minstrel: Tales of Wonder
edwin hewitt
brogoose at pe.net
Sun Aug 3 08:32:16 PDT 1997
Hi, Edwin here,
I thought you might be interested in the following Web-site:
http://itpubs.ucdavis.edu/richard/tales/indextxt.html
> Tales of Wonder
>
> Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World
>
> Welcome to my archive of folk and fairy tales. The stories in this
> collection represent a small sampling of the rich storytelling art
> that is the common heritage of humanity. Stories from many parts of
> the world are included here.
>
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> Africa || Central Asia || Central Europe || China
> England || India || Ireland || Japan
> Middle East || Native American || Russia || Scandinavia
> Scotland || Siberia || Links || Awards
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Tales from Africa
>
> Tales 1-4 are taken from The Magic Drum: Tales from Central Africa, by
> W. F. P. Burton. London: Methuen & Co., 1961. Tales 5-9 are taken from
> The Fire on the Mountain and Other Stories from Ethiopia and Eritrea,
> by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau, illustrations by Robert Kane.
> New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1950.
>
> 1. The Bachelors and the Python
> 2. The Rabbit Steals the Elephant's Dinner
> 3. The Rabbit Grows a Crop of Money
> 4. The Friendship of the Tortoise and the Eagle
> 5. The Woodcutter of Gura
> 6. The Jackal's Lawsuit
> 7. The Game Board
> 8. The Marriage of the Mouse
> 9. The Lion and the Hare Go Hunting
>
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>
> Tales from Central Asia
>
> The tales from Central Asia are taken from The Kaha Bird: Tales from
> the Steppes of Central Asia, Translated and edited by Mirra Ginsburg,
> with drawings by Richard Cuffari. New York: Crown Publishers, 1971.
>
> 1. Living Water
> 2. The Silken Tassel
> 3. The Kaha Bird
> 4. The Shepherd, the Tiger and the Fox
>
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>
> Tales from Central Europe
>
> Tales 1-2 were kindly contributed by Lucie Zezulkova. Tale 3 is from
> Favourite Fairy Tales Told in Czechoslovakia, Retold by Virginia
> Haviland, Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, The Bodley Head, London,
> 1966. Tale 4 is taken from Slav Tales, by Oldrich Sirovátka and Rudolf
> Luzik, Artia Prague, 1971; English Translation J. M. Dent & Sons,
> 1974.
>
> 1. Reason and Fortune
> 2. Pot, Cook
> 3. The Wood Fairy
> 4. Golden-Curls and How She Kept Silent
>
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>
> Tales from China
>
> These tales are taken from the following sources: The Rainbow People,
> Laurence Yep ; illustrated by David Wiesner. New York: Harper & Row,
> 1989; Dragon Tales: A Collection of Chinese Stories. Beijing: Chinese
> Literature Press, 1988; and The Jeweled Sea: A Book of Chinese Fairy
> Tales, edited by Hartwell James with illustrations by John R. Neill.
> Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia, 1906.
>
> 1. The Four Dragons
> 2. The Bright Pearl
> 3. Natural Enemies
> 4. We Are All One
> 5. The Superior Pet
> 6. The Jeweled Sea
>
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>
> Tales from England
>
> "Tattercoats" is taken from Folk Tales of the British Isles, edited by
> Michael Foss and illustrated by Ken Kiff. London: Macmillan, 1977. The
> tales from Cornwall (Nos. 2-3 below) are taken from Piskies,
> Spriggans, and Other Magical Beings: Tales from the Droll-teller,
> retold by Shirley Climo; illustrated by Joyce Audy dos Santos. New
> York: Crowell, 1981.
>
> 1. Tattercoats
> 2. Betty Stoggs' Baby
> 3. The Mermaid of Zennor
>
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>
> Tales from India
>
> These tales are taken from Folktales From India: A Selection of Oral
> Tales from Twenty-two Languages, selected and edited by A. K.
> Ramanujan. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991.
>
> 1. Bopoluchi
> 2. Why the Fish Laughed
> 3. Sukhu and Dukhu
> 4. The Ogress Queen
> 5. Four Girls and a King
> 6. Living Like a Pig
> 7. One More Use for Artists
> 8. The Magic Bowls
> 9. The Dove's Egg
> 10. A Drum
>
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>
> Tales from Ireland
>
> Tale 1 is taken from The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own
> Countryside, Padraic Colum. New York: Macmillan, 1933.
>
> 1. King Cormac's Cup
>
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>
> Tales from Japan
>
> Tales 2-3 below are taken from Japanese Folk Tales, by James E.
> O'Donnell, illustrated by Kasumi Nagao. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton
> Printers, 1958.
>
> 1. The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
> 2. Tiny Finger
> 3. Urashima Taro
>
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>
> Middle Eastern Tales
>
> Tales 2-4 below are taken from Arabian Fairy Tales, retold by Amina
> Shah, with wood-engravings by George Buday. London: Muller, 1969.
>
> 1. Sasha, Mansor and the Storks
> 2. The Three Brothers and the Fairy
> 3. The Princess and the Mouse
> 4. Yunus and the Well of Sweetness
>
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>
> Native American Tales
>
> Tales 1-7 here are taken from Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales
> Retold, by Charles A. Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman. Boston:
> Little, Brown and Company, 1916. Tales 8-13 are from North American
> Legends, edited by Virginia Haviland, illustrated by Ann Strugnell,
> Philomel Books, 1979.
>
> 1. The Buffalo and the Field-Mouse
> 2. The Frogs and the Crane
> 3. The Falcon and the Duck
> 4. The Raccoon and the Bee-Tree
> 5. The Comrades
> 6. The Runaways
> 7. The Magic Arrows
> 8. How Coyote Stole Fire
> 9. How Glooskap Found the Summer
> 10. Big Long Man's Corn Patch
>
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>
> Russian Tales
>
> Tales 2-4 below are taken from Russian Folk Tales, translated by Irena
> Zheleznova, Bernard Isaacs, and Dorian Rottenberg. Moscow: Foreign
> Languages Publishing House, no date.
>
> 1. The Wise Little Girl
> 2. Wee Little Havroshechka
> 3. Fenist the Bright Falcon
> 4. The Frog Princess
>
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>
> Scandinavian Tales
>
> Tales 1-2 below are taken from Yule-Tide Stories: A Collection of
> Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions, edited by
> Benjamin Thorpe. New York: AMS Press, 1968 (originally published in
> London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853).
>
> 1. The Princess and the Glass Mountain
> 2. The Enchanted Toad
>
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>
> Tales from Scotland
>
> Tales 1-4 are taken from The Well at the World's End: Folk Tales of
> Scotland, retold by Norah and William Montgomerie; drawings by Margery
> Gill. London: Bodley Head, 1975. Tales 5-8 are from The Lure of the
> Kelpie: Fairy and Folk Fales of the Highlands, by Helen Drever.
> Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1937.
>
> 1. The Maiden Fair and the Fountain Fairy
> 2. The Black Bull of Norroway
> 3. Prince Iain
> 4. The King of Lochlin's Three Daughters
> 5. The Grey Horse and the Widow's Daughters
> 6. The Greyhound and the Green Girl
> 7. The Princess and the Golden Shoes (a Cinderella variant)
> 8. The Giant and the Fair Man-Servant
>
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>
> Tales from Siberia
>
> The tales from Siberia are taken from The Sun Maiden and the Crescent
> Moon: Siberian Folk Tales, collected and translated by James Riordan.
> New York: Interlink Books, 1991.
>
> 1. Akanidi the Bright Sunbeam
> 2. Kotura, Lord of the Winds
> 3. Ankakumikaityn the Nomad Wolf
> 4. How the Sun was Rescued
> 5. Mergen and his Friends
>
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>
> Links
>
> * Fairy Tales
> * Indigenous Peoples' Literature (Native American Stories)
> * Another Native American Story Site
> * Links to Fairytales, Stories, Myths and Legends (huge collection
> of links)
> * Mariam Ispahani's Story Park
> * Mayan Folktales NEW LINK!
> * Non-traditional fairy tales
> * Russian Tales
> * Story Resources
> * Story Sources
> * Tales from the Brothers Grimm
> * Tales of Tanais the Fox
> * Tales of Traditional Wisdom
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>
> Comments? Send me e-mail: rfdarsie at ucdavis.edu
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