Fairy Tale Friday--How Night Came

This week's free Google Book is Fairy Tales From Brazil: How and Why Tales From Brazilian Folk-Lore by Elsie Spicer Eels with Illustrations by Helen M. Barton. How Night Came is the first story.

Fairy Tale Friday--Tales of Giants from Brazil

Elsie Spicer Eells's Tales of Giants from Brazil has several beautiful illustrations by Helen M. Barton.

How the Giantess Guimara Became Small.

The Beast Slayer

The Quest of Cleverness

Domingo's Cat

The Princess of the Springs

The Fountain of Giant Land

The Most Beautiful Princess

The Forest Lad and the Wicked Giant

Fairy Tale Friday--Seven Brothers and their Sister

This week check out Santal Folk Tales translated by A. Campbell of the Santal Mission.  The Santal People are a tribe in India. In the preface the translator admits to some bowdlerizing: "It was to be expected that in the popular tales of a simple, unpolished people like the Santals, expressions and allusions unfitted for ears polite would be found."
The story Seven Brothers and their Sister features the sacrifice of an unwilling victim.  A jugi gosae (a caste of Hindus who make and sell doras) is consulted.

Fairy Tale Friday--A Wise Weaver

From The Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia by A.G. Seklemian enjoy A Wise Weaver.

Armenian Rug courtesy of Wikimedia.