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Cover: 9788028331078 | Manx Fairy Tales | Sophia Morrison | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023
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Manx Fairy Tales
Isle of Man Folklore: Celtic Legends of Bugganes, Mermaids, Ghost Dogs, and Fireside Wonders
Taschenbuch von Sophia Morrison
Sprache: Englisch

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Manx Fairy Tales gathers the island lore of the Isle of Man into a vivid sequence of wonder tales, legends, and moral fables populated by fairies, bugganes, mermaids, enchanted animals, and uncanny household spirits. Its prose is deliberately clear and oral in cadence, preserving the directness of fireside narration while shaping the tales for a literary readership. In the context of the Celtic Revival and early twentieth-century folklore collection, the book stands as both children's literature and cultural preservation. Sophia Morrison, a Manx folklorist and cultural activist, was deeply committed to safeguarding the language, customs, and imaginative inheritance of her native island. Her work with Manx traditions, songs, and stories reflects a period when local identities were being revalued against modernizing pressures. Manx Fairy Tales emerges from this dedication: not as antiquarian curiosity alone, but as an effort to keep communal memory alive through accessible storytelling. This volume is warmly recommended to readers of folklore, Celtic literature, and traditional fairy tales. It offers charm, strangeness, and historical value in equal measure, inviting modern readers to encounter a distinctive island imagination whose myths remain fresh, humorous, eerie, and humane.
Manx Fairy Tales gathers the island lore of the Isle of Man into a vivid sequence of wonder tales, legends, and moral fables populated by fairies, bugganes, mermaids, enchanted animals, and uncanny household spirits. Its prose is deliberately clear and oral in cadence, preserving the directness of fireside narration while shaping the tales for a literary readership. In the context of the Celtic Revival and early twentieth-century folklore collection, the book stands as both children's literature and cultural preservation. Sophia Morrison, a Manx folklorist and cultural activist, was deeply committed to safeguarding the language, customs, and imaginative inheritance of her native island. Her work with Manx traditions, songs, and stories reflects a period when local identities were being revalued against modernizing pressures. Manx Fairy Tales emerges from this dedication: not as antiquarian curiosity alone, but as an effort to keep communal memory alive through accessible storytelling. This volume is warmly recommended to readers of folklore, Celtic literature, and traditional fairy tales. It offers charm, strangeness, and historical value in equal measure, inviting modern readers to encounter a distinctive island imagination whose myths remain fresh, humorous, eerie, and humane.
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Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788028331078
ISBN-10: 8028331076
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Morrison, Sophia
Hersteller: Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 6 mm
Von/Mit: Sophia Morrison
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,176 kg
Artikel-ID: 128160719
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