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Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore

Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore

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FAIRY TALES
FROM BRAZIL

HOW AND WHY TALES FROM
BRAZILIAN FOLK-LORE

 

 

BY

ELSIE SPICER EELLS

 

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

HELEN M. BARTON

 

 

 

 

This special edition is published by arrangement with the publisher of the regular edition, Dodd, Mead & Company.

CADMUS BOOKS

E. M. HALE AND COMPANY

CHICAGO


COPYRIGHT, 1917,

By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.


ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Thanks are due to the publishers of Little Folks, Kindergarten-Primary Magazine, Everyland, Mayflower and Story Tellers' Magazine for the privilege of reprinting stories which they have published.

ELSIE SPICER EELLS


PREFACE

I

t is late afternoon in my Brazilian garden. The dazzling blue of sea and sky which characterises a tropical noonday has become subdued and already roseate tints are beginning to prepare the glory of the sunset hour. A lizard crawls lazily up the whitewashed wall. The song of the sabiá, that wonderful Brazilian thrush, sounds from the royal palm tree. The air is heavy with the perfume of the orange blossom. There is no long twilight in the tropics. Night will leap down suddenly upon my Brazilian garden from out of the glory of the sunset sky.

Theresa, the ama, stands before us on the terrace under the mango trees, and we, her yáyázinhas and yóyózinhos, know that the story hour has come. Theresa, daughter of the mud huts under the palm trees, ama in the sobrado of the foreign senhora, is a royal queen of story land. For her the beasts break silence and talk like humans. For her all the magic wonders of her tales stand forth as living truth. Her lithe body sways backwards and forwards to the rhythm of her words as she unfolds her tales to us. She is a picture to remember as she stands under the mango trees on our terrace. Her spotless white "camiza" is decorated with beautiful pillow lace, her own handiwork. Her skirt of stiffly starched cotton is red and purple in colour. A crimson flowered folded shawl hangs over her right shoulder and great strings of beads ornament the ebony of her neck and arms. To sit at the feet of Theresa, the ama, is to enter the gate of story land.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
  Preface vii
I.   How Night Came 3
II.   How the Rabbit Lost His Tail 15
III.   How the Toad Got His Bruises 23
IV.   How the Tiger Got His Stripes 33
V.   Why the Lamb Is Meek 47
VI.   Why the Tiger and the Stag Fear Each Other 61
VII.   How the Speckled Hen Got Her Speckles 73
VIII.   How the Monkey Became a Trickster 87
IX.   How the Monkey and the Goat Earned Their Reputations 95
X.   How the Monkey Got a Drink When He Was Thirsty 105
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