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As I work on my hedgehog folklore/fairy tales book, I’m always looking for valuable sources of information that are available online. While I’ve made great use of Google Books, I appear to have overlooked The Internet Archive’s Open-Access Text Archive. After finding myself returning to the site a number of times today, I decided to [...] Being mostly broke, I’m always looking for new ways to get more reading material for less money. While looking for more free folklore related titles for the Kindle, I came across what appears to be a series of books that look interesting. Previously, I posted some links to free folklore, fairy tale and mythology related [...] Previously I’d posted a bit about and the tale, ‘Hans-My-Hedgehog‘. Like ‘Hans-My-Hedgehog‘, ‘The Hedgehog, the Merchant, the King, and the Poor Man‘ is Tale Type 441, Hog Bridesgroom, where a maiden is forced to marry a hog or hedgehog. This Hungarian tale was published in Jeremiah Curtin’s Myths And Folk Tales Of The Russians, Western [...] Browsing about today I came across The Piper Came to Our Town: Bagpipe Folklore, Legends, and Fairy Tales. The Amazon listing description is as follows: The bagpipes have a long and noble history stretching back thousands of years. They have been played across Scotland, Ireland, Continental Europe, and the Middle East, and are found in such [...] Not to long ago I received Kindle 2, but have found that I really haven’t used it too much. I’m very much a dead tree book type. But, today before taking my son to the park, I decided I would see what free books I could find at Amazon so I might have something to [...] Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Poland, a collection of tales from various sources retold by Virginia Haviland, is home to “About The Hedgehog Who Became Prince”. Haviland cited Elsie Byrde’s Polish Fairy Book (1927) as her source for the story. In the course of tracking down tales for my hedgehog project, I’ve come across Haviland’s name [...] |
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