Basque Legends

About this eBook

Author

Webster, Wentworth, 1829-1907

Title

Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language

Credits

Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore

Subject

Basque language

Category

Text

eBook-No.

34902

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34902

Release Date

January 9, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Contents.
3. 3.Introduction.
4. 4.I.—Legends of the Tartaro. — The Tartaro. — M. d’Abbadie’s Version. — Errua, the Madman. — Variations of Errua. — The Three Brothers, the Cruel Master, and the Tartaro. — The Tartaro and Petit Perroquet.
5. 5.II—The Heren-Suge.—The Seven-Headed Serpent. — The Grateful Tartaro and the Heren-Suge. — The Seven-Headed Serpent. — The Serpent in the Wood.
6. 6.III.—Animal Tales. — Acheria, the Fox. — The Ass and the Wolf.
7. 7.IV.—Basa-Jaun, Basa-Andre, and Lamiñak. — Basa-Jauna, the Wild Man. — The Servant at the Fairy’s. — The Fairy in the House. — The Pretty but Idle Girl. 17 — The Devil’s Age. — The Fairy-Queen Godmother. 20
8. 8.V.—Witchcraft and Sorcery. — The Witches at the Sabbat. 2 — The Witches and the Idiots. — The Witch and the New-Born Infant. — The Changeling.
9. 9.VI.—Contes des Fées. — (A.)—Tales like the Keltic. — Malbrouk. 2 — The Fisherman and His Sons. — Tabakiera, the Snuff-Box. 19 — Mahistruba, the Master Mariner. — Dragon. — Ezkabi-Fidel. — The Lady Pigeon and her Comb. 47 — Suggested Explanation of the above Tale (The Lady-Pigeon and her Comb). — Laur-Cantons. 61 — The Young Schoolboy. — The Son who Heard Voices. — The Mother and her (Idiot) Son; or, the Clever Thief. 64 — Juan Dekos, 68 the Blockhead (Tontua). — Variation of the above. — Juan de Kalais. 72 — The Duped Priest. 76 — (B.)— Contes des Fées , derived directly from the French. — Ass’-Skin. 77 — The Step-Mother and the Step-Daughter. — Beauty and the Beast. 82 — The Cobbler and his Three Daughters (Blue Beard). — The Singing Tree, the Bird which tells the Truth, and the Water that makes Young. — The White Blackbird. — The Sister and her Seven Brothers.
10. 10.VII.—Religious Tales. — Fourteen. 1 — Jesus Christ and the Old Soldier. — The Poor Soldier and the Rich Man. — The Widow and her Son. 2 — The Story of the Hair-Cloth Shirt (La Cilice). — The Saintly Orphan Girl. — The Slandered and Despised Young Girl.
11. 11.An Essay on the Basque Language,
12. 12.Basque Poetry. — I.—Pastorales. — II. — Leloaren Cantua. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — 8. — 9. — 10. — 11. — 12. — 13. — 14. — 15. — 16. — Song of Lelo. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — 8. — 9. — 10. — 11. — 12. — 13. — 14. — — 16. — Altabiskarco Cantua. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — 8. — Song of Altabiscar. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — 8. — Song of Lelo. — Song of Altabiscar. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — 8. — 9. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — 8. — 9. — Dote Galdia. 25 — 1. — 2. — The Lost Dowry. — 1. — 2. — 1. — 2. — Artzain Dohatsua. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — The Happy Shepherd. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — Little Peter. 28 — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — 8. — Artzain Zaharrac. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — 8. — 9. — The Old Shepherds. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — 8. — 9. — 1. — 2. — 3.
13. 13.Colophon — Availability — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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