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Title: Tales of Giants from Brazil

Author: Elsie Spicer Eells

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TALES OF GIANTS FROM BRAZIL

by

ELSIE SPICER EELLS

Author of "Fairy Tales from Brazil"

With Illustrations by Helen M. Barton

[Illustration: "O Fishes of the river, have you seen my own dear
mother?"]

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1918
Copyright, 1918
by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

Vail-Ballou Company
Binghamton and New York

FOREWORD

Brazil is the land of the giant among all the rivers of the world. It
is the land of giant fruits and giant flowers. Of course it is the
land of giant stories too.

Years ago when the Portuguese settlers came to Brazil they brought
with them the folk-tales of the old world. Just as European grass
seed, when planted in our Brazilian gardens, soon sends forth such a
rank, luxuriant growth that one hardly recognizes it as grass, so the
old Portuguese tales, planted in Brazilian soil, have grown into new
forms.

The author gratefully acknowledges her indebtedness to the Brazilian
story tellers to whose tales she has listened, and to the collection
of Dr. Sylvio Romero, "Contos Populares do Brazil," from which some of
the "giant tales" have been adapted.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I THE PRINCESS OF THE SPRINGS

II THE FOUNTAIN OF GIANT LAND

III THE BOY AND THE VIOLIN

IV THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS

V THE LITTLE SISTER OF THE GIANTS