what was growing around my feet. The emphasis changed to looking up and I was delighted by the exquisite detail of tiny female flowers on trees, which I simply could not believe I had missed before. I took photographs, pressed herbarium samples, harvested and studied...experimented with barks, catkins and leaves to produce dyes. Never again will a tincture or dried herb of tree origin be simply a name on a label and a list of constituents, actions and indications. I hope as you read this book...you will also feel a stronger connection and wish to explore, plant and care for trees yourselves.'Volume 2 of The Tree Dispensary covering exotic trees will be published in Autumn 2021.

Download or read book Fielding s The Great Sights of Europe 1993 written by Patricia Foulke and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women s Poetry Late Romantic to Late Victorian written by I. Armstrong and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-02-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection to make a comprehensive study of nineteenth-century women's poetry from late Romantic to late Victorian 'new woman' writers. Eighteen essays consider the gendered codes and genres developed by sophisticated poets. The feminine subject and marketing, a woman's tradition, lesbian desire, war, race, colonial experience, religion and science are themes of the collection, featuring, as well as the familiar Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, other poets such as 'L.E.L.', Felicia Hemans, Amy Levy and Augusta Webster.

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chrisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: