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    Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore
    Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore
    Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore
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    Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore

    By Elsie Spicer Eells

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    As one can conclude from the title, the following work is a collection of fairy tales from Brazil, compiled by Elsie Spicer Ellis. Many of the stories featured are fables. Titles to be found inside the pages of this book include 'How the Rabbit Lost His Tail', 'Why the Lamb is Meek', and 'Why the Bananas Belong to the Monkey'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateNov 21, 2022
    ISBN8596547411444
    Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore

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      Book preview

      Fairy Tales from Brazil - Elsie Spicer Eells

      Elsie Spicer Eells

      Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore

      EAN 8596547411444

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE

      I

      How Night Came

      II

      How the Rabbit Lost His Tail

      III

      How the Toad Got His Bruises

      IV

      How the Tiger Got His Stripes

      V

      Why the Lamb Is Meek

      VI

      Why the Tiger and the Stag Fear Each Other

      VII

      How the Speckled Hen Got Her Speckles

      VIII

      How the Monkey Became a Trickster

      IX

      How the Monkey and the Goat Earned Their Reputations

      X

      How the Monkey Got a Drink When He Was Thirsty

      XI

      How the Monkey Got Food When He Was Hungry

      XII

      Why the Bananas Belong to the Monkey

      XIII

      How the Monkey Escaped Being Eaten

      XIV

      Why the Monkey Still Has a Tail

      XV

      How Black Became White

      XVI

      How the Pigeon Became a Tame Bird

      XVII

      Why the Sea Moans

      XVIII

      How the Brazilian Beetles Got Their Gorgeous Coats

      PREFACE

      Table of Contents

      I

      t is late afternoon in my Brazilian garden. The dazzling blue of sea and sky which characterises a tropical noonday has become subdued and already roseate tints are beginning to prepare the glory of the sunset hour. A lizard crawls lazily up the whitewashed wall. The song of the sabiá, that wonderful Brazilian thrush, sounds from the royal palm tree. The air is heavy with the perfume of the orange blossom. There is no long twilight in the tropics. Night will leap down suddenly upon my Brazilian garden from out of the glory of the sunset sky.

      Theresa, the ama, stands before us on the terrace under the mango trees, and we, her yáyázinhas and yóyózinhos, know that the story hour has come. Theresa, daughter of the mud huts under the palm trees, ama in the sobrado of the foreign senhora, is a royal queen of story land. For her the beasts break silence and talk like humans. For her all the magic wonders of her tales stand forth as living truth. Her lithe body sways backwards and forwards to the rhythm of her words as she unfolds her tales to us. She is a picture to remember as she stands under the mango trees on our terrace. Her spotless white "camiza" is decorated with beautiful pillow lace, her own handiwork. Her skirt of stiffly starched cotton is red and purple in colour. A crimson flowered folded shawl hangs over her right shoulder and great strings of beads ornament the ebony of her neck and arms. To sit at the feet of Theresa, the ama, is to enter the gate of story land.

      I

      How Night Came

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      Y

      ears and years ago at the very beginning of time, when the world had just been made, there was no night. It was day all the time. No one had ever heard of sunrise or sunset, starlight or moonbeams. There were no night birds, nor night beasts, nor night flowers. There were no lengthening shadows, nor soft night air, heavy with perfume.

      In those days the daughter of the

      Great Sea Serpent

      , who dwelt in the depths of the seas, married one of the sons of the great earth race known as

      Man

      . She left her home among the shades of the deep seas and came to dwell with her husband in the land of daylight. Her eyes grew weary of the bright sunlight and her beauty faded. Her husband watched her with sad eyes, but he did not know what to do to help her.

      O, if night would only come, she moaned as she tossed about wearily on her couch. Here it is always day, but in my father's kingdom there are many shadows. O, for a little of the darkness of night!

      Her husband listened to her moanings. What is night? he asked her. Tell me about it and perhaps I can get a little of it for you.

      Night, said the daughter of the

      Great Sea Serpent

      , is the name we give to the heavy shadows which darken my father's kingdom in the depths of the seas. I love the sunlight of your earth land, but I grow very weary of it. If we could have only a little of the darkness of my father's kingdom to rest our eyes part of the time.

      Her husband at once called his three most faithful slaves. I am about to send you on a journey, he told them. "You are to go to the kingdom of the

      Great Sea Serpent

      who dwells in the depths of the seas and ask him to give you some of the darkness of night that his daughter may not die here amid the sunlight of our earth land."

      The three slaves set forth for the kingdom of the

      Great Sea Serpent

      . After a long dangerous journey they arrived at his home in the depths of the seas and asked him to give them some of the shadows of night to carry back to the earth land. The

      Great Sea Serpent

      gave them a big bag full at once. It was securely fastened and the

      Great Sea Serpent

      warned them not to open it until they were once more in the presence of his daughter, their mistress.

      The three slaves started out, bearing the big bag full of night upon their heads. Soon they heard strange sounds within the bag. It was the sound of the voices of all the night beasts, all the night birds, and all the night insects. If you have ever heard the night chorus from the jungles on the banks of the rivers you will know how it sounded. The three slaves had never heard sounds like those in all their lives. They were terribly frightened.

      Let us drop the bag full of night right here where we are and run away as fast as we can, said the first slave.

      We shall perish. We shall perish, anyway, whatever we do, cried the second slave.

      Whether we perish or not I am going to open the bag and see what makes all those terrible sounds, said the third slave.

      Accordingly they laid the bag on the ground and opened it. Out rushed all the night beasts and all the night birds and all the night insects and out rushed the great black cloud of

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