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Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0814347878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReaders with an interest in folklore, oral tradition, and nineteenth-century literature will value this curated and annotated glimpse into a breadth of work.
Author: Jack Zipes
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Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780814347850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up to the garret of the house and performed a ritual to guarantee that Leland would be fortunate in his life and eventually become a scholar and a wizard. Whether or not this incident ever occurred, we do know that his interest in fairy tales, folklore, and the supernatural would eventually lead him to a life of travel and documentation of the stories of numerous groups across the United States and Europe. Jack Zipes selected the tales in Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Talesfrom five different books-- The Algonquin Legends (1884), Legends of Florence (1895-96), The Unpublished Letters of Virgil (1901), The English Gypsies (1882), and Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune-Telling (1891)--and has arranged them thematically. Though these tales cannot be considered authentic folk tales--not written verbatim from the lips of Romani, Native Americans, or other sources of the tales--they are highly significant because of their historical and cultural value. Like most of the aspiring American folklorists of his time, who were mainly all white, male, and from the middle classes, Leland recorded these tales in personal encounters with his informants or collected them from friends and acquaintances, before grooming them for publication so that they became translations of the original narratives. What distinguishes Leland from the major folklorists of the nineteenth century is his literary embellishment to represent his particular regard for their poetry, purity, and history. Readers with an interest in folklore, oral tradition, and nineteenth-century literature will value this curated and annotated glimpse into a breadth of work.
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1891. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV.' A GYPSY MAGIC SPELL. HOKKANI BASO LELLIN DUDIKABIN, OR THE GREAT SECRET CHILDREN'S RHYMES AND INCANTATIONS TEN LITTLE INDIAN BOYS AND TEN LITTLE ACORN GIRLS OF MARCELLUS BURDI- GALENSIS. HERE is a meaningless rhyme very common among children. It is repeated while "counting off" --or "out" --those who are taking part in a game, and allotting to each a place. There are many versions of it, but the following is exactly word for word what I learned when a boy in Philadelphia: -- Ekkeri (or ickery), akkery, u-kcry an, Fillisi', follasy, Nicholas John, Queebee - quabee -- Irishman (or, Irish Mary), Stingle 'em--stangle 'em--buck! With a very little alteration This chapter is reproduced, but with much addition, from one in my work entitled "The Gypsies," published in Boston, 1881, by Houghton and Mifflin. London: Trubner Sc Co. The addition will be the most interesting portion to the folk-lorist. in sounds, and not more than children make of these verses in different places, this may be read as follows: -- Ek-keri (yekori) akairi, you kair an, Fillissin, follasy, Nakelas jan Kivi, kavi--Irishman, Stini, stani--buck! This is, of course, nonsense, but it is Romany or gypsy nonsense, and it may be thus translated very accurately: -- First--here--you begin! Castle, gloves. You don't play! Go on! Kivi--a kettle. How are you? Stdni, buck. The common version of the rhyme begins with-- "One--ery--two--ery, ickery an." But one-ery is an exact translation of ek-keri; ek, or yek, meaning one in gypsy. (Ek-orus, or yek-korus, means once). And it is remarkable that in-- "Hickory dickory dock, The rat ran up the clock, The clock struck one, And down he run, Hickory dickory dock." We have hickory, or ek-keri, again followed by a significant one. It may be observed that while my firs...
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher: FilRougeViceversa
Published: 2021-07-16
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13: 3985946698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe result of my researches has been the collection of such a number of magic formulas, tales, and poems as would have exceeded reasonable limits, both as to pages and my readers' patience, had I published them all. What I have given will, I believe, be of very great interest to all students of classical lore of every kind, and extremely curious as illustrating the survival to the present day of "the Gods in Exile ".
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll classic scholars are familiar with the Legends of Virgil in the Middle Ages, in which the poet appears as a magician, the last and best collection of these being that which forms the second volume of "Virgilio nel Medio Aevo," by Senatro Professor Domenico Comparetti. But having conjectured that Danta must have made Virgil familiar to the people, and that many legends or traditions still remained to be collected, I applied myself to this task, with the result that in due time I gathered, or had gathered for me, about one hundred tales, of which only three or four had a plot in common with the old Neapolitan Virgilian stories, and even these contained original and very curious additional lore. One half of these traditions will be found in this work. -- Preface.
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-07-31
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series" by Charles Godfrey Leland. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
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Published: 2008-07-10
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781438255491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scholarly and classic work by folklorist and linguist Charles Godfrey Leland (author of Aradia: Gospel of the Witches) which not only illustrates examples of Gypsy witchcraft in the 19th Century, it also explores the far flung roots of Gypsy culture and folk lore, as it has been incorporated into the very fabric of European and Western culture. Leland not only explores the roots of Gypsy magic and divination in its primal source of India, he also compares the myths and magic of the "Romany" to the myths and magic of cultures as far flung as the Native Americans and the Siberian Eskimo, to illustrate the primal nature and common human thread of magical thought and practice.
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-06-28
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781721820405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlgonquin Legends of New England Charles Godfrey Leland How one of the Partridge's Wives became a Sheldrake Duck, and why her Feet and Feathers are red THE INVISIBLE ONE STORY OF THE THREE STRONG MEN THE WEEWILLMEKQ How a Woman lost a Gun for Fear of the Weewillmekq' Muggahmaht'adem, the Dance of Old Age, or the Magic of the Weewillmekq' Another Version of the Dance of Old Age TALES OF MAGIC. M'teoulin, or Indian Magic Story of the Beaver Trapper How a Youth became a Magician Of Old Joe, the M'teoulin Of Governor Francis How a Chiefs Son taught his Friend Sorcery Tumilkoontaoo, or the Broken Wing Fish-Hawk and Scapegrac The Giant Magicians LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. MIK UM WESS, THE INDIAN PUCK, OR ROBIN GOOD-FELLOW GLOOSKAP KILLING HIS BROTHER, THE WOLF GLOOSKAP LOOKING AT THE WHALE SMKING HIS PIPE GLOOSKAP SETTING HIS DOGS ON THE WITCHES THE MUD-TURTLE JUMPING OVER THE WIGWAM OF HIS FATHER-IN-LAW We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
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Published: 2017-08-20
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781375605601
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