The Yellow Fairy Book: Unabridged Edition
Book Description
Support Struggle for Public Domain: like and share http://facebook.com/BookLiberationFront "[...]knows several people who have seen them-in the Highlands-and heard their music. If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music yourself, as grown-up people have done, but you must goon a fine day. Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them...
MoreSupport Struggle for Public Domain: like and share http://facebook.com/BookLiberationFront "[...]knows several people who have seen them-in the Highlands-and heard their music. If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music yourself, as grown-up people have done, but you must goon a fine day. Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them? The Rev. Mr. Baring-Gould saw several fairies when he was a boy, and was travelling in the land of the Troubadours. For these reasons, the Editor thinks that there are certainly fairies, but they never do anyone any harm; and, in England, they have been frightened away by smoke and schoolmasters. As to Giants, they have died out, but real Dwarfs are common in the forests of Africa. Probably a good many stories not perfectly true have been told about fairies, but such stories have also been told about Napoleon, Claverhouse, Julius Caesar, and Joan of Arc, all of whom certainly existed. A wise child will, therefore, remember that, if he grows up and becomes a member of the Folk Lore Society, ALL the tales in this book were not offered to him as absolutely[...]".
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Binding | Paperback (166 editions) |
| Reading Level | Uncategorized
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| # of Pages | 102 |
| ISBN-10 | 1511485957 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1511485951 |
| Publication Date | 03/28/2015 |
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