Tag: folklor

(…) Naturally, this is not a general collection of legendary ballads, and the slightly hackneyed themes of love and romance, so well known to us all, have not been touched upon in a volume intended only to deal with the weird and wonderful. Elves and fairies, demons and witches run riot through these pages and dance through the pictures. Here we have a revel of the bizarre, the whimsical, the extraordinary. Ballads of this type have a peculiar flavour of their own, which can be neither defined nor imitated, and they are, therefore, easily separable from the others.