Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library: Favorite Folktales From Around the World

Locations
Call Number: 398.2 Fa, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Myths & Folklore / Pantheon
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	398.2 Fa	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Myths & Folklore / Pantheon	4-week checkout	Due 04-28-2024

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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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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).
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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