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Andrew Lang. The Brown Fairy Book
The Brown Fairy Book
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
COLOURED PLATES
FULL-PAGE PLATES
IN TEXT
The. BROWN FAIRY BOOK
Footnote
BALL-CARRIER AND THE BAD ONE
HOW BALL-CARRIER FINISHED HIS TASK
THE BUNYIP
FATHER GRUMBLER
THE STORY OF THE YARA
THE CUNNING HARE
THE TURTLE AND HIS BRIDE
HOW GEIRALD THE COWARD WAS PUNISHED
HÁBOGI
HOW THE LITTLE BROTHER SET FREE HIS BIG BROTHERS
THE SACRED MILK OF KOUMONGOÉ
THE WICKED WOLVERINE
THE HUSBAND OF THE RAT’S DAUGHTER
THE MERMAID AND THE BOY
PIVI AND KABO
THE ELF MAIDEN
HOW SOME WILD ANIMALS BECAME TAME ONES
FORTUNE AND THE WOOD-CUTTER
THE ENCHANTED HEAD
THE SISTER OF THE SUN
THE PRINCE AND THE THREE FATES
THE FOX AND THE LAPP
KISA THE CAT
THE LION AND THE CAT
WHICH WAS THE FOOLISHEST?
ASMUND AND SIGNY
RÜBEZAHL
STORY OF THE KING WHO WOULD BE STRONGER THAN FATE
STORY OF WALI DÂD THE SIMPLE-HEARTED
TALE OF A TORTOISE AND OF A MISCHIEVOUS MONKEY
THE KNIGHTS OF THE FISH
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Andrew Lang
Published by Good Press, 2021
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‘Now,’ said the king, ‘you have seen these things and your purpose is fulfilled.’ ‘Truly,’ said the prince, ‘I have seen things which I have not understood; what do they mean, and what is the story of them? Tell me and kill me.’
Then said the king: ‘The woman you see there in chains is my wife; she is called Gul, the Rose, and I am Sinaubar, the Cypress. One day I was hunting and became very thirsty. After great search I discovered a well in a place so secret that neither bird nor beast nor man could find it without labour. I was alone, I took my turban for a rope and my cap for a bucket. There was a good deal of water, but when I let down my rope, something caught it, and I could not in any way draw it back. I shouted down into the well: “O! servant of God! whoever you are, why do you deal unfairly with me? I am dying of thirst, let go! in God’s name.” A cry came up in answer, “O servant of God! we have been in the well a long time; in God’s name get us out!” After trying a thousand schemes, I drew up two blind women. They said they were perīs, and that their king had blinded them in his anger and had left them in the well alone.
