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Spanish and Portuguese Folklore

Folk tales of Spain and Portugal in English: enchanted Moors and warlocks, saints and pilgrims, kings, students, barbers and peasants, as remembered and retold by nineteenth-century writers.

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Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes — Charles SellersCharles Sellers’s 1888 collection of twenty-one Spanish and Portuguese folk tales, retold from his memory of stories heard in his youth in the North of Portugal and in Spain: enchanted Moors and warlocks, saints, kings, students, cobblers and an archbishop’s mule.