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Dancing on blades : rare and exquisite folktales from the Carpathian Mountains / Csenge Virág Zalka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zalka, Csenge Virág, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Carpathian Mountains.
- Tales.
- Folk literature, Hungarian.
- Folk literature, Ukrainian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Marion, Michigan : Parkhurst Brothers Publishers, 2018.
- Summary:
- Readers of folktales will relish this collection of rare stories from Hungary. Although the tales were told over one hundred years ago, Zalka's research, translation and embellishments have given these almost-lost stories new lives and fresh faces.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- "Anica, Tell Us a Story!"
- Part 1: Spinning Old into Gold
- The Shoe-Shredding Princesses
- The Cheerful Prince
- The Stolen Apples
- Golden-haired Annuska
- The Maiden with the Red-gold Hair
- Jancsi goes to the Glass Mountain
- Part 2: The Kind and the Unkind
- The Sleepy Lady
- The Poor Man and the Three Ladies
- The Joy of the Princess
- The Woodcutter's Luck
- The Devil's Godfather
- The Little Swineherd
- Part 3: Questions Big and Small
- Who Owns the Moonlight?
- What is the Wind Called?
- Why Are There No Fairies in the World?
- Who Owns the Golden Apples?
- Where Did the Son of the White Mare Go?
- What Did the Little Pig Do in the Winter?
- Part 4: Anica's Garden of Rarities
- Mistress Tuberose
- Touch-Me-Not
- The King of the Birchwood
- Little Orphan
- Szelemen in the Apple Orchard
- János of the Bees
- Part 5: Love in All its Strangeness and Glory
- The Dream of the Fairy Queen
- The Boy Who Wanted to Walk on the Clouds
- The Daughter of the Táltos King
- The Boar and the Wheelbarrow
- Three Princesses and a Ring
- The Daughter of the Iron-Nosed Witch
- Sources and Further Reading
- Archival Materials:
- Hungarian folktale collections featuring tales from Pályuk Anna:
- English-Language Folktale Collections Mentioned in Comments:
- Hungarian and Ukrainian Folktales Published in English:.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-62491-104-8
- OCLC:
- 1020066580
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