German Household Tales, Vol. 30 of 3
Jacob Jacob
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(Forgotten Books, Jan. 14, 2018)
Excerpt from German Household Tales, Vol. 30 of 3The stories had thus the qualities of the minds that held them, with the ignorance, the superstition, the traditionary beliefs of the peas ants of hesse-cassel and other places. In many there was a frankness and familiarity in the use of sacred names that would shock an older per son reading the stories with children, and would be undesirable for the children themselves to take as matter of course There is also in the original form a very frequent recourse to the Devil as one of the dramatis personae, and always a great dependence on all manner of imaginary supernatural creatures. In some of the stories also, though not in many, the laws of right and wrong are reversed, and the cruel stepmother is a very much more common figure than she is in real life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.