Somerset Folk Tales

Author : Sharon Jacksties
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780752478197

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Somerset Folk Tales by Sharon Jacksties Pdf

These Somerset tales, newly collected or retold with a strong sense of the land and the waters that shaped them, reflect our enduring interest in the natural landscape. Let these stories from the Summer Lands take you on a journey: across wind-wild moors that plummet to treacherous tides traversed by sea morgans; on a scramble from gorges shaped by the Devil's spite to caves dwelled in by bitter witches. Discover ancient mines and dragons' haunts, and emerge into forests and fields to be befriended by bees or bedevilled by fairies; then stroll beside ancient waterways, where willows walk and orchards talk. From Gwyn ap Neath to Joseph of Arimathea, your travelling companions will meet you from legend, history and living memory – from the places where they were once known best. Sharon Jacksties has a sharp eye for the landscape of Somerset and the seen and unseen stories that it holds, a sympathetic ear for the dialect of the South West, and a playful wit that brings this collection of tales to vivid and delightful life.

Author : Sharon Jacksties
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750988247

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Somerset Folk Tales for Children by Sharon Jacksties Pdf

When you are in Somerset you are never far from mysterious caverns, whispering woods, hidden valleys and places which can't decide whether they are seascapes or landscapes. The ancient Kings Arthur and Alfred hid amongst Somerset's secret waterways, waging the wars and making treaties that forged Britain's history. Outlaws and highwaymen lived on the wildest of moors that plummet into the sea. Ordinary people farmed the land and fished the waters alongside the Little People, the Fair Folk, the fairies and goblins that were as tricksy and unchancy to meet as any smuggler... In this collection, professional storyteller Sharon Jacksties has selected and reworked tales for children aged 7–11 to discover.

Author : Sharon Jacksties
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752478197

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Somerset Folk Tales by Sharon Jacksties Pdf

These Somerset tales, newly collected or retold with a strong sense of the land and the waters that shaped them, reflect our enduring interest in the natural landscape. Let these stories from the Summer Lands take you on a journey: across wind-wild moors that plummet to treacherous tides traversed by sea morgans; on a scramble from gorges shaped by the Devil’s spite to caves dwelled in by bitter witches. Discover ancient mines and dragons’ haunts, and emerge into forests and fields to be befriended by bees or bedevilled by fairies; then stroll beside ancient waterways, where willows walk and orchards talk. From Gwyn ap Neath to Joseph of Arimathea, your travelling companions will meet you from legend, history and living memory – from the places where they were once known best. Sharon Jacksties has a sharp eye for the landscape of Somerset and the seen and unseen stories that it holds, a sympathetic ear for the dialect of the South West, and a playful wit that brings this collection of tales to vivid and delightful life.

Author : Kingsley Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036678493

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The Folklore of Somerset by Kingsley Palmer Pdf

Author : Sharon Jacksties
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780750994460

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Animal Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Sharon Jacksties Pdf

Stories and animals have long travelled the same routes. Through our heritage of charming, quirky and profound tales, you will find yourself re-acquainted with Britain's wondrous fauna. Find out how hedgehog ended up with spines and what makes him scuttle so fast, discover how pigs saved a prince from leprosy and why the wealthy lord was so intent on capturing the black fox. Sharon Jacksties' wonderful book combines traditional stories, little-known zoological facts and true anecdotes to create a treasure trove of stories for animal lovers of every kind.

Author : Ruth Tongue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000155983

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Forgotten Folk-tales of the English Counties (RLE Folklore) by Ruth Tongue Pdf

In this book, first published in 1970, Ruth L. Tongue has collected a number of county folk tales recorded by her from childhood onwards, from old people, village children and farm round-the-fire sessions. Many of the beliefs embodied in the gipsy and witchcraft tales are still in practice today among the travelling people and locally ‘gifted’ healers. The tales reveal a good deal of fairy lore, some tree lore, including ghostly trees like Crooker, and the ‘uncanny’ Black Dog makes his appearance in more than one tale. The collection includes several of the long fireside tales which would be told on succeeding evenings on winter nights round the kitchen fire, and rhozzums from various localities.

Author : Neil Philip
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786787255

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The Watkins Book of English Folktales by Neil Philip Pdf

This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art – when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find “Jack the Giantkiller”, “Tom Tit Tot” and other quintessentially English favourites, alongside interesting borrowings, such as an English version of the Grimms’ “Little Snow White” – as well as bedtime frighteners, including “Captain Murderer”, as told to Charles Dickens by his childhood nurse. Neil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale’s journey from mouth to page, and what has happened to them on the way. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their great verbal dash and daring.

Author : Kingsley Palmer
Publisher : David & Charles
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4395397

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Oral Folk-tales of Wessex by Kingsley Palmer Pdf

Author : Jennifer Westwood
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780141959535

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Haunted England by Jennifer Westwood Pdf

Watch out for a ghostly ship and its spectral crew off the coast of Cornwall Listen for the unearthly tread and rustling silk dress of Darlington's Lady Jarratt Shiver at the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square that no-one survives seeing Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting warns of fatal accidents England's past echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, indelible bloodstains and ghastly premonitions. Here, county by county, are the nation's most fascinating supernatural tales and bone-chilling legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesome Man-Monkey of Shropshire to the phantom congregation who gather for a 'Sermon of the Dead' ...

Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226375342

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Folktales Told Around the World by Richard M. Dorson Pdf

All the selections in Richard M. Dorson's Folktales Told around the World were recorded by expert collectors, and the majority of them are published here for the first time. The tales presented are told in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Unlike other collections derived in large part from literary texts, this volume meets the criteria of professional folklorists in assembling only authentic examples of folktales as they were orally told. Background information, notes on the narrators, and scholarly commentaries are provided to establish the folkloric character of the tales.

Author : Katharine M. Briggs,Ruth L. Tongue
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226375823

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Folktales of England by Katharine M. Briggs,Ruth L. Tongue Pdf

“The most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques.”—Journal of American Folklore Tales of unnatural beings, curses, and ghosts, tall tales, shaggy dog stories—this collection from a renowned British folklorist offers a wide historical range, as well as commentaries. If wonder tales are not as abundant in England as elsewhere, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition—stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us. This volume is a “fine, homely feast” for anyone interested in the folklore of the world (Times Educational Supplement). “Should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories.”—Choice “This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man’s attempts to comprehend his world.”—Quartet

Author : Lisa Schneidau
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803990866

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River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau Pdf

Rivers and streams sculpt our landscape, and have connected our communities throughout history, from mountain to estuary and to the wide sea beyond. They give us water and food, trade and transport – yet they have a life-force all of their own. In this collection of traditional folk tales from wild rivers, lakes, and streams, Lisa Schneidau retells old stories of danger and transformation, of river goddesses, ghosts and the mysterious creatures that dwell in the watery arteries of Britain and Ireland.

Author : Maurice Fells
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750990257

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The Little Book of Somerset by Maurice Fells Pdf

Did you know? The town of Wincanton is twinned with a place that does not exist. William Gibbs of Tyntesfield House made his fortune by importing bird droppings from Peru. A song by 'Scrumpy and Western' singer Adge Cutler was banned by the BBC for being too raunchy. Nine villages in Somerset are known as the 'Thankful Villages'. From seaside to countryside and villages to towns, Somerset is a county where it's difficult to separate history and mystery. This fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and trivia reveals all sorts of answers to questions you might have wondered about – and some you didn't. The facts, stats and anecdotes will surprise even those familiar with this beautiful and historic county.

Author : Ruth L. Tongue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317357643

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The Chime Child by Ruth L. Tongue Pdf

Originally published in 1968. The author, a well-known contemporary and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a tremendous store of folk music material over many years and eventually decided to put some of it on permanent record. This book comprises a cross-section of rescued melodies dating back to medieval days and up to the Victorian early ballads. It describes individual folk singers in Somerset in great detail as personal accounts and documents their lyrics and their tunes, which are all together at the end of the volume.

Author : Ernest W. Baughman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111402772

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Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North America by Ernest W. Baughman Pdf