Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language: Folk Narratives Part A
A classic in folklore scholarship arranged in 2 parts. Folk Narratives contains tales told for edification or delight, but not thought to be factually true. Folk Legends presents tales the tellers believed to be records of actual events.
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A classic in folklore scholarship arranged in 2 parts. Folk Narratives contains tales told for edification or delight, but not thought to be factually true. Folk Legends presents tales the tellers believed to be records of actual events. Booknews A two-volume paper edition of the late eminent folklorist's encyclopedic anthology of English-language folktales, published in 1970. Retaining the pagination of the original four volumes, presents fables and exempla, fairy tales, jocular tales, novelle, nursery tales, and legends about a host of topics such as black dogs, ghosts, giants, localities, and saints. For each (new) volume, also lists the sources, and indexes the tales by type and title. The tales, all taken at some point from the oral English, are at times summarized, especially when they represent a minor but interesting variant of another. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
First published in 1970 to a chorus of critical acclaim, the Dictionary of British Folk-Tales is now regarded as a classic in folklore scholarship.Arranged in two parts, the first, Folk Narratives, contains those tales told for edification or delight, but not thought to be factually true. The second, Folk Legends, presents tales believed by the tellers to be records of things that actually happened. Part one is divided into five groups: Fables and Exempla, Fairy Tales, Jocular Tales, Novelle, and Nursery Tales. The Fables are animal stories after the manner of Aesop, that point to a moral or satarize human frailties, and the Exempla too are tales used for moral illustration. The Fairy Tales are narratives containing or hinging upon supernatural happenings, while the Jocular Tales form a great body of drolls, noodle stories, and bawdy tales. The Novelle are narratives in which there is no explicitly supernatural element, and the Nursery Tales include both tales obviously invented for small children, and tales of horror. Folk Legends are much commoner in Britain than Folk Narratives, and the second part of the Dictionary gives a representative collection of them. They are arranged mainly under subjects treated: Black Dogs, Bogies, Devils, Dragons, Fairies, Ghosts, Giants, Historical Legends, Local Legends, Origin Myths, Saints, the Supernatural and Witches. Many of the tales are given in full, some are slightly shortened and many others are summarized. The sources are given in each case - whether medieval, from nineteenth-century collectors, or from current oral traditions. Each part of the Dictionary includes a bibliography, a tale-type or classified index, and an index of story titles.
\ BooknewsA two-volume paper edition of the late eminent folklorist's encyclopedic anthology of English-language folktales, published in 1970. Retaining the pagination of the original four volumes, presents fables and exempla, fairy tales, jocular tales, novelle, nursery tales, and legends about a host of topics such as black dogs, ghosts, giants, localities, and saints. For each (new) volume, also lists the sources, and indexes the tales by type and title. The tales, all taken at some point from the oral English, are at times summarized, especially when they represent a minor but interesting variant of another. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
