Favorite folktales from around the world / edited by Jane Yolen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yolen, Jane

Contributor:

Yolen, Jane, editor, writer of supplemental material.

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Series:

Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tales.

Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 498 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [1986]

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) ; Found 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) ; Bridge 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 Euridice (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 (Cina) ; The ostler and the grave robbers (Scotland)

Death and the world's end. The duartion 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).

[Bibliographical] notes (pages 477-494) ; Pemissions acknowledgments (pages 495-498).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9780804152860 (electronic bk.)

0804152861 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

90103497304

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