Lapland Of Aurora Colors, Mossy Tundr. Part 06 : THE GIANT WHO DID NOT LIKE BONES BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT! Listen to the Magic Drum! Once upon a time, some Lapp children, without their parents knowing it, climbed into a boat and rowed out on a lake. Now near this lake, in a great mountain cave, a Giant had his dwelling. He was not...
Latvia Of Feast Of Flowers, And, Courl. Part 03 : THE WIZARD WITH BUSHY GOLDEN HEAD AND APPLE-RED CHEEKS BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT! Boom! Boom! Boom! So ended Kurbads giant-strong, from Latvia of the crystal streams, his Wonder Stories. The Four Ancient Wizards of the South Baltic Lands, ground their teeth, whistled, howled, and were...
Lithuania Of The Fragrant Amber. Little White : LITTLE WHITE HORSE GALLOP-A-TROT! GALLOP-A-TROT! Listen to the merry, merry Wizard with the pointed eyes! There was once a man who had three sons, two were clever, but the youngest was simple. The Father bought each of them two horses. One day they heard that something was eating up their barley...
Latvia Of Feast Of Flowers, And, Courl. Part 07 : CASTLE-TREASURE GLEAM! GLITTER! GLEAM! GLITTER! GLEAM! Listen to the Treasure-Wizard: It happened once on a time, that while a Lady was visiting late, her Coachman stretched himself out in the coach and went to sleep. Near midnight a voice waked him, saying: "Get up! Come with me to Kokenhusen. I...
Finland Of The Thousand Lakes, Lost Daughter. Part 04 : THE HIDDEN MAIDEN RING! RING! RING! RING! Listen to the Living Speaking Kantele! In the land where the sea shines white in the twilight of midnight, where the Kantele sighs and breathes the sweetest music, there stands an ancient Castle. Its frowning massive walls rise from an island. Around...
Lithuania Of The Fragrant Amber. The Vanishment : THE VANISHMENT! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT! Boom! Boom! Boom! And Jakamas of the golden bushy head, pointed eyes, and apple-red cheeks, from Lithuania of the fragrant amber, thus ended his Wonder Stories. And the Four Ancient Wizards were silent! See! The Great Nischergurgje with a rolling...
Lapland Of Aurora Colors, Mossy Tundr. Part 02 : THE MOON DAUGHTER'S MAGIC BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT! Listen to Nischergurgje's Magic Drum! Far back in the ages when the woodcock was white and the blackbird was gray, and before there were any mosquitoes and gnats, in Lapland lived two mighty Wizards. One was named Torajas and the other...
Lithuania Of The Fragrant Amber. Poor M : POOR MAN AND NEVER-ENOUGH SPLASH, SPLASH! SPLISH, SPLASH! SPLISH, SPLASH, SPLISH! Listen to the Wizard with the apple-red cheeks! Once on a time, a poor man went into the woods to the riverbank. He chopped down a tree, chop! chop! As he chopped, crick! crack! the axehead fell from its handle...
Lapland Of Aurora Colors, Mossy Tundr. Part 03 : THE ULDAS' OLD MOTHER Now this is what happened once, in Lapland of the Northern Lights! The Lapps know that Ulda Fairy Folk carry off children, so Lapp fathers and mothers give their children amulets of silver, brass, or copper, to frighten away the Uldas. There was once a Lapp Mother, who did not...
Latvia Of Feast Of Flowers, And, Courl. Part 06 : WHAT WITCHES TELL CLACK! CLACK! CLACK! CHATTER! CLACK! Listen to the Lettland Witches! In the Land where on Midsummer Night, the St. John's Fires blaze up, and the girls dance at the Flower Feast, adorned with garlands of wheat-ears and blue cornflowers, in that Land, I say, Witches fly...
Latvia Of Feast Of Flowers, And, Courl. Part 02 : FROM LATVIA OF FEAST OF FLOWERS AND COURLAND GOD'S OWN LITTLE COUNTRY Kurbads, merry Lettland's Wizard, With his Magic Incantations, Calls the gold and silver to him; Calls the jewels and the amber; Calls the casks all filled with riches; And they lie in heaps before him, There they shine...
Lapland Of Aurora Colors, Mossy Tundr. Part 07 : KARI WOODENCOAT BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT! Listen to Nischergurgje! A King had a son, and he had a kitchen girl. Her coat was made of three wooden boards. One Sunday came, and Kari Woodencoat carried the washwater in to the King's Son. As she was shutting the door, the King's Son threw...
Estonia, Wise And Free, Land Of Wonder Legends : THE WIZARD WITH YELLOW EYEBALLS AND GREEN HAIR BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! So finished Sarvik with back like an oak, and lolling red tongue, his Wonder Stories. And the Four Ancient Wizards of the South Baltic Lands, ground their teeth, whistled, howled, and were still...
Lithuania Of The Fragrant Amber. One Hundred Hares : ONE HUNDRED HARES HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! Listen to the laughing Wizard with the pointed eyes! In old times there lived a King. He had only one daughter. He would not give her in marriage except to the man who could perform three great tasks even if he were most miserable of beggars. Many tried...
Finland Of The Thousand Lakes, Lost Daughter. Part 02 : FORGING OF THE MAGIC SAMPO CLING! CLING! CLING! CLANG! CLING! Listen to the Red-Haired Wizard of the Land of a Thousand Lakes! In those first Golden Days, Vainamoinen, thinking bitterly on the Rainbow Maiden and her mocking, snapped his whip adorned with jewels, urged on his racing steed so th...
Finland Of The Thousand Lakes, Lost Daughter. Part 06 : MAGIC SINGING CLING! CLING! CLING! CLANG! CLING! Listen to the Red-Haired Wizard from the Land of a Thousand Lakes! In the days of Golden Wonders, when the world was made from an egg--the earth from its lower half, the sky from its upper part, the moonshine from its white, and the sunshine from its...
Lapland Of Aurora Colors, Mossy Tundr. Part 09 : FROM LAPLAND OF AURORA COLORS WHITE SILENCE MOSSY TUNDRAS AND HILLS WHERE REINDEER FEED Lapland's Children, they are singing, Chant the Children of the Northland! While the winter nights grow longer, And the days have no returnings; And the Long Nights shimmer whitely O'er the icy wastes...
Latvia Of Feast Of Flowers, And, Courl. Part 04 : THE DUCKLING WITH GOLDEN FEATHERS GLEAM GOLD! GLITTER GOLD! GLEAM! Listen to the Wizard of the gleaming cavern: Once on a time two King's children, a brother and a sister, lived with a hateful woman. She ill-treated the two children, though she loved her own daughter who was both dirty and ugly...
Lapland Of Aurora Colors, Mossy Tundr. Part 05 : NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY SPIDER! BUZZ! Buzz! Buzz! Listen to the swarming gnats! In Lapland when the summer sun burns hot, day and night, the Lapp children have much pain. This is all because of the spider! In old days there were no mosquitoes in Lapland. But in the pleasant country to the south...
Latvia Of Feast Of Flowers, And, Courl : THE GOLD AXE GLITTER! SHINE! SHINE! GLITTER! Listen to the Wizard with yellow eyeballs and green hair! Once on a time, in a farmhouse, a young Maiden sat spinning by the light of a burning pine-splinter. The farmer's wife and her daughter--the farmer had been dead for three years--were asleep...
Estonia, Wise And Free, Land Of Wonder Legends. Part 07 : THE SINGING SWORD WEIRD! WEIRD! WEIRD! EVER WEIRD! Listen to Sarvik of the woolly white hair, and lolling red tongue! In the ancient days of Wizards and Witches there lived, in Estonia, a giant Hero named Kalevide. His back was like an oak, his shoulders were gnarled and knotted, his arms like...
Estonia, Wise And Free, Land Of Wonder Legends. Part 03 : THE MAGIC MAIDEN IN a huge chamber sat four-and-twenty Ladies around a banquet table, all in splendid robes as though for a wedding. At the head of the table sat the Lady, Kiisiki's Mother, on a golden chair. Elsa did not know what to look at first, everything around her was so magnificent...
Estonia, Wise And Free, Land Of Wonder Legends. Part 05 : THE LUCK EGG THE leaves of the Mystic Linden sigh! Light glows from the Magic Stone! Listen to the Wizard of the Crystal-Lighted Cavern! Once on a time, in a great wood lived a poor man with his wife. God had given them eight children, and when a ninth was born, they were not overjoyed. But God had...
The Magic Drum Calls You : THE MAGIC DRUM CALLS YOU! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT! In Lapland when the Arctic Storm Wind roars down from the mountains and blows through the valleys and over the tundra, comes the call of the Magic Drum. Do you hear it on the wind? Do you hear its beat! beat! beat! and the grinding...
Title Page : WONDER TALES FROM BALTIC WIZARDS From The German And English BY FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 1928 To ALBERT von JULIN A Patriot of Finland
Estonia, Wise And Free, Land Of Wonder Legends. Part 08 : FROM ESTONIA THE WISE AND THE FREE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT AND OF WONDER LEGENDS Where the mystic cliffs are rising, Where the billows beat and clammer, Where they leap, and boil, and bubble, In a Cavern, Crystal-Lighted, Sings Estonia's Happy Wizard-- Sings a song of weird enchantments, Sings...
Interesting Things. The Tiny Dictionary : THE TINY DICTIONARY OF STRANGE EAST BALTIC THINGS AMBER: A storm on the Baltic! Tangled seaweed tossed upon the shore! And in the seaweed, lumps of yellow amber! That is what happens, and has happened for thousands of years. Amber is the fossil gum from extinct trees long buried under Baltic waters...
Lithuania Of The Fragrant Amber. Luck, Luck : LUCK, LUCK IN THE RED COAT! CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEP! under the doorsill! Listen to the Wizard with red, red cheeks! There was once a man who had two sons. He led a lovely orderly life. He brought up his sons well, and gave them good teaching. At last he died. After his death, his children took over...
Estonia, Wise And Free, Land Of Wonder Legends. Part 04 : WOOD OF TONTLA WEIRD! WEIRD! WEIRD! EVER WEIRD! Listen now to the Wizard with the lolling red tongue! WEIRD THINGS In ancient days there was a beautiful wood called the Wood of Tontla. No one dared venture into it. The boldest men, who chanced to be near it, told how under the thick trees strange...
Lithuania Of The Fragrant Amber. Mannik : MANNIKIN LONG BEARD CRACK, BANG! SLAM, BANG! BANG, CRACK! Listen to the laughing Wizard again! In a certain village there was once a Land owner who had a wife. Though married long years, they had no child. Both of them grieved very much over this. At last, however, the wife had a little son, whom...
Estonia, Wise And Free, Land Of Wonder Legends. Part 02 : GOLDEN WONDERS From this day on Elsa lived as happily as the richest human child, that has been rocked in a golden cradle. She had neither sorrow nor care. Her former hard life seemed a dream. But an unknown Magic Power appeared to govern the life around her. A huge granite stone stood near...
Estonia, Wise And Free, Land Of Wonder Legends. Part 06 : THE MAIDEN OF THE MILKY WAY THE stars shine down! The Northern Lights flash over the sky, and the Milky Way glows white! Listen to the song of the Wizard of the Crystal-Lighted Cavern! Ah! Beautiful was Linda the lovely daughter of Uko. She showed all the skypaths to the little birds, when they...
Interesting Things. The Tiny History Of East : INTERESTING THINGS THE TINY HISTORY OF THE BALTIC SEA PIRATE DAYS RING! RING! RING! TOLL! TOLL! TOLL! The alarm bells were ringing, over twelve hundred years ago; along the east coast of Britain they were ringing and tolling. The Baltic Pirates were coming. The British children, and their fathers...
Lapland Of Aurora Colors, Mossy Tundr. Part 08 : THE BATTLE OF THE WIZARDS BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT! Listen to Nischergurgje! Far, far away in Lapland of the Many Wizards, beyond the Arctic Circle, in mid-winter, it is one Long Night. But what a night! There is silence. The stars sparkle in the vast, dark sky. A soft white shimmer glows...
Foreword. Wizards In Folk Lore : FOREWORD WIZARDS IN FOLK-LORE ENCHANTMENTS, Wizards, Witches, Magic Spells, Nixy Queens, Giants, Fairy White Reindeer, and glittering Treasures flourish in these tales from the Baltic Lands--Lapland (both Finnish and Scandinavian), Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. And their setting is...
Lithuania Of The Fragrant Amber. From Lithuania : FROM LITHUANIA OF THE FRAGRANT AMBER COAST THE AMBER WIZARD See! O see! the Amber Wizard, Lithuania's Amber Wizard, How he shakes his head all golden, Puffs his cheeks as red as apples, Steps into the foaming wavelets, Dives into the Baltic billows; Downward, downward to the forests, Ancient pine...
Finland Of The Thousand Lakes, Lost Daughter. Part 07 : FROM FINLAND OF THE THOUSAND LAKES LOST DAUGHTER OF THE BALTIC SEA Where the lovely lilies tremble, Golden lilies on the waters; Where the fir tree points its candles, Points its slender spire towards Heaven; And the streams make mighty music, From the rocks in cascades foaming-- There dwells...
Finland Of The Thousand Lakes, Lost Daughter. Part 03 : THE RAINBOW MAIDEN CLING! CLING! CLING! CLANG! CLING! Listen to the Red-Haired Wizard from Suomi the beautiful of the thousand lakes and thousand isles! Listen to his tale of Vainamoinen, Ancient Wizard: It was in those first Golden Wonder Days that the rash boastful Youkahainen promised his lovely...
Untitled : WONDER TALES FROM BALTIC WIZARDS BY FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT [1928] Title Page Foreword: Wizards in Folk-Lore Contents The Magic Drum Calls You! LAPLAND OF AURORA COLORS, MOSSY TUNDRAS, AND REINDEER HERDS From Lapland The Battle of the Wizards Kari Woodencoat The Giant Who Did Not Like Bones Naughty...
Lapland Of Aurora Colors, Mossy Tundr. Part 04 : WHAT HAPPENED TO SOME LAPP CHILDREN BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT! Listen to Nischergurgje! THE BOYS WHO DID NOT GET A MAGIC COW ONCE on a time in Lapland of the Northern Lights, where the rich Lapp Kings own great herds of reindeer--pack reindeer, mother reindeer, and pretty little...
Latvia Of Feast Of Flowers, And, Courl. Part 05 : LITTLE WHITE DOG CHIME! CHIME! CHIME! Listen to the Wizard of the Magic Incantations! Once on a time there was a girl who lived with a bad-tempered woman. The woman treated her meanly. The girl tried to do everything she was told to do, but could never satisfy the woman. One day she had to go...
Finland Of The Thousand Lakes, Lost Daughter : THE WIZARD WITH THE LOLLING RED TONGUE BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! So finished Kauko the Red-Haired Wizard of Finland, his Wonder Stories. And the Four Ancient Wizards of the South Baltic Lands, ground their teeth, whistled, howled, and were still. And while the Gre...
Lapland Of Aurora Colors, Mossy Tundr : THE RED-HAIRED WIZARD BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT!--BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! through the long Arctic Night and across the white snow plains! So ended the Great Nischergurgje his stories. And the Four Ancient Wizards of the South Baltic Lands, ground their teeth, whistled, howled, and were still...
Finland Of The Thousand Lakes, Lost Daughter. Part 05 : THE LIVING KANTELE RING! RING! SING! SING! Listen to Kauko the Red-Haired Wizard, as he plays on his living Kantele! A widow had a son, who lived with his Mother. One day he said to her: "I will go out into the world to earn money." But the Mother said, "Why would you go away? Buy yourself a gun...