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Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
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Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles
Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the
supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it
that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up to
the garret of the house and performed a ritual to guarantee that
Leland would be fortunate in his life and eventually become a
scholar and a wizard. Whether or not this incident ever occurred,
we do know that his interest in fairy tales, folklore, and the
supernatural would eventually lead him to a life of travel and
documentation of the stories of numerous groups across the United
States and Europe. Jack Zipes selected the tales in Charles Godfrey
Leland and His Magical Talesfrom five different books- The
Algonquin Legends (1884), Legends of Florence (1895-96), The
Unpublished Letters of Virgil (1901), The English Gypsies (1882),
and Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune-Telling (1891)-and has arranged them
thematically. Though these tales cannot be considered authentic
folk tales-not written verbatim from the lips of Romani, Native
Americans, or other sources of the tales-they are highly
significant because of their historical and cultural value. Like
most of the aspiring American folklorists of his time, who were
mainly all white, male, and from the middle classes, Leland
recorded these tales in personal encounters with his informants or
collected them from friends and acquaintances, before grooming them
for publication so that they became translations of the original
narratives. What distinguishes Leland from the major folklorists of
the nineteenth century is his literary embellishment to represent
his particular regard for their poetry, purity, and history.
Readers with an interest in folklore, oral tradition, and
nineteenth-century literature will value this curated and annotated
glimpse into a breadth of work.
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