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- Title: Canadian Fairy Tales
- Author : Cyrus MacMillan
- Release Date : January 01, 1922
- Genre: Fairy Tales, Myths & Fables,Books,Young Adult,Fiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3058 KB
Description
Canadian Fairy Tales is a collection of 26 of Native American folk tales gathered from across Canada by Professor Cyrus MacMillan, who did not indicate the origin tribe of each story. The collection was originally published in 1922, and several tales within contain themes of creation. This is MacMillan’s second collection of fairy tales. Like the Grimms Brothers did in Europe, MacMillan traveled the country seeking tales from the First Nations people in Canada.
HOW GLOOSKAP MADE THE BIRDS
RABBIT AND THE GRAIN BUYERS
SAINT NICHOLAS AND THE CHILDREN
THE FALL OF THE SPIDER MAN
THE BOY WHO WAS CALLED THICK-HEAD
RABBIT AND THE INDIAN CHIEF
GREAT HEART AND THE THREE TESTS
THE BOY OF THE RED TWILIGHT SKY
HOW RAVEN BROUGHT FIRE TO THE INDIANS
THE GIRL WHO ALWAYS CRIED
ERMINE AND THE HUNTER
HOW RABBIT DECEIVED FOX
THE BOY AND THE DRAGON
OWL WITH THE GREAT HEAD AND EYES
THE TOBACCO FAIRY FROM THE BLUE HILLS
RAINBOW AND THE AUTUMN LEAVES
RABBIT AND THE MOON-MAN
THE CHILDREN WITH ONE EYE
THE GIANT WITH THE GREY FEATHERS
THE CRUEL STEPMOTHER
THE BOY WHO WAS SAVED BY THOUGHTS
THE SONG-BIRD AND THE HEALING WATERS
THE BOY WHO OVERCAME THE GIANTS
THE YOUTH AND THE DOG-DANCE
SPARROW'S SEARCH FOR THE RAIN
THE BOY IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS
The tales in this collection, like those in "Canadian Wonder Tales," were gathered in various parts of Canada—by river and lake and ocean where sailors and fishermen still watch the stars; in forest clearings where lumbermen yet retain some remnant of the old vanished voyageur life and where Indians still barter for their furs; in remote country places where women spin while they speak with reverence of their fathers' days. The skeleton of each story has been left for the most part unchanged, although the language naturally differs somewhat from that of the story-tellers from whose lips the writer heard them.