Tale
Tales of Old Lusitania
Contos populares portugueses
Adolfo Coelho · 1879
Synopsis
A collection of marvellous tales, animal fables and farces gathered from oral tradition: the story of the Carochinha, the cat's tail, the ant and the snow, Gossip Wolf and Gossip Vixen, the prince with donkey's ears, the enchanted Moura, the enchanted little shoes. Each story is given as it was heard, and the preface relates it to its variants in the other European traditions.
Context
The collection appeared in Lisbon in 1879, from P. Plantier, when its author was thirty-two; its learned preface places it within the comparative study of European tales. It predates by a few years the collections of Zófimo Consiglieri Pedroso, first published in English in 1882, and of Teófilo Braga, in 1883, and was translated into English in 1885 under the title Tales of Old Lusitania. It was reissued in 1985 in the Portugal de Perto series, then by Leya in 2015.
Who it is for
Short tales, in the Portuguese of the nineteenth century, preceded by a scholarly preface on the tradition of tales.
Prizes and reception
First systematic collection of folk tales published in Portugal, translated into English as early as 1885.
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