Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by MABIE, Hamilton Wright

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We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were huge crowd-pullers. Many of these stories were passed down through the generations, largely unchanged. "The stories made by the people, and told before evening fires, or in public places and at the gates of inns in the Orient, belong to the ages when books were few and knowledge limited, or to people whose fancy was not hampered by familiarity with or care for facts; they are the creations, as they were the amusement, of men and women who were children in knowledge, but were thinking deeply and often wisely of what life meant to them, and were eager to know and hear more about themselves, their fellows, and the world. In the earlier folk-stories one finds a childlike simplicity and readiness to believe in the marvellous; and these qualities are found also in the French peasant's version of the career of Napoleon. " (from the Introduction). - Summary

  • 8 minutes 15 seconds
    Introduction
  • 8 minutes 15 seconds
    Intelligence And Luck
  • 9 minutes 29 seconds
    The Story Of Tom Tit Tot
  • 11 minutes 3 seconds
    Hans Who Made The Princess Laugh
  • 19 minutes 20 seconds
    The Greedy Youngster
  • 11 minutes 55 seconds
    The Dun Horse
  • 9 minutes 15 seconds
    The Good Children
  • 15 minutes 5 seconds
    The Dragon And The Prince
  • 5 minutes 43 seconds
    The Wonderful Hair
  • 10 minutes 17 seconds
    George With The Goat
  • 20 minutes 9 seconds
    Long, Broad And Sharpsight
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