Favorite Folktales from Around the World

550 Pages·2014·5.64 MB·English

by  Yolen Jane

Compilation Copyright © 1986 by Random House, Inc.
Introduction, introductory materials, and Notes
Copyright © 1986 by Jane Yolen All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York,
and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Favorite folktales from around the world.
(Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library)
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Tales. I. Yolen, Jane.
GR76.F38 1986 398.2 86–42644
ISBN 0-394-54382-3
eBook ISBN: 978-0-80415286-0
0-394-75188-4 (pbk.) Since this copyright page cannot legibly accommodate all the permissions
acknowledgments, these appear on pages this page–this page.
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For the members of the
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND STORYTELLERS’ GUILD
When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth.
—ETHIOPIAN PROVERB
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Introduction
T T
ELLING ALES
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)
T V Y V O
HE ERY OUNG AND THE ERY LD
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)
T L F
RUE OVES AND ALSE
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)
T , R C
RICKSTERS OGUES, AND HEATS
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)
T F : N N
HE OOL UMBSKULLS AND OODLEHEADS
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)
H : L U
EROES IKELY AND NLIKELY
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)
W T , T T B
ONDER ALES ALL ALES, AND RAG
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)
Four Hound-Dog Stories (Ireland and United States)
S S
HAPE HIFTERS
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)
N Q H
OT UITE UMAN
The Well-Baked Man (American Indian)