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Armenian Folk-tales and Fables (Oxford Myths and Legends)
Armenian Folktales and Fables - Oxford Myths and Legends Author:Charles Downing These folk-tales were told by simple people--vine-dressers, farm-laborers, millers--and were preserved by word of mouth, to be repeated for entertainment in the coffee-house, or at home during the long, hard winters. There are fables here, too, selected from the collections of medieval — scholars and philosophers, while the expressive and often h... more »umorous proverbs show the ways of the world through shrewd Armenian eyes.« less