Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori

Contents

• • [cover]
  • [frontispiece]
  • [title page]
  • [contents]
  • List of Illustrations.
  • Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori — Introduction — Maori Legends of the “Patu-paiarehe.”
• • Chapter I — Told in the Wharepuni
    • A Maori Night's Entertainment
    • The Place where the Sky was Dark
    • The Man Whose Thoughts Were Wings
    • The Legend of Miru and the Heavenly Maid
    • Notes
  • Chapter II — The Fairy Folk of Ngongotaha Mountain
  • Chapter III — Once on Kakepuku
  • Chapter IV — Whanawhana of the Bush — A Tale of the Fairy Folk
  • Chapter V
    • The Wars of the Fairies
    • Notes
  • Chapter VI — Tokahaere, the Walking Rock
  • Chapter VII — A Basket of Eels
  • Chapter VIII — The Wizard Who Was Marooned — A Legend of White Island
  • Chapter IX — The Battle of The Mountains
  • Chapter X — The Bishop and the Tohunga — A Tale of Mokoia Island
  • Chapter XI
    • The Story of Hatupatu and Kura-of-the-Claws
    • Notes
  • Chapter XII — The Dragon of the Sacred Lake
  • Chapter XIII
    • When Tamaohoi Awoke
    • Notes
  • Chapter XIV — The Fairy Woman of Takitimu Mountain
  • Chapter XV — Hills of the Wild Men

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Title: Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori

Author: James Cowan

Publication details: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1925

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

Keywords: New Zealand History

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