Gypsy folk-tales
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back [1899]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (152)
- ‘PAZORRHUS’
- INTRODUCTION
- Distribution of Gypsies.
- Appearance in West.
- At Bologna.
- At Paris.
- In England.
- In Scotland.
- In North America.
- In South America.
- In Australia.
- Transportation.
- In Crete.
- In Corfu.
- In the Peloponnesus.
- In Roumania.
- The Chaltsmide.
- Athingani.
- Atsincan.
- Komodromoi.
- Nails of Crucifixion.
- Gypsy Language.
- Gypsies as Nomads.
- Caldarari.
- Ciboure.
- ‘Greek Gypsies.’
- Eastern Gypsies in Galloway.
- Gypsy Folk-tales.
- Campbell of Islay.
- Dr. F. Müller.
- Dr. Paspati.
- Dr. Barbu Constantinescu.
- Miklosich.
- Wlislocki.
- Dr. R. von Sowa.
- Dr. Kopernicki.
- John Roberts.
- Mr. John Sampson.
- Campbell of Islay.
- Boat-dwelling Tinkers.
- Kounavine.
- Theory as to Gypsy Folk-tales.
- Gypsy Variants.
- Unique Features.
- Literary Sources.
- Questions of Date.
- Indian Parallels.
- Tokens of Recent Diffusion.
- The Anthropological Theory.
- Gypsy Savagery.
- Gypsy Migrations.
- Gaelic and Welsh-Gypsy Stories.
- Other Parallels.
- Irish and Gypsy Folk-tales.
- Gypsy Story-tellers.
- Story-telling a living Gypsy art.
- Possible Gypsy influences.
- Theory.
- GYPSY FOLK-TALES CHAPTER I TURKISH-GYPSY STORIES
- No. 1.—The Dead Man’s Gratitude1
- No. 2.—Baldpate
- No. 3.—The Riddle
- No. 4.—Story of the Bridge
- CHAPTER II ROUMANIAN-GYPSY STORIES
- No. 5.—The Vampire
- No. 6.—God’s Godson
- No. 7.—The Snake who became the King’s Son-in-law
- No. 8.—The Bad Mother
- No. 9.—The Mother’s Chastisement
- No. 10.—The Three Princesses and the Unclean Spirit
- No. 11.—The Two Thieves
- No. 12.—The Gypsy and the Priest
- No. 13.—The Watchmaker
- No. 14.—The Red King and the Witch
- No. 15.—The Prince and the Wizard
- No. 16.—The Apples of Pregnancy
- CHAPTER III BUKOWINA-GYPSY STORIES
- No. 17.—It all comes to Light
- No. 18.—The Golden Children
- No. 19.—The Two Children
- No. 20.—Mare’s Son
- No. 21.—The Deluded Dragon
- No. 22.—The Gypsy and the Dragon
- No. 23.—The Seer
- No. 24.—The Prince, his Comrade, and Nastasa the Fair
- No. 25.—The Hen that laid Diamonds
- No. 26.—The Winged Hero
- No. 27.—Tropsyn
- No. 28.—The Beautiful Mountain
- No. 29.—Pretty-face
- No. 30.—The Rich and the Poor Brother
- No. 31.—The Three Brothers
- No. 32.—The Enchanted City
- No. 33.—The Jealous Husband
- No. 34.—Made over to the Devil
- No. 35.—The Lying Story
- No. 36.—Happy Boz’ll
- CHAPTER IV TRANSYLVANIAN-GYPSY STORIES
- No. 37.—The Creation of the Violin
- No. 38.—The Three Golden Hairs of the Sun-King
- No. 39.—The Dog and the Maiden
- No. 40.—Death the Sweetheart
- CHAPTER V SLOVAK, MORAVIAN, AND BOHEMIAN GYPSY STORIES
- No. 41.—The Three Girls
- No. 42.—The Dragon
- No. 43.—The Princess and the Forester’s Son
- No. 44.—The Three Dragons
- CHAPTER VI POLISH-GYPSY STORIES
- No. 45.—Tale of a Foolish Brother and of a Wonderful Bush
- No. 46.—Tale of a Girl who was sold to the Devil, and of her Brother
- No. 47.—The Brigands and the Miller’s Daughter
- No. 48.—Tale of a Wise Young Jew and a Golden Hen
- No. 49.—The Golden Bird and the Good Hare
- No. 50.—The Witch
- CHAPTER VII ENGLISH-GYPSY STORIES
- No. 51.—Bobby Rag
- No. 52.—De Little Fox
- No. 53.—De Little Bull-calf
- CHAPTER VIII WELSH-GYPSY STORIES
- No. 54.—Jack and his Golden Snuff-box
- No. 55.—An Old King and his three Sons in England
- No. 56.—The Five Trades
- No. 57.—Ashypelt
- No. 58.—Twopence-Halfpenny
- No. 59.—The Old Smith14
- No. 60.—The Old Soldier
- No. 61.—The Dragon
- No. 62.—The Green Man of Noman’s Land
- No. 63.—The Black Lady
- No. 64.—The Ten Rabbits
- No. 65.—The Three Wishes16
- No. 66.—Fairy Bride
- No. 67.—Cinderella
- No. 68.—Jack the Robber17
- No. 69.—The Fool with the Sheep
- No. 70.—The Tinker and his Wife
- No. 71.—Winter
- No. 72.—The Black Dog of the Wild Forest
- CHAPTER IX SCOTTISH-TINKER STORIES
- No. 73.—The Brown Bear of the Green Glen
- No. 74.—The Tale of the Soldier
- No. 75.—The Fox
- No. 76.—The Magic Shirt9
- APPENDIX
- DE NEW HAN’.
- JOHN BUNYAN.
- INDEX
- Colophon
- Availability
- Metadata
- Revision History
- Corrections
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