The Brown Fairy Book

MP3 Audio CD. The Brown Fairy Book was written and published in 1904 comprising stories from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen and African Kaffirs, and from Brazil, India, Lapland, and Persia, and other sources.

It is composed of tales such as What the Rose did to the Cypress, Ball-Carrier and the Bad One, How Ball-Carrier finished his Task, The Bunyip, Father Grumbler, The Story of the Yara, The Cunning Hare, The Turtle and his Bride, How Geirald the Coward was Punished, Habogi, How the Little Brother set Free his Big Brothers, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe, The Wicked Wolverine, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter, The Mermaid and the Boy, Pivi and Kabo, The Elf Maiden, How Some Wild Animals became Tame Ones, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter, The Enchanted Head, The Sister of the Sun, The Prince and the Three Fates, The Fox and the Lapp, Kisa the Cat, The Lion and the Cat, Which was the Foolishest?, Asmund and Signy, Rubezahl, Story of the King who would be Stronger than Fate, Story of Wali Dad the Simple-hearted, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey, and The Knights of the Fish.

The Brown Fairy Book was collected and written by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and anthropologist. He is famous for his collection of both folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. He is best known for his stories on folklore, mythology, and religion. He was inspired in writing folklore in his childhood years because of John Ferguson McLennan and Sir Edward Burnett Tylor. In his book of Myth, Ritual and Religion, he narrated the unintelligible facets of mythology as a constancy from more basic strategies. He was a co-founder of psychical research and some anthropology records.