Georgian Folk Tales

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No. 1
GEORGIAN FOLK TALES

‘I quite understand, my good friend,’ said I, ‘the contempt you bestow upon the nursery tales with which the Hajee and I have been entertaining each other; but, believe me, he who desires to be well acquainted with a people will not reject their popular stories or local superstitions. Depend upon it, that man is too far advanced into an artificial state of society who is a stranger to the effects which tales and stories like these have upon the feelings of a nation....’
Sir John Malcolm’s Sketches of Persia , ch. xvi.

Georgian Folk Tales