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• Physical Description: 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
• Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1958]

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-270).

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Tales with all manner of things golden (Aunt Lizbeth Fields). The flower of dew -- The spindle, the shuttle, and the needle--all golden -- The queen with golden hair -- The golden rain -- Three shirts and a golden finger ring -- The golden children -- The golden princess -- The golden comb -- A silver tree with golden apples -- The golden bracelet -- The girl with the golden finger -- Golden apple -- Stockings of buttermilk -- A stepchild that was treated might bad -- The little old rusty cook stove in the woods.

A fine mort of olden tales (Big Nelt). The king's golden apple tree -- The bird of the golden land -- Little cat skin -- Ash cakes and water -- The weaver's boy -- The terrible valley -- The fisherman's son -- Heart, liver, and lights -- Old Shake-Your-Head -- Gilly and his goatskin clothes -- The king of Spain's magic cow -- Folks that growed fur to keep warm -- Cold feet and the lonesome queen -- A curious law about asking in marriage -- When Finn was a boy -- Finn's seven hired men -- Old Wooly Back -- Three man named three different colors -- Connie's thumb ring -- A tale too sad for telling.

Tales where things go in threes (Uncle Tom Dixon). The jay bird that had a fight with a rattlesnake -- The three girls with the journey-cakes -- The three boys with the journey-cakes -- The girl that married a flop-eared hound-dog -- The snake princess -- The cabbage heads that worked -- The donkey that was a boy -- The princess that wore a rabbit-skin dress -- The girl without any hands -- The boy that was foolish-wise -- The farmer's boy that got educated -- The boy that was trained to be a thief -- The devil for a husband -- The golden arm.

Tales picked up along with doctoring (Doc Roark). The water of life -- The doctor that acted a partner with death -- Doctors ain't smart as they think they be -- The snake doctor -- The boy that had a bear for a daddy -- The blacksmith that tried doctoring -- The man that never washed for seven years -- The bird liver -- The golden filly chest -- The farmer's daughter -- The beggar with the baskets -- The contrarious pig.

Tales old men followed telling (Uncle Blessing). The June apple tree -- The witch from the ocean waters -- The girl that wouldn't do a hand's turn -- A queen that got her just deserts -- The woman that turned to niggers -- The Jew that danced amongst the thorn bushes -- The cat that went a-traveling -- A bunch of laurel blooms for a present -- My favoritest olden tale.

Tales for idle telling (Sam Caudill). The girl that weren't ashamed to her own kin -- The girl that could do any job of work -- The changeable man -- Old Bushy Beard --The fellow that married a dozen times -- The devil and his grandmother -- The girl that changed to a flower bloom -- The shining, beautiful lady.

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