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  • Folk and FairyTales from Denmark. Svend Grundtvig and his collectors,
    Stephen Badman
    A man wearing his wifeÕs fur coat and a woolly balaclava is chained to a kennel in the backyard whilst another man delivers a side of bacon to The Devil. Fish trained to walk, devils in the stove, cats carrying coffins, ogres with a taste for fat little boys and beetles that do the housework Ð and then thereÕs the small matter of teaching a calf to talk. Thirty-eight folk and w...
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    21,17 €

  • Folk and Fairy Tales - Jens Kamp
    Stephen Badman
    A corpse rides over the sea on a coffin and a cat’s mess is served up for dinner. Brownies dance on rafters. The Devil carries his skin under his arm and witches, so old that moss grows on their teeth. St. Peter sleeps in a bread oven while a boy sleeps on the roof of his house, his feet still touching the ground. Geese are taught Latin, a monk sets to sea on a millstone and th...
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    25,24 €

  • Folk and Fairy Tales from Denmark - Vol. 2 - paperback
    Stephen Badman
    A wife who thinks she’s a chicken, a ventriloquist cow, a knife that kills to order and imps by the sack-full; three hairs plucked from The Devil’s backside and a girl that comes out of her coffin at night. Was Kristen pregnant with a bull calf? Did the soldier from Altona really have two?A selection of folk, wonder and bawdy tales taken from the collections of Evald Tang Kris...
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    27,49 €

  • Folk and Fairy Tales from Denmark - Vol. 1 - paperback
    Stephen Badman
    Folk and Fairy Tales from Denmark is a collection of stories hitherto unavailable to English speaking audiences. Recorded at source by Danish folklorist Evald Tang Kristensen towards the latter part of the 1800s, they were told to him by storytellers from different social positions; the majority of whom were well versed in the hardships of the rural life of the times. The stori...
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    32,45 €