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About Some of Our Older Books
All people in the world tell fairytales to their children. The Japanese tell them, the
Chinese, the American Indians and the Eskimos to pass the long wintry nights. Native
South Africans tell them, Greeks, as did the old Egyptians, when Moses had not long
been rescued out of the bulrushes. The Germans, French, Spanish, Italians, Danes,
Koryaks and Kalmykians all have their own folklore, and the stories are apt to be like
each other everywhere. However much nations and politicians differ over policy and
ideology, all their children agree to liking folklore and fairy tales. Maybe there’s a lesson
for adults in this somewhere?
EXACTLY what is a FAIRY TALE or why call them FAIRY STORIES? One cannot imagine
a child saying, 'Tell me a folk-tale ', or 'Another nursery tale, please, grandma'. Fairy
tales are stories in which something 'fairy' occurs, something extraordinary–fairies,
giants, dwarfs, speaking animals, or the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters.
Many of the Folk-Lorists of the day, Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, John Campbell (better
known as “John of Islay”) and others, flouted the Florklorist’s creed, choosing to present
stories that would fill children's imaginations “with bright trains of images”. Folklore and
tales depicting vividly painted princesses, Pied Pipers, pots of gold, giants, speaking cats,
Kings, Hoybahs, wise men, Knights in Shining Armour, washerwomen, fools and their
follies and more overflow from these the lore and tales in these books - all bound by the
common threads of basic moral lessons.
Much of the folklore and many of the tales were recorded verbatim from storytellers.
They are by no means in an authorised form, and even touch on the “vulgar” using
archaic and colloquial English. In the times , the literary establishment objected to the
use of such archaic colloquialisms. These tales were told for generations in a form that
used these dialects and ”vulgar” words for effect. However, we believe the traditional
form makes these stories all the richer in a modern setting.
On this site, you will find classic folklore and folk tales re-published in their original form
with the same vibrancy and vividity (if there is such a word) that captured the
imaginations of thousands of children almost century ago.
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