UnTextbook: Mythology & Folklore

The 5 reading units that I chose for this assignment are:

Celtic Fairy Tales 1--I chose this topic because fairy tales interest me the most out of all the choices on the list.  This group of stories will have a collection of fairy, leprechaun and ghost stories.  I look forward to reading the story about The Horned Woman and Gold Tree, Silver Tree the most.

 

This story is part of the Celtic Fairy Tales (1) unit. Story source: Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892).

Celtic Fairy Tales 2--This group of stories is written by the same author, but he uses different stories about mythological legends, kings, and fairies.  I'm most interested in reading about The Fate of the Children of Lir and Elidore.  In addition, I wonder how similar or different the Celtic fairy tales will be from the Chinese and English tales.

 Chinese Fairy Tales--Now, this group of stories sounds really intriguing.  It has stories about ghosts, animals, fairies, gods, devils, etc.  These stories sound like they are going to be not only creative but also completely different from the Celtic fairy tales.

 English Fairy Tales 1--This group of stories sounds like there will some very similar stories to fairy tales that I grew up with like The Three Little Pigs.  These stories will probably sound more familiar to me, but I'm sure that some won't at all.  The story I'm most interested in reading is The Laidly Worm of Spindleton since it is a story about a dragon.

 English Fairy Tales 2--This unit is the second group of tales written by Jacobs.  This section will have comical stories, tragic stories and several stories that are spinoffs of the story of Cinderella.  I am most interested in reading the Cinderella type stories in this section.