British Folktales and Legends
Friday, June 18th, 2010 | British Literature
I came across Katherine Briggs as a child with her lovely Dictionary of Fairies. This is a larger sampler of stories, not particularly for children, with a wide variety of tales sorted into categories from Dragons to Jokes to Saints. The stories are all fairly short, some well-known, some ancient, some quite new, some quite new to me. It was incredibly entertaining and very informative, both the wonderful introduction, which really explained the entire science of folk-lore, and the stories themselves which really gave such a good picture of British life. A fantastic book - I read it cover to cover. It was published post-humously from her other writings, but as those books are hard to find, this one is definitely one to get your hands upon.
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