Reading Notes: Celtic Fairy Tales, Part B


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- a king challenges his daughter's suitors to do a task before he allows them to take her hand. 
- then there's a cowboy, who wants to marry the king's daughter, that trespasses on the land of a giant and the giant threaten to tear him apart so they fought till late in the afternoon
- the cowboy killed the giant and cut off the heads, taking the tongues with him.
- the son of a king tried to say that the cowboy's accomplishments were his own so he went to marry the king's daughter
- the cowboy is angry and attacks the prince and tells everyone he is the one that did the tasks to win the daughter. 
- so then the cowboy got to marry the princess. 
- a prince had a favorite greyhound named Gellert 
- one day the prince went outside and blew his horn to call in Gellert to come home for hunting but the dog never came. 
- the prince had to go off and hunt without Gellert so he didn't have much sport without him.
- on his way back from the hunt he sees Gellert, with blood dripping from his mouth.
- the prince was immediately worried that Gellert did something terrible to his little son so he raced back to the castle and see a lot of blood and disorder everywhere
- the prince couldn't find his son anywhere so he thought Gellert had eaten his son. The prince killed his dog right there
- after he killed his dog his son came crawling out from under the crib and the prince could see clearly that there was a huge monster of a beast, a wolf, dead there that Gellert had killed. 
- the prince felt horrible, so he buried his sweet doggo outside-in view of the mountain.

- Ivan worked for a man for three years in the fields and at the end of each year, Ivan had the choice of three pounds for a year's wages or a piece of advice. 
- each year Ivan decided he wanted a piece of advice instead of the money. 
- but it was time for Ivan to go home to his wife so he set off on his journey. 
- On his journey home, Ivan was able to live by all the advice that the man gave him and it helped him to get home safe and have a successful life.


- a man and wife had twins 
- one day the wife was called away but she was afraid of leaving her young babies 
- but as time went on the parents noticed that their babies didn't grow, so they weren't their kids. 
- they sought out help from an old wise man who told them weird things to look out for to make sure they were their babies
- the parents did everything the man said and found out that they were goblins disguised as her kids, so she threw them out and got her babies back. 


Notes for Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

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