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Month: September 2024
The Great Depression for Kids
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Children of the Great Depression
Image Credit: Russell Freedman on Amazon Children of the Great Depression Image Credit: Russell Freedman on Amazon Children of the Great Depression Children of the Great Depression Children of the Great Depression Children of the Great Depression Image Credit: Russell Freedman on Amazon Children of the Great Depression Image Credit: Russell Freedman on Amazon Children…
One Hundred Favorite Folk Tales Collected by Stith Thompson
The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Norwegian The Ingrates, Italian John the Bear, French The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, Norwegian The Castle of No Return, Spanish The Danced-Out Shoes, Russian The Maiden in the Tower, French How the Devil Married Three Sisters The White Cat, French The Little Gardener with Golden Hair,…
Legends about Rings
If you are a Tolkien fan you are forever stamped by a Legend of the Ring: The Hobbit & Later, in The Lord of the Rings. You may not realize, however, that Legends of the Ring are thousands of years old. “A magic ring is a mythical, folkloric or fictional piece of jewelry, usually a finger ring,…
Tomie dePaola’s Earliest Books Were Crude First Tries –But They Launched His Immense Career – Tip from Tomie dePaola: Allow Yourself to Try
Image Credit: My Retro Reads The Wonderful Dragon of Timlin Tomie dePaola – 1966 Image Credit: My Retro Reads Fight the Night – 1968 Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon Image from Fight the Night Image Credit: Tomie dePaola on Amazon Image from Fight the Night The art in dePaola’s book Fight the Night is a bit…
Who Was Lady Jane Wilde? Mother of Oscar WIlde – Eminent Irish Folklorist
Lady Jane Wilde Image Credit: Wikimedia I research almost every day, and I write almost every day. On most days, I write about what I have discovered in my resarch, and the past two days, I have been researching Celtic Folklore. Several times, writers have mentioned the name Lady Wilde as a source for this…
Celtic Mythology
THE FAIRY-FAITH IN CELTIC COUNTRIES W. Y. EVANS WENTZ Published in 1911 I. The Religious Nature of the Fairy-Faith “There is probably no other place in Celtic lands more congenial, or more inspiring for the writing down of one’s deeper intuitions about the Fairy-Faith, than Carnac, under the shadow of the pagan tumulus and mount of…
Irish Fairy Tales, Edited by W. B. Yeats in 1892
AN IRISH STORY-TELLER – William Butler Yeats “I am often doubted when I say that the Irish peasantry still believe in fairies. [This was publishe in 1892] People think I am merely trying to bring back a little of the old dead beautiful world of romance into this century of great engines and spinning-jinnies. Surely…
What Is A Changeling?
Not long ago, some people, especially the rural peasantry, believed that there were changelings intermingling among the regular people. It was believed that changelings were the children who were left in a household–after the fairies had stolen the child who had lived there before. “Sometimes the fairies fancy mortals, and carry them away into their…