Fairy Tales from Brazil
by Elsie Spicer Eells
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About this eBook
- Author
- Eells, Elsie Spicer, 1880-1963
- Title
- Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Sankar Viswanathan, Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper,
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Fairy tales -- Brazil
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 24714
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24714
- Release Date
- February 28, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FAIRY TALES FROM BRAZIL — HOW AND WHY TALES FROM BRAZILIAN FOLK-LORE — BY
- 2.ELSIE SPICER EELLS — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY — HELEN M. BARTON — CADMUS BOOKS
- 3.E. M. HALE AND COMPANY — CHICAGO — COPYRIGHT, 1917, — By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
- 4.ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- 5.PREFACE
- 6.CONTENTS
- 7.How Night Came
- 8.How the Rabbit Lost His Tail
- 9.How the Toad Got His Bruises
- 10.How the Tiger Got His Stripes
- 11.Why the Lamb Is Meek
- 12.Why the Tiger and the Stag Fear Each Other
- 13.How the Speckled Hen Got Her Speckles
- 14.How the Monkey Became a Trickster
- 15.How the Monkey and the Goat Earned Their Reputations
- 16.How the Monkey Got a Drink When He Was Thirsty
- 17.How the Monkey Got Food When He Was Hungry
- 18.Why the Bananas Belong to the Monkey
- 19.How the Monkey Escaped Being Eaten
- 20.Why the Monkey Still Has a Tail
- 21.How Black Became White
- 22.How the Pigeon Became a Tame Bird
- 23.Why the Sea Moans
- 24.How the Brazilian Beetles Got Their Gorgeous Coats
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