Folk-Lore and Legends: English
Folk-Lore and Legends: English

Folk-Lore and Legends: English

Folk-Lore and Legends: EnglishThe old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary...
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Folk-Lore and Legends: English

Folk-Lore and Legends: English

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Folk-Lore and Legends: English

Folk-Lore and Legends: English

$106.17 $53.06
Author: Tibbitts, Charles John
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Folk-Lore and Legends: English

The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is being lost, more rapidly in England, perhaps, than in any other part of the world. Our folk are giving up the old myths for new ones. Before remorseless progress, and the struggle for existence, the poetry of life is being quickly blotted out. In editing this volume I have endeavoured to select some of the best specimens of our Folklore. With regard to the nursery tales, I have taken pains to give them as they are in the earliest editions I could find. I must say, however, that, while I have taken every care to alter only as much as was absolutely necessary in these tales, some excision and slight alteration has at times been required. The original word, indeed, is nymphs, which, it must be confessed, furnishes an accurate idea of the fays (fes or fates) of the ancient French and Italian romances; wherein they are represented as females of inexpressible beauty, elegance, and every kind of[2] personal accomplishment, united with magic or supernatural power; such, for instance, as the Calypso of Homer, or the Alcina of Ariosto. Agreeably to this idea it is that Shakespeare makes Antony say in allusion to Cleopatra ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 47408
Author: Tibbitts, Charles John
Release Date: Nov 20, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Tibbitts, Charles John

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