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Charles Sellers. Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes (Spanish and Portuguese Folklore)
Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes (Spanish and Portuguese Folklore)
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PREFACE
TALES FROM THE LANDS OF NUTS AND GRAPES
THE INGENIOUS STUDENT
THE UGLY PRINCESS
THE WOLF-CHILD
THE MAGIC MIRROR
THE BLACK SLAVE
A LEGEND OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW
THE WHITE CAT OF ECIJA
THE CHURCH AUCTIONEER AND CLOWN OF VILLAR
THE WISE KING OF LEON
THE COBBLER OF BURGOS
BARBARA, THE GRAZIER’S WIFE
THE WATCHFUL SERVANT
SILVER BELLS
KING ROBIN
THE WICKED KING
THE PALACE OF THE ENCHANTED MOORS
THE SEVEN PIGEONS
LADY CLARE
GOOD ST. JAMES, AND THE MERRY BARBER OF COMPOSTELLA
ELVIRA, THE SAINTED PRINCESS
THE ENCHANTED MULE
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Charles Sellers
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In a village called Darque, on the banks of the Lima, there lived a farmer whose goodness and ignorance were only equalled by those of his wife. They were both young and robust, and were sufficiently well off to afford the luxury of beef once or twice a month. Their clothes were home-spun, and their hearts were homely. Beyond their landlord’s grounds they had never stepped; but as he owned nearly the whole village, it is very evident that they knew something of this world of ours. They were both born and married on the estate, as their parents had been before them, and they were contented because they had never mixed with the world.
One day, when the farmer came home to have his midday meal of broth and maize bread, he found his wife in bed with a newborn baby boy by her side, and he was so pleased that he spent his hour of rest looking at the child, so that his meal remained untasted on the table.
