Légendes de Webster

L’ensemble des textes sont en anglais.

I.–Legends of the Tartaro

• Introduction
• The Tartaro
• M. d’Abbadie’s Version
• Variations of ‘The Tartaro’
• Errua, The Madman
• Variations of Errua
• The Three Brothers, The Cruel Master, And The Tartaro
• The Tartaro and Petit Perroquet

II.–The Heren-Suge.–The Seven-Headed Serpent.

• Introduction
• The Grateful Tartaro and the Heren-Suge
• Variation of ‘The Grateful Tartaro and the Heren-Suge’
• The Seven-Headed Serpent
• The Serpent in the Wood

III.–Animal Tales

• Introduction
• Acheria, The Fox
• The Ass and the Wolf

IV.–Basa-Jaun, Basa-Andre, and Lamiñak

• Introduction
• Basa-Jauna, The Wild Man
• The Servant at the Fairy’s
• The Fairy in the House
• The Pretty But Idle Girl
• The Devil’s Age
• The Fairy-Queen Godmother

V.–Witchcraft and Sorcery

• Introduction
• The Witches at the Sabbat
• The Witches and the Idiots
• The Witch and the New-Born Infant
• The Changeling

VI.–Contes Des Fées, (A) Tales Like The Keltic

• Introduction
• Malbrouk
• The Fisherman and his Sons
• Tabakiera, The Snuff-Box
• Mahistruba, the Master Mariner
• Dragon
• Ezkabi-Fidel
• Variation of ‘Ezkabi-Fidel’
• The Lady Pigeon and Her Comb
• Suggested Explanation of ‘The Lady-Pigeon and Her Comb’
• Laur-Cantons
• The Young Schoolboy
• The Son Who Heard Voices
• The Mother and Her (Idiot) Son; Or, The Clever Thief
• Juan Dekos, The Blockhead (Tontua)
• Variation of ‘Juan Dekos’. Juan De Kalais
• The Duped Priest

VI.–Contes Des Fées: (B) Derived Directly From The French

• Introduction
• Ass’-Skin
• Variations on ‘Ass�-Skin’
• The Step-Mother and the Step-Daughter
• Beauty and the Beast
• Variation of ‘Beauty and the Beast’
• The Cobbler and His Three Daughters (Blue Beard)
• Variation on ‘Blue Beard’
• The Singing Tree, the Bird Which Tells the Truth, and the Water That Makes Young
• Variation on ‘The Singing Tree, the Bird Which Tells the Truth, and the Water That Makes Young’
• The White Blackbird
• The Sister and Her Seven Brothers
• Variations of Other French Fairy-Tales
• List of Publications of Foreign Legends in France

VII.–Religious Tales

• Introduction
• Fourteen
• Jesus Christ and the Old Soldier
• The Poor Soldier and the Rich Man
• The Widow and Her Son
• The Story of the Hair-Cloth Shirt (La Cilice)
• The Saintly Orphan Girl
• The Slandered and Despised Young Girl