Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language Folk Legends

Name: Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language Folk Legends
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ISBN: 9780415066952

ISBN-10: 0415066956

ISBN-13: 9780415066952

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: Katherine M. Briggs

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"Katharine M. Briggs has done a wonderful job in bringing all these old stories together. She has had access to all the great collections and has done a most painstaking job classifying them. [This book] will prove fascinating to anyone who cares about how they vary in different parts of the country." --Daily Telegraph, London

Book details

List price: $94.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/20/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1468
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 2.50" tall
Weight: 3.190
Language: English



First published in 1970 to a chorus of critical acclaim


The Dictionary of British Folk-Tales is now regarded as a classic in folklore scholarship


Arranged in two parts


The first


Folk Narratives


Contains those tales told for edification or delight


But not thought to be factually true


The second


Folk Legends


Presents tales believed by the tellers to be records of things that actually happened


Part one is divided into five groups: Fables and Exempla


Fairy Tales


Jocular Tales


Novelle and Nursery Tales


The Fables are animal stories after the manner of Aesop


That point to a moral or satarize human frailties and the Exempla too are tales used for moral illustration


The Fairy Tales are narratives containing or hinging upon supernatural happenings


While the Jocular Tales form a great body of drolls


Noodle stories and bawdy tales


The Novelle are narratives in which there is no explicitly supernatural element and the Nursery Tales include both tales obviously invented for small children, and tales of horror


Folk Legends are much commoner in Britain than Folk Narratives, and the second part of the Dictionary gives a representative collection of them


They are arranged mainly under subjects treated: Black Dogs


Bogies


Devils


Dragons


Fairies


Ghosts


Giants


Historical Legends


Local Legends


Origin Myths


Saints


The Supernatural and Witches


Many of the tales are given in full


Some are slightly shortened and many others are summarized


The sources are given in each case - whether medieval


From nineteenth-century collectors or from current oral traditions


Each part of the Dictionary includes a bibliography


A tale-type or classified index and an index of story titles