Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language
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Chapters (215)
- Introduction.
- I.—Legends of the Tartaro.
- The Tartaro.
- M. d’Abbadie’s Version.
- Errua, the Madman.
- Variations of Errua.
- The Three Brothers, the Cruel Master, and the Tartaro.
- The Tartaro and Petit Perroquet.
- II—The Heren-Suge.—The Seven-Headed Serpent.
- The Grateful Tartaro and the Heren-Suge.
- The Seven-Headed Serpent.
- The Serpent in the Wood.
- III.—Animal Tales.
- Acheria, the Fox.
- The Ass and the Wolf.
- IV.—Basa-Jaun, Basa-Andre, and Lamiñak.
- Basa-Jauna, the Wild Man.
- The Servant at the Fairy’s.
- The Fairy in the House.
- The Pretty but Idle Girl.17
- The Devil’s Age.
- The Fairy-Queen Godmother.20
- V.—Witchcraft and Sorcery.
- The Witches at the Sabbat.2
- The Witches and the Idiots.
- The Witch and the New-Born Infant.
- The Changeling.
- VI.—Contes des Fées.
- (A.)—Tales like the Keltic.
- Malbrouk.2
- The Fisherman and His Sons.
- Tabakiera, the Snuff-Box.19
- Mahistruba, the Master Mariner.
- Dragon.
- Ezkabi-Fidel.
- The Lady Pigeon and her Comb.47
- Suggested Explanation of the above Tale (The Lady-Pigeon and her Comb).
- Laur-Cantons.61
- The Young Schoolboy.
- The Son who Heard Voices.
- The Mother and her (Idiot) Son; or, the Clever Thief.64
- Juan Dekos,68 the Blockhead (Tontua).
- Variation of the above. Juan de Kalais.72
- The Duped Priest.76
- (B.)—Contes des Fées, derived directly from the French.
- Ass’-Skin.77
- The Step-Mother and the Step-Daughter.
- Beauty and the Beast.82
- The Cobbler and his Three Daughters (Blue Beard).
- The Singing Tree, the Bird which tells the Truth, and the Water that makes Young.
- The White Blackbird.
- The Sister and her Seven Brothers.
- VII.—Religious Tales.
- Fourteen.1
- Jesus Christ and the Old Soldier.
- The Poor Soldier and the Rich Man.
- The Widow and her Son.2
- The Story of the Hair-Cloth Shirt (La Cilice).
- The Saintly Orphan Girl.
- The Slandered and Despised Young Girl.
- An Essay on the Basque Language,
- Basque Poetry.
- I.—Pastorales.
- II.
- Leloaren Cantua.
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- Song of Lelo.
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- Altabiskarco Cantua.
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- Song of Altabiscar.
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- Song of Lelo.
- Song of Altabiscar.
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- Dote Galdia.25
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- The Lost Dowry.
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- Artzain Dohatsua.
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- The Happy Shepherd.
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- Little Peter.28
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- Artzain Zaharrac.
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- The Old Shepherds.
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- Colophon
- Availability
- Encoding
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
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