Folk-lore and legends English

The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is being lost, more rapidly in England, perhaps, than in any other part of the world. Our folk are giving up the old myths for new ones. Before remorseless “progress,” and the struggle for existence, the poetry of life is being quickly blotted out. In editing this volume I have endeavoured to select some of the best specimens of our Folklore. With regard to the nursery tales, I have taken pains to give them as they are in the earliest editions I could find. I must say, however, that, while I have taken every care to alter only as much as was absolutely necessary in these tales, some excision and slight alteration has at times been required.

By : Charles John Tibbits (1861 - 1935)

01 - A Dissertation on Fairies Part 1 02 - Introductory Note 03 - A Dissertation on Fairies Part 2 04 - Nelly the Knocker 05 - The Three Fools 06 - Some Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham 07 - The Tulip Fairies 08 - The History of Jack and the Giants 09 - The Fairies’ Cup 10 - The White Lady 11 - A Pleasant and Delightful History of Thomas Hickathrift 12 - The Spectre Coach 13 - The Baker’s Daughter 14 - The Fairy Children 15 - The History of Jack and the Beanstalk 16 - Johnny Reed’s Cat 17 - Lame Molly 18 - The Brown man of the Moors 19 - How the Cobbler cheated the Devil 20 - The Tavistock Witch 21 - The Worm of Lambton 22 - The Old Woman and the Crooked Sixpence 23 - The Yorkshire Boggart 24 - The Duergar 25 - The Barn Elves 26 - Legends of King Arthur 27 - Silky