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Favorite Folktales from Around the World

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

12.08.1988

Verlag

Vermilion

Seitenzahl

514

Maße (L/B/H)

23.4/15.3/3.4 cm

Gewicht

712 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-394-75188-7

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

12.08.1988

Verlag

Vermilion

Seitenzahl

514

Maße (L/B/H)

23.4/15.3/3.4 cm

Gewicht

712 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-394-75188-7

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Acknowledgments  /  xiii
    Introduction  /  1
     
    TELLING TALES  /  17
    The Man Who Had No Story (Ireland)  /  20
    How Spider Obtained the Sky God’s Stories (Africa)  /  24
    Helping to Lie (Germany)  /  27
    The Ash Lad Who Made the Princess Say “You’re a Liar” (Norway)  /  28
    The Parson and the Sexton (Norway)  /  29
    The Tall Tales (Burma)  /  30
    Catherine, Sly Country Lass (Italy)  /  33
    The Wise Little Girl (Russia)  /  38
    Clever Answers (Russia)  /  41
    A Dispute in Sign Language (Israel)  /  42
    Leopard, Goat, and Yam (Africa)  /  44
    An Endless Story (Japan)  /  45
     
    THE VERY YOUNG AND THE VERY OLD  /  47
    Glooscap and the Baby (American Indian)  /  49
    The Brewery of Eggshells (Ireland)  /  50
    Father of Eighteen Elves (Iceland)  /  53
    The Fly (Vietnam)  /  55
    The Two Pickpockets (England)  /  58
    The Seventh Father of the House (Norway)  /  59
    The King’s Favorite (China)  /  61
    Wagging My Tail in the Mud (China)  /  61
    When One Man Has Two Wives (Syria)  /  62
    The Old Man and His Grandson (Germany)  /  62
    Half a Blanket (Ireland)  /  63
     
    TRUE LOVES AND FALSE  /  65
    How Men and Women Got Together (American Indian)  /  68
    The Little Old Woman with Five Cows (Siberia)  /  72
    The Prayer That Was Answered (Tibet)  /  79
    The Merchant’s Daughter and the Slanderer (Russia)  /  82
    What Happened to Hadji (Turkey)  /  85
    Mr. Fox (England)  /  87
    The Waiting Maid’s Parrot (China)  /  90
    The White Cat (France)  /  95
    Sedna (Eskimo)  /  105
    Urashima the Fisherman (Japan)  /  107
    The Sprit of the Can (Wales)  /  110
    The Toad-Bridegroom (Korea)  /  112
    Taken (Ireland)  /  115
    The Girl at the Shieling (Iceland)  /  117
    Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden (American Indian)  /  121
     
    TRICKSTERS, ROGUES, AND CHEATS  /  125
    Tyll Ulenspiegel’s Merry Prank (Germany)  /  128
    The Hodja and the Cauldron (Turkey)  /  129
    Being Greedy Chokes Anansi (Jamaica)  /  130
    Quevedo and the King (Mexico)  /  131
    Why the Hare Runs Away (Africa)  /  132
    Coyote Fights a Lump of Pitch (American Indian)  /  134
    Crack and Crook (Italy)  /  136
    The Master Thief (Germany)  /  138
    Peik (Norway)  /  144
    The Monkey and the Crocodile (India)  /  151
    The Race Between Toad and Donkey (Jamaica)  /  152
    The King’s Son Goes Bear Hunting (Finland)  /  155
    John Brodison and the Policeman (Ireland)  /  156
    The Rabbi and the Inquisitor (Jewish)  /  157
    The Ugly Son (Japan)  /  158
    Dividing the Goose (Russia)  /  160
    The Men Who Wouldn’t Stay Dead (France)  /  161
    The Story of Campriano (Italy)  /  163
     
    THE FOOL: NUMBSKULLS AND NOODLEHEADS  /  167
    The Three Sillies (England)  /  170
    Nasr-ed-Din Hodja in the Pulpit (Turkey)  /  173
    Lazy Jack (England)  /  174
    Chelm Justice (Jewish)  /  176
    Those Stubborn Souls, the Biellese (Italy)  /  176
    The Drovers Who Lost Their Feet (Mexico)  /  177
    The Old Man and Woman Who Switched Jobs (Sweden)  /  178
    The Two Old Women’s Bet (United States)  /  181
    A Stroke of Luck (Hungary)  /  183
    The Sausage (Sweden)  /  185
    Nail Soup (Sweden)  /  187
    Old Dry Frye (United States)  /  191
    “Bye-bye” (Haiti)  /  194
    The Barn is Burning (Afro-American)  /  195
     
    HEROES: LIKELY AND UNLIKELY  /  199
    The Birth of Finn MacCumhail (Ireland)  /  202
    Li Chi Slays the Serpent (China)  /  210
    The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs (Germany)  /  212
    The Longwitton Dragon (England)  /  218
    The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog (American Indian)  /  220
    Molly Whuppie (England)  /  228
    The Beginning of the Narran Lake (Australian Aboriginal)  /  231
    The Flying Head (American Indian)  /  233
    The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was (Germany)  /  235
     
    WONDER TALES, TALL TALES, AND BRAG  /  243
    Talk (Africa)  /  246
    The King of Ireland’s Son (Ireland)  /  248
    The Goose Girl (Germany)  /  254
    The Princess on the Glass Hill (Norway)  /  260
    The Promises of the Three Sisters (Egypt)  /  268
    The Magic Mirror of Rabbi Adam (Jewish)  /  276
    The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle (England)  /  283
    The Magic Pear Tree (China)  /  286
    Faithful John (Germany)  /  287
    Four Hound-Dog Stories (Ireland and United States)  /  294
     
    SHAPE SHIFTERS  /  297
    The Doctor and His Pupil (France)  /  300
    The Swan-Maiden (Sweden)  /  303
    Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka (Russia)  /  305
    The Blacksmith’s Wife of Yarrowfoot (Scotland)  /  308
    The Seal’s Skin (Ireland)  /  310
    The Wounded Seal (Scotland)  /  311
    The Cat-Woman (France)  /  313
    The Serpent-Woman (Spain)  /  315
    The Snake’s Lover (Peru)  /  323
     
    NOT QUITE HUMAN  /  329
    The Well-Baked Man (American Indian)  /  331
    The Finn Messenger (Norway)  /  333
    Vasilisa the Beautiful (Russia)  /  335
    Bridget and the Lurikeen (Ireland)  /  342
    The Two Hunchbacks (Italy)  /  343
    Then the Merman Laughed (Iceland)  /  346
    Peregrin and the Mermaid (Wales)  /  347
    The Ash Lad Who Had an Eating Match with the Troll (Norway)  /  348
    How Mosquitoes Came to Be (American Indian)  /  350
    The Departure of the Giants (Africa)  /  352
     
    FOOLING THE DEVIL  /  355
    The Peasant and the Devil (Germany)  /  358
    Wicked John and the Devil (United States)  /  359
    The Bad Wife (Russia)  /  367
    Katcha and the Devil (Czechoslovakia)  /  369
    The Lawyer and the Devil (Ireland)  /  375
    Coals on the Devil’s Hearth (Ireland)  /  376
    The Devil’s Hide (Finland)  /  378
    How El Bizarrón Fooled the Devil (Cuba)  /  386
    Bearskin (Germany)  /  389
    The Lad and the Devil (Norway)  /  394
    Wiley and the Hairy Man (United States)  /  395
     
    THE GETTING OF WISDOM  /  401
    Truth and Falsehood (Greece)  /  403
    Getting Common Sense (Jamaica)  /  405
    Rich Man, Poor Man (Africa)  /  406
    The Lost Horse (China)  /  407
    It Could Always Be Worse (Jewish)  /  408
    His Just Reward (Sweden)  /  409
    Djuha’s Sleeve (Syria)  /  411
    King Mátyás and His Scholars (Hungary)  /  412
    The Missing Axe (China)  /  412
    What Melody Is the Sweetest? (Afghanistan)  /  413
    The Peddler of Swaffham (England)  /  414
    The Beduin’s Gazelle (Saudi Arabia)  /  415
    The Happy Man’s Shirt (Italy)  /  417
     
    GHOSTS AND REVENANTS  /  419
    Orpheus and Eurydice (Greece)  /  422
    The Spirit-Wife (American Indian)  /  423
    One Night in Paradise (Italy)  /  428
    A Pretty Girl in the Road (United States)  /  430
    The Dream House (Ireland)  /  432
    The Peasant and the Fiend (Estonia)  /  433
    The Tinker and the Ghost (Spain)  /  435
    Hold Him, Tabb (Afro-American)  /  439
    Drinking Companions (China)  /  440
    The Ostler and the Grave Robbers (Scotland)  /  444
     
    DEATH AND THE WORLD’S END  /  445
    The Duration of Life (Germany)  /  448
    Woman Chooses Death (American Indian)   /  449
    Jump into My Sack (Italy)  /  451
    Youth Without Age and Life Without Death (Turkey)  /  457
    Goha on the Deathbed (Egypt)  /  465
    Death of a Miser (Russia)  /  466
    Godfather Death (Germany)  /  466
    The Hungry Peasant, God, and Death (Mexico)  /  469
    The Word the Devil Made Up (Afro-American)  /  471
    A Paddock in Heaven (England)  /  472
    How a Man Found His Wife in the Land of the Dead (Papua)  /  472
    The End of the World (American Indian)  /  474
     
    Notes  /  477
    Permissions Acknowledgments  /  495
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