Description: Acknowledgments Introduction: Choosing the World's Folktales - Richard M. Dorson Europe Ireland - Sean O'Sullivan Fionn in Search of His Youth The Cold May Night 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 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 France - Genevive Massignon Cinderella The Scalded Wolf Spain - Aurelio M. Espinosa The Unbeliever and the Skull Santa Catalina The Mass of Saint Joseph Italy - Carla Bianco Bertoldino The Tale of Sister Cat The Dove and the Fox Switzerland - Robert Wildhaber Summoned into the Valley of Josaphat About the Black Spider Sennentunscheli on the Wyssenboden The Knife in the Hay Germany - Kurt Ranke The Swinehard Who Married a Princess The Ox as Mayor Norway - Reidar Christiansen The Drinking Horn Stolen from theHuldreFolk at (a) Vallerhaug, (b) Vellerhaug, (c) Hifjell The Altarpiece in Ringsaker Church Finland - Pirkko-Liisa Rausmaa The Hunter's Joke Poland - Julian Krzyzanowski Old Fakla and the Sleeping Knights The Holy Figure in the Szaflary The Ages of Man Song of the Thief Hungary - Linda Dgh The Magic Calk Lazybones Russia The Sorcerer and His Apprentice - Mark Azadovskij Peter the Great and the Stonemason - I. V. Karnaukhova Two Thieves Greece - Georgios A. Megas The Lake Spirits of Peristera and Xerovouni Middle East Turkey - Ilhan Basgz Nasreddin Hodja and Tamerlane The Smart Brother and the Crazy Brother Dervish Baba Egypt - Hasan El-Shamy The Sure News Is Up Ahead The Falcon's Daughter Tunisia - Hasan El-Shamy The Sparrow and the King Iraq - Hasan El-Shamy The Cruel Mother-in-Law Israel - Dov Noy A Dispute in Sign Language A Tale of a Jew Who Bridled the Wind 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 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 Japan The Mountain Where Old People Were Abandoned - Keigo Seki The Man Who Bought a Dream - Robert J. Adams 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 China - Wolfram Eberhard The Bridge of Ch'an-Chou Chu the Rogue Burma - Suzan Lapai Liar Mvkang and the Rich Villagers Liar Mvkang Sells Ashes Liar Mvkang and the Water Snake The Orphan and His Grandmother 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 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 CultivateCyrtosperma- Katharine Luomala Polynesi

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