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fairies in Australian Fairy Tales

YEAR
1925
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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
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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
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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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