Dorset Folk Tales For Children

Author : Tim Laycock
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750992832
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dorset Folk Tales for Children written by Tim Laycock and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorset is full of mythical creatures from Britain's most legendary folk tales, including demons, dragons, Jack-o'-lanterns, giants and mermaids. Read on to bring the landscape of the country's rolling hills and Jurassic coast alive, and let author Tim Laycock inspire you to rediscover the county you thought you knew.

Author : Tim Laycock
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752478656
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dorset Folk Tales written by Tim Laycock and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectacular and varied landscape of Dorset, with its giants, hill forts, Jurassic coast and ancient buildings is the source and inspiration for many curious stories that have been passed down in families and village communities for generations. This book contains a rich and diverse collection of those ancient legends rooted in the oral tradition. From the absorbing tales of the Old King of Corfe and the Thorncombe Thorn to the intriguing Buttons on a Card and George Pitman and the Dragon, these illustrated stories bring alive the landscape of the county’s rolling hills and coastline. Dorset actor, singer and storyteller Tim Laycock has a lifelong interest in the folklore and oral traditions of the county. Many of the stories in this collection have been passed on to him by Dorset residents, and appear here in print for the first time.

Author : Michael O'Leary
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969350
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hampshire Folk Tales for Children written by Michael O'Leary and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love magic and adventure, here is the book for you. In this treasure trove of tales, storyteller Michael O’Leary has collected stories from the Hampshire Downs (which are up), the New Forest (which is old), the copses and coppices, fields and farms, villages, towns and cities of Hampshire. In these stories you will meet dragons, giants, knights, princesses and some vile Vikings – and of course the Liphook fairies. From ‘Once upon a time ...’ to ‘Happy ever after’ you will be transported to Hampshire, where even the stones have stories to tell.

Author : Fran Doel
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752439891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folklore of Dorset written by Fran Doel and published by History Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklore of Dorset explores the rich heritage of the county's traditions, seasonal customs and songs. Included are saints' lore and smugglers, wife sales, wrecking, witchcraft, wise men and West Gallery Music, hill figures, hempseed divination and holy wells, mummers' plays, May garlands and maypoles, Oosers and Oak Apple Day, bonfires and Beating the Bounds.The sources used include the poems and non-fiction of William Barnes, Thomas Hardy, the historian of Dorset John Hutchins, the Victorian and early twentieth-century folklorist John Udal and the Hammmond Brothers' collection of Dorset folksongs. The authors critically engage with the extent to which Hardy and Barnes can be regarded as primary sources for Dorset folklore. There is also considerable original research and use of oral material. Nearly 100 fascinating photographs illustrate the text and there is an appendix of a full mummers' play.

Author : Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455615676
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Halloween Nation written by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sophisticated yet playful celebration of all things macabre, morbid and marvelous . . . Bannatyne makes a great case for celebrating Halloween everyday, all year long. . . . It's an energetic, thorough and breathless salute to everyone's favorite horror holiday." -Chris Alexander, editor in chief, Fangoria magazine "No one else has delved so deeply-and lovingly-into the mysteries of Halloween." -Dr. Jeanne Keyes Youngson, president and founder, the Vampire Empire It took two years of investigative work for Halloween authority Lesley Pratt Bannatyne to add a fifth book to her collection. Traveling across the country, she visited and talked with fanatics and fang makers, professional haunters, registered mediums, psychologists, and Halloween enthusiasts ranging from NPR's Garrison Keillor to Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger and The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" writer Mike Reiss to find out what the increasingly popular holiday means to people and how they celebrate it. Through the course of her research, Bannatyne attended a seance for Houdini, a Samhain ritual gathering, a World Zombie Day event, and the Haunted Attraction National Tradeshow and Convention (HAuNTcon). Diving right into the heart of how fear turned into a form of entertainment, she asks hard-hitting questions: What kind of community does twenty-first-century Halloween create? Why are we so afraid of dead bodies? In the battle between Christmas and Halloween fought by Zombie Clauses, who deserves to win?

Author : Allen Kent
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824720612
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science written by Allen Kent and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-09-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Biological Literature to An Uncertainty Principle for Information Seeking: A Qualitative Approach

Author : John Symonds Udal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dorsetshire Folk-lore written by John Symonds Udal and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jenny Moon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075099343X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Tales of Rock and Stone written by Jenny Moon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From caverns deep underground to sky-high mountains, the rocks and stones all around us are ancient. Greedy oni lurk in a cave in Japan; a stonecutter becomes a mountain; and a story of romance, revenge and tragedy plays out on the face of a plate. Revealing hidden fossils, gemstones, folklore and secrets, storyteller Jenny Moon’s tales are interwoven with interesting facts and geological observations that will catch the imagination of readers young and old, making this more than just a book of stories.

Author : Ernest W. Baughman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3111402770
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North America written by Ernest W. Baughman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael O'Leary
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969350
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hampshire Folk Tales for Children written by Michael O'Leary and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love magic and adventure, here is the book for you. In this treasure trove of tales, storyteller Michael O' Leary has collected stories from the Hampshire Downs (which are up), the New Forest (which is old), the copses and coppices, fields and farms, villages, towns and cities of Hampshire. In these stories you will meet dragons, giants, knights, princesses and some vile Vikings– and of course the Liphook fairies. From 'Once upon a time...' to 'Happy ever after' you will be transported to Hampshire, where even the stones have stories to tell.