Bøger af Charles Godfrey Leland

Meister Karl�������s Sketchbook is a novel written by Charles Godfrey Leland and first published in 1855. The book is a collection of anecdotes, stories, and sketches that follow the life of Meister Karl, a wandering artist in 19th century Germany. Meister Karl is a free spirit who travels the countryside, observing and sketching the people and landscapes around him. Along the way, he meets a variety of characters, including a band of gypsies, a group of monks, and a wealthy nobleman. Through these encounters, Meister Karl learns about the joys and sorrows of life, the importance of art, and the value of friendship. The novel is written in a whimsical and poetic style, with vivid descriptions of the German countryside and the people who inhabit it. Meister Karl�������s Sketchbook is a charming and entertaining novel that captures the spirit of 19th century Germany and celebrates the beauty of art and nature.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

While writing this book, or in fact after the whole of the first part was written, I passed a winter in Egypt; and as that country is still supposed by many people to be the fatherland of the Gipsies, and as very little is known relative to the Rommany there, I have taken the liberty of communicating what I could learn on the subject, though it does not refer directly to the Gipsies of England. Those who are interested in the latter will readily pardon the addition. There are now in existence about three hundred works on the Gipsies, but of the entire number comparatively few contain fresh material gathered from the Rommany themselves. Of late years the first philologists of Europe have taken a great interest in their language, which is now included in "Die Sprachen Europas" as the only Indian tongue spoken in this quarter of the world; and I believe that English Gipsy is really the only strongly-distinct Rommany dialect which has never as yet been illustrated by copious specimens or a vocabulary of any extent.

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1896. Collected from the people and retold by Leland (Hans Breitmann). This book consists almost entirely of legends or traditions of a varied character, referring to places and buildings in Florence, such as the Cathedral and Campanile, the Signoria, the Bargello, the different city gates, ancient towers and bridges, palaces, crosses, and fountains, noted corners, odd byways, and many churches. To all of these there are tales, or at least anecdotes attached for both readers and students of social history. Partial Contents: The Three Horns of Messer Guicciardini; The Legend of the Croce al Trebbio; The Two Fairies in the Well; The Ghost of Michel Angelo; The Bashful Lover; La Fortuna; Seeing that All Was Right; The Witch of Arno; The Red Goblin of the Bargello; The Roman Vase; The Unfortunate Priest; and many more.

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Dieses klassische Buch wurde ursprünglich vor Jahrzehnten veröffentlicht als Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling . Es wurde jetzt von Writat für seine deutschsprachigen Leser ins Deutsche übersetzt. Bei Writat liegt uns die Bewahrung des literarischen Erbes der Vergangenheit am Herzen. Wir haben dieses Buch ins Französische übersetzt, damit heutige und zukünftige Generationen es lesen und bewahren können.

During the past few years the most serious part of the author's study and reflection has been devoted to the subjects discussed in this book. These, briefly stated, are as follows: Firstly, that all mental or cerebral faculties can by direct scientific treatment be influenced to what would have once been regarded as miraculous action, and which is even yet very little known or considered. Secondly, in development of this theory, and as confirmed by much practical and personal experience, that the Will can by very easy processes of training, or by aid of Auto-Suggestion, be strengthened to any extent, and states of mind soon induced, which can be made by practice habitual. Thus, as a man can by means of opium produce sleep, so can heby a very simple experiment a few times repeated-an experiment which I clearly describe and which has been tested and verified beyond all denial- cause himself to remain during the following day in a perfectly calm or cheerful state of mind; and this condition may, by means of repetition and practice, be raised or varied to other states or conditions of a far more activeor intelligent description.

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" This work contains a collection of the customs, usages, and ceremonies current among gypsies, as regards fortune-telling, witch doctoring, love philtering, and other sorcery, illustrated by many anecdotes and instances, taken either from works as yet very little known to the English reader or from personal experiences. Within a very few years, since Ethnology and Archæology have received a great inspiration, and much enlarged their scope through Folklore, everything relating to such subjects is studied with far greater interest and to much greater profit than was the case when they were cultivated in a languid, half-believing, half-sceptical spirit which was in reality rather one of mere romance than reason. Now that we seek with resolution to find the whole truth, be it based on materialism, spiritualism, or their identity, we are amazed to find that the realm of marvel and mystery, of wonder and poetry, connected with what we vaguely call "magic," far from being explained away or exploded, enlarges before us as we proceed, and that not into a mere cloudland, gorgeous land, but into a country of reality in which men of science who would once have disdained the mere thought thereof are beginning to stray. Hypnotism has really revealed far greater wonders than were ever established by the fascinatores of old or by mesmerists of more modern times. Memory, the basis of thought according to PLATO, which was once held to be a determined quantity, has been proved, (the word is not too bold), by recent physiology, to be practically infinite, and its perfect development to be identical with that of intellect, so that we now see plainly before us the power to perform much which was once regarded as miraculous...."