rebel’s Reviews > Georgian Folk Tales > Status Update

Some of these are super interesting but some of these are wtf. I think a story every once in a while will continue to be my pace with this. (Also, instead of "Once upon a time," these stories start out with, "There was, and there was not, there was a [insert character here]."

‘[H]e who desires to be well acquainted with a people will not reject their popular stories or local superstitions. Depend upon it, that man is too far advanced into an artificial state of society who is a stranger to the effects which tales and stories like these have upon the feelings of a nation....'

- Sir John Malcolm’s Sketches of Persia, ch. xvi.