CANADIAN FAIRY TALES - 26 Canadian Indian Fairy Tales

The 26 tales in this collection, were gathered from various parts of Canada—at a time when the most convenient method of travel was by the Canadian waterways. The compiler travelled the rivers, lakes and oceans where sailors and fishermen still watched the stars. He gathered them in forest clearings where lumbermen still retained remnants of the old and now vanished way of life; where Indians used to barter for their goods and from remote country places where women spin and speak with reverence of the days of their fathers.

The 26 tales in this volume are:

How Glooskap Made The Birds

The Rabbit And The Grain Buyers

Saint Nicholas And The Children

The Fall Of The Spider Man

The Boy Who Was Called Thick-Head

Rabbit And The Indian Chief

Great Heart And The Three Tests

The Boy Of The Red Twilight Sky

How Raven Brought Fire To The Indians

The Girl Who Always Cried

Ermine And The Hunter

How Rabbit Deceived Fox

The Boy And The Dragon

Owl With The Great Head And Eyes

The Tobacco Fairy From The Blue Hills

Rainbow And The Autumn Leaves

Rabbit And The Moon-Man

The Children With One Eye

The Giant With The Grey Feathers

The Cruel Stepmother

The Boy Who Was Saved By Thoughts

The Song-Bird And The Healing Waters

The Boy Who Overcame The Giants

The Youth And The Dog-Dance

Sparrow's Search For The Rain

The Boy In The Land Of Shadows

The skeleton of each story has been left for the most part unchanged, although the languages differ somewhat from that of the story-tellers from whose lips the writer heard them.

Fairy tales make a universal appeal both to old and young; to the young because it is the fantasy world into which they can retreat, and to the old because they are conscious again of the spirit of youth as they read such tales to their children and grandchildren, and rejoice in the illusion that after all there is not a great difference of age which separates the generations.

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