Friday,
September 12, 2008
True Treasures of European Folklore: Not
From
The
ANNOTICO Report
Despite
common beliefs, the true treasures and most prolific Folk Tales came from
The
greatest European folklorist of the nineteenth century was Giuseppe Pitrh
(1841-1916).
Pitrh was born into a family of fishermen in
A
selected group of Pitrh tales has been
translated and edited into a two volume collection
THE INTREPID GIUSEPPE PITRH AND HIS COLLECTION OF SICILIAN
FOLK TALES
"The Collected Sicilian Folkand
Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitrh" (Routledge,
2008).
Two Volumes.
Translated By
Pitrh was born into a family of fishermen in
He
wrote over forty books and collected hundreds of fairy tales, legends,
anecdotes, riddles, and myths and published them in Sicilian dialect.
Indeed,
his collection is the most important nineteenth-century collection of tales in
dialect.
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