Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language. Wentworth Webster

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       Introduction.

       I.—Legends of the Tartaro.

       The Tartaro.

       M. d’Abbadie’s Version.

       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.

       The Grateful Tartaro and the Heren-Suge.

       The Seven-Headed Serpent.

       The Serpent in the Wood.

       III.—Animal Tales.

       Acheria, the Fox.

       The Ass and the Wolf.

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

       Basa-Jauna, the Wild Man.

       The Servant at the Fairy’s.

       The Fairy in the House.

       The Pretty but Idle Girl. 17

       The Devil’s Age.

       The Fairy-Queen Godmother. 20

       V.—Witchcraft and Sorcery.

       The Witches at the Sabbat. 2

       The Witches and the Idiots.

       The Witch and the New-Born Infant.

       The Changeling.

       VI.—Contes des Fées.

       (A.) —Tales like the Keltic.

       (B.) — Contes des Fées , derived directly from the French.

       VII.—Religious Tales.

       Fourteen. 1

       Jesus Christ and the Old Soldier.

       The Poor Soldier and the Rich Man.

       The Widow and her Son. 2

       The Story of the Hair-Cloth Shirt (La Cilice) .

       The Saintly Orphan Girl.

       The Slandered and Despised Young Girl.

       An Essay on the Basque Language,

       Basque Poetry.

       I.—Pastorales.

       II.