page_title: Emma Catherine Embury
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Emma Catherine Embury / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: waldorffamilyorg00embu (find matches) Title: The Waldorf family&#160;; or, Grandfather's lagends Year: 1848 (1840s) Authors: Embury, Emma C. (Emma Catherine), 1806-1863 Subjects: Fairy tales Publisher: New York&#160;: Riker View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: he re-mains of Druidical temples, but which the peas-ants suppose to be magnificent cities built by thekorigans or fairies, who have the cunning to givethem the appearance of mere stones to the eyes ofmortal men. Not many years since, remnants of Druidicalrites might be found in the simple sports of thecountry. The festival of the first day of June wasone of these. On that day, the young people wereaccustomed to assemble on the great plain; thegirls wearing flax flowers in their boddices&#160;; andthe young men carrying green wheat-ears in theirhats. Before beginning the dance, which was keptup till evening, with great spirit, each lover wouldtake his mistress by the hand, and approaching oneof the great stone tables, they would lay upon itthe wheat-ears and the flax blossoms. If, on theirreturn, at sunset, the flowers were still unfaded,they might rely on each others fidelity. A fright-ful story is told of the beautiful Tinah, who suf-fered herself, on such an occasion, to be beguiled 200 Text Appearing After Image: by an evil spirit, in the disguise of a gay cavalier&#160;;and her fate is still remembered, as a warningagainst fickleness and ambition. But I am forgetting my story, while indulgingmy recollections. In the village of Plouhinic, then,near the banks of the river Intel, resided a certainman, named Marzinn, who was considered veryrich&#160;; inasmuch as he was able to salt a pig everyyear, to eat as much rye bread as he liked, andto buy a new pair of sabots, or wooden shoes, everyChristmas. He was, therefore, something of agreat man, in the village, and had refused thehand of his sister, Rozanne, to all her suitors, be-cause they were day-laborers, earning their breadby the sweat of their brow. Among these loverswas a worthy fellow, named Bernez; who, thoughpoor, was industrious, and good-hearted. He hadknown Rozanne from her infancy&#160;; and the lovewhich they had for each other when children, hadgrown with them, until now, when the refusalof Marzinn almost broke their hearts. But they were both yo Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Emma Catherine Embury was an American author and poet. Under the pseudonym of "Ianthe," she contributed to the periodicals of the day, and may be considered among the pioneers of female literature in the United States. Her many poems and tales were afterwards collected and published in book form. Among these volumes are The Blind Girl and Other Tales, Glimpses of Home Life, Pictures of Early Life, Nature’s Gems, or American Wild Flowers, and The Waldorf Family, a fairy tale of Brittany, partly a translation and partly original,
context_section_description: Other works published posthumously:
  Poems of Emma C. Embury (1869)
  Prose Writings of Emma C. Embury (1893)
caption: The Waldorf family; or, Grandfather's legends (1848)
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