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'Halloween' is short for 'All Hallows Eve'. The USA used to spell it as 'Hallowe'en.' This anthology, which first came out in 1935, uses that earlier spelling, so please don't think the word isn't spelled correctly in the list of the stories and poems this book includes. Ms. Harper used an asterisk to mark stories she considered '...especially suited to the enjoyment of younger children' and I've got them here, too. Why list the stories? Because that's what I'd want to know before I buy an anthology online. This book had been an old library favorite of mine before I was able to buy a used copy -- back in the days before we had the Internet to help us buy out-of-print books.
According to the introduction, parents, teachers, and librarians could use the stories in this book throughout the year. A few of them aren't socially acceptable now, unless the person doing the reading aloud makes changes. One of the things I like about this book (besides still finding it enjoyable even though I'm a middle-aged adult), is that the stories come from other countries instead of just the United Kingdom and France.
The origin of the stories is as given in the book except for changes to no-longer acceptable terms. I've written a brief description under each title. I know there was a later edition with a different illustrator because I photocopied the only two illustrations I liked from it and glued them into my copy. I don't remember if that later edition has exactly the same stories.
'Hallowe'en' by Molly Capes (poem) Going door to door yelling "trick or treat!" isn't part of the description.
'The Ghost of the Great White Stag' by Arthur C. Parker (American Indian/Native American folk tale) Good, spooky tale of treachery and retribution among the fur-folk and the feather-folk. It's one of my favorites in this collection.
'The Hungry Old Witch' by Charles J. Finger (South American legend) A young man and woman try to escape the clutches of a ravenous old witch.
*'The Conjure Wives' by Frances G. Wickes (tale from the USA's Old South) Written in dialect, this is a tale of greedy African-American women preparing to weave spells on Hallowe'en. They don't want to feed the stranger knocking at their door.
*'Someone' by Walter de la Mare (poem) It's night and there's a mysterious caller.
'Ah Tcha the Sleeper' by Arthur B. Chrisman (Chinese folk tale) Tale of a rich orphan boy who unknowingly angers a witch. Contains what is said to be a reliable method for frightening a Chinese dragon. This is an origin story for tea. It's one of my favorites in this collection.
*'The Woodman and the Goblins' by J. B. Esenwein and Marietta Stockard (story from Scotland) Nice old woodman should not have tried to hatch those eggs he found in the forest.
*'The King o' [of] the Cats' by Joseph Jacobs (Old English folk tale) A sexton tells his wife about a strange thing that happened while he was digging a grave. Their cat is listening.
'The Enchanted Cow' by Mary G. Davis (a tale of Old Italy) A young man must save his beloved from a wicked witch
'Peter and the Witch of the Wood' by Anna Wahlenberg (Old Swedish tale) Will Peter commit an evil deed in order to save a princess from a witch? It's one of my favorites in this collection.
'The Goblin of the Pitcher' by Alida S. Malkus (Mayan folk tale) The imp in the pitcher is too shy to let himself be seen, but once...
''Tamlane' by Joseph Jacobs (Old English folk tale) A maiden must save her beloved from the elves.
*'The Ghosts of Forefathers' Hill' by Raymond W. Alden A charming story about a 10 year-old girl named Betty whose wish comes true. It's one of my favorites in this collection.
*'The Shadow People' by Francis Ledwidge (poem) A child sees the shadow people but isn't believed.
*The Black Cat of the Witch-Dance-Place' by Frances J. Olcott (Old German folk tale) A girl is fool enough to try a charm by moonlight
*Tompson's Hallowe'en' by Margaret and Mary Baker A witch's cat doesn't believe in charms.
*''So-Beé-Yit' by Maynard Dixon (American Indian/Native American story) A Native American lad takes a foolish dare against the Big Medicine Rock.
'The Old Hag of the Forest' by Seumas MacManus (Irish folk tale) A lovely princess is the prize for the man who can beat three giants.
'The Ghost Wife' by Charles A. Eastman (Sioux folk tale) This is a story of love lasting beyond the grave
*'The Old Witch' by Joseph Jacobs (Old English folk tale) A witch who isn't wicked gets robbed and slandered
*'Wait Till [Until] Martin Comes' by Frances G. Wickes (tale from the USA's Old South) A preacher takes refuge in an empty house that doesn't stay empty.
*'The Wishing-Well' by Maud Lindsay and Emilie Poulsson This is a tale of greed and generosity and what happens to the wishers.
'The Witch's Shoes' by Frances J. Olcott (wonder tale from Scotland) This story is about two brothers, their oblivious employer, and his wife.
'Old Man Gully's Hant [Haunt]' by Sarah J. Cocke (tale told by African-American women of the USA's Old South) I don't know if they still tell this story. It's written in dialect, has one use of the "N" word and a racist portrayal of the African-American hired hand. The best I can say about it is that the white master and mistress don't come off well, either.
*'A Hallowe'en Story' by Margaret Widdemer (poem) A sister tells her siblings a ghost story.
'The Witch of Lok Island' by Elsie Masson (folk tale of Brittany) Enjoy a story where the heroine saves the hero. When I was trying to remember folk or fairy tales in which the heroine wasn't imprisoned or in peril until rescued, this one came to mind. It's one of my favorites in this collection.
*'The Great White Bear' by Maud Lindsay Two boasters get caught out.
'The Ghosts of Kahlberg' by Bernard Henderson (wonder tale from Alsace-Lorraine) The Langebergs of Kahlberg never forgive an injury nor forget a friend
'The Wonderful Lamb' by Nandor Pogany (Old Hungarian legend) If a princess doesn't laugh, she'll die.
*''Teeny-Tiny' by Joseph Jacobs (Old English folk tale) A very small woman makes a discovery on a churchyard grave.
I like Wilfred Jones' illustrations, which is why I wasn't happy to find them replaced in a different neighborhood library's later edition. (I was an Air Force brat, so I spent my childhood being moved around. It was pretty disappointing when the new library didn't have some of my favorites that were in the old one.) Most of these stories should still entertain children today. I'd also recommend this collection to adults who enjoy folk tales. ( )
If the arts of Black Magic are now no longer practiced, Halloween, nevertheless, still weaves an eerie spell over children and it is the night above all nights for story-telling.
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Bolt and bar the front door, Draw the curtains tight, Wise folk are in before Moonrise tonight. ['Hallowe'en']
There is a mighty mountain of the northlands. ['The Ghost of the Great White Stag']
She was a witch, she was very old, and she was always hungry, and she lived long ago near a forest where now is Uruguay, and just in the corner where Brazil and Argentina touch. ['The Hungry Old Witch']
Once on a time when a Hallowe'en night came on the dark o' the moon, a lot o' old conjure wives was a-sttin' by the fire an' a cookin' a big supper for theirselves. ['The Conjure Wives']
Someone came knocking At my wee, small door... ['Someone']
Years ago, in southern China, lived a boy, Ah Tcha by name. ['Ah Tcha the Sleeper']
Once on a time a Woodman lived in the heart of a thick woods. ['The Woodman and the Goblins']
One winter's evening the Sexton's wife was sitting by the fireside with her big black cat, Old Tom, on the other side, both half asleep and waiting for the master to come home. ['The King o' the Cats']
Long, long ago there lived in Florence a good and beautiful girl whose name was Artemisia. [The Enchanted Cow']
In a little gray hut, at the edge of a wood, lived Mother Stine and her boy who was called Peter. ['Peter and the Witch of the Wood']
No one has seen the imp of the pitcher, said Tad Cob. ['The Goblin of the Pitcher']
Young TAMLANE was the son of Earl Murray, and Burd Janet was the daughter of Dunbar, Earl of March. ['Tamlane']
On a pleasant hillside there was (and still is, I suppose) a very old stone wall that had stood for many hundreds of years. ['The Ghosts of Forefathers' Hill']
OLD LAME Bridget doesn't hear Fairy music in the grass When the gloaming's on the mere And the shadow people pass: Never hears their slow gray feet Coming from the village street Just beyond the parson's wall, Where the clover globes are sweet, And the mushroom's parasol Opens in the moonlit rain. ['The Shadow People']
HIGH, HIGH rises the Witch-Dance-Place, a great rock at the entrance of the Bode Valley. ['The Black Cat of the Witch-Dance-Place']
ONCE UPON a time on the edge of a wood there was a little house. ['Tompson's Hallowe'en']
SO-BEE-YIT'S PEOPLE liked to go gathering berries in the summertime. ['So-Beé-Yit']
ONCE UPON a time, long, long ago, when there were more kings and queens in Ireland than O'Donnell's old castle has windows, and when witches and enchantments were as plentiful as blackthorn bushes, there was a king and queen with three sons, and to every one of those sons the queen had given a hound, a hawk, and a filly. ['The Old Hag of the Forest']
THERE WAS ONCE a young man who loved to be alone, and who often stayed away from the camp for days at a time, when it was said that wolves, bears, and other wild creatures joined him in his rovings. ['The Ghost Wife']
ONCE UPON a time there were two girls who lived with their mother and father. ['The Old Witch']
ONCE ON a time, on a Hallowe'en night, an ole preacher man was a-lopin' down a road an' he come to a little ole house, an' he knock on de door. ['Wait Till Martin Comes']
ONCE UPON a time when the world was young as ye are, there was a wishing-well where a body might get all the fairy gold he wanted, if only he knew how to wish for it in the right way, and went to the well at the right time. ['The Wishing-Well']
SOME TIME ago, two brothers, handsome healthy lads, were serving a blacksmith. ['The Witch's Shoes']
WHINSOMEV'R YER sees enything right shiny black, widout er single white speck on hit nowhar, you kin jes' put hit down in yo' mine, dat's er hant! ['Old Man Gully's Hant']
WE SAT around the hearth in the firelight,
And mother was away upstairs,
So we cuddled close, and shook, and we didn't dare
to look
At the shadow places back of the chairs: (the sentence goes on for four more lines)
['A Hallowe'en Story']
IN OLDEN times when miracles were common in Brittany there lived in Lannilis a youth called Houarn Pogam and a maiden whose name was Bella Postik. ['The Witch of Lok Island']
ONCE UPON a time, the tailor of Wraye and the tinker of Wraye went to the king's fair together, and when they had seen all the sights that were there they started home together, well pleased with their outing. ['The Great White Bear']
MANY YEARS ago, one Andrew Hatt lived on a small holding near Zabern, where the valleys lie open to the sun. ['The Ghosts of Kahlberg']
ONCE UPON a time, on a Sunday morning, a shepherd boy who had been wandering a great deal, arrived at a royal city just as the King and his daughter were leaving a church. [''The Wonderful Lamb']
ONCE UPON a time, there was a teeny-tiny woman who lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. ['Teeny-Tiny']
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Hallowe'en, Hallowe'en, Fires burn high, Who shall say certainly, Who can tell truthfully What solemn company Pass through the sky? ['Hallowe'en']
Great was the joy of the people when Stout Heart brought the maiden to his home, for she became his wife and was loved by all there as the fairest woman among them. ['The Hungry Old Witch']
Only on a Hallowe'en night you don't want to go round the old owls, because then they turn to old conjure wives a weavin' their spells. ['The Conjure Wives']
He took his place in the goblin circle, and if the light still burns, beyond a doubt they are all sitting there still underneath the crooked beech tree. ['The Woodman and the Goblins']
And well he might look, for Old Tom was swelling and Old Tom was staring, and at last Old Tom shrieked out, 'What - Old Tim dead! then I'm the King o' the Cats!' and rushed up the chimney and was never more seen. ['The King o' the Cats']
It runs like this: Maidens, beware lest witches catch you; Think of the Via Vacchereccia. And strangers passing through the same, Think how the street once got its name. [The Enchanted Cow']
And then the Elfin court rode away, and Burd Janet and young Tamlane went their way homewards and were soon after married after young Tamlane had again been sained by the holy water and made Christian once more. ['Tamlane']
On her stone - next to the one that the ghost had called her father's - which had been quite bare when she saw it before, there was now a tiny primrose in a crown. ['The Ghosts of Forefathers' Hill']
Afterwards Jack and the second brother started away for home with their hounds, their hawks, and their fillies and as much gold as they could carry. ['The Old Hag of the Forest']
Den dat ole preacher man he jest hike up his pants, an' grab up his sermons, an' he open de door an he say, 'When Martin comes you kin tell him I'se been an done gone away agin!' ['Wait Till Martin Comes']
Nevertheless, Time, the arch-gossip, has by degrees revealed this history; nor does it appear that the Langebergs have hitherto shown displeasure on that account. ['The Ghosts of Kahlberg']
Starting with all this joy and laughter, the Princess and the shepherd boy, now the Prince, lived in the castle happily ever after. [''The Wonderful Lamb']
And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, 'TAKE IT!' ['Teeny-Tiny']
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According to the introduction, parents, teachers, and librarians could use the stories in this book throughout the year. A few of them aren't socially acceptable now, unless the person doing the reading aloud makes changes. One of the things I like about this book (besides still finding it enjoyable even though I'm a middle-aged adult), is that the stories come from other countries instead of just the United Kingdom and France.
The origin of the stories is as given in the book except for changes to no-longer acceptable terms. I've written a brief description under each title. I know there was a later edition with a different illustrator because I photocopied the only two illustrations I liked from it and glued them into my copy. I don't remember if that later edition has exactly the same stories.
'Hallowe'en' by Molly Capes (poem)
Going door to door yelling "trick or treat!" isn't part of the description.
'The Ghost of the Great White Stag' by Arthur C. Parker (American Indian/Native American folk tale)
Good, spooky tale of treachery and retribution among the fur-folk and the feather-folk. It's one of my favorites in this collection.
'The Hungry Old Witch' by Charles J. Finger (South American legend)
A young man and woman try to escape the clutches of a ravenous old witch.
*'The Conjure Wives' by Frances G. Wickes (tale from the USA's Old South)
Written in dialect, this is a tale of greedy African-American women preparing to weave spells on Hallowe'en. They don't want to feed the stranger knocking at their door.
*'Someone' by Walter de la Mare (poem)
It's night and there's a mysterious caller.
'Ah Tcha the Sleeper' by Arthur B. Chrisman (Chinese folk tale)
Tale of a rich orphan boy who unknowingly angers a witch. Contains what is said to be a reliable method for frightening a Chinese dragon. This is an origin story for tea. It's one of my favorites in this collection.
*'The Woodman and the Goblins' by J. B. Esenwein and Marietta Stockard (story from Scotland)
Nice old woodman should not have tried to hatch those eggs he found in the forest.
*'The King o' [of] the Cats' by Joseph Jacobs (Old English folk tale)
A sexton tells his wife about a strange thing that happened while he was digging a grave. Their cat is listening.
'The Enchanted Cow' by Mary G. Davis (a tale of Old Italy)
A young man must save his beloved from a wicked witch
'Peter and the Witch of the Wood' by Anna Wahlenberg (Old Swedish tale)
Will Peter commit an evil deed in order to save a princess from a witch? It's one of my favorites in this collection.
'The Goblin of the Pitcher' by Alida S. Malkus (Mayan folk tale)
The imp in the pitcher is too shy to let himself be seen, but once...
''Tamlane' by Joseph Jacobs (Old English folk tale)
A maiden must save her beloved from the elves.
*'The Ghosts of Forefathers' Hill' by Raymond W. Alden
A charming story about a 10 year-old girl named Betty whose wish comes true. It's one of my favorites in this collection.
*'The Shadow People' by Francis Ledwidge (poem)
A child sees the shadow people but isn't believed.
*The Black Cat of the Witch-Dance-Place' by Frances J. Olcott (Old German folk tale)
A girl is fool enough to try a charm by moonlight
*Tompson's Hallowe'en' by Margaret and Mary Baker
A witch's cat doesn't believe in charms.
*''So-Beé-Yit' by Maynard Dixon (American Indian/Native American story)
A Native American lad takes a foolish dare against the Big Medicine Rock.
'The Old Hag of the Forest' by Seumas MacManus (Irish folk tale)
A lovely princess is the prize for the man who can beat three giants.
'The Ghost Wife' by Charles A. Eastman (Sioux folk tale)
This is a story of love lasting beyond the grave
*'The Old Witch' by Joseph Jacobs (Old English folk tale)
A witch who isn't wicked gets robbed and slandered
*'Wait Till [Until] Martin Comes' by Frances G. Wickes (tale from the USA's Old South)
A preacher takes refuge in an empty house that doesn't stay empty.
*'The Wishing-Well' by Maud Lindsay and Emilie Poulsson
This is a tale of greed and generosity and what happens to the wishers.
'The Witch's Shoes' by Frances J. Olcott (wonder tale from Scotland)
This story is about two brothers, their oblivious employer, and his wife.
'Old Man Gully's Hant [Haunt]' by Sarah J. Cocke (tale told by African-American women of the USA's Old South)
I don't know if they still tell this story. It's written in dialect, has one use of the "N" word and a racist portrayal of the African-American hired hand. The best I can say about it is that the white master and mistress don't come off well, either.
*'A Hallowe'en Story' by Margaret Widdemer (poem)
A sister tells her siblings a ghost story.
'The Witch of Lok Island' by Elsie Masson (folk tale of Brittany)
Enjoy a story where the heroine saves the hero. When I was trying to remember folk or fairy tales in which the heroine wasn't imprisoned or in peril until rescued, this one came to mind. It's one of my favorites in this collection.
*'The Great White Bear' by Maud Lindsay
Two boasters get caught out.
'The Ghosts of Kahlberg' by Bernard Henderson (wonder tale from Alsace-Lorraine)
The Langebergs of Kahlberg never forgive an injury nor forget a friend
'The Wonderful Lamb' by Nandor Pogany (Old Hungarian legend)
If a princess doesn't laugh, she'll die.
*''Teeny-Tiny' by Joseph Jacobs (Old English folk tale)
A very small woman makes a discovery on a churchyard grave.
I like Wilfred Jones' illustrations, which is why I wasn't happy to find them replaced in a different neighborhood library's later edition. (I was an Air Force brat, so I spent my childhood being moved around. It was pretty disappointing when the new library didn't have some of my favorites that were in the old one.) Most of these stories should still entertain children today. I'd also recommend this collection to adults who enjoy folk tales. (