fairies in Australian Fairy Tales
t is the world in which the children of all the world live: the world of Bogies and Dragons, Fairy Princes and Princesses, Giants and Giant Killers. It is the world we knew so well when we, too, walked with fearful joy amid its mystic, thrilling groves. To dull and prosaic souls it does not exist,…
- Record ID
- 1,397
- Year
- 1,925
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1397
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Publication
- Australian Fairy Tales and related Australian tale books; Hume Cook / Ethel Buckland
- Published
- 1925
- Narrative type
- Giant and Ogre Narratives
- Public-text label
- fairies
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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t is the world in which the children of all the world live: the world of Bogies and Dragons, Fairy Princes and Princesses, Giants and Giant Killers. It is the world we knew so well when we, too, walked with fearful joy amid its mystic, thrilling groves. To dull and prosaic souls it does not exist, for, lacking imagination, they walk in outer darkness. Those fairy forms—so real to the vivid mind—are to them but the shadows of trees in the flickering light of the moon. Hitherto, the Fairies we have known, though very delightful beings, have had their habitat in far-off lands. Thanks to the researches of Mr. Hume Cook, we are now.
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