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Readers who love fairy tales, giants and clever tricksters, and anyone curious about Irish, Scottish and Welsh storytelling and the roots of tales like Cinderella and Snow White.
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What would you do if a fairy host swept past you in the night and offered you a horse and bridle? Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales gathers twenty-six stories from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, retold by Joseph Jacobs for young readers. You meet giants, saints, lepracauns, witches and lovers, with notes at the end on where the tales come from. Begin with the fairy call that opens the book.
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- 1Fairy folk call mortals to another worldFree
- 2Quick wits beat greed in trickster tales
- 3Witches, lake maidens and monsters in the dark
- 4A beautiful girl hidden away cannot stay hidden
- 5Stories nest inside stories to buy a life
- 6Heroes face giants, beasts and hungry hounds
- 7Clever wives and cruel sisters shape the plots
- 8Wise advice and strange quests from Wales and Cornwall
- 9Where the stories come from and how they travel
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Fairy folk call mortals to another world
The book opens with Connla, son of King Conn, who sees a maiden that nobody else can see. She comes from the Plain of the Ever-Living, a land without death or sin, and she begs him to come away with her. Fairy lands pull on people all through these tales.
The king calls his druid Coran, who drives her voice away with chanting. But she leaves Connla an apple. For a month he eats nothing else, and the apple always grows whole again, while his longing for her grows too. Guleesh meets the fairy host in another way. He wishes aloud to be like the moon, then shouts for a horse and bridle with the little people, and he finds himself riding to France to steal a king's daughter on her wedding night.
These stories show how thin the wall is between the human world and the hill folk. A wish spoken at the wrong hour, or a longing held too long, can open it.
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About 5 h to read.Questions about Fiabe e leggende celtiche
What is a lepracaun?
A lepracaun is a small Irish fairy who is usually seen mending a single shoe. In The Field of Boliauns, a man catches one and forces him to show where his gold is hidden.