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Flemish Legends and Folk Tales
Folk tales and literary legends of Flanders and Brabant in English, from tales collected in Flanders to Charles de Coster’s legends written in French, with their collectors, authors and translators named where the books name them.
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Texts
Beasts & Men — Jean de BosschèreTwenty-four folk tales collected in Flanders and illustrated by the Belgian artist Jean de Bosschère, published in London by William Heinemann in 1918: beast fables of the fox, the goat, the bear and the birds, a five-part Trial of Reynard the Fox, the animal choristers of St. Gudule, the sugar-candy house, the magic cap, Sponsken and the giant and the witch’s cat, with the captions of the book’s pictures.Flemish Legends — Charles de CosterCharles de Coster’s four literary legends of Flanders and Brabant, written in French in 1856–1857 and translated into English by Harold Taylor (London, 1920): the Brotherhood of the Cheerful Countenance and the women-archers of Uccle, the three sisters who built the church at Haeckendover, the knight Sir Halewyn and the maid Magtelt, and Smetse Smee the smith who bargains with the devil.