Jeremiah Curtin

• Dec-1995
• / Fantasy
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A heartwarming and revealing collection of secret myths and legends. 20 extremely rare translations from Gaelic-speaking peoples, gathered along the backroads of Ireland. A must for any fan of Irish history, culture and mythology. 352 pages....

• Jun-1999
• / Fantasy
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Once upon a time all of the legends of Fin MacCool, an ancient hero of Gaelic mythology, were written down for posterity. Saint Patrick, however, was obliged to order two-thirds of them destroyed. The tales were so entertaining, said he, that the peo...

• Jun-2001
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2010
• / Fantasy
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Jeremiah Curtin was an American translator and folklorist.Curtin compiled a collection of famous Irish folk-lore.This edition includes a table of contents....

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

• Nov-2011
• / Fantasy
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Talking animals, venturesome young men and maidens, foul witches, dazzling spirits, and other magical creatures abound in the pages of this rare collection of unusual fairy tales. Collected firsthand in the late nineteenth century by a Smithsonian In...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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Excerpt from Creation Myths of Primitive America: In Relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind

That earlier world had two periods of duration, one of complete and perfect harmony; another of violence, collision, and c...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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Twenty folk tales representing hundreds of years of the collective Irish imagination transport readers to a world where everything is alive and anything can happen! Vivid descriptions of battles with giants, dead men who come back to life, humans imp...

• Jan-2015
• / Fantasy
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IF we were asked to designate by a single epithet most of the stories in this little volume, that epithet would be "weird." Within the compass of an equal number of pages we hardly know a collection of folk-lore, at any rate of recent date, containin...

• Apr-2015
• / Fantasy
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• Oct-2015
• / Fantasy
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This is another posthumous work by that remarkable linguist and anthropologist, Jeremiah Curtin, whose translations of Sienkiewicz's novels were merely byplays in the midst of his strenuous lifework. He collected nearly fifty legends and stories of t...

• Nov-2016
• / General Fiction
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Jeremiah Curtin (6 September 1835 â€" 14 December 1906) was an American translator and folklorist. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Curtin spent his early life in what is now, Greendale, Wisconsin and later graduated from Harvard College in 1863. In 1864 h...

• Nov-2016
• / General Fiction
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In 1883 a Smithsonian Institution ethnologist traveled to western New York State to record the traditional tales of the Iroquois tribe known as the Seneca. These myths -- picturesque, archaic, even grotesque -- appear here in their original form,...

• May-2017
• / General Fiction
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the ...

• May-2017
• / General Fiction
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the ...