tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54922486214170836152024-02-19T10:27:14.607+00:00Rosalind Kerven: WORKING WITH MYTHS, LEGENDS, & FAIRY TALES"Rosalind Kerven, connoisseur of myths and folktales" – The Independent. I’ve worked with world myths, legends + folk tales for 40+ years and written numerous books in the genre. Scroll down through blog posts to explore books (click on 'older posts' at the bottom to continue), or go straight to the bottom of this web-page for a list of subject headings. There are also general notes about traditional stories and the craft of the reteller.
Contact: E. roskerven@hotmail.com. Twitter @MythsandTalesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492248621417083615.post-39528384571147263042023-12-21T15:19:00.003+00:002023-12-21T15:23:03.244+00:00<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><div><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;">MY CURRENT BOOKS</span></div></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><br /></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The following books are available </span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">in both print and eBook editions</span></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">from all good bookshops and eBook retailers</span></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: blue;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: blue;">To find out more with</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: blue;"> reviews and extracts</span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: blue;">click on the links below each cover</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: blue;">or scroll down for full details</span></span></div><div><br /></div></div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">________________________________</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPgxnkfy9melzlkkkOufAV9mtwt4aZVFtEBz1SnwF21i2NLI5uK1BcHpY_DHRGWPrVy7n8JA6yiLy2PcKSMQh3fyl9R3lva2em7soG9nd4NN7woo8WyTeUGalCL4S5h3OH0SC6g5jBcy4L7ybtV7falMSYHal7w8SINtJ80wuQIwbEbytGqfUuDJIoWg/s2560/FRONT%20Cover%20Viking%20Queen%20.jpg" style="clear: left; 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color: #274e13; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/celtic-fairy-tales-and-legends-rosalind-kerven/7589615?ean=9781849948500">Buy from an independent bookshop</a></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"A compendium of shapeshifters, tricksters, ill advised bargains and arduous quests... Giants and wicked kings find themselves outsmarted by a courageous young girl or an ardent lover. People change into animals and back again. Challenges are issued and lessons are learned about the importance of kindness and forgiveness and the virtue of self-sacrifice. An inexhaustible supply of handsome princes and beautiful princesses are on hand...There are hours of enjoyment to be had in reading these time-honoured tales... with the power to move modern, sophisticated readers"</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i>– The Herald</i></b></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Enter a word of Celtic enchantment and adventure!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Visit mysterious Otherworlds </span><span style="font-family: arial;">inside the hills and under the sea.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Meet witches, fairies, heroes, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">talking animals, dragons, giants </span><span style="font-family: arial;">and strange underwater beings.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Witness magical transformations, guard a magic cauldron, glimpse a sleeping king inside a mountain and discover the most ancient creature in the world.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here are sixteen unforgettable tales drawn from the ancient storytelling traditions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With fascinating background notes and vintage illustrations from vintage artists such as Arthur Rackham.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"></b></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJQmTwk-_329f6CzX6fx5hvD8CG7qXLErK8lnQTHfd6IjIhOM7pThEivYhuK1hY9lsAWT24KmN90adnMS5wLjiOZ12X25DCTypI5TjZ5mZ1u43KV2BW14iwxljYSgFRMtbudM4sAAwoP0kXoo6bbtveIEuEGAP69Clr7FGJ2ZRxf8cfISk8vPmU9mp1Ts/s669/Screenshot%202023-12-21%20at%2014.48.32.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="465" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJQmTwk-_329f6CzX6fx5hvD8CG7qXLErK8lnQTHfd6IjIhOM7pThEivYhuK1hY9lsAWT24KmN90adnMS5wLjiOZ12X25DCTypI5TjZ5mZ1u43KV2BW14iwxljYSgFRMtbudM4sAAwoP0kXoo6bbtveIEuEGAP69Clr7FGJ2ZRxf8cfISk8vPmU9mp1Ts/w278-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-21%20at%2014.48.32.png" width="278" /></a></div><p><br /></p><blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> "Rest for a while! The night is young </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> Time is short and the road is long </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> Tell me a story and I'll sing you a song </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Indie Flower; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> For tomorrow the road will be calling us on" </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>– Traditional Celtic song</i></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>STORIES</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Sorceress and the Poet <i>(Wales)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Swan Woman<i> (Ireland)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mally Whuppy and the Giant <i>(Scotland)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Devil, the Witch and the Fairies<i> (Wales)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Magic Drinking Horn <i>(Ireland)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kate Crackernuts <i>(Scotland)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Red Dragon<i> (Wales)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Twelve Wild Geese <i>(Ireland)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Secret World of the Seals <i>(Scotland)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Most Ancient Creature in the World <i>(Wales)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">King Cormac and the Golden Apples<i> (Ireland)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Bogle of the Murky Well <i>(Scotland)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Sleeping King <i>(Wales)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Merrows' Song <i>(Ireland)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Black Bull of Norroway <i>(Scotland)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Daughter of King Under-Wave <i>(<span style="color: #38761d;">Ireland</span> and<span style="color: #f1c232;"> Scotland</span>)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBozLL25H8NmRYCmfYkBleOhHfIMgdUypyBR1G-OWWLfHoqhJ6jfh7qEuivkIMFM3BJBbtbBFfevuak8cGsOMdro_iXZptZTzBhMDPjK4OoYVUKH-_30CYejwrr21MAoj650sNC4s51Z_ARxcMCTP1oSLkKX7BXjtyu3Kk6xeZivxm1Xj1MDbeBB6Q_3I/s653/wild%20Geese.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="472" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBozLL25H8NmRYCmfYkBleOhHfIMgdUypyBR1G-OWWLfHoqhJ6jfh7qEuivkIMFM3BJBbtbBFfevuak8cGsOMdro_iXZptZTzBhMDPjK4OoYVUKH-_30CYejwrr21MAoj650sNC4s51Z_ARxcMCTP1oSLkKX7BXjtyu3Kk6xeZivxm1Xj1MDbeBB6Q_3I/w289-h400/wild%20Geese.png" width="289" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>"Under the white mist lie the green hills. Within the green hills stand the stone doors. Behind the stone doors lie the sidh, castles of the Otherworld. They illuminate the underground realms just as the full moon brightens the night; for within them stand the dazzling courts of the Tuatha Dé Danaan, the gods of ancient Ireland." </i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>– </i>From<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i>The Swan Woman</i></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"><i> </i><span style="font-size: large;">(Ireland)</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">☆</span> </p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">"There was once a miller's wife who gave birth to a beautiful baby girl; but on the very night the little one came into this world, she vanished.</span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> How did it happen? No one knew, but what a terrible to-do there was as they all peered into the empty cradle!</span><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> Then the old grandmother said, 'She's been stolen by the faeries, I'm sure of it." </span></span></span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i>– </i>From</span><i> </i></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(241, 194, 50); color: #f1c232; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><i>The Bogle of the Murky Well</i> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(241, 194, 50); color: #f1c232; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Scotland)</span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(241, 194, 50); color: #f1c232; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(241, 194, 50); color: #f1c232; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">☆</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p> </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">"There was once a youth who was the seventh son of a seventh son – which meant he was blessed with uncanny luck. </span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>One evening in the village inn, he met a man who told him that the streets of London were paved with gold, adding, 'A lucky lad such as you is bound to make your fortune there.'</span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> So the youth packed his bags and set off."</span><br /></span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i>– </i>From</span><i> </i></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">The Sleeping King </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Wales)</span></i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><br /></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkKogEb0V-qZwXo67mGl9EFRqjAbwXVZO2RFbpC8V-GoY92XPzM4-gYFtPCyPKr7ub5MlzepTcGCwlHDCAVhoVxY9HlKqOvBtDLaGkWizyyTeP7HibaxyN8PLW8PhxYaIiJODeSWMkzeP_0KkYQKW1FJ-SzO0dXa_r41TBisOLYO446J9IyUNp-43Tgs/s670/Sleeping%20King.png" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="472" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkKogEb0V-qZwXo67mGl9EFRqjAbwXVZO2RFbpC8V-GoY92XPzM4-gYFtPCyPKr7ub5MlzepTcGCwlHDCAVhoVxY9HlKqOvBtDLaGkWizyyTeP7HibaxyN8PLW8PhxYaIiJODeSWMkzeP_0KkYQKW1FJ-SzO0dXa_r41TBisOLYO446J9IyUNp-43Tgs/w281-h400/Sleeping%20King.png" width="281" /></a></div><p style="font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Celtic-Fairy-Tales-Legends-Batsford/dp/184994850X/ref=sr_1_8?crid=367C7MFS7EMIW&keywords=celtic+fairy+tales&qid=1703164876&sprefix=celtic+fairy+tales%2Caps%2C73&sr=8-8"><span style="color: #274e13;">Buy the book from amazon</span></a><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/celtic-fairy-tales-and-legends/rosalind-kerven/9781849948500"><span style="color: #274e13;">Buy the book from Waterstones</span></a><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/celtic-fairy-tales-and-legends-rosalind-kerven/7589615?ean=9781849948500"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #274e13; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Buy from an independent bookshop</span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492248621417083615.post-35728750624628778992021-08-03T11:53:00.007+01:002022-10-07T09:58:30.988+01:00<p></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;"> </span><span style="color: #7f6000;">DARK FAIRY TALES </span></b></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">OF FEARLESS WOMEN</span></b></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Illustrated with woodcuts by Joe McClaren</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Plantin W01", serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(Batsford 2021)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRD5snX9DDmB1KE2zBW-EQNUnY7D4yyKZRKl6ChrWXWDcwM6MSYKilTBCi1mKum3MoCeP_voa7QqTCpmYJG-zjUmp0tdopRQJsDvRDMJTIft_NqOIHSRDDWxrgpTNJLzLhbrA0ESErLA/s1133/+FearlessFairytalesFRONTCover+.jpeg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1133" data-original-width="817" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRD5snX9DDmB1KE2zBW-EQNUnY7D4yyKZRKl6ChrWXWDcwM6MSYKilTBCi1mKum3MoCeP_voa7QqTCpmYJG-zjUmp0tdopRQJsDvRDMJTIft_NqOIHSRDDWxrgpTNJLzLhbrA0ESErLA/w462-h640/+FearlessFairytalesFRONTCover+.jpeg" width="462" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(127, 96, 0); color: #7f6000; font-size: x-large;">"The narrative voice is vivid and flexible, drawing in the reader from the beginning... There is good supplementary and background material too, in the endnotes... Kerven's praiseworthy ai is to "preserve the integrity of the plots and characters in the oldest written versions" [and] every tale rings true as traditional folklore... The text is a pleasure to read"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(127, 96, 0); color: #7f6000; font-size: x-large;"><b>– <i>Folklore</i> (journal of the Folklore Society)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: large;">"This book of fairy tales is lovely...all perfect in the way they are told. This is the kind of book you would want to read to others around a campfire/ bonfire... They are from different regions of the world, but still represent the various ways strong women stand up for themselves and others... A must-read for lovers of fairy tales and strong female protagonists!"</span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">– Reader review on Goodreads </span></b></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><b>BUY THE BOOK FROM:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781849946513"><span style="color: #990000;">Waterstones</span></a><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rosalind-Kerven/Dark-Fairy-Tales-of-Fearless-Women/25938098"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;">amazon</span></b></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/books/dark-fairy-tales-of-fearless-women/9781849946513"><span style="color: #990000;">An independent bookshop (1)</span></a><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rosalind-Kerven/Dark-Fairy-Tales-of-Fearless-Women/25938098"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;">An independent bookshop (2)</span></b></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The Curtains are drawn and the candles are lit; the fire's banked up to a warmth of glowing embers. Come inside, come inside to dream. Everyone is welcome! Take a seat, put aside your work, shrug off your love pangs and family worries. For grandmothers and wise women, old wives and young wanderers, have all gathered here from around the globe to share their wonderful stories.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Are you comfortable? Do you yearn for a world in which magic exists, hope wins and every woman's heart is alive with courage? Then let us begin!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>CONTENTS</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Welcome!</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>Riddles </b><i>(Central Asia)</i></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>Fire Woman </b><i>(Hawaii)</i></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>The Stolen Baby </b><i>(Scotland)</i></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>The Flying Head </b><i>(Native American)</i></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>Bandits!</b><i> (India)</i></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>Destiny </b><i>(Lesotho)</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>The Mountain of Enchantments</b><i> (Iran)</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>The Troll</b><i> (Iceland)</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>Revenge </b><i>(Alaska)</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>The Dragon </b><i>(China)</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>The Power of Stories </b><i>(Arabia)</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>The Stone Giant </b><i>(Argentina and Chile</i><b>)</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>The Birds </b><i>(Poland)</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>The Ghost </b><i>(Nigeria)</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>Shining Bamboo </b><i>(Japan)</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">Notes and Sources</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">'Want a bet?' said the young woman. 'All right then, you answer my riddle. Do you know what an invincible monster like you should fear most from a weak woman like me?</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">'Nothing,' said the ghoul disparagingly.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">'Are you sure?' said the young woman. 'Well, my answer is my cunning. You obviously haven't seen enough of it yet.'</span></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;">– From <i>Riddles,</i> Central Asia</span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBAfuSMWvv60YrbK6OwVT8Q4PUD725l0JCSOa0wYf9V3ofY5WqHeNSSuG9QKWOR8WDWvOtGYEYp4H8ChSyVYYPHvqpYy3MTTKvUw_TjKtauln-OiV6Dx3CotX-XI95CwkM9LGaSUZg3M/s1169/Screenshot+2021-08-03+at+11.25.33.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1169" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBAfuSMWvv60YrbK6OwVT8Q4PUD725l0JCSOa0wYf9V3ofY5WqHeNSSuG9QKWOR8WDWvOtGYEYp4H8ChSyVYYPHvqpYy3MTTKvUw_TjKtauln-OiV6Dx3CotX-XI95CwkM9LGaSUZg3M/s320/Screenshot+2021-08-03+at+11.25.33.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><div class="page" title="Page 23"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><div class="page" title="Page 13"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p></div></div></div><blockquote><div class="page" title="Page 13"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The old woman hitched up her skirts, dodged the chief’s sled and ran straight past it, through the fumes to the mountain peak. Something unearthly was happening: she had become as hazy as the smoke itself, shifting, fading, reshaping ...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thunder crackled. The top of the mountain tore right open. A stream of blood-coloured molten lava gushed out. ‘<span style="font-style: italic;">Aieee!</span>’ An ear-splitting, eerie screech rent the air. The </span><span style="font-family: arial;">feeble crone was gone ... yet she was still there. For she </span><span style="font-family: arial;">had transformed into her true self, become what she really was: Pele, sacred goddess of volcanic fire – and she was pursuing Kahawali!</span></span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 14"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Flames darted from her eyes. Black, choking smoke swirled in her hair. </span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">– From<i> Fire Woman</i>, Hawaii</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="page" title="Page 14"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7pNPd9Xfa0tkIhYr_knfjO2UiElFP1ZcZ3tftt1YVWxkCkfi4UqRqsPAPPOBGl72gEe7YR0Finrjhtv21KKgUZ5ToEI93g70PaeO9fdedXsTqbi34BpgsalQkLAsAcZoBHS_vUqSescQ/s1169/Screenshot+2021-08-03+at+11.26.15.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1169" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7pNPd9Xfa0tkIhYr_knfjO2UiElFP1ZcZ3tftt1YVWxkCkfi4UqRqsPAPPOBGl72gEe7YR0Finrjhtv21KKgUZ5ToEI93g70PaeO9fdedXsTqbi34BpgsalQkLAsAcZoBHS_vUqSescQ/s320/Screenshot+2021-08-03+at+11.26.15.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Bembo; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="page" title="Page 76"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After that, the ghost no longer tried to get rid of her. All through the horrible, hazardous places that he had warned of, she kept staunchly on his trail, until at last they reached his own country – which was the Land of the Dead. There at last the ghost stopped.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">‘Well, well, well,’ he said, ‘I’ve never met any living being as obstinate as you. No doubt our long journey has made you hungry, eh? Well, I’ll take pity on you. We’ve been travelling for so long that this palm oil you sold me has gone stale. So make me a nice fresh batch of it, girl; and when you’ve finished, I’ll let you eat the stringy bits left over from the nuts.’</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">‘I’m not eating the nasty, stringy bits,’ protested the girl. ‘<span style="font-style: italic;">You </span>eat them.’</span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">– From <i>The Ghost,</i> Nigeria</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2G4yeslx_pgsJajwMzvX35p0TzOI9ELeXhRbIsmOQzwg5QyHHKQofgjMGY3FpYC_BA8m2J1WWjc8qu3EJwqvloT-xYl1V9f28SnYk_ftT1K1w60q-_tEHfRqEZllq68aP89hVgb98Bsc/s1169/Screenshot+2021-08-03+at+11.24.36.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1169" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2G4yeslx_pgsJajwMzvX35p0TzOI9ELeXhRbIsmOQzwg5QyHHKQofgjMGY3FpYC_BA8m2J1WWjc8qu3EJwqvloT-xYl1V9f28SnYk_ftT1K1w60q-_tEHfRqEZllq68aP89hVgb98Bsc/s320/Screenshot+2021-08-03+at+11.24.36.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Bembo; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="page" title="Page 43"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On the third day, cowering in the midst of yet another freak storm, the fisherman promised his youngest daughter, Helga, to the troll. That night, after supper, he sent her out into the rain to fetch his oiled sea clothes, which he had deliberately left outside.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Now, Helga was shrewder and more valiant than her older sisters. She had already guessed that some terrible danger was afoot and had steeled herself to deal with it. She was not surprised to find the troll lurking out there. When he demanded a kiss, she stood on tiptoe and gave him a chaste peck on his repulsive cheek, to butter him up. As a result, he didn’t carry her away screaming and kicking, but took her hand in his own enormous paw, and led her, quite gently, over the hills to his cave in Gloom Valley where he </span><span style="font-family: arial;">ordered her to work as his servant. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;">– From <i>The Troll</i>, Iceland</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88wAtNGAQC_q4LNYbTJlKUShayNjmQ8ZbQHOWdl0dkb05TTIJ4hojU_P9GgyACCejFSngO96uGJj23AF9eZE9cSclIGVUMiz3sneVvn8ofwhEAHJOnWSrGkizGgNnWlEhAbHq7TgQJkM/s1169/Screenshot+2021-08-03+at+11.27.08.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1169" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88wAtNGAQC_q4LNYbTJlKUShayNjmQ8ZbQHOWdl0dkb05TTIJ4hojU_P9GgyACCejFSngO96uGJj23AF9eZE9cSclIGVUMiz3sneVvn8ofwhEAHJOnWSrGkizGgNnWlEhAbHq7TgQJkM/s320/Screenshot+2021-08-03+at+11.27.08.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><b>BUY THE BOOK FROM:</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781849946513"><span style="color: #990000;">Waterstones</span></a><br /></b></span></p><p><a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rosalind-Kerven/Dark-Fairy-Tales-of-Fearless-Women/25938098"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;">amazon</span></b></a></p><p><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/books/dark-fairy-tales-of-fearless-women/9781849946513"><span style="color: #990000;">An independent bookshop (1)</span></a><br /></span></b></p><p><a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rosalind-Kerven/Dark-Fairy-Tales-of-Fearless-Women/25938098"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial;">An independent bookshop (2)</span></b></a></p></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492248621417083615.post-16565453118999540172020-09-28T14:06:00.012+01:002021-09-20T12:46:09.689+01:00<p><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><b>MEDIEVAL LEGENDS</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><b> OF LOVE & LUST</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xvCeJtlRQGJ08-oQQmvm-pYS1cedL9lQwoyw4ZVj5YCqtGDT1eREZpAIHc_YRZRKyi8OuErUXuixsemk9TgXvMKgdfug2PzBaP1qsWRyooxYoA02R7tbKCUuhokzhKIN0veQyfUPLPo/s2048/Medieval+Legends+of+Love+%2526Lust.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1337" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xvCeJtlRQGJ08-oQQmvm-pYS1cedL9lQwoyw4ZVj5YCqtGDT1eREZpAIHc_YRZRKyi8OuErUXuixsemk9TgXvMKgdfug2PzBaP1qsWRyooxYoA02R7tbKCUuhokzhKIN0veQyfUPLPo/w418-h640/Medieval+Legends+of+Love+%2526Lust.jpg" width="418" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"Rosalind Kerven, connoisseur of myths and folktales...has translated and condensed sprawling, beautiful but inaccessible original texts from the 12th to 15th centuries into concise, elegant tales. Capturing Christian, Muslim and folk influences at play in Western Europe during this period, they celebrate romantic love at the same time as offering some salient points of comparison. Whether it's simple escapism or century-spanning wisdom, this is a book to savour."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>– The Independent</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/i-felt-a-sudden-stab-of-pain-in-my-heart-a-medieval-guide-to-love-and-dating-b1801347.html" target="_blank">Read the full review here</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"Kerven's latest book is a lush retreat from the world and its troubles. In this respect, one might say it is the perfect book for these parlous times.... stands as striking testimony to the medieval claim that serves as its epigraph: 'No one is invulnerable against love' "</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>– TLS (The Times Literary Supplement)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/medieval-legends-of-love-and-lust-rosalind-kerven-review-mary-c-flannery/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Read the full review here</span></a><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"A fine collection of medieval stories, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">some well known, others deserving to be better known </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">than they are. It forms a great introduction to the whole area" </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">– <b>Professor Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<i>As soon as all was quiet, Guenever summoned Launcelot to come urgently to her chamber</i>... A spicy collection of almost 30 stories that originated from the 12th – 15th centuries, authentically and accessibly retold, and featuring courtly love, mystical passion, bawdy and jocular tales, scandal and feminist longing" </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">– <b>The Bookseller</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"A well selected collection of accessible </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(244, 176, 171); 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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">'What riches there are to read here! A wonderful variety of stories... and in a variety of tellers' voices, so that every story is different and a delightful surprise. The language itself is immediate... The words have a truth and depth... a book both to instruct us on Chinese culture and to delight our narrative thirst. A real find!" <b><i>– School Librarian</i></b></span></span><b><i> </i></b></blockquote>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The secrets of Everlasting Life</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The origins of <i>yin</i> and <i>yang</i></span></li>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;"> "A fantastic collection of fairy stories...gorgeous illustrations throughout...Go out and buy this book."</span> </blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">"Frankly, I have never encountered an author who does short stories quite like this author does. She breathes new life into OLD tales and does it with wit and humour. Utterly engaging, and a wonderful trip down memory lane."</span> </blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">"A truly enchanting read."</span> </blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">"Not only does this book contain quaint tales from all over Britain, but it contains little tidbits of knowledge as well. It is so hard to determine which story was my favourite. I loved them all... a wonderful book of tales."</span> </blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">"my visiting grand-nieces and grand-nephews enjoyed them tremendously. Asking if they could have some read again the next night. To me that is the best recommendation, but I have to tell you as an adult this reader got just as much enjoyment from the stories as the children they were read to."</span> </blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">"Possibly the finest collection of faery stories I've ever read. The author has a keen eye for faery 'type' and retells the tales with such finesse that she truly captures their capricious, mischievous, funny, mysterious natures in a way that would appeal to a modern reader while still hearkening the ancient-tale traditions."</span> </blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">"Endearing collection of cherished stories for all ages... I loved the additional information at the back of the book to read separately from the stories. The illustrations were lovely... The wealth of additional information and where to find it makes this one shine above the others. Very well done."</span> </blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">"Simply lovely and beautifully illustrated."</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">"Well selected, well-written (eloquent, enjoyable and close to oral storytelling...) Bonus points for the fact that each story comes with extensive notes...and there is a long bibliography at the end for further research... Enjoyable read for fans of fairy folklore, and a very useful research for storytellers."</span></blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">"Really lovely for a gift, gorgeous illustrations"</span> </blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">"A beautiful book. Delightful classic pictures illustrate the magical tales within. A must for believers and non-believers alike."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Of Faeries, Elves & Goblins</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hob Thrush<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Midwife to the Faeries<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Bogie’s Field<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Edain and Midhir<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Whuppity Stoorie<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Sightings</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yallery Brown<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Man Who Married a Faery<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Faery Wishes<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Only Me<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Faeries' Mist-Gate<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Some Faery Tribes</i> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>King Herla<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Leprechaun's Trick<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Miser and The Spriggans<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tam Lin<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Goblin and the Sprites<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Dealings between Faeries and Mortals</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Faery Borrower<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The King of France’s Daughter<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A Box of Faeries<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A Year and a Day in Faeryland<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A Brewery of Eggshells<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thomas the Rhymer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Magic Ointment<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Flying with the Faeries<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">"You may call them Good People, Strangers, The Gentry, Honest Folk, People of Peace, Tiddy Ones, Mother’s Blessing, Them That’s In or simply Themselves; but never speak their true names.</span></span></i> </blockquote>
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<i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">They are older than history and bitter-sweet as memories. They dwell under the ground, inside the hill, through the passage, beneath the water and beyond the mist.</span></span></i> </blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">They are both male and female, young and old, immortal. They may grow tall as kings or stay small as sucklings. They are of the earth yet unearthly. Some are beautiful, angelic and light as gossamer; others are wizened, moth-eaten, prickly old men. They dress in caps and feathers, breeches and gowns: green, red, white or the colours of dust. They spin and weave, bake bread, work metal. Their music is like honey spiked with sorrow.</span></span></i> </blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">They are passionate, vengeful and cunning, yet neither good nor evil. They are secretive and sly, creators of illusion, shapeshifters. They fly with magic cap or powerful words, astride twigs and stems, or dizzily on gusts of wind. They can fade, turn invisible and vanish."</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Once upon a time there was a thick, dark forest that was said to be enchanted. Sweet scents often drifted from it; creeping ivy and vicious thorns blocked every path that led to it. Nobody with any sense ever ventured inside it.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It happened that the laird who owned the land where this forest grew had a wayward daughter called Janet. One damp and misty day, Janet loosened the braids from her long hair, slipped out from her father’s hall, ran to the forest edge and went in.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>‘Stay!’ he cried. ‘Do not take my lady’s flowers! How dare you enter this forbidden place?’</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The young man advanced on her, fixing her with wild, grey eyes. ‘You lie! No Mortal can have dominion over this place. It belongs to the Queen of Faeryland.’</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>‘You may change your mind when you hear my story,’ the young man said. ‘My name is Tam Lin, and I used to be an ordinary person like you - until the day that I entered this forest. I was overcome by a strange drowsiness that caused me to fall off my horse and break my back: I almost died. But I was rescued by the Faery Queen. She nursed me with her own hands until I was well again. Then she named the price of her care: I must stay here for ever as her bondservant and serve her every whim. One of my tasks is to guard the forest - and to capture anyone who enters it.’</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Janet tossed her head. ‘You’ll not catch me, Tam Lin.’</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He said, ‘The Queen has evil ways to punish me if I let any intruders go free. But I am prepared to risk that for you - if you will help me in return.’</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>‘You must come back here,’ he said, ‘at midnight tomorrow.’</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>‘I'd be a fool to agree to that,' said Janet. 'Tomorrow is the most dangerous night of the year - it's Hallowe'en!’ </span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'You are right,' said Tam Lin. ‘The Faery Queen will terrify you: she will try to beat you down with grotesque shape-shifting spells. You must find the strength to resist them.' </span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Janet shook her head and shuddered, making to flee him. She searched frantically for the path she had come down, or for some deer track that might take her away from this haunted glade; but whichever way she turned, he was there first to block her way. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>- from<i> Tam Lin</i>, a Scottish faery tale</b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Christmastide had come and gone; now the feast of New Year’s Eve heralded the promise of fresh adventures. King Arthur was in high spirits. He strode around his hall, exchanging jokes and tidings with his favourite knights and melting all the ladies’ hearts with his smile. Then he took his seat, thumped his great fist upon the Round Table and shouted for everyone’s attention.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘Noble knights! Fairest of ladies,’ he declared, ‘it is time for us all to make our annual vows and resolutions. Here’s my own to set the ball rolling: I swear I shall never again eat at a feast unless my day has been spiced by some new marvel!’</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The whole court was frozen in wonder and indignation. The ladies whispered behind their hands that this uncouth yet colourful visitor must surely have come from the realms of </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">faery</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. The knights watched their king, anticipating that he would draw his sword without ado and slay the stranger for his insults. But Arthur was not in the least perturbed. He took all the time he needed to study the Green Knight and ponder his answer. Finally he said,</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘I am Arthur, lord not just of this hall and its lands, but also of the entire realm of Britain. You have come here at a perfect moment, sir, so I offer you a hearty welcome. Feel free to dismount and uncloak yourself. Join our feast. Warm yourself by the fire. And tell us your business.’</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Whah</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">hoh</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">!’ responded the Green Knight, ‘so </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">you’re</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> the famous King Arthur, are you? Don’t worry, your majesty, I won’t spend any more time here than I need to. I’</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ve</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> only popped in because I thought it would be fun for you all to end the festive season with a jolly game.'</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">"This </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">wonderful set of fairy tales features stories and legends from the different counties of England and wraps them up so beautifully in illustrations that steal right into your heart, awakening long forgotten memories of ghosts and dragons, witches and forbidden forests... All the stories are equally delightful and the extensive notes and sources at the end of the book gives the history of the legend and its source in other literature."</span><span style="font-family: "times";"> </span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"Rosalind Kerven is to England what the Brothers Grimm were to Germany, </span>except<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> that she's even better at telling fairy tales than they were... she's also an immaculate researcher and her 'Notes and Sources towards the end of the book are every bit as fascinatingly rewarding as the tales themselves... one of my most cherished possessions."</span></span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "arial";">"a wonderful collection. The writing itself is fluid and not overly formal... I love that there are notes to explain the origin of each story too."</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"a beautiful book with the quality and taste you would expect from something produced for the National Trust...charmingly written and enjoyable for adults and certainly children as well... if you want a beautiful and charming book, perfect for a coffee table, I can't see how you could do better than this."</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"wonderful book... I'd have no hesitation in recommending this collection as a primer of English folklore."</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"All the stories are equally delightful."</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"A quick read, with a great section with notes on the sources of each separate story. It's a great place to start reading about the more traditional, less well known fairy stories. Additionally, it's an absolutely beautiful book – something to treasure."</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">"I absolutely love it and like to keep re-reading it."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">The best known fairy tales come from mainland Europe, and even collections of folk tales from the British Isles tend to concentrate on Scotland, Wales and Ireland. So I conceived this book to fill in the gap - the first major book of purely English fairy tales since Joseph Jacobs' important two collections of 1890 and 1894. There were clearly many people waiting for something like this, since it quickly became one of the National Trust's bestselling titles. The book is marketed for adults, but it seems to work best as a cross-over title for both adults and children, and can often be found in the children's section of many shops.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My research revealed a huge selection of wonderful stories, and I have chosen one each on the following themes: Arthurian legend, magic helpers, evil spirits, giants, dragons, robin Hood, fairies, the Devil as trickster, nonsense tales, swan maidens, Cinderella motifs, witches, mermaids, enchanted woods and quests. Extensive notes discuss further examples of each story type.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The book is really beautifully produced, in hardback, with thick paper, excellent design and historical illustrations by the likes of Arthur </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Rackham</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">King Arthur and the Hideous Hag </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cumbria</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Tom Tit Tot </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Suffolk)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Dead Moon </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lincolnshire</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">) </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jack the Giant Killer </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Cornwall) </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dragon Castle </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Northumberland</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nottinghamshire</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Weardale</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Fairies </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(County Durham) </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Devil’s Bargain </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lancashire</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Princess and the Fool </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Kent)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Seventh Swan </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cambridgeshire</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Knight of York </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Yorkshire)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Wicked Witch </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(London)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Asrai</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Shropshire)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Forbidden Forest </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Warwickshire</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The King of England’s Three Sons </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Gypsy) </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There was once a foolish woman who had a foolish daughter, and which of them was worse I </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">couldn</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">’t tell you. Anyway, one day this woman set to and baked five fine apple pies, and when they were done she put them on the pantry shelf to cool, then popped out to do her shopping. Her daughter was slavering at the mouth from the delicious smell of them, and as soon as the mother was away, the girl sneaked into the pantry to steal a taste of one. It was so good that she </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">couldn</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">’t help but finish the whole pie off, and then another and yet another, until soon she’d finished every single one of them. Just as she was licking the last crumbs off her fingers, her mother came home; and when she saw what had happened - who can blame her? - she fell into a rage.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">She slapped the daughter hard on both cheeks and when the girl began to bawl, she whacked her backside with a broom-handle, just for good measure. Then the woman went stomping out into the street, yelling at the top of her voice:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘Oh </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">lawd</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">loverducks</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">! What a glutton I’</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ve</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> got for a daughter! That’s five whole pies the girl’s eaten, all in a single day!’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Eventually she calmed down a bit; but when she turned round to go back indoors, you’ll never guess what she found behind her: only a big black horse with bells and golden ornaments all over its bridle; and on its back was sitting the King! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Of course the woman was terribly flustered. She smoothed her hair and dropped a curtsey and muttered a humble apology for not seeing his majesty before. But the King waved away her apologies and said,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘Good woman, I heard you saying something about your daughter just now, that sounded very interesting, but I couldn’t catch the words properly. Would you kindly repeat it.’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- from </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Tom Tit Tot</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Cambridge University Press 1991, 2nd edition 1999)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Selected by the Federation of Children’s Book Groups for National Tell a Story Week 1994</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“these tales have memorable characters and are told by someone with a good ear for a story” </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-Sunday Telegraph</span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“gradually weaves a subtle, embracing charm...The mystical nature of these stories becomes quite magical and many images remain vividly in the mind” </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- The English and Media Magazine</span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The language... is sparse but vivid, ideal for the story-teller” </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- Junior Education</span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"I have had your book Earth Magic, Sky Magic for about fifteen years and used it so many times when teaching. It is really lovely...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> a book I always have near and dip into, children love the stories and they are profound and universal." <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><b>- David, head teacher, Berkshire</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Originally commissioned by CUP as a bit of an indulgence (“a lovely idea but it won’t sell”) this actually became a solid seller on both sides of the Atlantic. The first edition had a sophisticated ‘cross-over’ cover, which seems to have endeared it to adults as well as the children that it was aimed at. The second edition went into the Cambridge Reading series for schools, with a more child-friendly cover and updated notes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It was a great privile</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ge to research and write this book, as the Native American peoples of the USA and Canada (First Nations) tell some of the richest and most inspiring stories in the world. There are over a hundred different Native American nations, each with its own unique heritage of traditional stories. None are common to the whole continent, although some characters and themes are shared by several neighbouring peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In general, the stories describe the intricate relationships between people, animals and the natural world. Many explain how natural or social phenomena originated, and reinforce correct rules of behaviour. They have a strong spiritual element and traditionally the people themselves have regarded their myths as sacred. Magic and the supernatural are constantly present, but within carefully defined limits and rules. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They promote positive moral values such as individual responsibility, duty to the community, respect for the environment, steadfastness and loyalty.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The book is divided into four sections, each reflecting a different type of tale and including stories </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">from a variety of Native American peoples. There are four myths about </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Spider Woman</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, a divine character also known as Grandmother Spider, who shape-shifts between her human and arachnid forms; and a set of tales about </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Coyote</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, one of the most important Native American tricksters. The other stories tell of fantastical quests, adventures and challenges.</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Man who met the Sun </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Blackfoot)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Moon-Woman and the Arrow-Chain Boy </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Tlingit)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Star Sister, Star Brothers, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Cheyenne)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Flying with the Thunders </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Iroquois)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Big Snow</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Slavey)</span></i></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Monster </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Hopi)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Boy who was kidnapped by Eagles</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Hopi)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">She is Everywhere </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Hopi)</span></i></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How Coyote got his Tail </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Yurok)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Why Coyote howls at the Sky </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Hopi)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How Coyote made Winter </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Zuni)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Coyote and the Acorns </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Yurok)</span></i></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Great Rabbit Chase </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Algonquin)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Man who changed </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Cheyenne)</span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Secret world of the Ravens </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Jicarilla Apache)</span></i></li>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Quillwork Girl had nimble fingers that seemed to be touched with magic. All day long she sat sewing exquisite patterns made from brightly dyed porcupine quills onto tipi-skins, quivers and robes. It was said that dreams flashed like sunlight before her eyes: she could decorate things more beautifully than anyone else in the world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One day her mother came saying,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘What are you making now, my daughter?’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The girl looked up. Her smile was soft and far, far away.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘I am making seven shirts, Mother, to go with these seven pairs of leggings and seven pairs of moccasins.’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘But who are they for, my daughter? Your father is dead. You have no brothers. Your uncles and your boy-cousins have wives and sisters of their own to sew their clothse. Can it be that there are seven young men courting you who need such gifts?'</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘I don’t know who they are for. But I have dreamed that I must make them. Perhaps I will know when they are finished.’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So she sewed and sewed for many days.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When the garments were ready, she told her mother, ‘my work is done and I am leaving now now to deliver my seven gifts.’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘But where are you going, my daughter?’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘Towards the North, towards the land of snow.’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘And who will you give your gifts to, my daughter?’</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">‘To my lost brothers, far away, who are waiting.’</span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492248621417083615.post-55770550833220425582014-10-07T16:07:00.000+01:002018-09-25T11:04:38.131+01:00THE RAIN FOREST STORYBOOK<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: #006600; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">THE RAIN FOREST STORYBOOK </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br />(Cambridge University Press 1994)</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657423921016353986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ-s7EF1xmnN5Ml61vyf1GEREzkJEVV8hz0dcq6xXG3AFl84iJnMXRu2w3VK5LhJdsnEP4W74E41eNs9CWYgvsoFFHn7tBYGuymAWWOWTsvvE08W7TZw1G4aNlQ9sDhwznpxjI0hSRXAs/s400/RainForest.jpg" style="height: 320px; width: 203px;" width="253" /></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">“</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">conjurs</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> up visions of a vanished, magical time when people could converse with animals, plants and elemental forces… deepened by a factual commentary on how the rain forests and the cultures they support are being deliberately exterminated. This is moving and important reading.” </span><span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">- </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="color: #006600; font-size: 100%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Books for Keeps</span></span><span style="color: #006600; font-size: 100%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /><br />“Told in the voice of the people themselves, Rosalind </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Kerven</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">’s adaptations capture the spirit of their lives, traditions and beliefs...prefaced by a thought-provoking introduction” </span><span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Hadith</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Nzri</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, published by Action Aid</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">At the time of writing this book, destruction of the world’s rain forests was often in the news and I was fascinated by the occasional glimpses that media reports offered into the people that live in them. What, I wondered, was their perspective on the forests that provided their homes and yet were in such danger?</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">I chose the three largest areas of rain forest: South America, central Africa and South-East Asia. Although the peoples of these areas have all produced a huge variety of stories, I looked specifically for those with a ‘forest’ theme. My final choices ranged from esoteric myths to amusing ‘tall stories’ - each one unique and fascinating in its own way. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The factual introduction to each section was checked over for accuracy by Survival International, the charity which works to protect tribal peoples throughout the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">CONTENTS</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">THE FOREST PEOPLES OF SOUTH AMERICA</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Jaguar-Man (</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Desana</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, Colombia</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Gifts from the River </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Waiwai</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, Brazil and Guyana)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Bumblebee Spat </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Yanomami</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, Brazil and Venezuela)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Us and You </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Ufaina</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, Colombia)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Old Sun </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Juruna</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, Brazil)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Magic Canoe </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Kamaiura</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, Brazil)</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">THE FOREST PEOPLES OF AFRICA</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Fire and the Forest Lord (</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Mbuti</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> Pygmy,</span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> central Africa</span></span></span></span><span id="hotword" style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Most Beautiful Song in the Forest </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Mbuti</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> Pygmy,</span></span></span><span id="hotword" style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;"></span> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">central Africa</span></span></span></span><span id="hotword" style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Naked Ape </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Ngbandi</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">central Africa</span></span></span></span><span id="hotword" style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Sister Chimpanzee </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Daobli</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> Village, Ivory Coast)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Chimpanzee Ancestor </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Makere</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">,</span></span></span><span id="hotword" style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">central Africa</span></span></span></span><span id="hotword" style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Making of the Palm Trees </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Ngbandi</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">central Africa</span></span></span></span><span id="hotword" style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span id="hotword" style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">What a Terrible Life in the Forest </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Mbuti</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Pygmy, </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">central Africa</span></span></span></span><span id="hotword" style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">)</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">THE FOREST PEOPLES OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Forest is His </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Iban</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, Malaysian Borneo)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Superman of Sarawak </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Dayak</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, Malaysian Borneo)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Never Laugh at Animals </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Dayak</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">/</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Murut</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">/</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Dusan</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, Malaysian Borneo</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Pig Power, Python Power</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> (</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Lae</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> District, </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Papua</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> New Guinea)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Women’s Revenge </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Koitabu</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">, </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Papua</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> New Guinea)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Stolen Goods </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Masin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"> District, Indonesian New Guinea)</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Jaguar: take care, hide yourself when his footfalls come near.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Jaguar: he is the master - of thunder, of fire; moon-brother, sun-brother, master of the caves and mountains, chief of all the animals…</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Jaguar: he goes where he will, does what he wants; friend or enemy, he chooses to please himself. Love him, fear him, always respect him…</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Listen: more mysteries. There are men in this village who can transform themselves into jaguars. the shamans, the wise men, the mystery men: the ones who can make their minds fly freely to run with the spirits, and come back again.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Jaguar: is he man or spirit, cat or shaman? Who can tell, when he passes so softly, softly through the shadows?</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">- from </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Jaguar Man</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Hush: listen. Can you hear the Forest?</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Leaves dropping, softly, softly; rain pattering on the leaves. Creatures scuttling, creeping; the cracking of twigs; monkeys chatting, bees humming. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Lianas</span> creak as they sway in the wind, and far, far off, an elephant calls.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Listen to them all, my friend. Ah, but there is one sound you can never, ever hear, because it has been destroyed for ever - it is extinct. And that is the most Beautiful Song in the Forest.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">- from <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Most Beautiful Song in the Forest</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">There was a lady called <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Gumiloh</span>. She was proud, she was beautiful and she was clever. Lots of young men courted her: one even persuaded her to make half a promise of marriage Yet, in her heart, she felt that none was really her match.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">One day she was working on the longhouse <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">verandah</span>, laying out piles of freshly cut rice in the sun, when she felt a stranger’s eyes upon her. Looking up, she saw an arrogant looking youth.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">‘Who are you?’ she called to him.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">‘I am <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Kichapi</span>,’ he replied.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">‘Well then, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Kichapi</span>: <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">what</span></span> do you want of me?’</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">‘I have fallen in love with you, lady. I want to marry you.’</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Gumiloh</span> laughed. ‘Oh, if that’s your game, I’m afraid you’re too late, for I’m already betrothed to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Bilantur</span>.’</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">‘Then <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">un</span>-betroth yourself, lady. Whoever he is, I’m a much better man than him.’</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">‘Oh yes?’ said <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Gumiloh</span>. ‘Do you expect me to believe that? I don’t know even the first thing about you!’</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">‘No,’ said <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Kichapi</span>, ‘but I’m certain you’ll be impressed when <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">you</span></span> hear the amazing story of my life.’</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This book became an instant bestseller in the local tourist market of my home county of </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Northumberland</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, helped by its wonderful cover by artist Yvonne Gilbert. It contains eight little-known stories from the area, featuring dragons, fairies, ghosts and more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The book was published under my own imprint, Talking Stone (named from a Native American myth about a magical talking stone that was the source of all stories). Talking Stone has since gone on to very successfully publish my award shortlisted children's fiction series, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Grim Gruesome Viking Villain</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.grimgruesome.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">www.grimgruesome.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">CONTENTS</span></b></span></div>
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<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dragon Castle </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Only Me </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Baby in the River</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Night Dwarfs</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Sorcerer, the Knight and the Witch</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Wedding Ghosts</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Magic Ointment</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Sleeping King</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dragon Castle</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> was subsequently republished in English Fairy Tales and Legends - please see separate entry above.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A thick sea-mist once came rolling in over the sheep pastures; and when it cleared, there was a sorcerer on the road! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> I don’t know where he came from, but he was a sour-faced brute of a fellow, mounted on a demon-horse that snorted fire from its nostrils like a dragon. He rode at a leisurely pace, staring around from sunken, bloodshot eyes. By the time he reached the village it was nightfall.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The villagers screamed when they saw him: they all rushed inside their cottages and bolted their doors. The sorcerer cursed at their backs. Then he went down to the river, built a fire, hung a cauldron over it and crammed it full of weird ingredients. Soon it was bubbling away, giving off a foul smelling steam. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Next morning, the villagers peered out, hoping and praying the sorcerer would be gone. Unfortunately he </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">wasn</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">’t. And his spells had conjured up something extraordinary: a huge, ugly castle! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- from </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Sorcerer, the Knight and the Witch</span></i></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492248621417083615.post-25332177459322562752011-09-29T14:21:00.004+01:002018-09-25T10:56:23.384+01:00THE ARABIAN NIGHTS<div style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ALADDIN </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">AND OTHER TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dorling</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kindersley</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> 1998) </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Rosalind K</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">erven</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> has the art. The five stories given in this attractive book are </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">straightforwardly</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> told and compelling... A lively sense emerges of a body of oral </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">tradition</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> as part of the central core of people’s imaginative and social lives” </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- School Librarian </span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">CONTENTS</span></b></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Tale of Queen </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Shahrazad</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Garden of Enchantments</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ali </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Baba</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and the Forty Thieves</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Fisherman and the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jinnee</span></span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The exquisite illustrations are by </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nilesh</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mistry</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> who has captured all the enchantment of these tales. The book is produced in </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">DK's</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Eyewitness Classics format with sidebars containing factual information and further pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There was once a king of Persia who liked to disguise himself as a common man, and </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">wander</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> secretly through the humblest streets and alleyways of his kingdom.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One night he came to a quarter of the city where he had never been before. There he heard young women’s voices, and stopped to listen by an open door that led into a cramped and gloomy house.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The king cupped his ear and crept closer. He heard the women giggling together; and then a third voice whispered, "Oh my sisters, you are welcome to all that </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">food</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. This is my heart’s desire: I long only to be blessed with such goodness that I might be chosen to marry the king.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #000099; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Recommended by the American Library Association:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“the legend of Arthur as you’<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">ve</span> never seen it”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #000099; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;">Attracted full-length features in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Sunday Times</span> children’s supplement and the <span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">TES</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";">“chronicles the legend...simply and accessibly… both entertaining and informative” <span style="color: #000099; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">- Dispatch Online</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: #000099; font-family: "arial";"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Getting the chance to retell this wonderful legend was the equivalent of an actor being asked to play Hamlet! But the brief I was given was a real challenge: I had to condense the story into just 8,000 words to fit in with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">DK's</span> format for their Eyewitness Classics series. I decided to approach it as an oral story teller, which resulted in a tightly woven yet vivid text which gives children a real insight into the romance and chivalry of the epic tale.<br /><br />My retelling is mainly based on Malory's <span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Morte</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">d'Arthur</span></span> written in 1485 - an extremely long narrative which took me two months to study in its entirety! - plus other medieval texts. I was unable to include all the subsidiary legends in this short retelling, but have since retold them in for a separate book for adults,<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> Arthurian Legends</span> (please see separate blog entry, above). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The old king was dead. The throne was empty, the crown unclaimed and fear crept like a glowering storm-shadow across <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">the</span> land. Without a king, there were no laws. Without laws, the land was soon overrun by ruthless invaders and local warlords. Gangs of coarse men forced their way through the villages, stealing cattle and treasure, breaking down doors, snatching away children. Without a new king - a good, strong king - there was no hope, but only <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">the</span> promise of more darkness, more fear.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Out of this darkness, through the secret paths of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">the</span> Great Forest, a strange figure came walking, the figure of a wizard. his name was Merlin.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> This Merlin, he was as old as oak roots; he could catch the wind and weave it into poems; his black eyes could read he future and his spells could change it. He saw the future now as he <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">walked</span> towards it, a time of sunshine, gold and glory, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">the</span> glory of a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">great</span> new king. Merlin knew the name of that king and where he was hidden, for his own wizardry had overseen the boy’s birth and hidden him away from evil and danger. Now that boy’s time had come.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Merlin stepped out of the forest. He was a tall, gaunt, long-bearded figure, muttering in strange tongues, wrapped in a grey cloak, bent against the driving rain. Leaving the trees behind him, he strode along the open road that led to the city of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">London</span>.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I have written three books for the British Museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The books of Celtic and Norse myths each contained two stories and were unusually illustrated by photographs of genuine archaeological objects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The third book for children unfortunately never saw the light of day due to problems with finding an American co-publisher to share the expensive costs of colour printing. It was a collection of myths from all over the world, enhanced by factual notes that compared and contrasted the stories of many different cultures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I have also written the glossaries for two scholarly works published by The British Museum:<br /> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">THE LEGENDARY PAST: WORLD OF MYTHS, volumes 1 and 2</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">An old, old man came hobbling slowly along the road. His hair and beard were like tangles of white, wispy cobwebs, hanging to his knees. His face was deeply etched with wrinkles, his back was bent almost double; he squinted through sunken, clouded eyes. He really was extraordinarily ancient - no wonder everyone stopped to stare at him!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Gasping for breath, he sat down to rest upon a large, grey stone. The people watching crept a little closer.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">‘Come on then,’ he croaked, ‘don’t hang back! I know you’re all wondering about me. Well, I don’t mind telling my story, if there’s any of you curious enough to listen…</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">My name is Oisin; and my father was none other than that mighty hero, Finn mac Cumhaill! Oh, I can tell you all think I’m making that up: Finn’s been dead for hundreds of years, hasn’t he? But if you’ll just keep quiet while I explain what happened, you’ll soon understand the truth.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Yes, I reckon I must be more than 300 years old! Finn really was my father; and Finn was also my lord. For in my youth, when I was strong and handsome, I was a member of his famous warrior band, the Fianna; and wherever he led, I always followed, whether it was to fight or to play.’</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">A man once met a giant walking across his farm-land, and they got talking. After chatting about this and that for a while, the conversation turned to gambling games.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">When it comes to playing tables, there’s no one in all of Middle Earth who can beat me!’ the farmer boasted.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">‘Is that so?’ replied the giant. ‘Well, in Jotunheim (where I come from), most of my friends would say that I was the chamption. It sounds to me that you and I would be pretty well matched, my little friend. I tell you what - why don’t we sit down now and play a game together?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Well, on the one hand, the farmer wasn’t at all keen: he knew that giants could be dangerous. On the other hand, it was years since he’d lost a game, and he was pretty sure he could always come out on top, no matter how skilled his opponent.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">So, ‘All right,’ he said.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The giant waited while the farmer set up a gaming table in the yard. Then they both sat down.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">‘What prize shall we have for the winner?’ the farmer wondered.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">‘No prize,’ said the giant straightaway. ‘Instead, let’s have a penalty for the loser: whoever loses the game must also lose his life!</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492248621417083615.post-52561614088044816802011-09-28T16:10:00.004+01:002018-09-25T11:02:53.463+01:00MYTHICAL QUEST (British Library)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">(British Library 1996) </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">This book for adults was specially commissioned by the British Library to accompany an exhibition of the same name. It is the only book I have ever written which was published within just a few months of being commissioned - most books take at least a year, sometimes even five years, to see the light of day! I had to research and write very fast in order to meet the deadline.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">The accompanying exhibition was a display of ancient manuscripts relating to the ‘quest’ stories from around the world which are featured in the book. Alongside my stories, the book includes scholarly articles from British Library curators about the provenance and development of the stories, and an introduction by novelist Penelope Lively wearing her hat of British Library trustee.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTENTS</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">The Epic of Gilgamesh</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">The Homecoming of Odysseus</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">The Tale of Cupid and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Pysche</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">The Legendary Journeys of Alexander the Great</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Rama’s Quest for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Sita</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Journey to the West</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">The Life of St. Brendan</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">The Quest for the Holy Grail</span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;"><br /><br /> <span style="color: #000066;">When the gods created Gilgamesh, they made him almost perfect. His beauty was blinding like the sun. Like a bull, his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">strength</span> was insurmountable. He saw everything, knew everything. No warrior could overcome him. No virgin could resist him. People said, 'That man is like a god’ - and indeed the gods had made him two-thirds divine.</span><br /><span style="color: #000066;"> But the lesser part of him, that which was human, was afflicted with human weakness. He used his allure, his strength, his power like a brute. The gods sent him to the city of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Uruk</span> and appointed him there as king; but he degraded his reign with bride-rape and bloodshed.</span><br /><span style="color: #000066;"> Suffering, the people wailed to the gods and their complains were heard. Thus the gods created Enkidu, the wild-man, to be Gilgamesh’s companion, to rein him in and be his soul-mate. They made Enkidu rough and unkempt; but his heart and his soul were pure.<br /><span style="color: black;">- from </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Epic of Gilgamesh</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">A king and queen had three daughters. The two eldest had a choice of admirers, and so married as soon as they came of age. However, the youngest princess, Psyche, was so unusually beautiful and sweet-natured that people whispered she was surely <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">divine</span></span>; and although she was much admired, no man considered himself worthy enough to seek her hand in marriage.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Rumours about Psyche travelled and grew. They reached the ears of Venus, goddess of love, and gnawed at her heart. Venus called up her son , Cupid, and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">commanded</span></span> him to punish this upstart beauty by matching her to a foul <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">and</span> unwholesome lover.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">Time passed. The king and queen, despairing of ever finding Psyche a husband, consulted an oracle of Apollo. The message that came back to them struck horror into their hearts:</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> Lead the girl to the mountain top</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> where the unseen monster lurks.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> He will take her for his bride.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;">- from <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The Tale of Cupid and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Pysche</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fairy beliefs are still one of the most popular aspects of British and Irish folklore. I have done a number of 'fairy' talks in schools and found that at least 95% of young children believe in fairies and even claim to have seen them! I also did a 'Fairy' story telling day at the Seven Stories Children's Books Centre in Newcastle some years ago, which attracted a huge crowd of enthusiasts - adults as well as children! </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">This book was inspired by a set of teachers’ handbooks on multi-cultural festivals that I was commissioned to write by Macmillan Education for the Commonwealth Institute. One of the festivals featured was Diwali, which of course focusses on the truly wonderful myth of Rama and Sita. I began looking at other Hindu myths and was totally enthralled. In my view they are so much richer than the classical myths of Greece and Rome - not only are they part of a living religion and culture, but they are much more interesting stories and have a solid moral framework. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The book contains 12 stories, featuring important deities such as Agni, Brahma, Durga, Ganesha, Hanuman, Indra, Krishna, Lakshmi, Parvati, Rama, Shiva, Sita and Vishnu, as well as various Demons. </span></span></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Fish with the Golden Horn</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Daughter of the Mountain</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Churning of the Sea of Milk</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Dwarf’s Footsteps</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Tears of Death</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Boy who Moved a Mountain</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Warrior Goddess</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Doom of the Magic Cities</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Filthy Giant</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Slaying of the Dragon</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">The Princess and the Ten-Headed Demon</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";">Why the Moon Laughed</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Although I had already published several children’s novels, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Legends of the Animal World</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> was the first book I wrote in the ‘myths and legends’ genre. It was well received, so I was commissioned to write two more for the</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Cambridge Legends series.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Over many years I’ve contributed numerous ‘myths, legends and folk tale’ books to literacy schemes published by: CUP, OUP, Ginn, Heinemann, Pearson and Rigby. I’ve also written traditional tales for Scholastic’s </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Literacy Time</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> magazine and for many publishers’ reading scheme anthologies . Some of these have been translated into different languages, ranging from Malay to Gaelic. Others have gone into ‘English as a Foreign Language’ (EFL) editions, for use in the Far East, India and Norway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These offer a</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> great way for young children to discover traditional tales - though a shame that they might appear as primarily educational!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Baskets of Magic</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Native American pueblo people, New Mexico)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6600cc;"><b><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">JOURNEYS TO OTHER WORLDS</span></b></span></span></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The World of the Night Sky </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Native American)</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The World Below the Water </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Kenya)</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The World of the Magic Ring </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Arabian)</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The World of the Sleeping King</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Welsh)</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">'SUNSHINE MYTHS AND LEGENDS'</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I was series editor for this complete set of twelve books. I was also commissioned to write three of them myself, retelling myths from Uganda, Mexico (ancient Aztecs) and Australia (Aboriginal)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">THE CRAFT OF THE RETELLER</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As a child, I was addicted to Andrew Lang’s ‘Colour’ </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fairy Books</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, published between 1889 and 1910, and a mainstay of my local library. For those who don’t know them, the 12 titles in this series (Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive and Lilac) </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0px;">each contained a wonderful miscellany of fairy tales and folktales from around the world. A high school journey to West Africa fired my interest in other cultures and inspired me to read Social Anthropology at university.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Eventually I was spotted by Rosemary Davidson, then the inspirational Editorial Director of children’s books at Cambridge University Press – who thought my academic background and strong track record as a children’s novelist ideally suited me to retelling myths and legends. Ever since then, I’ve been regularly hunting out ancient tales from all over the world, exploring their cultural perspectives and bringing them alive for a new generation of readers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I own a large library of source books for traditional stories including many unusual collections dating from the colonial era. Over the years I have been compiling an informal but probably unique 'story index' of the most interesting tales from each region. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">CHOOSING STORIES TO RETELL</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I always try to find the earliest known and most authentic source for a traditional tale. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Each source book contains dozens - maybe even hundreds - of stories. So what do I look for when chosing which ones to retell?</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A rich and satisfying plot with lots of drama and a satisfying conclusion. </span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Some kind of ‘meaning’ or moral twist, especially if the retelling is aimed at children. </span></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A magical or supernatural dimension</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A flavour unique to the culture to which the story belongs</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For a collection, where there are several similar possible stories, I will only include the best one, though if the book also includes factual notes for an adult readership I usually describe related stories.</span></span></li>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A priority for me is to maintain the integrity of the original story. This means not altering either the main plot or the main characters, and being ‘true’ to the culture from which the story originates. There is, however, scope for altering some of the detail. For example, sometimes generations of half-remembered oral retellings result in a plot that is rather jumbled up; in such cases I might unscramble it and change the order in which incidents happen in order to make the plot more logical and comprehensible. I might flesh out some of the characters more, add some colourful description, or soften a horrific scene if the story is to go into an educational series. Occasionally an editor has asked me to make a more fundamental change, such as swapping the gender of one of the characters or bringing the story to a conclusion which differs from the original: I am never willing to do this.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If the relevant source book contains narratives collected ‘in the field’ and recorded verbatim, even in translation it is possible to get a good idea of the type of language and verbal style used by the indigenous story teller. In such instances I attempt to reflect this in my own retellings. At the same time, I aim to make the stories meaningful to modern readers: using a direct style and eliminating any unneceesary detail - emulating the skills of the oral story teller who must work hard always to keep her audience’s attention.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Traditional stories are part of the shared heritage of any human community. </span></span></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They tend to be imaginative, existing outside normal time - often with a dream-like quality - and freely mix realistic and supernatural characters and events. </span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They usually reflect universal concerns, e.g. fear, conflict, good versus evil and the problem of authority.</span></span></li>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">MYTHS</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> are the most complicated and serious type of traditional story. Their actual content may be dramatic, horrific, moving or even amusing; but they always have some deeper purpose and meaning. They tend to deal with sacred, political, social or cultural matters. Their characters typically include deities, spirits, heroes, anthropomorphic animals, supernatural beings and tricksters.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">LEGENDS</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> are based at least partly on historical or geographical fact - a real person or event, or a place - though this may be overwhelmed by much imaginary detail. The historical character becomes larger than life, mingling with magical characters and doing impossible deeds. A real place becomes haunted by ghosts or fantastic figures. Well known legendary characters include King Arthur and Robin Hood.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">FOLK TALES</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> are the most popular type of traditional stories, providing light hearted entertainment, though many also contain a serious moral. Their style ranges from long, elaborate fantasy narratives to short domestic anecdotes. Their protagonists are typically anonymous stereotypes: ‘a queen’, ‘a peasant boy’ etc., often mixed with supernatural characters such as dragons and monsters. They have a stark and simplistic morality which generally favours the underdog and ends with ‘justice fairly done’.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #993399;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">FAIRY TALES</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> are folk tales with special appeal to children. Also known as ‘household’ or ‘nursery’ tales or by the German name <i>M</i></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ärchen</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, they are widespread throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Originating from oral tradition, and hundreds or thousands of years old, their original composers are unknown. They often exist in many different versions, which have evolved as each reteller added or changed particular aspects or details.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Some of the world’s most important myths were written down in antiquity. Amongst the oldest are the Hindu stories of India, some of which were recorded in the Vedas dating from 1500 BC. Many of the Greek myths were written down by Homer in the 8th Century BC and Hesiod in the 7th Century BC. The Norse Myths of the Viking Age were written down in the 13th Century AD by the Icelander Snorri Sturluson (though quite possibly not in their pure forms). The oldest books of Arthurian legends date from the 7th Century AD, with the first full account being written in 1136.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As more people became literate - a change surely as dramatic as today’s digital revolution - a movement began to collect the old oral stories and write them down for posterity. The oldest known book of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Arabian Nights</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (also known as </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One Thousand and One Nights</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">) dates from the 9th Century. In the 17th Century, Charles Perrault collected some of the best known French fairy tales; an example which was followed in the 19th Century by the Brothers Grimm (Germany), and Asbørnsen and Moe (Norway). At the same time, colonial administrators, missionaries and social anthropologists working in Africa, the Americas and Asia were busy writing down the traditional stories of the indigenous people they were working with. The result was a great wave of important and fascinating collections. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All these books were originally written for adult consumption. Sadly most are out of print, though some have reappeared in new editions and there are many second hand copies in circulation.</span></span></span></div>
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