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Title: FAIRY FOLK TALES OF THE MAORI
Author: COWAN JAMES
Format: Hardback
Imprint: highl
ISBN: A4404
The second edition of this work, first published five years prior.
Illustrated with with a frontispiece and twenty-three plates. Collated, complete.
A delightful collection of fairy tales and folk based upon those traditionally told by the Maori of New Zealand. Tales include ‘The Wars of the Fairies’, ‘A Basket of Eels’, and ‘When Tamaohoi Awoke’.
In his preface, Cowan compares the fairy lore of New Zealand with the Celtic fairy lore of Ireland and Wales.
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