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What if the fields around you could call up the people who once walked them?
In Rudyard Kipling’s Rewards and Fairies, brother and sister Dan and Una meet Puck in the Sussex countryside. The old spirit brings people from the past to tell their stories. Herbalists, queens, priests and smugglers turn familiar fields into a meeting place for history, myth and magic.
These linked tales and poems move from sheep keepers with flint tools to Nicholas Culpeper’s work as a healer. In Brother Square-Toes, the smuggler Pharaoh Lee meets George Washington and faces a question of loyalty. Poems, including If, offer another way to think about the choices within the stories.
What you’ll discover
- The past within reach Join curious Dan and thoughtful Una as Puck gives the past a voice.
- Life before metal The Knife and the Naked Chalk takes you among sheep keepers who make tools from flint.
- Medicine for ordinary people Meet Nicholas Culpeper, who wants healing to be something ordinary people can understand and afford.
- A smuggler’s divided loyalty Follow Pharaoh Lee in Brother Square-Toes as his meeting with Washington tests where he belongs.
- Poems beside the tales Pause with If and other verses that quietly comment on the stories around them.
Who will love it
You will love it if you enjoy tales told by firelight, English country lanes, sea adventures, and history that comes alive through the people who lived it.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Cold Iron rules everyone born in houses
- A queen must think while she dances
- Honest criticism saves a proud craftsman
- A girl, a doctor and a witchmaster face the village
- A shepherd seeks a weapon against the Beast
- A smuggler's son meets the makers of nations
- A church, a seal and a bishop's changed heart
- A doctor of stars fights the plague with rats
- Friends and fools speak for those with no voice
Who’s who
- PuckThe last of the old fairies in England, who gives the children the sight to meet people from the past and tells them tales himself.
- DanA Sussex boy who builds model boats, asks the sharp questions, and cannot resist a story about ships or fights.
- UnaDan's sister, quick and kind, who stands up for the shy and the accused and always wants to hear what happened next.
- Pharaoh LeeA fiddling smuggler's son from the Sussex coast who sails to America and meets Washington, Talleyrand and Napoleon.
- Hal o' the DraftA master mason and carver who learns from a rough Italian teacher that pride spoils good work.
- Philadelphia BucksteedA spirited squire's daughter with a cough and a whip, who runs her father's storerooms and defends her nurse.
- Nick CulpeperA seventeenth century physician who reads the stars and herbs and sets out to stop a plague in a Sussex village.
- Simon CheyneysA gentle shipbuilder of Rye who served on young Francis Drake's ship and recalls his early hopes for iron ships.
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Belohnungen und Feen
by Rudyard Kipling · 1910
Dan and Una meet Puck.
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Rewards and Fairies, by Rudyard Kipling, follows the children through the seasons in Sussex. Puck calls up people from the past, and each one tells a story.
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Cold Iron rules everyone born in houses
Puck explains that Cold Iron rules people who live in houses. The Hill folk avoid it, though Puck can handle it. Iron nails in the children's boots stand in the way of turning them into otters. Trust also makes such magic needless.
He tells of a dead slave woman's baby, abandoned outside St Pancras' Church in Lewes. Puck brings him to the Hill. Sir Huon and Lady Esclairmonde raise him away from iron and plan his future. Puck takes him among ordinary people. Bees sting him, and a couple beat him when he tries to defend the wife.
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What is Rewards and Fairies about?
Rewards and Fairies follows Dan and Una, two children on a Sussex farm, who meet Puck and are shown people from England's past. The tales are told by Puck and visitors, such as a queen, a smuggler, a builder or a saint.
Who is Puck in Rewards and Fairies?
Puck, also called Robin Goodfellow, is the last of the People of the Hills, the old fairies of England. He guides the children, makes the past visible to them, then lets them forget it until the next visit.
What does Cold Iron mean in the book?
Cold Iron is the iron of tools, nails and slave rings that rules people who live in houses. The fairy folk fear it, and the opening tale treats it as the sign of ordinary, working human life.
The author
Rudyard Kipling
1865–1936 · English novelist and poet
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English writer and poet born in Bombay, India. He lived in India, England and the United States. He wrote The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Kim (1901) and Just So Stories (1902). He died in London in 1936.
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