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Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales – Sibelan Forrester
Baba Yaga is an ambiguous and fascinating figure. She appears in traditional Russian folktales as a monstrous and hungry cannibal, or as a canny inquisitor of the adolescent hero or heroine of the tale. In new translations and with an introduction by Sibelan Forrester, Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales is a selection of tales that draws from the famous collection of Aleksandr Afanas'ev, but also includes some tales ...
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Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales
• Features 16 stores that were translated and transcribed by folklorists in the late 19th and 20th centuries that focus on themes such as Tricksters, The Sea, Quests, and Romance • These timeless tales brim with wit and magic, and each one is brought to life with elegant silhouette art in this special illustrated edition • Celtic Tales is an extraordinary collection that conjures forgotten realms and rare magical creatures in vivid prose Discover the ...
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry – W. B. Yeats
This book contains 64 Irish folklore which presents the Irish life and culture from the nineteenth century. In this book, it has many stories of Celtic myth and legend and the Fairies: Ghosts, Witches, Druid spells, The Banshee, Saints, The Devil, Giants, Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers Read Online : THIS CONTENT IS SHOWN ONLY TO AUTHORIZED MEMBERS. IT IS HIDDEN FROM EVERYONE ELSE. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry - W. B ...
Folktales of the Jews, Vol. 2 Tales from Eastern Europe – Dan Ben-Amos, Dov Noy, Lenn Schramm
The second volume in a literary landmark Folktales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from Ashkenazic culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the second volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale ...