London:
Griffith and Farran,
Successors to Newbery and Harris,
Corner of St. Paul’s Churchyard;
And
Walbrook & Co., 52, Fleet Street, E. C.
1879.
All Rights Reserved.
Printed by
W. O. Walbrook,
at the
Fleet Street Printing Works,
52, Fleet Street, London.
To
M. Antoine D’Abbadie,
of Abbadia,
Member of the Institute of France,
this
Translation of Legends,
originally told in the language of his ancestors,
in grateful acknowledgment
of
kindly courtesy and of ever-ready assistance,
is
dedicated
by his obliged and obedient servant,
Contents.
- Page
- [Introduction] vii
- [I.—Legends of the Tartaro] 1
- [The Tartaro] 4
- [M. d’Abbadie’s Version] 4
- [Variations of above] 5
- [Errua, the Madman] 6
- [Variations of above] 10
- [The Three Brothers, the Cruel Master, and the Tartaro] 11
- [The Tartaro and Petit Perroquet] 16
- [II.—The Heren-Suge.—The Seven-Headed Serpent] 20
- [The Grateful Tartaro and the Heren-Suge] 22
- [Variation of above] 32
- [The Seven-Headed Serpent] 33
- [The Serpent in the Wood] 38
- [III.—Animal Tales] 42
- [Acheria, the Fox] 43
- [The Ass and the Wolf] 45
- [IV.—Basa-Jaun, Basa-Andre, and Lamiñak] 47
- [Basa-Jauna] 49
- [The Servant at the Fairy’s] 53
- [The Fairy in the House] 55
- [The Pretty but Idle Girl] 56
- [The Devil’s Age] 58
- [The Fairy-Queen Godmother] 59
- [V.—Witchcraft and Sorcery] 64
- [The Witches at the Sabbat] 66
- [The Witches and the Idiots] 67
- [The Witch and the New-Born Infant] 69
- [The Changeling] 73
- [VI.—Contes des Fées] 76
- [(A) Tales like the Keltic] 77
- [Malbrouk] 77
- [The Fisherman and his Sons] 87
- [Tabakiera, the Snuff-Box] 94
- [Mahistruba, the Master Mariner] 100
- [Dragon] 106
- [Ezkabi-Fidel] 111
- [Variation of above] 120
- [The Lady-Pigeon and her Comb] 120
- [Suggested Explanation of above] 130
- [Laur-Cantons] 132
- [The Young School-Boy] 136
- [The Son who Heard Voices] 137
- [The Mother and her Idiot Son; or, the Clever Thief] 140
- [Juan Dekos, the Blockhead (Tontua)] 146
- [Variation of the above—Juan de Kalais] 151
- [The Duped Priest] 154
- [(B) Contes des Fées, derived directly from the French] 158
- [Ass’-Skin] 158
- [Variations of above] 165
- [The Step-Mother and Step-Daughter] 166
- [Beauty and the Beast] 167
- [Variation of above] 172
- [The Cobbler and his Three Daughters (Blue-Beard)] 173
- [Variations of above] 175
- [The Singing Tree, the Bird which tells the Truth, and the Water which makes Young] 176
- [Variation of above] 181
- [The White Blackbird] 182
- [The Sister and her Seven Brothers] 187
- [Variations, etc.] 191
- [List of Publication of Foreign Legends in France] 192
- [VII.—Religious Tales] 194
- [Fourteen] 195
- [Variation of above—Jesus Christ and the Old Soldier] 199
- [The Poor Soldier and the Rich Man] 200
- [The Widow and her Son] 202
- [The Story of the Hair-Cloth Shirt (La Cilice)] 206
- [The Saintly Orphan Girl] 209
- [The Slandered and Despised Girl] 211
- [An Essay on the Basque Language] 219
- [Appendix—Basque Poetry] 235