Tag: legend
Tag Description:On the Trail of Rübezahl
The mad pursuit of obscure illustrated books has afforded me many curious finds. A recent find is a 19th century German book entitled Rübezahl, Legends and Anecdotes: The Lord of the Giant Mountains Written for Children by Paul Arndt. It was found, as I usually find my neat old German books, while antiquing in Lancaster [...]
A Christmas Legend: Where the Baboushka Dwells
The little Ouralian chain of mountains called by Russians “Semenoi Poias,” or the girdle of the earth, has given birth to a remarkable figure. The Baboushka lived there eighteen hundred years ago. The Baboushka lives there still. As this Christmas legend of a woman is little known, let me translate for you the tale of [...]
Christmas with the Fairies
T. F. Thiselton Dyer for The Girl’s Own Paper 1882 From all accounts Christmas seems to have been, from time immemorial, an important season with the elfin race, and many curious accounts of the festive merry doings of these fabled people in years gone by have been handed down to us. According to one popular [...]
