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From: "Juliana S. Smith" <>
Subject: RE: [HUNGARY-L] Hungarian Folk Stories
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:31:13 -0500


I got a book called "Hungarian Folktales: The Art of Zsuzsuanna Palko,"
collected, transcribed, annotated, and introduced by Linda Degh (Jackson,
MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1995, ISBN 0-87805-912-1), at Amazon
last year for Christmas. They are interesting stories, but I got the book
with the intention of reading them to my daughter, and from what I have read
they are definitely not "children's folktales." They are a bit gory at
times.

I've read a few of them, but haven't had time to read the whole book. The
stories include:

I Don't Know
Zsuzska and the Devil
Death with the Yellow Legs
The Glass Coffin
The County and Janos, the Coachman
The Princess
The Serpent Prince
The Fawn
Jozsi the Fisherman
The Sky-High Tree
The Blackmantle
Prince Sandor and Prince Lajos
Andras Kerekes
The Psalm-Singing Bird
Peasant Gagyi
The Golden Egg
Nine
The Red-Bellied Serpent
The Twelve Robbers
Faily Ilona
The Three Archangels
The Smoking Kalfaktor
The Turk
Anna Monar
The Wager of the Two Comrades
The Szekely Bride
The Nagging Wives
Peti and Boris
Konyvenke
The Uncouth Girl
The Dumb Girl
The Two Brothers
The Gypsy King
Gabor Nemet
Margit

The storyteller, Zsuzsanna Palko, was from Kakasd, a village in the county
of Tolna. This peasant woman was "In 1954 named Master of Folklore by the
Hungarian government."

Best,
Juliana


-----Original Message-----
From: ETM [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 12:48 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] Hungarian Folk Stories


When I used Hungarian Tales in a search at Amazon, 12 titles came up.
They all sound charming. Amazon is at

http://www.amazon.com

I am sure the other on line book stores also carry similar titles.

Elaine

Researching S-L-E-P-I-C-K-A and H-R-U-S-K-A



----- Original Message -----
From: Becky Smith <>
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Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 1:31 AM
Subject: [HUNGARY-L] Hungarian Folk Stories


> Does anyone know of a source for Hungarian folk stories?

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