A Harvest of World Folk Tales

Foreword A Note on the Folk Tales AFRICAN The Old Woman Takise The Legend of the Elephant The Isinyandende Talk AMERICAN Jack and the Varmints Jack's Hunting Trips Old Gally Mander The Tar Baby Dicey and the Orpus The Man and His Boots Why Women Always Take Advantage of Men Davy Crockett: Sunrise in His Pocket Paul Bunyan's Big Griddle Paul's Cornstalk John Henry and the Machine in West Virginia AMERICAN INDIAN The Creation of Man The Pleiades The Raven Brings Light The Discontented Grass Plant The Shining Lodge The Hermit Mitsina The Rabbit Huntress The Deceived Blind Men ARABIAN AND TURKISH The First Kalandar's Tale The Barber's Tale of His Sixth Brother Tale of the Devout Israelite Khusrau and the Fisherman The Ruined Man Who Became Rich Again through a Dream The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman The King and His Wazir's Wife The Woman of the Well The Lady and the Unjust Judge Chapkin the Scamp What Happened to Hadji Nasr-ed-Din Hodja in the Pulpit The Hodja and the Caldron The Hodja and the Burglar The Hodja Visits Halil CHINESE Planting a Pear Tree A Taoist Priest The Thunder God Retribution The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge The Cinnamon Tree in the Moon Women EGYPTIAN Anpu and Bata The Shipwrecked Sailor The Doomed Prince The Treasures of Rhampsinitus ENGLISH The Hedley Kow Coat o' Clay The King o' the Cats The Master and His Pupil Dick Whittington Jack and the Beanstalk Robin Hood and the Butcher Robin Hood and the Beggar The Giants of Castle Treen The Piskeys on Selena Moor The Bailie's Daughter The Widow and Her Daughters Get Up and Bar the Door Our Goodman FINNISH The Kalevala -- The Destruction of the Sampo -- The Last Adventure The Pig-Headed Wife Lippo and Tapio FRENCH The Adventures of Renard The Theft of a Smell The Shroud of Mari-Yvonne Devil-May-Care The Men Who Wouldn't Stay Dead Our Lady's Trumbler Cinderilla GERMAN The Frog-King, or Iron Henry The Valiant Little Tailor The Fox and the Geese Old Hildebrand Knoist and His Three Sons Death's Messengers Hansel and Grethel Peter Klaus The Schildbürger Build a Council House Tyll Ulenspiegel -- The Tale of a Merry Dance -- Tyll Proves to Fools How Great Is Their Folly -- Word, Wit, and Merry Game -- Tyll's Last Prank GREEK Nobody and Polyphemus Tantalus Medea Narcissus Orpheus and Eurydice Diana and Actaeon Daedalus, Icarus, and the Wings Cupid and Psyche Hercules: The Eleventh Task Fables -- The Wolf and the Crane -- The Man and the Satyr -- The House Dog and the Wolf -- The Old Woman and the Wine Jar -- The Farthing Rushlight -- The Travelers and the Bears -- The Old Woman and the Physician -- The Ass Carrying Salt -- The Old Mad and Death -- The Lion and Ass Go Hunting -- The Bald Knight -- The Fox and the Crow -- The Ass's Shadow INDIAN Holding the Truth The Robbers and the Treasure The Golden Goose The Greedy Jackal Caught The Judas Tree Rāma and Sītā Mouse-Maid Made Mouse The Lion Makers The Loyal Mungoose The Brahman and the Pot of Rice The Mice That Ate Iron Devabhuti and the Foolish Magistrate The Three Fastidious Men The King Who Was Fried IRISH Deirdre The Field of Boliauns Cuchullin and Fardia A Legend of Knockmany Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary Teig O'Kane and the Corpse ITALIAN The Untamed Shrew The Cunning Cat The Merchant Pinto Smalto Bastianelo The Thoughtless Abbot Scissors They Were JEWISH Abraham and the Idols The Lord Helpeth Man and Beast The Princess and Rabbi Joshua The Wife's One Wish The Thoughtful Father Rabbi Eliezer Enjoys an Exception Know Before You Criticize The Wise Rogue The Helm Goat Mystery Higher Mathematics in Helm Pinya of Helm King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba The Buried Money Alone with God Joseph and Potiphar's Wife Father Bird and Fledglings Song of the Kid LATIN AMERICAN Lesson for Lesson The Incubus The Coyote and Juan's Maguey Repaying Good with Evil A Time for Everything Wine and the Devil Ayaymama Brer Rabbit, Businessman The Yara The Legend of Agustín Lorenzo RUSSIAN The Golden Cock The Soldier and the Demons The Seven Simeons The Wondrous Wonder The Earth Will Have Its Own The Serpent and the Peasant A Witty Answer The Khevsouri and the Eshmahkie SCANDINAVIAN Odin's Search for Wisdom The Making of the Hammer How Thor Found His Hammer The Archer and the King Why the Sea Is Salt The Master Thief Bjarni Sveinssen and His Sister Salvör Now I should Laugh If I Were Not Dead The Princess on the Pea The Tinderbox SPANISH I Ate the Loaf The Invisible Cloth What Happened to a Young Man on His Wedding Day Don Demonio's Mother-in-Law Pedro the Trickster Bibliographical Note Index of Sources, Editors, and Translators