Canadian Fairy Tales - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Cyrus Macmillan,
1 / 26How Glooskap Made the Birds
- 1. How Glooskap Made the Birds
- 2. Rabbit and the Grain Buyers
- 3. Saint Nicholas and the Children
- 4. The Fall of the Spider Man
- 5. The Boy who was Called Thick-head
- 6. Rabbit and the Indian Chief
- 7. Great Heart and the Three Tests
- 8. The Boy of the Red Twilight Sky
- 9. How Raven Brought Fire to the Indians
- 10. The Girl who Always Cried
- 11. Ermine and the Hunter
- 12. How Rabbit Deceived Fox
- 13. The Boy and the Dragon
- 14. Owl with the Great Head and Eyes
- 15. The Tobacco Fairy from the Blue Hills
- 16. Rainbow and the Autumn Leaves
- 17. Rabbit and the Moon-Man
- 18. The Children with One Eye
- 19. The Giant with the Grey Feathers
- 20. The Cruel Stepmother
- 21. The Boy who was Saved by Thoughts
- 22. The Song-Bird and the Healing Waters
- 23. The Boy who Overcame the Giants
- 24. The Youth and the Dog-Dance
- 25. Sparrow's Search for the Rain
- 26. The Boy in the Land of Shadows
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Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal both to old and young; to the young because it is the natural world in which their fancy delights to range, and to the old because they are conscious again of the spirit of youth as they read such tales to their children and grandchildren over and over again, and rejoice in the illusion that after all there is not a great difference of age which separates the generations.
The fairy tale makes this universal appeal because it deals with the elemental in our natures that is the same in every age and in every race. In the Canadian Tales which Professor Macmillan has so admirably gathered from Indian sources, we find the same types of character and scenes of adventure that we do in the tales of the German forests, of Scandinavia, England or France.
There is in us all an instinctive admiration for the adventurous spirit of the fairy tale which challenges the might that is cruel and devastating, and for the good offices of the fairies which help to vindicate the cause of the noble in its conflict with the ignoble, right with wrong. - Summary by the introduction
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