The Strange Feathery Beast and Other French Fables · Carlson Fable Collection

Title: en_US The Strange Feathery Beast and Other French Fables
Description: en_US Lee Cooper
Creator: en_US Cooper, Lee See all items with this value
Contributor: en_US Keeping, Charles
Date: 2016-01-25T19:38:41Z; en_US 2004-04; en_US 1973
Date Available: 2016-01-25T19:38:41Z
Date Issued: en_US 1973
Abstract: en_US There are five folktales here, heavy on trickery. The title-story is about outwitting the devil. The simple farmer Vidalou finally outwits him by producing an animal that the devil cannot identify. This animal is Vidalou's pudgy wife, covered with feathers and with a funnel for a nose. There are good images of this animal on the cover, on 20, and on 22. I enjoyed the tricks in The Wolf in the Ram's Skin (52-65). The village idiot Pierre outwits the three brothers that bully him, for example by following his mother's advice literally: Take the wolf by the tail. Later on, he outwits the three again by getting them to be sewn into bags and to be thrown into the river.
Identifier: en_US 0552520268 (pbk.); en_US 5523 (Access ID)
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81057
Language: en_US eng
Publisher: en_US Carousel Books: Transworld Publishers; en_US London
Subject: en_US PZ8.1.C786 St 1973 See all items with this value; en_US French See all items with this value; en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
Type: en_US Book, Whole