The Islands of Magic: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Islands of Magic, credited to Elsie Spicer Eells, 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 Islands of Magic, by Elsie Spicer Eells. LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beautiful islands called the Azores which belong to Portugal. Their names are Flores, Corvo, Fayal, Pico, S. Jorge, Graciosa, Terceira, S. Miguel, and Santa Maria. Many people think them to be the mountain peaks of the submerged continent, Atlantis, which long ago was covered by the ocean.However, when I spent December 1920 and January 1921 in the Azores, I found that there were not only pleasant folktales there but even real fairies. They inhabit the wooded slopes of Monte Brasil on the island of Terceira. The fisher folk who visit the barren Ilheos de Cabras on the Bay of Angra know that there are fairies living in those rocky isles even yet when the boys and girls of the Azores are sailing away from them to seek their fortunes in America. Have they not often seen the fairy garments spread out upon the rocks in the bright sunshine? (Summary by book preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Islands of Magic
• Author credits: Elsie Spicer Eells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 3:57:39

Catalogue topics

• Azores
• portugal
• fairy tales
• children
• magic

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 01 - Princess Bluegreen of the Seven Cities — 13:25
2. 02 - The Islands of Flowers — 3:17
3. 03 - Why Dogs Sniff — 4:14
4. 04 - Longstaff, Pinepuller and Rockheaver — 18:48
5. 05 - The Table, The Sifter And The Pinchers — 7:02
6. 06 - Linda Branca and her Mask — 12:52
7. 07 - Fresh Figs — 7:16
8. 08 - Peter-of-the-Pigs — 4:13
9. 09 - Thr Princess Who Lost Her Rings — 10:15
10. 10 - The Master Of Magic — 5:04
11. 11 - St. Anthony's Godchild — 4:25
12. 12 - Trouble When One's Young — 7:23
13. 13 - The Little Maid Who Was Wise — 10:21
14. 14 - Manoel Littlebean — 6:00
15. 15 - The Necklace Of Pearls — 13:32
16. 16 - The Daughter of the Kingdom of Naples — 11:10
17. 17 - Maria of the Forest — 6:27
18. 18 - The Seven Enchanted Princes — 10:50
19. 19 - The Listening King — 10:36
20. 20 - José the Beast Slayer — 9:30
21. 21 - The Princess and the Lost Island — 3:23
22. 22 - Why The Alvéloa Bird Received a Blessing — 2:52
23. 23 - Why the Codorniz Bird Received a Curse — 1:23
24. 24 - Outside the Door Like the Mother of St. Peter — 3:34

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