ISBN:
9781803990767
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (152 pages)
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DDC:
398.20941
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Traditional tales with strong messages retold with relevance for the 21st century.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- What are Wisdom Tales? -- The Unjust World of Jack Madden -- Retelling the Tales for Today -- On Wisdom -- The Owl -- Tom of Chyannor -- The Three Advices of the King with the Red Soles -- Nancherrow Bridge -- Sam Jago's Last Day at School -- The Master and His Pupil -- The Family -- The Father and His Sons -- Betty Stogs' Baby -- A Brewery of Eggshells -- The Changeling of Brea Vean -- The Eagles' Nest -- The Divided Blanket -- Cap o' Rushes -- Grandfather's Bag of Gold -- Personal Qualities -- The Ant and the Dove -- The Piskey Thresher -- The Changeling and His Bagpipes -- A Son of Adam -- The Beggar and the Merchant -- The Craig-y-Don Blacksmith -- The Man in the Boat -- The Small-tooth Dog -- Three Heads of the Well -- The Giant Fear -- Fish on Friday -- Canute and the Tide -- How St Eloi was Cured -- St Lateerin of Cullen -- The Fox and the Craw -- Robert Roberts and the Fairies -- The Tramp and the Boots -- Fools And Wise Men -- The Three Wishes -- The Clever Wish -- The King's Fool -- The Wise Men of Gotham -- Drowning Eels -- A Pottle o' Brains -- A Changeling Musician -- Lazy Jack -- Stranger Danger -- Mr Miacca -- Gwrgan Farfdrwch's Fable -- Otherworlds -- The Forest -- The Babes in the Wood -- The Story of the Three Bears -- The Haunted Wood -- The Cave -- Boleigh Fuggo -- Tom Trevorrow -- The Water's Edge -- The Haunted Mill-Pool of Trove -- Jenny Greenteeth -- Lutey and the Mermaid -- The Man with the Green Weeds -- The Night -- My Own Self -- The Pwca -- Willy the Wisp -- The Buried Moon -- Jack o' Lantern -- Facing Eternity -- The Woman and the Farmer -- The Old Man and Death -- Pat Makes a Deal with Death -- The Hanging Game -- Morgan of Melhuach -- Death in a Nut -- The Way Ahead -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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