Book
Basque legends: collected chiefly in the Labourd
Griffith and Farron, and Walbrook and Co. • London • Published In 1877 • Pages:
By: Webster, Wentworth, Vinson, M. Julien.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is composed of a number of tales told by Basque peasants at neighborhood gatherings, weddings or other feasts, or simply during the long winter nights when they were seated around their hearths. None of the stories or tales presented here is exclusively Basque in origin but contain elements from other surrounding cultures. The tales are arranged in order dealing with legends of the Tartaro or Cyclops, the Seven-Headed Serpent, animal tales, stories about the Basa-Jauna, the Basa-Andre (the wild man and the wild woman), and of the Laminak or Fairies, tales of witchcraft, a collection of miscellaneous stories with strong Keltic or French origins, entitled 'Contes des Fees', and finally religious tales and legends, probably taken from medieval sources. A concluding section by M. Julien Vinson provides some brief and rather dated information on the Basque language.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literature
- Literary texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Basques
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Folklorist
- Missionary
- Linguist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1990-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Labourd Province, France
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Wentworth Webster, with an essay on the Basque language by M. Julien Vinson
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basques