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Series:

Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library

Publisher:

Pantheon Books

Publication Date:

[1986]

Language:

English

Lexile measure:

980L

Available Copies	Location	Call Number
1 of 1	Guilford Adult Non-Fiction	398 F
1 of 1	Lyme Adult Nonfiction	398.2 FAV
1 of 1	North Stonington/Wheeler Children's Nonfiction	J398.2 FAVORITE (PBK) (JUL 13)
1 of 1	Norwich/Otis Adult Nonfiction	398.2 FAV
1 of 1	Westbrook Juvenile Non Fiction	j398.2 FAV

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xiii, 498 pages ; 25 cm

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xiii, 498 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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This collection of folktales drawn from over forty cultures and traditions includes classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, as well as lesser-known stories.

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Telling tales. Man who had no story (Ireland) ; How Spider obtained the Sky God's stories (Africa) ; Helping to lie (Germany) ; Ash lad who made the princess say "You're a liar!" (Norway) ; Parson and the sexton (Norway) ; Tall tales (Burma) ; Catherine, sly country lass (Italy) ; Wise little girl (Russia) ; Clever answers (Russia) ; Dispute in sign language (Israel) ; Leopard, goat, and yam (Africa) ; Endless story (Japan) --
The very young and the very old. Glooscap and the baby (American Indian) ; Brewery of eggshells (Ireland) ; Father of eighteen elves (Iceland) ; Fly (Vietnam) ; Two pickpockets (England) ; Seventh father of the house (Norway) ; King's favorite (China) ; Wagging my tail in the mud (China) ; When one man has two wives (Syria) ; Old man and his grandson (Germany) ; Half a blanket (Ireland) --
True loves and false. How men and women got together (American Indian) ; Little old woman with five cows (Siberia) ; Prayer that was answered (Tibet) ; Merchant's daughter and the slanderer (Russia) ; What happened to Hadji (Turkey) ; Mr. Fox (England) ; Waiting maid's parrot (China) ; White cat (France) ; Sedna (Eskimo) ; Urashima the fisherman (Japan) ; Spirit of the Van (Wales) ; Toad-bridegroom (Korea) ; Taken (Ireland) ; Girl at the shieling (Iceland) ; Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden (American Indian) --
Tricksters, rogues, and cheats. Tyll Ulenspiegel's merry prank (Germany) ; 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) ; Master thief (Germany) ; Peik (Norway) ; Monkey and the crocodile (India) ; Race between Toad and Donkey (Jamaica) ; King's son goes bear hunting (Finland) ; John Brodison and the policeman (Ireland) ; Rabbi and the inquisitor (Jewish) ; Ugly son (Japan) ; Dividing the goose (Russia) ; Men who wouldn't stay dead (France) ; Story of Campriano (Italy) --
The fool : numbskulls and noodleheads. Three sillies (England) ; Nasr-ed-Din Hodja in the pulpit (Turkey) ; Lazy Jack (England) ; Chelm justice (Jewish) ; Those stubborn souls, the Biellese (Italy) ; Drovers who lost their feet (Mexico) ; Old man and woman who switched jobs (Sweden) ; Two old women's bet (United States) ; Stroke of luck (Hungary) ; Sausage (Sweden) ; Nail soup (Sweden) ; Old dry Frye (United States) ; "Bye-bye" (Haiti) ; Barn is burning (Afro-American) --
Heroes : likely and unlikely. Birth of Finn MacCumhail (Ireland) ; Li Chi slays the serpent (China) ; Devil with the three golden hairs (Germany) ; Longwitton dragon (England) ; Orphan boy and the elk dog (American Indian) ; Molly Whuppie (England) ; Beginning of the Narran Lake (Australian Aboriginal) ; Flying head (American Indian) ; Story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was (Germany) --
Wonder tales, tall tales, and brag. Talk (Africa) ; King of Ireland's son (Ireland) ; Goose girl (Germany) ; Princess on the glass hill (Norway) ; Promises of the three sisters (Egypt) ; Magic mirror of Rabbi Adam (Jewish) ; Old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle (England) ; Magic pear tree (China) ; Faithful John (Germany) ; Found hound-dog stories (Ireland and United States) --
Shape shifters. Doctor and his pupil (France) ; Swan-maiden (Sweden) ; Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka (Russia) ; Blacksmith's wife of Yarrowfoot (Scotland) ; Seal's skin (Iceland) ; Wounded seal (Scotland) ; Cat-woman (France) ; Serpent-woman (Spain) ; Snake's lover (Peru) --
Not quite human. Well-baked man (American Indian) ; Finn messenger (Norway) ; Vasilisa the beautiful (Russia) ; Bridge and the Lurikeen (Ireland) ; Two hunchbacks (Italy) ; Then the merman laughed (Iceland) ; Pergrin and the mermaid (Wales) ; Ash lad who had an eating match with the troll (Norway) ; How mosquitoes came to be (American Indian) ; Departure of the giants (Africa) --
Fooling the devil. Peasant and the Devil Germany ; Wicked John and the Devil (United States) ; Bad wife (Russia) ; Katcha and the Devil (Czechoslovakia) ; Lawyer and the Devil (Ireland) ; Coals on the Devil's hearth (Ireland) ; Devil's hide (Finland) ; How El Bizarrón fooled the devil (Cuba) ; Bearskin (Germany) ; 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) ; Lost horse (China) ; It could always be worse (Jewish) ; His just reward (Sweden) ; Djuha's sleeve (Syria) ; King Mátyás and his scholars (Hungary) ; Missing axe (China) ; What melody is the sweetest? (Afghanistan) ; Peddler of Swaffham (England) ; Beduin's gazelle (Saudi Arabia) ; Happy man's shirt (Italy) --
Ghosts and revenants. Orpheus and Euridice (Greece) ; Spirit-wife (American Indian) ; One night in paradise (Italy) ; Pretty girl in the road (United States) ; Dream house (Ireland) ; Peasant and the fiend (Estonia) ; Tinker and the ghost (Spain) ; Hold him, Tabb (Afro-American) ; Drinking companions (Cina) ; Ostler and the grave robbers (Scotland) --
Death and the world's end. 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) ; Hungry peasant, God, and death (Mexico) ; Word the Devil made up (Afro-American) ; Paddock in heaven (England) ; How a man found his wife in the Land of the Dead (Papua) ; End of the world (American Indian).

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Fiction
Folklore
Folklore -- Juvenile fiction
Tales

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Contributors:

Yolen, Jane,editor,writer of supplemental material
Yolen, Jane

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9780394751887
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9780329067489
9781415543689

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