All the selections in Richard M. Dorson's Folktales Told around the World were recorded by expert collectors, and the majority of them are published here for the first time. The tales presented are told in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Unlike other collections derived in large part from literary texts, this volume meets the criteria of professional folklorists in assembling only authentic examples of folktales as they were orally told. Background information, notes on the narrators, and scholarly commentaries are provided to establish the folkloric character of the tales.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Choosing the World's Folktales - Richard M. Dorson
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Europe
Ireland - Sean O'Sullivan
Fionn in Search of His Youth
The Cold May Night
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Scotland (Lowlands) - Hamish Henderson
The King of England
Johnnie in the Cradle
Applie and Orangie
The Aberdonians and the Chocolates
The Lone Highlander
The Minister to His Flock
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Scotland (Highlands) - John MacInnes
The Blacksmith's Son
Black Patrick's Bowshot
England - Katharine M. Briggs and Ruth L. Tongue
Annie Luker's Ghost
The Grey Goose Feathers
The Five-Pound Note
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France - Geneviand#232;ve Massignon
Cinderella
The Scalded Wolf
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Spain - Aurelio M. Espinosa
The Unbeliever and the Skull
Santa Catalina
The Mass of Saint Joseph
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Italy - Carla Bianco
Bertoldino
The Tale of Sister Cat
The Dove and the Fox
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Switzerland - Robert Wildhaber
Summoned into the Valley of Josaphat
About the Black Spider
Sennentunscheli on the Wyssenboden
The Knife in the Hay
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Germany - Kurt Ranke
The Swinehard Who Married a Princess
The Ox as Mayor
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Norway - Reidar Christiansen
The Drinking Horn Stolen from the Huldre Folk at (a) Vallerhaug, (b) Vellerhaug, (c) Hifjell
The Altarpiece in Ringsaker Church
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Finland - Pirkko-Liisa Rausmaa
The Hunter's Joke
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Poland - Julian Krzyzanowski
Old Fakla and the Sleeping Knights
The Holy Figure in the Szaflary
The Ages of Man
Song of the Thief
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Hungary - Linda Dand#233;gh
The Magic Calk
Lazybones
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Russia
The Sorcerer and His Apprentice - Mark Azadovskij
Peter the Great and the Stonemason - I. V. Karnaukhova
Two Thieves
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Greece - Georgios A. Megas
The Lake Spirits of Peristera and Xerovouni
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Middle East
Turkey - Ilhan Basgand#246;z
Nasreddin Hodja and Tamerlane
The Smart Brother and the Crazy Brother
Dervish Baba
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Egypt - Hasan El-Shamy
The Sure News Is Up Ahead
The Falcon's Daughter
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Tunisia - Hasan El-Shamy
The Sparrow and the King
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Iraq - Hasan El-Shamy
The Cruel Mother-in-Law
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Israel - Dov Noy
A Dispute in Sign Language
A Tale of a Jew Who Bridled the Wind
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Asia
India - Praphulladatta Goswami
Teja and Teji
The Mother Serpent
The King of Cheats
The Monk Who Dueled
Mataru the Grandfather
Tenali Rama and the King's Pets
The Peasant Thanthanpal
Babar Deva the Outlaw
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Afghanistan - Hafizullah Baghban
The Romance of Mongol Girl and Arab Boy
The Decapitation of Sufi Islam
The Two Thieves With the Same Wife
Khastakhumar and Bibinagar
The Seventy-Year-Old Corpse
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Japan
The Mountain Where Old People Were Abandoned - Keigo Seki
The Man Who Bought a Dream - Robert J. Adams
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Philippines
The Adulteress Rat - E. Arsenio Manuel
The Gungutan and the Big-Bellied Man
Agkon, the Greedy Son
The Seven Young Sky Women - Hazel Wrigglesworth
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China - Wolfram Eberhard
The Bridge of Ch'and#252;an-Chou
Chu the Rogue
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Burma - Suzan Lapai
Liar Mvkang and the Rich Villagers
Liar Mvkang Sells Ashes
Liar Mvkang and the Water Snake
The Orphan and His Grandmother
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Korea - Yim Suk-Jay
Why People's Noses Run When They Catch Cold
The Red Pond
The Kindhearted Crab and the Cunning Mouse
The Grave of the Golden Ruler
The One-Sided Boy
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Oceania
Micronesia
The Ghosts of the Two Mountains - Robert Mitchell
Adventures and Death of Rat
The Maiden Who Married a Crane
The Exiled Sister and Her Son
The Mistreated Stepson
The Spirit Who Swallowed People
The First Getting of the Way to Cultivate Cyrtospermaand#160;- Katharine Luomala
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Polynesia - Katharine Luomala
Maui of a Thousand Tricks
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Melanesia - Elli Kand#246;ngand#228;s Maranda
The Myth of Fuusai
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Africa
Liberia (Gbande) - John Milbury-Steen
The Two Brothers
How the Society Can Get Back Its Medicine
Bush Fowl and Turtle Build a Town
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Nigeria (Yoruba) - Deirdre La Pin
Jomo, Guardian of the Great Sword
He-Who-Meets-Problems-Alone and He-Who-Seeks-Good-Advice
Cameroun (Gbaya) - Philip A. Noss
Wanto and the Shapeless Thing
Wanto and the Success-by-the-Stump People
Chameleon Wins a Wife
Eagle, Python, and Weaverbird
The Ant and the Termite
The Boy and the Buffalo
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Zand#228;ire (Nyanga) - Daniel P. Biebuyck
Origin of the Enmity between Dog and Leopard
Trapper, Gatherer-of-Honey, and Cultivator
How Nturo Rejected Mpaca
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South Africa (Xhosa) - Harold Scheub
A Girl Is Cast Off by Her Family
A Zim Steals a Duiker's Children
Hlakanyana Does Mischief But Is Caught
Mbengu-Sonyangaza's Sister Prepares to Undergo Purification Rites
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New World
Canada
The Duek Dog - Luc Lacourciand#232;
The Tub of Butter
The String of Trout
The Sheep and the Ram
The Sword of Wisdom
The Big Dog
The Scalping of Pand#233;russe
Selling Toilet Paper in the Subway - Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
The Laughing Hyena
An Unexpected Donation
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United States - Richard M. Dorson
Winabijou (Nanabush) Brings on the Flood
The Mermaid
The Legend of Yoho Cove
Paree at the Carnival
Miracles of Saint Spyridon
The Two Brothers
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Mexico - Amand#233;rico Paredes
Kondoy
On Holy Week
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Bahamas - Daniel J. Crowley
Ordeal by Water
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Cuba - Daniel J. Crowley
Little Cockroach Martina
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Trinidad - Daniel J. Crowley
The Poor Brahmin
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Brazil - Luis da Camara Cascudo
Cases
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Peru
Treasure, Envy, and Witchcraft - Jean MacLaughlin
The Mouse and the Fox
The Condemned Lover
Quevedo Works as a Cook
The Lake of Langui
The Twin Cycle (Yagua) - Paul Powlison
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Chili
The Witranalwe Who Guarded Sheep - L. C. Faron
Pedro Urdemales Cheats Two Horsemen - Yolando Pino-Saavedra
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Index of Motifs
Index of Tale Types
Contributors
General Index
Index of Bibliographic Items
Index of Collectors
List of Narrators
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