Fables and Fairy Tales for Little Folk or Uncle Remus in Hausaland (First Series)

Title

en_US Fables and Fairy Tales for Little Folk or Uncle Remus in Hausaland (First Series)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By Mary & Newman Tremearne

Creator

en_US Treamearne, Arthur John Newman See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:32Z

en_US 2002-04

en_US 1910

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:32Z

Date Issued

en_US 1910

Abstract

en_US I tried the first two of the twelve stories here. The twelve take 135 pages in this 6¾ x 8¼ book. These are good folktales, but I think they are not fables. They lack the simplicity that I think fables need. The second story, The Spider Deceives the Hippopotamus and the Elephant (6), is close to fables I have read, but it cannot resist putting in a second and third phase to the story. Thus spider fools the two into a tug-of-war with each other, but then also shows, with the help of magic, that he is ultimately stronger than they are. He shows them--I do not understand how--that he, not they, draws them closer together. Then he puts on a hare-skin…. Need I go further? The upshot of this tale, as of many, I think, is aetiological. Here we learn why hippos and elephants do not go into gardens where there are spiders. The book is in good condition.

Identifier

en_US 4469 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80138

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.

en_US Cambridge

Subject

en_US PZ90.H38 T74 1910 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole