Clouston's classic study of international folktales, their common origins, and their cultural variations is updated with new research.This classic study of popular tales and fictions is a global map of human imagination reaching back to a time that the author calls'the childhood of the world.'First published in two volumes more than a century ago, the book traces familiar themes from strikingly different times, places, and cultures: invisible caps and cloaks, shoes of swiftness, inexhaustible purses, gold-producing animals, life tokens, bird maidens, forbidden rooms, fairy hinds, magic barks, thankful beasts, and magical transformations. The author investigates their origins, examines their variations, and follows their migration from one culture to another. Editor Christine Goldberg brings this classic up to date with an introduction that evaluates and expands the original work in the light of current scholarship.

Popular Tales and Fictions (Classic Folk and Fairy Tales)

Clouston, W. A. (William Alexander), 1843-1896; Goldberg, Christine

William Alexander Clouston

Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO

Christine Goldberg

ABC-CLIO, LLC

ABC-Clio Inc

ABC-CLIO classic folk and fairy tales, Santa Barbara, Calif, ©2002

ABC-CLIO classic folk and fairy tales, Santa Barbara, Calif, c2002

United States, United States of America

December 2002

PS, 2002

2 V. In 1]: V. 1. Invisible Caps And Cloaks : Shoes Of Swiftness : The Inexhaustible Purse, Etc. ; Gold-producing Animals ; Adventures With Giants, Trolls, Ghúls, Etc. ; Dragons And Monstrous Birds ; Petrifying Victims : Life-tokens : Tests Of Chastity ; Bird-maidens ; Subaqueous Fairy Halls : Forbidden Rooms : Cupid And Psyche Legends ; Fairy Hands : Magic Barks ; The Thankful Beasts : Secrets Learned From Birds ; The Good Man And The Bad Man ; The Ungrateful Serpent ; The Hare And The Tortoise ; Note: The Origin Of Fables ; The Four Clever Brothers ; Cumulative Stories ; Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp ; Note: Life Depending On Some Extraneous Object ; The Hunchback And The Fairies ; The Enchanted Horse ; The Demon Enclosed In A Bottle : Contracts With The Evil One, Etc. ; The Ring And The Fish Legends : Men Living Inside Monstrous Fish ; Note: Luminous Jewels ; Magical Transformations --^ V. 2. The Three Graziers And The Alewife ; Note: Precocious Children ; The Silent Couple ; Note: The Book Of The Forty Vazírs ; The Sharpers And The Simpleton ; The Cobbler And The Calf ; The Heir Of Linne ; Note: Story Of King Shah Bakht And His Vizír ; Whiitington And His Cat ; The Tailor's Dream ; The Three Travellers And The Loaf ; Note: Sending One To An Older And The Oldest Person ; The Merchant And The Folk Of Falsetown ; The Robbery Of The King's Treasury ; Note: Marking A Culprit ; Llewellyn And His Dog Gellert, Of Killhart ; The Lover's Heart ; The Merchant, His Wife, And His Parrot ; The Elopement ; Note: Falling In Love Through A Dream ; Little Fairly ; The Lady And Her Suitors ; How A King's Life Was Saved By A Maxim ; Irrational Excess Of Sorrow ; The Intended Divorce ; The Three Knights And The Lady : The Three Hunchbacks, Etc.^ ; Note: Women Betraying Their Husbands ; The Advantages Of Speaking To A King ; The Lost Purse ; An Ungrateful Son ; Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale ; Note: On Resuscitation In Folk-lore ; The Lucky Imposter ; Don't Count Your Chickens Until They Are Hatched! ; The Favourite Who Was Envied ; The Miller's Son; Or, Destiny ; Luckily, Theyre Not Peaches. W.a. Clouston ; Edited And With An Introduction By Christine Goldberg. Originally Published: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood & Sons, 1887. Includes Bibliographical References (p. Xxiii-xxxi) And Index.

lxxxix, 585 p. ; 26 cm
Originally published: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood & Sons, 1887
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxxi) and index
2 v. in 1: v. 1. Invisible caps and cloaks : shoes of swiftness : the inexhaustible purse, etc. ; Gold-producing animals ; Adventures with giants, trolls, ghúls, etc. ; Dragons and monstrous birds ; Petrifying victims : life-tokens : tests of chastity ; Bird-maidens ; Subaqueous fairy halls : forbidden rooms : Cupid and Psyche legends ; Fairy hands : magic barks ; The thankful beasts : secrets learned from birds ; The good man and the bad man ; The ungrateful serpent ; The hare and the tortoise ; Note: The origin of fables ; The four clever brothers ; Cumulative stories ; Aladdin's wonderful lamp ; Note: Life depending on some extraneous object ; The hunchback and the fairies ; The enchanted horse ; The demon enclosed in a bottle : contracts with the evil one, etc. ; "The ring and the fish" legends : men living inside monstrous fish ; Note: Luminous jewels ; Magical transformations -- v. 2. The three graziers and the alewife ; Note: Precocious children ; The silent couple ; Note: The book of the forty vazírs ; The sharpers and the simpleton ; The cobbler and the calf ; "The heir of Linne" ; Note: Story of King Shah Bakht and his vizír ; Whiitington and his cat ; The tailor's dream ; The three travellers and the loaf ; Note: Sending one to an older and the oldest person ; The merchant and the folk of Falsetown ; The robbery of the king's treasury ; Note: Marking a culprit ; Llewellyn and his dog Gellert, of Killhart ; The lover's heart ; The merchant, his wife, and his parrot ; The elopement ; Note: Falling in love through a dream ; Little Fairly ; The lady and her suitors ; How a king's life was saved by a maxim ; Irrational excess of sorrow ; The intended divorce ; The three knights and the lady : the three hunchbacks, etc. ; Note: Women betraying their husbands ; The advantages of speaking to a king ; The lost purse ; An ungrateful son ; Chaucer's "Pardoner's tale" ; Note: On resuscitation in folk-lore ; The lucky imposter ; "Don't count your chickens until they are hatched!" ; The favourite who was envied ; The miller's son; or, Destiny ; "Luckily, theyre not peaches"

Clouston's classic study of international folktales, their common origins, and their cultural variations is updated with new research.
This classic study of popular tales and fictions is a global map of human imagination reaching back to a time that the author calls "the childhood of the world."
First published in two volumes more than a century ago, the book traces familiar themes from strikingly different times, places, and invisible caps and cloaks, shoes of swiftness, inexhaustible purses, gold-producing animals, life tokens, bird maidens, forbidden rooms, fairy hinds, magic barks, thankful beasts, and magical transformations. The author investigates their origins, examines their variations, and follows their migration from one culture to another. Editor Christine Goldberg brings this classic up to date with an introduction that evaluates and expands the original work in the light of current scholarship.

A FAVOURITE ornament of popular fictions, remarks Price, in his edition of Warton's 'History of English Poetry,' "is the highly gifted object which is to supply the fortunate owner with the gratification of some particular wish, or to furnish him with the golden means of gratifying every want."

Presents a collection of folk and fairy tales, describing their origins and themes.

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