Household stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol
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Excerpt from Household Stories From the Land of Hofer, or Popular Myths of TirolSurrounded from their earliest years with living pictures of Nature's choicest forms and colouring, they need no popular fiction to cultivate their imagination, no schools of design to educate their taste. Shut out from the world's ambitions by their pathless Alps, they have learned to see before them two aims alone, Â to maintain the integrity and the sanctity of their humble homes on earth, and to obtain one day a place in that better Home above, to which the uplifted fingers of their sun-bathed mountain-peaks ev...
Chapters (28)
- CONTENTS.
- HOUSEHOLD STORIES from the Land of Hofer. INTRODUCTION.
- NORG MYTHS.
- THE ROSE-GARDEN OF LAREYN, THE LAST NORG-KING.
- THE NICKEL37 OF THE RÖHRERBÜCHEL.
- THE WILDER JÄGER AND THE BARONESS.
- THE GRAVE PRINCE AND THE BENEFICENT CAT.
- KLEIN-ELSE.
- PRINCE RADPOT62.
- THE THREE BLACK DOGS.
- OTTILIA AND THE DEATH’S HEAD; OR, “PUT YOUR TRUST IN PROVIDENCE.”
- THE TWO CASKETS.
- THE PRUDENT COUNSELLOR.
- THE GEESEHERDS.
- ST. PETER’S THREE LOAVES72.
- THE TWO COUSINS OF ST. PETER74.
- LUXEHALE’S WIVES.
- ZOVANIN SENZA PAURA85; OR, THE BOY WHO WENT OUT TO DISCOVER WHAT FEAR MEANT.
- THE DOVE-MAIDEN.
- KRISELDA.
- THE GOLDEN PEARS.
- HOW THE POOREST BECAME THE RICHEST94.
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