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From those Épinal prints I learned things far finer and more useful than anything I ever got from the little grammar and history books my schoolmasters gave me to pore over. Épinal prints, you see, are stories, and stories are mirrors of destiny. Blessed is the child that is brought up on fairy-tales. His riper years should prove rich in wisdom and imagination.
It is all so utterly unthinkable. And yet the cry, the footmark, the tread in the cavern no reasoning can get past these. I think of the old-world legends of dragons and of other monsters. Were they, perhaps, not such fairy-tales as we have thought? Can it be that there is some fact which underlies them, and am I, of all mortals, the one who is chosen to expose it? May 3.
To prevent that, you’re to play a game while you’re working in the shop—just as princesses in fairy-tales had to play games sometimes. You’re going in disguise. Do you understand?” “Yes, father, I understand.” “You’re to pretend that you belong to Granny Flynn, that you’re her grandchild. You won’t have to tell any lies about it.
The grave of the hunter is distinguished by his spear, his blow-pipe and quiver, together with the trophies of the chase stags' antlers, and boars' tusks. Some articles of feminine attire or work spindles, petticoats, waist-rings, or water-gourds indicate the graves of women. There are many fairy-tales and legends known to the Dyaks of the present day.
If we are romantic, we hark back to the past and invent fairy-tales with ourselves anent the Noble Red Man who has Passed Away. If we are severely practical, we take notice of filth, vice, plug-hats, tin cans, and laziness. In fact, we might divide all Indian concepts into two classes, following these mental and imaginative bents.
I ascertained that these fairy-tales had had their origin in the town, and reproached the old man for his credulity, but he bridled up at once. 'Goodness gracious! do you think we believed all that on hearsay? I don't know about other people, but I and all my neighbours believed it because our forefathers knew for certain that every Bilak was terrible and dangerous.
It appears to us that of all the fairy-tales none contains so vital a moral truth as the old story, existing in many forms, of Beauty and the Beast. There is written, with all the authority of a human scripture, the eternal and essential truth that until we love a thing in all its ugliness we cannot make it beautiful.
There so the Eddas say are the chosen heroes, who are forever fighting all day, and feasting all night. Thus, instead of a Bible, young Thule studied wild fairy-tales; yet, for all his heathenish training, he had some noble traits, which a Christian lad might imitate. He lived with his widowed mother at the edge of a forest.
Ever since this calumny it believes and will always believe in the twin brother of Louis XIV., suppressed, one knows not why, by his mother, just as one believes in fairy-tales and novels. This false rumour, invented by far-seeing folk, is that which has most affected the King. I will recount the manner in which it reached him.
Obedience is no doubt the nursery virtue in the eyes of authority, but kindness is much more human and attractive. "Both child and man," says Froebel, "desire to know the significance of what happens around them; this is the foundation of Greek choruses, especially in tragedy, and of many productions in the realm of legends and fairy-tales.
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