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The Devil's Dance: Basque Legends, Mythology, and Songs of the Pyrenees (Parapet Press Basque Series) - Softcover
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The first English translation.
In 1883, the great French linguist Julien Vinson gathered everything the Basque country still sang, riddled, and whispered — and this book is the whole of it, in English at last. Here are the wonder tales the villages told against the winter: the sea-witch whose last wave is a wave of blood; the fairies who build a bridge in a night, cheated of their wage by a crowing cock; the one-eyed giant blinded by his supper-guest; the devil's godson who steals the moon itself. Here are the songs with their airs — love songs, drinking songs, the anthem of the Guernica oak — printed with the original Basque; the lullabies and begging songs; seventy-eight riddles; two hundred and twenty-eight proverbs; and the strangest survival of all, the pastorales — the open-air folk theater of the high Soule, where blue-coated Christians and red-coated Turks fought seven-hour verse battles on a stage of planks and barrels while Satans danced at the edges. Vinson's own account of that theater, and his complete carnival play of Pançart — the trial and execution of Mardi Gras himself — close the collection.
The companion volume to Basque Legends and Folk-Tales of the Pyrenees.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The first English translation. In 1883, the great French linguist Julien Vinson gathered everything the Basque country still sang, riddled, and whispered - and this book is the whole of it, in English at last. Here are the wonder tales the villages told against the winter: the sea-witch whose last wave is a wave of blood; the fairies who build a bridge in a night, cheated of their wage by a crowing cock; the one-eyed giant blinded by his supper-guest; the devil's godson who steals the moon itself. Here are the songs with their airs - love songs, drinking songs, the anthem of the Guernica oak - printed with the original Basque; the lullabies and begging songs; seventy-eight riddles; two hundred and twenty-eight proverbs; and the strangest survival of all, the pastorales - the open-air folk theater of the high Soule, where blue-coated Christians and red-coated Turks fought seven-hour verse battles on a stage of planks and barrels while Satans danced at the edges. Vinson's own account of that theater, and his complete carnival play of Pançart - the trial and execution of Mardi Gras himself - close the collection. The companion volume to Basque Legends and Folk-Tales of the Pyrenees. Seller Inventory # 9798189328527