Books with title Legendary tales

I HAD a curious adventure one Christmas, an adventure which influenced my fate for life, and which I really think worth re-cording;. It happened a few days before Christmas-eve. The weather was very gloomy and cold, and on the evening in question I paced up and down the large old library for nearly an hour after my solitary dinner, in a rather dull and quarrelsome state of mind. It sounds ridiculous to say so, but I was out of humor about an old proverb. Not that a man always really knows what he is out' of humor about, even when he fancies he does. Sometimes it is simply owing to indigestion ; but sometimes to the awakened of an ill-satisfied conscience.

About The Book:Stories have been an all-time favourite of children since ages. They not only offer a healthy entertainment to children, but also impart moral lessons to them. This book presents a collection of thirty-one folklore legends of the tribe of blacks of Australia, known as the Narran tribe. Enriched with beautiful illustrations, it provides deep insights into the life and culture of the Australian natives. The book also contains a section on comprehension and language practice, based on the text of the legendary tales, to improve the cognitive and language skills of the children.About The Author:Katie Langloh Parker was a well-known Australian folklore writer who lived in the Australian outback most of her life. She wrote four books, three of native folklore and one on ethnography of the Eulayhi tribe.

Aliana Fagan spent her childhood traveling the world, dreaming of legendary heroes and mythical lands. But after the sudden death of her parents, she hides behind the safety of her camera and her art until a vivid recurring dream compels her to dig into her father's research about Avalon and Camelot. When she is hurled into a magical realm by forces she thought were only the stuff of fairy tales, she finds herself thrown into an adventure she could never have imagined. Nearly everything she thought she knew about Arthurian legend was wrong. The independent eighteen-year-old is shocked to find that the people of Avalon think that she is the Destined One, the only person who can summon King Arthur back to life from his hidden chamber. Most surprising of all is that it's up to her to lead the Knights of the Round Table on an epic quest-an adventure that will transport them across the seven magic realms to reclaim all that has been lost so they can defeat the evil Mordrid for good. But first, she must bring the ancient warriors into her world and reunite them with their lost brothers. Chaperoning the legendary knights-with-a-chivalry-complex as they navigate the modern world is a constant challenge, and she certainly never thought she'd be caught between her intense feelings for the noble Sir Galahad and her growing friendship with the King. To fulfill the prophecy, Aliana will have to discover the meaning of friendship, bravery, loyalty, true love, and forgiveness. But can she do it all in time to save the realms from Mordrid's impending Armageddon?

This new, complete and unabridged edition of Australian Legendary Tales is freshly laid out with the original illustrations by Aboriginal artist Tommy McRae. Experience the stories of the First Australians, some of the oldest in the world, as told by the Noongahburrah people. These stories tell how local landmarks came to be, explain why animals act the way they do, and give us an insight into the life and customs of Australia's first inhabitants. Complete with an introduction by Andrew Lang and a preface by the author this is specially laid out with the reader in mind, with generous margins and fonts.

This volume was published in 1885 and contains thirty tales. Short summary from the Preface: In speaking of myself on the title-page as the "author" of "Round a Posada Fire", I wish to explain that I use the word "author" simply in default of a better one. In that book, as in this, the stories told are popular in their character, and are the creation of no nameable individual. All given in the present volume I gathered in the course of a residence of several years in the Pyrenees, and of one or two visits in the north of Spain. Those from whom I heard them (and many more of the same kind), and whom I questioned as to their origina, could assign no other source to them than oral tradition. My own share in bringing them before the public consists in having heard them, remembered them, and put them into English in as nearly as poosible the words in which they were told to me. Though I have from time to time been obliged to insert connecting or introduct- ory passages, yet the words, as well as the substance of' the tales, are mainly those of the original stories. I need not remind anyone at all familiar with the popular life of Spain, that the prose legend, as well as the ballad, has in the course of time acquired there a fixed and definite shape; and passes from mouth to mouth, and is handed down from one generation to another, with but few verbal changes. The reason for this is not far to seek; the greater part of the Spanish people have hitherto found their chief mental recreation in folk-lore. Popular legends, whether in prose or verse, have been accordingly developed in Spain to an extent no easy to be matched elsewhere. Intelligent and imaginative, and at the same time untaught and superstitious, the Spanish peasant finds in these tales one of his chief pleasures. The mere fact that they exist in vast numbers, and that many of them bear upon the same subject, renders it necessary that, if they are to be remembered at all, they must be remembered with verbal accuracy; otherwise they would in a short time become hopelessly confused one with another. One of the most popular subjects of Spanish folk-lore is the "Christ of the Vega". I have myself heard at least a dozen legends turning on this theme; and many more versions must certainly exist. It would be impossible to keep these various stories apart in the popular memory, unless they had become, so to speak, stereotyped. And this is the case with the major- ity of Spanish prose legends. They have assumed, in the course of time, a fixed and traditional shape, in their words no less than in their subjects. It is a truism that the memory of those who cannot read or write is, on the average, stronger than that of those who have had a literary education. When once education is diffused among the masses of the Spanish people, those legends which have not been committed to writing will be gradually lost. The new interests which education brings with it will also weaken among the people those tastes to which tales of the marvellous appea. But this time seems still to be distant in Spain. I have only a word to add in conclusion. Friends have remarked to me on the weird and tragic air of many of these tales. The answer is simply that such, as a fact, is the general character of the Spanish legend. Others have said that the style of them seemed to be of a diffeent character from that which might be expected of peasants and muleteers. To this the reply is that the Spanish, like the Italian peasant, must not be judged by the same standard as the English. Illiterate as the southern peasant may be, he is not wholly destitute of what may be fairly called culture. This volume attempts to give a faithful reflection of the popular imagination of Spain, when it turns from, poetry to prose as its means of expression. Maria Trinidad Howard Middlemore Chelsea, May, 1885

Stories have been an all-time favourite of children since ages. They not only offer a healthy entertainment to children, but also impart moral lessons to them. This book presents a collection of thirty-one folklore legends of the tribe of blacks of Australia, known as the Narran tribe. Enriched with beautiful illustrations, it provides deep insights into the life and culture of the Australian natives, the diversity of their language and custom, their thoughts, fancies and beliefs, and their struggle for food and water. The book also contains a section on comprehension and language practice, based on the text of the legendary tales, to improve the cognitive and language skills of the children. Contents Dinewan the Emu, and Goomblegubbon the Bustard -- The Galah, and Oolah the Lizard -- Bahloo the Moon and the Daens -- The Origin of the Narran Lake -- Gooloo the Magpie, and the Wahroogah -- The Weeoombeens and the Piggiebillah -- Bootoolgah the Crane and Goonur the Kangaroo Rat, the Fire Makers -- Weedah the Mocking Bird -- The Gwineeboos the Redbreasts -- Meamei the Seven Sisters -- The Cookooburrahs and the Goolahgool -- The Mayamah -- The Bunbundoolooeys -- Oongnairwah and Guinarey -- Narahdarn the Bat -- Mullyangah the Morning Star -- Goomblegubbon, Beeargah, and Ouyan -- Mooregoo the Mopoke, and Bahloo the Moon -- Ouyan the Curlew -- Dinewan the Emu, and Wahn the Crows -- Goolahwilleel the Topknot Pigeons -- Goonur, the Woman-Doctor -- Deereeree the Wagtail, and the Rainbow -- Mooregoo the Mopoke, and Mooninguggahgul the Mosquito Bird -- Bougoodoogahdah the Rain Bird -- The Borah of Byamee -- Bunnyyarl the Flies and Wurrunnunnah the Bees -- Deegeenboyah the Soldier-bird -- Mayrah, the Wind that Blows the Winter Away -- Wayarmbeh the Turtle -- Wirreenun the Rainmaker

Set in beautiful Peru, Legendary tells the story of Inti, god of the sun, and his quest to save Killa, goddess of the moon. After learning his love was kidnapped from the sky, Inti sets out to rescue her and bring her home to Machu Picchu. Joined by a Celtic war goddess, a Nabatean caravan god, and a young river goddess from Cameroon, he begs a mountain for information, fights with a monkey, and learns to let go of his fear and rage. Meanwhile, Killa is trapped by the water dragon's daughter, and must keep herself safe and her captor docile while she searches for a way to escape.