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"This selection of folk-tales from Brittany by Elsie Masson, vividly illustrated by pen and ink drawings, is an enjoyable read. The usual folklore themes with Celtic influence are present and accounted for; humble peasants, magic livestock, enchanted castles, evil husbands, brave children, star-crossed lovers, and tricky fairies. Particularly the latter. For some reason the Breton fairies seem to have a more hostile, darker edge, than elsewhere in the Celtic region." (Quote from sacred-texts.com)
Table of Contents:
Publisher's Preface; Foreword; The Castle Of Comorre; The Basin Of Gold And The Diamond Lance; Lady Yolanda's Thimble; The Witch Of Lok Island; Little White-thorn And The Talking Bird; Princess Ahez And The Lost City; The Changeling; The Foster Brother; The Hunchback And The Elves; The Four Gifts; The Magic Rocks And The Beggar; The Country Bumpkin And The Hobgoblin; The Wasp, The Winged Needle And The Spider; Yannik, The Fairy Child; The Hazel Scepter
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Folk Tales of Brittany.[Castle of Comorre; Basin of Gold & Diamond Lance; Lady Yolanda's Thimble; With of Lok Island; Little White-Thorn & the Talking Bird; Princess Ahez & the Lost City; Yannik, the Fairy Child; The Hazel Scepter; Magic Rocks & Beg
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Philadelphia, PA : Macrae Smith Company, 1929., 1929
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. [191] pp. ; 26 cm. ; OCLC: 1718650 ; LCCN: 29-21393 ; grey and black pictorial cloth ; several full-page illustrations in black ; "These tales are still characteristic of the tales told or sung in the farmhouses, at weddings and christenings in the Breton-speaking regions of Brittany, in spite of the disastrous modern influence of moving pictures and popular songs. Some of the stories in this book are unpublished hitherto in their present form, the subjects of them being taken from the ancient folk songs of Barzaz Breiz, or from oral tradition. Others are translated from the old collection of legends gathered in the Breton language, from the Breton people, by the distinguished writer and son of Brittany, Emile Souvestre and published in French under the title of Le Foyer Breton.[and the].series of fairy and folk tales Contes et Légendes de Bretagne and Noveaux Contes et Légendes [by François Cadic].; signed on the front end paper by Louise Cotnam, wife of Guy Massé, himself the son of Jules Massé, the founder of La Societé du Bon Parler Français in Montréal, Canada ; spine sunned ; foxing ; else G. Book. Seller Inventory # 3085