More Celtic Fairy Tales
10 best books like More Celtic Fairy Tales (Joseph Jacobs): Heroes of the Dawn: Celtic Myth, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, Irish Folk Tales, Old Indian Legends, Old Peter's Russian Tales, Old French Fairy Tales, The Yellow Fairy Book, British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881), Myths & Legends of the British Isles, The Gods of the Celts
| Author | Fergus Fleming |
| ISBN | 0705421716 |
Generation after generation has passed down the ancient legend of a boy-king named Arthur who pulled a sword from stone, loved the beautiful Guinevere, and presided over the Round Table. And we still celebrate the ancient Celtic holy day of Samhain, only now we call it Halloween. The earth itself has...
| Author | W.Y. Evans-Wentz |
| ISBN | 1564147088 |
When I lived in a cabin in Big Sur, I holed up with a copy of Fairy-Faith. It awakened me to the reality of subtle beings indwelling the immense silence of the redwood forests.
Evans-Wenz, who was a friend of Yeats, takes a half-poetic, half-anthropological approach. The most exciting passages...
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic...
| Author | Zitkála-Šá |
| ISBN | 0803299036 |
Early in the twentieth century, a Sioux woman named Zitkala-Ša published these fourteen Native legends that she had learned during her own childhood on the Yankton Reservation. Her writing talent, developed during her education back east, was put to good use in recording from oral tradition the...
| Author | Arthur Ransome |
| ISBN | 1903252164 |
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
| Author | Comtesse de Ségur |
| ISBN | 1410105695 |
CONTENTS Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon Blondine; Blondine Lost; The Forest of Lilacs; Blondine's Awakening - Beau-Minon; Bonne-Biche; Blondine's Second Awakening; The Parrot; Repentance; The Tortoise; The Journey and Arrival Good Little Henry The Poor Sick Mother; The Crow, the Cock,...
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0486216748 |
I grew up with a copy of Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book. I loved that hardback edition of fairy tales. I read it and reread it and reread it. At that time, I had no idea that there were a whole set of color fairy tales to be had. But I had such fond memories of it that when I spied a modern edition of The Yellow Fairy...
1881. In a certain sense Wales may be spoken of as the cradle of fairy legend. It is not now disputed that from the Welsh were borrowed many of the first subjects of composition in the literature of all the cultivated peoples of Europe. In the ground it covers, while this volume deals especially with Wales,...
| Author | Richard Barber |
| ISBN | 1843830396 |
The British Isles have a long tradition of tales of gods, heroes and marvels, hinting at a mythology once as relevant to the races which settled the islands as the Greek and Roman gods were to the classical world. The tales drawn together in this book, from a wide range of medieval sources, span the centuries...
| Author | Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
| ISBN | 0750915811 |
This sourcebook on the Celts and their religions covers all aspects of the gods, ritual customs, cult-objects and sacred places. It introduces the Celts, describes the geographical and chronological scope of the book and examines the nature of the evidence. Further chapters cover the various cults...
| Author | Marie-Louise Sjoestedt |
| ISBN | 0486414418 |
There's a surprising amount of information packed into this tiny book about Celtic culture and myth. It's dense reading, and I read each chapter through multiple times and took notes in order to really absorb the information. What I appreciated most about this work is how Sjoestedt highlights the ways...
| Author | Proinsias Mac Cana |
| ISBN | 0600006476 |
Okay, I am slightly disappointed in this book. I was hoping for a little bit more of the legends, epics and Sagas themselves. Not a scholarly, Joseph Campbellesqe history/comparative mythology type book.
Granted, finding one of those written in Modern English is quite difficult and about...
| Author | Charles Squire |
| ISBN | 0517101572 |
This is one from my PC shelf; not one to read cover-to-cover, I refer back to this from time to time, and read it sporatically. Lots of interesting bits about the Celts..
2/15/08: I am currently in the midst of reading "The Mists of Avalon" (heehee), and so I am reading bits of this as a sort of "background";...
| Author | James MacKillop |
| ISBN | 0141017945 |
Myths and Legends of the Celts is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the mythology of the peoples who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe - from Britain and the Isle of Man to Gaul and Brittany.
Drawing on recent historical and archaeological research, as well as literary...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0099438593 |
This saga of the Irish Celts is re-told by Rosemary Sutcliff with a magical weaving together of passion and poetry. The boy who takes up the spear and shield of Manhood on this day will become the most renowned of all the warriors of Ireland, men will follow at his call to the world's end, and his enemies will...
| Author | John Matthews |
| ISBN | 0713727837 |
"...well-researched, rather scholarly book...fanciful illustrations, in both black-and-white and color..."--Publishers Weekly. "Matthews...offers a very attractively presented collection...wonderfully illustrated...Not since the offerings of Jeremiah Curtin, W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory,...
The Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myth and Legend
| Author | Marie Heaney |
| ISBN | 0590680528 |
I picked up this book for P.J. Lynch's beautiful illustrations, but I enjoyed these Irish tales as well. Most of them were familiar to me. "Deirdre of the Sorrows" is still my all-time favorite Irish folktale. I had fun trying to guess the pronunciations of the Irish names. Thankfully, there was a pronunciation...
| Author | T.W. Rolleston |
| ISBN | 0486265072 |
This splendidly illustrated study by the distinguished Celticist T. W. Rolleston masterfully retells the great Celtic myths and illuminates the world that spawned them. Focusing principally on Irish myths, the book first takes up the history and religion of the Celts, the myths of the Irish invasion...
Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland
| Author | Jeremiah Curtin |
| ISBN | 0486224309 |
Fearsome giants, magic spells, Druidic rods of enchantment; gallant princes and beautiful princesses, brave kings and wicked queens; cloaks of invisibility, swords of light and swords of darkness, horses that go faster than the wind, animals that speak and have strange powers...these are elements...
Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales
| Author | George Brisbane Douglas |
| ISBN | 0486411400 |
The product of a long-established oral tradition, Scottish fairy tales are full of unexpected twists and turns, delicious humor, and a rich assortment of fanciful creatures. These include brownies, kelpies, trolls, mermen, and other beings from the unseen world that pop up again and again to assist,...
