FAIRY TALES OF MODERN GREECE - 12 illustrated Greek stories: Grecian Folk and Fairy Lore
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- The Fairy-Hunter
- Fairy Gardens
- The Fairy Wife
- Fairies Of The Waterfall
- The Fairy Comb
- A Fairy Wedding
- The Fairy Ring
- The Fairies’ Theft
- The Haunted Ship
- The Wonder Of Skoupa
- The First Of May
- The Fairy Mother
In every country there is a place where good wishes come true: where the poor and the lonely are rich in castles and friends: and where sorrowful folk are happy. Here you will hear the birds singing and children laughing, all day long. The trees are full of blossoms and fruit. The sky is always blue, the grass green and soft. Under the trees dwell the fairies, and against the blue sky you will sometimes see the sheen of angels’ wings as the flit by. It is from this place that these children’s stories originate. But beware, some, a few, of these stories also contain sadness. Why? Because these stories are used to teach children the lessons of life, albeit in a more gentle way.
So, we invite you to curl up with this unique sliver of Greek Fairy culture not seen in print for over a century; and immerse yourself in the tales and fables of yesteryear made more believable by the 41 pen and ink illustrations by Henriette Reiss.
10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities by the Publisher.
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TAGS: Greece, Greek, fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, children’s stories, childrens, bygone era, fairydom, fairy land, classic stories, children’s bedtime stories, fables, Fairy Hunter, Fairy Gardens, Fairy Wife, Fairies Of The Waterfall, Fairy Comb, Fairy Wedding, Fairy Ring, Fairies’ Theft, Haunted Ship, Wonder Of Skoupa, First Of May, Fairy Mother
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FAIRY TALES OF MODERN GREECE - 12 illustrated Greek stories - Anon E. Mouse
Fairy Tales
of Modern Greece
By Theodore P. Gianakoulis
and
Georgia H. Macpherson
Drawings By Henriette Reiss
Originally Published By
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York City
[1930]
Resurrected by
Abela Publishing, London
[2018]
Fairy Tales of Modern Greece
Typographical arrangement of this edition
© Abela Publishing 2018
This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Abela Publishing,
London
United Kingdom
2018
ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X
Books@AbelaPublishing.com
Website
www.AbelaPublishing.com
Contents
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
I The Fairy-Hunter
II Fairy Gardens
III The Fairy Wife
IV Fairies of the Waterfall
V The Fairy Comb
VI A Fairy Wedding
VII The Fairy Ring
VIII The Fairies’ Theft
IX The Haunted Ship
X The Wonder of Skoupa
XI The First of May
XII The Fairy Mother
Illustrations
Stop!
He was directly above me now and he planted himself in my way
Frontispiece
In the lake one saw mermaids with fairy faces
She had risen and was following him, weeping and reluctant
She thought she saw the forms of three maidens combing out their long hair
She shrieked and fled like a wild dart of light
Vassos was seen on the hill of Trikkala running or rather gliding above the earth
Three cloud-like chariots with leaping white horses
He moved solemnly to Tasoula's bed and held his cross above her
A strange and beautiful creature, half woman, half fish
Nikolas became a shepherd at the age of fifteen
Anasto was loved by Tassos
Agnoste darted straight through the flames
Foreword
TO the question, Does any fragment of ancient Greek mythology survive?
the answer is, Yes, the nymphs.
For among the hills and across the fields and streams of Greece, where the gods were born and dwelt, fairies now dance and play and radiate a subtle charm. Fairies are none other than the modern forms of the dryads, oreads, naiads, nerejds, fates, furies, graces and muses of the ancient myths. They are the nymphs that sang and played with Pan and Hermes, Apollo and the satyrs, but now they play and dance and sing with common shepherds, fishermen and hunters. Their very name is as old as Pontus, their father, and Doris, their mother. Νηρηΐδα or Νεράϊδα and Νύμφη, vernacular Νύφη, have the same meaning, which we may translate fairy
or nymph.
Fairies are the virgin divinities of the earth. They know no heaven, for they take the place of the lower, earth-dwelling gods of the ancient mythology. They were never born; they never grow old; yet they are not immortal. Their beauty is everlasting and their dance eternal. They were created out of the earth and always live upon it, the anthropomorphic spirits of hills, streams, trees and ocean.
The Greek's conception of fairies springs from his worship of nature, to which he is bound by his constant love of beauty. To his mind they are beautiful maidens, endowed with mysterious power, who inhabit palaces in the clouds, in caves on remote mountain peaks, along wild, rocky shores, or at the bottom of the sea. At noon on sunlit days and moonlit nights they visit the haunts of mortals, often choosing a tall pine tree, a cave or a spring. Sometimes they come singing, playing violins or flutes, or gently beating drums; sometimes they steal silently over hills and fields, seeking beautiful children or youths or maidens to carry away to their palaces for purposes of pleasure.
The fairy world is higher than that of mortals. Its creatures are not subject to the same laws of nature as are binding upon us. Nevertheless, they are not goddesses and their power is not unlimited. They can be frightened and driven away by the firing of a gun. They dare not touch the mortal who wears a felahtare, bag of incense, such as many Greeks have suspended about their necks. The cross, a sign of the cross, and prayer, are protections against them. If a mortal seizes a fairy's handkerchief or veil, a strand of hair or a bit of clothing, the fairy becomes a helpless mortal woman, bound to serve the human being who thus captured her. If the fairy article returns to the possession of its rightful owner, the woman regains her fairy attributes and power, but should the article be burned to ashes, communication between her and the fairy world ceases and she is doomed to die a mortal's death.
Music, laughter and song, play, dancing and love are associated with fairies, but at times these creatures can be cunning and cruel and, when thwarted, revengeful. Occasionally, as in the case of the water fairies, they offer gifts to their prospective captives. By accepting these gifts, mortals place themselves under the fairies’ dominion, from which escape is possible only by burning the gifts. Fairies have destroyed the happiness or wrecked the life of many a youth who, having seen them, cannot put the memory of them from his mind, or who, having possessed one of them, has lost her forever. The springs from which fairies drink are called μαγεμένες, bewitched. The mortal who drinks from such a spring becomes μαγεμὲνος, fairy-possessed, and, forgetting home and family, wanders aimlessly like one mad.
The mediator between the fairy and the mortal worlds is the sorcerer or the sorceress. The sorceress is the more common. She is usually an old woman with a practical knowledge of healing and much supernatural lore. She not only cures physical ills, but she ministers also to the troubled mind. By conjuring, murmuring mystic words, and applying magic herbs, she can release a μαγεμὲνον, bewitched mortal, from evil spirits. The sight of an old sorceress with her bag of magics, wandering over lonely hills in search of herbs, is familiar to every villager in Greece. These awesome women live a hermit's life, seeking the unfrequented ways, speaking little, mingling with their fellow beings only when summoned to aid.
The relation of Christianity to this last remnant of mythology is an