Folk-Lore and
Folk-Lore and Legends: English
作者：Tibbitts, Charles John [Editor]
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共 102 题- FOLK–LORE AND LEGENDS
- ENGLISH
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
- C. J. T.
- CONTENTS.
- PAGE
- A Dissertation on Fairies, 1
- Nelly the Knocker, 39
- The Three Fools, 42
- Some Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham, 46
- The Tulip Fairies, 54
- The History of Jack and the Giants, 57
- The Fairies’ Cup, 84
- The White Lady, 86
- The Spectre Coach, 117
- The Baker’s Daughter, 123
- The Fairy Children, 126
- The History of Jack and the Beanstalk, 129
- Johnny Reed’s Cat, 150
- Lame Molly, 156
- The Brown man of the Moors, 159
- How the Cobbler cheated the Devil, 161
- The Tavistock Witch, 165
- The Worm of Lambton, 168
- The Old Woman and the Crooked Sixpence, 174
- The Yorkshire Boggart, 177
- The Duergar, 181
- The Barn Elves, 185
- Legends of King Arthur, 187
- Silky, 192
- A DISSERTATION ON FAIRIES.
- BY JOSEPH RITSON, ESQ.
- They, likewise, occur in other passages as well as in Horace—
- Gower, in his tale of Narcissus, professedly from Ovid, says—
- In his _Legend of Constance_ is this passage:—
- In _A Midsummer–Night’s Dream_, a fairy addresses Bottom the weaver—
- In the same masque the queen is thus characterised by a satyr:—
- In fact we meet with them of all colours; as in the same play—
- Imogen, in Shakespeare’s _Cymbeline_, prays, on going to sleep—
- Hamlet, too, notices this imputed malignity of the fairies:—
- Thus, also, in _The Comedy of Errors_:—
- Again the same goblin addresses him thus:—
- In another place Puck says—
- To which Oberon replies—
- They never ate—
- Or, as in the pathetic dirge of Collins on the same occasion:—
- Ariosto informs us (in Harington’s translation, Bk. x. s. 47) that
- Beaumont and Fletcher, in _The Faithful Shepherdess_, describe—
- To these questions Robin thus replies:—
- So in _Grim, the Collier of Croydon_:—
- Milton alludes to this deceptive gleam in the following lines—
- This is our great Milton’s
- NELLY, THE KNOCKER.
- THE THREE FOOLS.
- Then the man told her his thoughts—
- SOME MERRY TALES OF THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM.
- TALE FIRST.
- TALE SECOND.
- TALE THIRD.
- TALE FOURTH.
- Another immediately cried out—
- TALE FIFTH.
- TALE SIXTH.
- The priest then said—
- THE TULIP FAIRIES.
- THE HISTORY OF JACK AND THE GIANTS.
- I.
- Jack replied—
- He replied—
- II.
- The knight, hearing this, waxed right sorrowful and replied—
- At which time the giant spoke, in a voice as loud as thunder—
- THE FAIRIES’ CUP.
- THE WHITE LADY
- A PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL HISTORY OF THOMAS HICKATHRIFT.
- I.
- He laid down the cart–rope and began to make his bottle. Said they—
- Tom made him answer—
- Said Tom—
- II.
- THE SPECTRE COACH.
- THE BAKER’S DAUGHTER.
- THE FAIRY CHILDREN.
- THE HISTORY OF JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.
- The young woman replied—
- Jack heard him accost her in a voice like thunder, saying—
- When the giant returned, he said—
- JOHNNY REED’S CAT.
- LAME MOLLY.
- THE BROWN MAN OF THE MOORS.
- HOW THE COBBLER CHEATED THE DEVIL.
- THE TAVISTOCK WITCH.
- THE WORM OF LAMBTON.
- To which he replied—
- THE OLD WOMAN AND THE CROOKED SIXPENCE.
- THE YORKSHIRE BOGGART.
- THE DUERGAR.
- THE BARN ELVES.
- Hodge could contain himself no longer. He leapt out, crying—
- LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR.
- SILKY.
- TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: