Folk-lore and legends: English: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Folk-lore and legends: English, credited to Charles John Tibbits, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Folk-lore and legends: English by Charles John Tibbits. Read in English by Bill Boerst; Paul Mazumdar; Foon; Dafni Ma; arjunanand; Sonnie Abdalla; Linda Johnson; Gemma L Myers; Jessica Jiwon Choe; Fadi Qutub; Elizabeth P.; Jonathan Paul Arnold; susanjhudson The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is being lost, more rapidly in England, perhaps, than in any other part of the world. Our folk are giving up the old myths for new ones. Before remorseless “progress,” and the struggle for existence, the poetry of life is being quickly blotted out. In editing this volume I have endeavoured to select some of the best specimens of our Folklore. With regard to the nursery tales, I have taken pains to give them as they are in the earliest editions I could find. I must say, however, that, while I have taken every care to alter only as much as was absolutely necessary in these tales, some excision and slight alteration has at times been required. - Summary by Charles John Tibbits

Recording facts

• Recording title: Folk-lore and legends: English
• Author credits: Charles John Tibbits
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 5:19:35

Catalogue topics

• English
• fairy tales
• devil
• faeries
• cultural

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - A Dissertation on Fairies Part 1 — 33:15
2. 02 - Introductory Note — 1:46
3. 03 - A Dissertation on Fairies Part 2 — 32:32
4. 04 - Nelly the Knocker — 5:30
5. 05 - The Three Fools — 6:13
6. 06 - Some Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham — 9:56
7. 07 - The Tulip Fairies — 3:37
8. 08 - The History of Jack and the Giants — 46:41
9. 09 - The Fairies’ Cup — 2:38
10. 10 - The White Lady — 4:15
11. 11 - A Pleasant and Delightful History of Thomas Hickathrift — 48:53
12. 12 - The Spectre Coach — 9:58
13. 13 - The Baker’s Daughter — 4:37
14. 14 - The Fairy Children — 3:35
15. 15 - The History of Jack and the Beanstalk — 32:03
16. 16 - Johnny Reed’s Cat — 8:31
17. 17 - Lame Molly — 4:35
18. 18 - The Brown man of the Moors — 2:41
19. 19 - How the Cobbler cheated the Devil — 4:20
20. 20 - The Tavistock Witch — 3:11
21. 21 - The Worm of Lambton — 10:08
22. 22 - The Old Woman and the Crooked Sixpence — 4:06
23. 23 - The Yorkshire Boggart — 5:59
24. 24 - The Duergar — 6:36

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