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" Folktales told around the world / "
edited by Richard M. Dorson.
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876077
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Folktales told around the world /\ edited by Richard M. Dorson.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 1975.
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xxv, 622 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0226158721
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: 0226158748
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: 9780226158723
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: 9780226158747
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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EUROPE -- Fionn in search of his youth ; The cold May night / Sean O'Sullivan -- The King of England ; Johnnie in the cradle ; Applie and orangie ; The Aberdonians and the chocolates ; The lone Highlander ; The minister to his flock / Hamish Henderson -- The blacksmith's son ; Black Patrick's bowshot / John MacInnes -- Annie Luker's ghost ; The grey goose feathers ; The five-pound note / Katharine M. Briggs and Ruth L. Tongue -- Cinderella ; The scalded wolf / Geneviève Massignon -- The unbeliever and the skull ; Santa Catalina ; The mass of Saint Joseph / Aurelio M. Espinosa -- Bertoldino ; The tale of the sister cat ; The dove and the fox / Carla Bianco -- Summoned into the Valley of Josaphat ; About the black spider ; Sennentunscheli on the Wyssenboden ; The knife in the hay / Robert Wildhaber -- The swineherd who married a princess ; The ox as mayor / Kurt Ranke -- The drinking horn stolen from the Huldre folk at (a) Vallerhaug, (b) Vellerhaug, (c) Hifjell ; The altarpiece in Ringsaker Church / Reidar Christiansen -- The hunter's joke / Pirkko-Liisa Rausmaa -- Old Fakla and the sleeping knights ; The holy figure in Szaflary ; The ages of man ; Song of the thief / Julian Krzyzanowski -- The magic calk ; Lazybones / Linda Dégh -- The sorcerer and his apprentice / Mark Azadovskij -- Peter the Great and the stonemason ; The two thieves / I.V. Karnaukhova -- The lake spirits of Peristera and Xerovouni / Georgios A. Megas -- MIDDLE EAST -- Nasreddin Hodja and Tamerlane ; The smart brother and the crazy brother ; Dervish Baba / Ilhan Bașgöz -- The sure news is up ahead ; The falcon's daughter ; The sparrow and the king ; The cruel mother-in-law / Hasan El-Shamy -- A dispute in sign language ; A tale of a Jew who bridled the wind / Dov Noy -- ASIA -- 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 / Praphulladatta Goswami -- The romance of the Mongol girl and the Arab boy ; The decapitation of Sufi Islam ; The two thieves with the same wife ; Khastakhumār and Bībīnagār ; The seventy-year-old corpse / Hafizullah Baghban -- The mountain where old people were abandoned / Keigo Seki -- The man who bought a dream / Robert J. Adams -- The adulteress rat ; The Gungutan and the big-bellied man ; Agkon, the greedy son / E. Arsenio Manuel -- The seven young sky women / Hazel Wrigglesworth -- The bridge of Ch'üan-Chou ; Chu the rogue / Wolfram Eberhard -- Liar Mvkang and the rich villagers ; Liar Mvkang sells ashes ; Liar Mvkang and the water snake ; The orphan and his grandmother / Suzan Lapai -- Why people's noses run when they catch colds ; The red pond ; The kindhearted crab and the cunning mouse ; The grave of the golden ruler ; The one-sided boy / Yim Suk-Jay.
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OCEANIA -- The ghosts of the two mountains ; 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 / Roger Mitchell -- The first getting of the way to cultivate Cyrtosperma ; Maui of a thousand tricks / Katharine Luomala -- The myth of Fuusai / Elli Köngäs Maranda -- AFRICA -- The two brothers ; How the society can get back its medicine ; Bush fowl and Turtle build a town / John Milbury-Steen -- Jọmọ, guardian of the great sword ; He-who-meets-problems-alone and He-who-seeks-good-advice / Deirdre La Pin -- 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 / Philip A. Noss -- Origin of the enmity between dog and leopard ; Trapper, gatherer-of-honey, and cultivator ; How Nturo rejected Mpaca / Daniel P. Biebuyck -- 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 / Harold Scheub -- NEW WORLD -- The duck dog ; The tub of butter ; The string of trout ; The sheep and the ram ; The sword of wisdom ; The big dog ; The scalping of Pérusse / Luc Lacourcière -- Selling toilet paper in the subway ; The laughing hyena ; An unexpected donation / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Winabijou (Nanabush) brings on the flood ; The mermaid ; The legend of Yoho Cove ; Paree at the carnival ; Miracles of Saint Spyridon ; The two brothers / Richard M. Dorson -- Kondoy ; On holy week / Américo Paredes -- Ordeal by water ; Little cockroach Martina ; The poor brahmin / Daniel J. Crowley -- Cases / Luis da Camara Cascudo -- Treasure, envy, and witchcraft ; The mouse and the fox ; The condemned lover ; Quevedo works as a cook ; The Lake of Langui / Jean MacLaughlin -- The twin cycle (Yagua) / Paul Powlison -- The Witranalwe who guarded sheep / L.C. Faron -- Pedro Urdemales cheats two horsemen / Yolando Pino-Saavedra.
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| Abstract
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Authentic field-recorded texts of over one hundred tales recited by story-tellers from forty-six cultures around the world, collected as a representative sampling of the world's folk traditions.
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Tales.
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Folklore.
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Contes.
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Folklore.
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Folklore.
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Tales.
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Volkserzählung
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Volkserzählung.
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| Dewey Classification
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398.2
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GR15.F63
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000077692
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LC 77000rvk
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LC 77000.rvk
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Dorson, Richard M., (Richard Mercer),1916-1981.
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