Yorkshire Dragons, Giants, and other Folk Tales. (eBook)

Andrew Walsh (Autor)

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2017
92 Seiten
Innovative Libraries (Verlag)
9781911500063 (ISBN)

Infos

A collection of twenty folk or fairy tales from across Yorkshire. Including stories of dragons, giants, and other legendary happenings.Most are traditional stories, but a few are new stories based on scraps of traditional legends of the Huddersfield area.The stories are: Billy Biter and Filey Brigg The Building of the Kirk at Heaton The Crafty Ploughboy, or Yorkshire Bite The Donkey, the Table, and the Stick The Dragon of Loschy Wood The Dragon of Wantley The Drummer boy of Richmond The Farndale Hob The Giant of Dalton Mill The Giant of Sessay The Golden Cradle and Castle Hill The Legend of Semerwater The Marsden Cuckoo The Miserly Judge or ';He had paid for it' Potter Thompson The Serpent of Handale The Seven Sisters & Their Bad Neighbour Upsall and its Crocks of Gold Wadda of Mulgrave, and Bell, his wife The Wicked Giant of Penhill

Inhalt

Introduction       1Billy Biter and Filey Brigg               3The Building of the Kirk at Heaton            6The Crafty Ploughboy, or Yorkshire Bite 9The Donkey, the Table, and the Stick      13The Dragon of Loschy Wood       19The Dragon of Wantley 23The Drummer boy of Richmond                28The Farndale Hob            30The Giant of Dalton Mill                35The Giant of Sessay        38The Golden Cradle and Castle Hill             44The Legend of Semerwater         48The Marsden Cuckoo     51The Miserly Judge or ‘He had paid for it’                53Potter Thompson            56The Serpent of Handale                59The Seven Sisters & Their Bad Neighbour             61Upsall and its Crocks of Gold       66Wadda of Mulgrave, and Bell, his wife.  70The Wicked Giant of Penhill        73

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.10.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Schlagworte: Dragons • England • Fairy tales • Folk Tales • Giants • Huddersfield • Kirklees • Legends • Northern • Yorkshire
• ISBN-13: 9781911500063 / 9781911500063