Charles Godfrey Leland: 25 books

9 works of Charles Godfrey Leland American humorist and folklorist (1824-1903) This ebook presents a collection of 9 works of Charles Godfrey Leland. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Algonquin Legends of New England Aradia or the Gospel...

I was born on the 15th of August, 1824, in a house which was in Philadelphia, and in Chestnut Street, the second door below Third Street, on the north side. It had been built in the old Colonial time, and in the room in which I first saw life there was an old chimney-piece, which was so remarkable that...

Le Edizioni Saecula propongono la PRIMA TRADUZIONE ITALIANA delle Unpublished Legends of Virgil, testo del 1899, di Charles Godfrey Leland. Il volume, che si inseriva nel solco di una tradizione inaugurata dal Senatore Domenico Comparetti (cui il libro è dedicato), offre al lettore un accurato e...

During the past few years the most serious part of the author's study and reflection has been devoted to the subjects discussed in this book. These, briefly stated, are as follows: Firstly, that all mental or cerebral faculties can by direct scientific treatment be influenced to what would have once...

This book is a classic study of the folklore of the Tuscan region of Italy (to the northwest of Rome, around Florence). It ties these traditions to ancient Etruscan and Roman pagan practices. The central focus is the ideology and practice of Stregheria, Italian traditional witchcraft. This...

The ballad, "Breitmann's Going to Church," is based on a real occurrence. A certain colonel, with his men, did really, during the war, go to a church in or near Nashville, and, as the saying is, "kicked up the devil, and broke things," to such an extent, that a serious reprimand from the colonel's superior...

Leland took up arms against King Louis-Philippe in the 1848 revolution in France, popularized the term “emancipation” of slaves, fought for the Union in the American Civil War, and unearthed a diverse collection of folklore, including the alleged “bible” of pagan witchcraft. A life-long truth-stretcher and story-teller, he tells his own tale in this disarming 1893 memoir.

Immediately after the Civil War, Leland’s broken-English ballads on the life and adventures of "Hans Breitmann," a fictitious German-American, achieved international popularity and held it for several generations. Complete 1914 edition of these verses.  

The Gypsies is an overview of gypsy people in many countries.

This book consists almost entirely of legends or traditions of a varied character, referring to places and buildings in Florence, such as the Cathedral and Campanile, the Signoria, the Bargello, the different city gates, ancient towers and bridges, palaces, crosses, and fountains, noted corners, odd...

The Gypsi people are an ethnic group with origins in South Asia. Now officially called the Romani people are a widely dispersed ethnic group with the largest concentrated populations in Europe especially Romania and other Eastern European countries. Worldwide there is an estimated population of at...

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It happened recently to me, as I write, to see one afternoon lying on the side walk in the Via Calzaioli in Florence what I thought was a common iron screw, about three inches in length, which looked as if it had been dropped by some workman. And recalling the superstition that it is lucky to find such...