Record details

• ISBN: 9780393320466
• ISBN: 0393320464
• Physical Description: xxvii, 450 pages : maps ; 24 cm
• Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
• Copyright: ©1998

Content descriptions

General Note:

Foreword by Jane Yolen.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-438) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Tales from Europe -- The stolen bairn and the sidh -- The three sisters and their husbands, three brothers -- The corpse watchers -- The crookened back -- The horned women -- Whuppity stoorie -- Molly Whuppie -- The treasure of downhouse -- The hand of glory -- Tamlane -- The night troll -- The grateful elfwoman -- "My Jon's soul" -- The ghost at Fjelkinge -- Little red cap -- The wood maiden -- The child who was poor and good -- The pigeon's bride -- How the king chose a daughter-in-law -- Marichka -- Davit -- Anait -- The fortune-teller -- The tsaritsa harpist -- Tales from North and South America -- Native Americans -- The vampire skeleton -- The flying head -- Where the girl saved her brother -- Chief Joseph's story of Wallowa Lake -- The origin of the potlatch -- The princess and mountain dweller -- The princess and the magical hat -- The Lytton girls who were stolen by giants -- The legend of the Coppermine River -- The huntress -- Story of a female shaman -- The magic eagle -- New world newcomers -- "I'm Tipingee, she's Tipingee, we're Tipingee, too" -- The innkeeper's wise daughter -- Molly Cotton-Tail steals Mr. Fox's butter -- Tales from Asia -- A Rani's revenge -- How Parvatibai outwitted the Dacoits -- The close alliance: a tale of woe -- The barber's clever wife -- A wonderful story -- The importance of lightning -- The child of death -- The story of Princess Amaradevi -- The tale of the Oki Islands -- The monkey bridegroom -- The mirror of Matsuyama: a story of old Japan -- The tiger and the coal peddler's wife -- The plucky maiden -- The phoenix and her city -- Sailimai's four precious things -- A woman's love -- Maiden Liu, the songster -- The festival of pouring water -- A polite idiosyncrasy -- The young head of the family -- Altyn-Aryg -- The wife who stole a heart -- Tales from the Pacific -- Hiiaka catching a ghost -- Hiiaka and the seacoast kupuas -- A calabash of poi -- Rau-Whato -- How Pulap acquired the art of navigation -- Rola and the two sisters -- The old woman and the giant -- The magic coin -- The creation of Lake Asbold -- Senan and Aping -- Ubong and the head-hunters -- Kumaku and the giant -- Revival and revenge -- Uzu, the white dogai -- The black snake man and his wife, the dove -- The mogwoi's baby -- Biriwilg (told by women) -- Tales from Sub-Saharan Africa -- The woman, her husband, their children and the dodo -- Ku-Chin-Da-Gayya and her elder sister and the dodos -- Moremi and the egunguns -- The spider, Kayi, and the bush fowl -- The story of two women -- The man killed for a spinach leaf -- The leopard woman -- The midwife of Dakar -- A woman for a hundred cattle -- Wacu and the eagle -- Elephant and hare -- Nonikwe and the great one, Marimba -- How the Milky Way came to be -- Nanabolele, who shines in the night -- Jackal and hen -- Tales from North Africa and the Middle East -- Women's wiles -- The feslihanci girl -- The story of the city of nothing-in-the-world -- The "pink pearl" prince -- Who is blessed with the realm, riches, and honor? -- The story of the king, Hamed bin Bathara, and of the fearless girl -- The sultan's daughter -- Yousif Al-Saffani -- The miser who married -- The sign of the tassel.

Original Version Note:

Paperback publication. Originally published: [New York] : [W.W. Norton & Company], [1998].

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