Italian Fairy Tales (The Hippocrene Library of World Folklore)

Rating:
Summary: A collection of stories shows a great variety of tale types
Review: These Italian stories do not duplicate stories told us in other collections of Italian fairy tales. "The Quest of the Bird with the Golden Tail" sounds like other titles I have read, but the story itself varied from the usual. While it had many motifs you find in quest stories (7 years, iron shoes, ogresses, Winds, beautiful gowns in nutshells, 3 nights of pleading for the prince to hear her story)--still we feel this story is a step away from the usual.

In a legend, "The Legend of the White Chamois," a boy--an excellent hunter--follows the White Chamois and embarks on a deadly race to keep the Chamois from reaching the flame-coloured rhododendrons that could renew his strength. The boy finally plunges to his death from one of the precipices, but the White Chamois destroys his whole village anyway.

A variety of tales are told in this volume (first printed in 1920).

Rating:
Summary: A collection of stories shows a great variety of tale types
Review: These Italian stories do not duplicate stories told us in other collections of Italian fairy tales. "The Quest of the Bird with the Golden Tail" sounds like other titles I have read, but the story itself varied from the usual. While it had many motifs you find in quest stories (7 years, iron shoes, ogresses, Winds, beautiful gowns in nutshells, 3 nights of pleading for the prince to hear her story)--still we feel this story is a step away from the usual.

In a legend, "The Legend of the White Chamois," a boy--an excellent hunter--follows the White Chamois and embarks on a deadly race to keep the Chamois from reaching the flame-coloured rhododendrons that could renew his strength. The boy finally plunges to his death from one of the precipices, but the White Chamois destroys his whole village anyway.

A variety of tales are told in this volume (first printed in 1920).