SPECIFIC BOOK INDEX
(the stories in this list have been alphabetized and are not in order of appearance)

Favorite Folktales from Around the World, edited by Jane Yolen. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
ISBN 0-394-543832

Ash Lad Who Made the Princess Say “You’re a Liar!”, The (Norway)
Ash Lad Who Had an Eating Match with the Troll, The (Norway)
Bad Wife, The (Russia)
Barn is Burning, The (Afro-American)
Bearskin (Germany)
Beduin’s Gazelle, The (Saudi Arabia)
Beginning of the Narran Lake, The (Australian Aboriginal)
Being Greedy Chokes Anansi (Jamaica)
Birth of Finn MacCumhail (Ireland)
Blacksmith’s Wife of Yarrowfoot, The (Scotland)
Brewery of Eggshells, The (Ireland)
Bridget and the Lurikeen (Ireland)
Bye-bye (Haiti)
Cat-Woman, The (France)
Catherine, Sly Country Lass (Italy)
Chelm Justice (Jewish)
Clever Answers (Russia)
Coals on the Devil’s Hearth (Ireland)
Coyote Fights a Lump of Pitch (American Indian)
Crack and Crook (Italy)
Death of a Miser (Russia)
Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden (American Indian)
Departure of the Giants, The (Africa)
Devil with the Three Golden Hairs, The (Germany)
Devil’s Hide (Finland)
Dispute in Sign Language, A (Israel)
Dividing with Goose (Russia)
Djuha’s Sleeve (Syria)
Doctor and His Pupil, The (France)
Dream House, The (Ireland)
Drinking Companions (China)
Drovers Who Lost Their Feet, The (Mexico)
Duration of Life, The (Germany)
End of the World, The (American Indian)
Endless Story, An (Japan)
Faithful John (Germany)
Father of Eighteen Elves (Iceland)
Finn Messenger, The (Norway)
Fly, The (Vietnam)
Flying Head, The (American Indian)
Found Hound-Dog Stories (Ireland and United States)
Getting Common Sense (Jamaica)
Girl at the Shieling, The (Iceland)
Glooscap and the Baby (American Indian)
Godfather Death (Germany)
Goha on the Deathbed (Egypt)
Goose Girl, The (Germany)
Half a Blanket (Ireland)
Happy Man’s Shirt, The (Italy)
Helping to Lie (Germany)
His Just Reward (Sweden)
Hodja and the Cauldron, The (Turkey)
Hold Him, Tabb (Afro-American)
How El Bizarron Fooled the Devil (Cuba)
How a Man Found His Wife in the Land of the Dead (Papua)
How Mosquitoes Came to Be (American Indian)
How Spider Obtained the Sky God’s Stories (Africa)
How Men and Women Got Together (American Indian)
Hungry Peasant, God, and Death, The (Mexico)
It Could Always Be Worse (Jewish)
John Brodison and the Policeman (Ireland)
Jump into My Sack (Italy)
Katcha and the Devil (Czechoslovakia)
King of Ireland’s Son, The (Ireland)
King Matyas and His Scholars (Hungary)
King’s Son Goes Bear Hunting, The (Finland)
King’s Favorite, The (China)
Lad and the Devil, The (Norway)
Lawyer and the Devil, The (Ireland)
Lazy Jack (England)
Leopard, Goat, and Yam (Africa)
Li Chi Slays the Serpent (China)
Little Old Woman with Five Cows (Siberia)
Longwitton Dragon, The (England)
Lost Horse, The (China)
Magic Mirror of Rabbi Adam, The (Jewish)
Magic Pear Tree, The (China)
Man Who Had No Story, The (Ireland)
Master Thief, The (Germany)
Men Who Wouldn’t Stay Dead, The (France)
Merchant’s Daughter and the Slanderer, The (Russia)
Missing Axe, The (China)
Molly Whuppie (England)
Monkey and the Crocodile, The (India)
Mr. Fox (England)
Nail Soup (Sweden)
Nasr-ed-Din Hodja in the Pulpit (Turkey)
Old Man and His Grandson, The (Germany)
Old Dry Frye (United States)
Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle, The (England)
Old Man and Woman Who Switched Jobs (Sweden)
One Night in Paradise (Italy)
Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog, The (American Indian)
Orpheus and Eurydice (Greece)
Ostler and the Grave Robbers, The (Scotland)
Paddock in Heaven, A (England)
Parson and the Sexton, The (Norway)
Peasant and the Devil, The (Germany)
Peasant and the Fiend, The (Estonia)
Peddler of Swaffham, The (England)
Peik (Norway)
Pergrin and the Mermaid (Wales)
Prayer That Was Answered, The (Tibet)
Pretty Girl in the Road, A (United States)
Princess on the Glass Hill, The (Norway)
Promises of the Three Sisters, The (Egypt)
Quevedo and the King (Mexico)
Rabbi and the Inquisitor, The (Jewish)
Race Between Toad and Donkey (Jamaica)
Rich Man, Poor Man (Africa)
Sausage, The (Sweden)
Seal’s Skin, The (Iceland)
Sedna (Eskimo)
Serpent-Woman, The (Spain)
Seventh Father of the House, The (Norway)
Sis Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka (Russia)
Snake’s Lover, The (Peru)
Spirit of the Van, The (Wales)
Spirit-Wife, The (American Indian)
Story of Campriano, The (Italy)
Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, The (Germany)
Stroke of Luck, A (Hungary)
Swan-Maiden, The (Sweden)
Taken (Ireland)
Talk (Africa)
Tall Tales, The (Burma)
Then the Merman Laughed (Iceland)
Those Stubborn Souls, the Biellese (Italy)
Three Sillies, The (England)
Tinker and the Ghost, The (Spain)
Toad-Bridegroom, The (Korea)
Truth and Falsehood (Greece)
Two Hunchbacks, The (Italy)
Two Pickpockets, The (England)
Two Old Women’s Bet, The (United States)
Tyll Ulenspiegel’s Merry Prank (Germany)
Ugly Son, The (Japan)
Urashima the Fisherman (Japan)
Vasilisa the Beautiful (Russia)
Wagging My Tail in the Mud (China)
Waiting Maid’s Parrot, The (China)
Well-Baked Man, The (American Indian)
What Melody is the Sweetest? (Afghanistan)
What Happened to Hadji (Turkey)
When One Man Has Two Wives (Syria)
White Cat (France)
Why the Hare Runs Away (Africa)
Wicked John and the Devil (United States)
Wiley and the Hairy Man (United States)
Wise Little Girl, The (Russia)
Woman Chooses Death (American Indian)
Word the Devil Made Up, The (Afro-American)
Wounded Seal, The (Scotland)
Youth Without Age and Life Without Death (Turkey)



(Updated 5/9/02)