Book Description
A collection of 80 traditional short stories and legends from the local oral tradition. These folk tales offer insights into the history, culture and beliefs of the people of the Maldives and into the world they live in.
Author : Xavier Romero-Frías
Publisher : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788776941048
A collection of 80 traditional short stories and legends from the local oral tradition. These folk tales offer insights into the history, culture and beliefs of the people of the Maldives and into the world they live in.
Author : Xavier Romero-Frías
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9788472548015
Author : Angela McAllister
Publisher : World Full Of
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0711266476
50 classic nature stories from Angela McAllister are brought to life with sumptuous illustrations from Hannah Bess Ross, making this an anthology to treasure for a lifetime and celebrating nature and getting outdoors.
Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2012-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674065077
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.
Author : Margaret Mayo
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 9781846165290
In these 14 magical stories from around the world, you can read about the princess who climbs out of a lemon, the king who wants only to touch the moon, and the three golden apples which can bring a princess back to life.
Author : Xavier Romero-Frías
Publisher : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788776941055
A collection of 80 traditional short stories and legends from the local oral tradition. These folk tales offer insights into the history, culture and beliefs of the people of the Maldives and into the world they live in.
Author : Hamdhaan A Ghani
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2019-12-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781674988023
Could there really have been a mysterious tribe that had lived in the nearby uninhabited island centuries ago? Could all of them really have fled the island due to terrifying events? Or it could be one of the many folklores that Damir, Mala and Sarah had heard over the years about the many islands of the Maldives, where they live, or so they thought!Until the terrifying events in the folklore starts coming true. Can history be repeating itself?Follow Damir, Sarah and Mala as they embark on a journey across the Maldives to find answers - a journey that leads them to be locked in a race against time in millennia-old feud between the most powerful beings in existence and a race that was thought to have long since gone extinct in the world.Damir and the Hidden Atoll is a thrilling supernatural story that middle grade and young adults will love!
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Tales
ISBN :
Author : Irina Zheleznova
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781410101877
CONTENTSVasilisa the BeautifulTsarevich Ivan and Grey WolfThe two IvansFenist the FalconSister Alyonushka and Brother IvanushkaChestnut-GreyFather FrostGo I Know Not Where, Fetch I Know Not WhatLittle Girl and the Swan-GeeseThe Silver Saucer and the Rosy-Cheeked AppleEmelya and the PikeThe Frog TsarevnaWee Little HavroshechkaMarya Morevna the Lovely TsarevnaIvan - Young of Years, Old of WisdomThe Seven Simeons - Seven Brave Workingmen
Author : Clarence Maloney
Publisher : Vantage Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN :