Favorite Folktales From Around the World by Yolen, Jane -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Telling Tales

The Man Who Had No Story (Ireland) How Spider Obtained the Sky God’s Stories (Africa) Helping to Lie (Germany) The Ash Lad Who Made the Princess Say “You’re a Liar!” (Norway) The Parson and the Sexton (Norway) The Tall Tales (Burma) Catherine, Sly Country Lass (Italy) The Wise Little Girl (Russia) Clever Answers (Russia) A Dispute in Sign Language (Israel) Leopard, Goat, and Yam (Africa) An Endless Story (Japan)

The Very Young and The very Old

Glooscap and the Baby (American Indian) The Brewery of Eggshells (Ireland) Father of Eighteen Elves (Iceland) The Fly (Vietnam) The Two Pickpockets (England) The Seventh Father of the House (Norway) The King’s Favorite (China) Wagging My Tail in the Mud (China) When One Man Has Two Wives (Syria) The Old Man and His Grandson (Germany) Half a Blanket (Ireland)

True Loves and False

How Men and Women Got Together (American Indian) The Little Old Woman with Five Cows (Siberia) The Prayer That Was Answered (Tibet) The Merchant’s Daughter and the Slanderer (Russia) What Happened to Hadji (Turkey) Mr. Fox (England) The Waiting Maid’s Parrot (China) The White Cat (France) Sedna (Eskimo) Urashima the Fisherman (Japan) The Spirit of the Van (Wales) The Toad-Bridegroom (Korea) Taken (Ireland) The Girl at the Shieling (Iceland) Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden (American Indian)

Tricksters, Rogues, and Cheats

Tyll Ulenspiegel’s Merry Prank (Germany) The Hodja and the Cauldron (Turkey) Being Greedy Chokes Anansi (Jamaica) Quevedo and the King (Mexico) Why the Hare Runs Away (Africa) Coyote Fights a Lump of Pitch (American Indian) Crack and Crook (Italy) The Master Thief (Germany) Peik (Norway) The Monkey and the Crocodile (India) The Race Between Toad and Donkey (Jamaica) The King’s Son Goes Bear Hunting (Finland) John Brodison and the Policeman (Ireland) The Rabbi and the Inquisitor (Jewish) The Ugly Son (Japan) Dividing the Goose (Russia) The Men Who Wouldn’t Stay Dead (France) The Story of Campriano (Italy)

The Fool: Numbskulls and Noodleheads

The Three Sillies (England) Nasr-ed-Din Hodja in the Pulpit (Turkey) Lazy Jack (England) Chelm Justice (Jewish) Those Stubborn Souls, the Biellese (Italy) The Drovers Who Lost Their Feet (Mexico) The Old Man and Woman Who Switched Jobs (Sweden) The Two Old Women’s Bet (United States) A Stroke of Luck (Hungary) The Sausage (Sweden) Nail Soup (Sweden) Old Dry Frye (United States) “Bye-bye” (Haiti) The Barn Is Burning (Afro-American)

Heroes: Likely and Unlikely

The Birth of Finn MacCumhail (Ireland) Li Chi Slays the Serpent (China) The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs (Germany) The Longwitton Dragon (England) The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog (American Indian) Molly Whuppie (England) The Beginning of the Narran Lake (Australian Aboriginal) The Flying Head (American Indian) The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was (Germany)

Wonder Tales, Tall Tales, and Brag

Talk (Africa) The King of Ireland’s Son (Ireland) The Goose Girl (Germany) The Princess on the Glass Hill (Norway) The Promises of the Three Sisters (Egypt) The Magic Mirror of Rabbi Adam (Jewish) The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle (England) The Magic Pear Tree (China) Faithful John (Germany) Four Hound-Dog Stories (Ireland and United States)

Shape Shifters

The Doctor and His Pupil (France) The Swan-Maiden (Sweden) Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka (Russia) The Blacksmith’s Wife of Yarrowfoot (Scotland) The Seal’s Skin (Iceland) The Wounded Seal (Scotland) The Cat-Woman (France) The Serpent-Woman (Spain) The Snake’s Lover (Peru)

Not Quite Human

The Well-Baked Man (American Indian) The Finn Messenger (Norway) Vasilisa the Beautiful (Russia) Bridget and the Lurikeen (Ireland) The Two Hunchbacks (Italy) Then the Merman Laughed (Iceland) Pergrin and the Mermaid (Wales) The Ash Lad Who Had an Eating Match with the Troll (Norway) How Mosquitoes Came to Be (American Indian) The Departure of the Giants (Africa)

Fooling the Devil

The Peasant and the Devil (Germany) Wicked John and the Devil (United States) The Bad Wife (Russia) Katcha and the Devil (Czechoslovakia) The Lawyer and the Devil (Ireland) Coals on the Devil’s Hearth (Ireland) The Devil’s Hide (Finland) How El Bizarrón Fooled the Devil (Cuba) Bearskin (Germany) The Lad and the Devil (Norway) Wiley and the Hairy Man (United States)

The Getting of Wisdom

Truth and Falsehood (Greece) Getting Common Sense (Jamaica) Rich Man, Poor Man (Africa) The Lost Horse (China) It Could Always Be Worse (Jewish) His Just Reward (Sweden) Djuha’s Sleeve (Syria) King Mátyás and His Scholars (Hungary) The Missing Axe (China) What Melody Is the Sweetest? (Afghanistan) The Peddler of Swaffham (England) The Beduin’s Gazelle (Saudi Arabia) The Happy Man’s Shirt (Italy)

Ghosts and Revenants

Orpheus and Eurydice (Greece) The Spirit-Wife (American Indian) One Night in Paradise (Italy) A Pretty Girl in the Road (United States) The Dream House (Ireland) The Peasant and the Fiend (Estonia) The Tinker and the Ghost (Spain) Hold Him, Tabb (Afro-American) Drinking Companions (China) The Ostler and the Grave Robbers (Scotland)

Death and the World’s End

The Duration of Life (Germany) Woman Chooses Death (American Indian) Jump into My Sack (Italy) Youth Without Age and Life Without Death (Turkey) Goha on the Deathbed (Egypt) Death of a Miser (Russia) Godfather Death (Germany) The Hungry Peasant, God, and Death (Mexico) The Word the Devil Made Up (Afro-American) A Paddock in Heaven (England) How a Man Found His Wife in the Land of the Dead (Papua) The End of the World (American Indian)

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