Georgian - Mingrelian Fairy & Folk Tales – Marjory Scott Wardrop – Paper Books

From vine-bright hills where afternoon sun glows like wine, to Black Sea winds that carry the salt of ancient voyages across emerald gorges… Georgian-Mingrelian Fairy & Folk Tales gathers the deep, honey-dark legends of the Caucasus ‒stories carried through mountain hamlets, riverside markets, fortress balconies, old caravan paths, feast tables lit by golden cha-cha, and night roads where memory and fate dine together. Within these pages you will meet serpents crowned like tyrants, night spirits who weave dreams into truth, brave maidens who guard ancestral honor, trickster hunters who outwit demons with a single grin, giants who test human resolve, and talismans shaped from toast, music, loyalty, and wild courage. Once told beneath vine arbors where the air smelled of plum smoke and roasted corn, these tales spoke to the child who yearned for marvels and to the adult who knew that pride is a shield forged over centuries. Georgian-Mingrelian tales are not merely supernatural ‒they are records of endurance, memory, tenderness, and the spark that refuses to yield. Open these pages, and the Caucasus will rise again ‒lush, fierce, unforgettable.