Folk Tales from Chile (Library of Folklore) [Hardcover]

Brenda Hughes (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Series: Library of Folklore

These 15 tales give a taste of the variety of Chile's rich folklore. The stories represent both the Old World culture that the Spanish soldiers and priests who colonised the region brought with them, and the native Indian culture of the original inhabitants of Chile. Despite the attempts of the Spanish to impose their language, rule of law, and Catholicism upon Chile, many of the native Indian tribes clung tenaciously to their own language, customs, and beliefs. There is a story of the spirit who lives in a volcano and keeps his daughter imprisoned in the mountain, guarded by a devoted dwarf; there are domestic tales with luck favouring the poor and simple, and tales which tell how poppies first appeared in the cornfields and how the Big Stone in Lake Llanquihue came to be there. These tales are all beautifully told; ideal for reading aloud or for young children to read on their own.

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Brenda Hughes

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Hardcover: 121 pages
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books; 1St Edition edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781807123
• ISBN-13: 978-0781807128
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,726,813 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A joyful llama on the cover intrigues us!, January 31, 1999

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This review is from: Folk Tales from Chile (Library of Folklore) (Hardcover)

These folktales abound in stories of the cacique (headman of the village), the kalku (village sorcerer), the machi (the good sorcerer), the cuero (a fantastic creature), the chonchon (a form the kalku takes so it can fly through the night). The stories are varied: a russet cow's magic saves a boy and the boy's father and sister. A girl whose face has turned to stone gathers bones until she has enough for a whole skeleton--and miraculously, she is cured. A clever Princess will marry only someone whose riddle she cannot answer. A little tenca, a Chilean song bird, laments a burnt foot all through a cumulative tale only to find that her foot is well after all. And so it goes through 15 of these compelling stories.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Chile, December 5, 2009

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This review is from: Folk Tales from Chile (Library of Folklore) (Hardcover)

I was so glad to find a book that had Folk tales from Chile. there are not many out there.