Clever, Kind, Tricky, and Sly: A Bulgarian Folktale Sampler
Translations of forty-two Bulgarian folktales, together with introductory essay and notes for teachers and storytellers following each story, with a list of Resources Cited.
Each folktale expresses an aspect of Bulgarian folk culture, presents characters who are clever enough to avoid ill-conceived courtship, kind enough to esteem even the poorest of neighbors, tricky enough to evade shysters, or sly enough to remain independent in the face of great power. Each of these traits has helped the Bulgarian people survive and thrive in a relatively poor, mountainous environment for more than fourteen centuries. In celebrating these traits and others, the folktales collected here honor the character of a people.
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Clever, Kind, Tricky, and Sly: A Bulgarian Folktale Sampler
Translations of forty-two Bulgarian folktales, together with introductory essay and notes for teachers and storytellers following each story, with a list of Resources Cited.
Each folktale expresses an aspect of Bulgarian folk culture, presents characters who are clever enough to avoid ill-conceived courtship, kind enough to esteem even the poorest of neighbors, tricky enough to evade shysters, or sly enough to remain independent in the face of great power. Each of these traits has helped the Bulgarian people survive and thrive in a relatively poor, mountainous environment for more than fourteen centuries. In celebrating these traits and others, the folktales collected here honor the character of a people.
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Clever, Kind, Tricky, and Sly: A Bulgarian Folktale Sampler

Clever, Kind, Tricky, and Sly: A Bulgarian Folktale Sampler

by Priscilla Howe
Clever, Kind, Tricky, and Sly: A Bulgarian Folktale Sampler

Clever, Kind, Tricky, and Sly: A Bulgarian Folktale Sampler

by Priscilla Howe

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Translations of forty-two Bulgarian folktales, together with introductory essay and notes for teachers and storytellers following each story, with a list of Resources Cited.
Each folktale expresses an aspect of Bulgarian folk culture, presents characters who are clever enough to avoid ill-conceived courtship, kind enough to esteem even the poorest of neighbors, tricky enough to evade shysters, or sly enough to remain independent in the face of great power. Each of these traits has helped the Bulgarian people survive and thrive in a relatively poor, mountainous environment for more than fourteen centuries. In celebrating these traits and others, the folktales collected here honor the character of a people.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781624911569
Publisher: Parkhurst Brothers, Inc.
Publication date: 07/01/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 128
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Awarded the International Storybridge Award by her peer storytellers (USA), Priscilla Howe collected stories from national and academic archives while on a Fulbright Scholarship in Bulgaria. Her translations have earned kudos from the international storytelling community. She performs these and other stories at venues in North America and Europe. Howe lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Many Bulgarian folktales feature a grandmother (Baba) and sometimes a grandfather (Dyado), as this next story does.  My friend Hristo told me this story one rainy day in a café in Sofia, with American pop music and the sound of an espresso machine in the background. Hristo knows stories and he knows grandmothers—for years he has been gathering stories, jokes, and songs from old grannies in a village in the mountains. He’s a natural storyteller and is committed to keeping the folk tradition alive.
 

Table of Contents

 
  1. One Woman’s Journey into Bulgarian Folktales
  2. Kotan Bey
  3. Hedgehog and the Fox
  4. Baba’s Rooster
  5. Turnip

  6. Turtle Fetches the Water
  7. A Bone in the Throat
  8. Who Is the Best?
  9. Language of the Animals
  10. Wolf and Stork Open a Tavern
  11. The Span of a Human Life
  12. Granny’s Bowl
  13. Nail Soup
  14. How a Man Won and Lost Everything
  15. Alive and Well?
  16. Whatever You Do, You Do to Yourself
  17. The Sun’s Wedding
  18. The Neverborn Maiden
  19. The Basket-Weaver Prince
  20. Tsar Troyan Has Donkey’s Ears
  21. Little Clover and the Wolves
  22. Mara Pepelyashka
  23. Five Donkeys
  24. Hungry Clever Peter
  25. The Soup of the Soup of the Chicken
  26. Clever Peter at Court
  27. The Village of No Cats
  28. Clever Peter and the Bones
  29. Feeding the Clothes
  30. Clever Peter, Dentist
  31. Who do You Believe?
  32. Nasruddin Hodja is Warmed by Moonbeams
  33. Nasruddin Hodja at the Bath House
  34. Clever Peter’s Cart and Horse
  35. Nasruddin Hodja Saws the Branch on Which he Sits
  36. Clever Peter, Barber
  37. The Car in the Mud Puddle
  38. Who are the Thieves?
  39. Until Monday
  40. Me, Me, Always Me
  41. Two Hunchbacks
  42. The Good Deed
  43. Most Beautiful
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