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| Native American And Native Hawaiian Narratives | |
| The Origin of Stories | |
| Stealing Fire | |
| Djogeon (Dwarf-Man) and His Uncle | |
| Blood-Clot-Boy | |
| Stone Boy | |
| The Boy Who Become a Mink | |
| Coyote's Eyes | |
| Coyote and the Shadow People | |
| Fox and Kingfisher | |
| The Buffalo-Wife | |
| The Woman Who Married the Merman | |
| A Tale of the Sky World | |
| The Siege of Courthouse Rock | |
| The First Meeting of the Indians and the Europeans (Thatkak ila:ci:fo:kok) | |
| A Story of Kamehameha I | |
| Ke-lii-kuku | |
| Pele and Kahawali | |
| Folktales From A Number of Traditions | |
| Animal Tales | |
| The Donkey, the Dog, the Cat and the Rooster | |
| Lion, Fox, and Cowboy | |
| Mr. Snake and the Farmer | |
| Jack and His Fellows: Classic Hero Tales | |
| The Long-Tailed Shirt | |
| Old Bluebeard | |
| Jack and His Dogs | |
| The Big Old Giant | |
| Jack and the Fox | |
| The Boy That Never Seen a Fraid | |
| Brave, Resourceful, and Kindly Women | |
| The King and the Poor Man's Daughter | |
| The Pretended Corpse | |
| Old Foster | |
| The Milliman's Daughter | |
| Mutsmag | |
| Lady Feather flight | |
| How Toodie Fixed Old Grunt | |
| The Green Bird | |
| Rose | |
| The Talking Eggs | |
| The Grateful Dead and Other Magic Helpers | |
| The Girl That Weren't Ashamed to Own Her Kin | |
| Old Shake-Your-Head | |
| One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes | |
| The Boat That Went on Land and Sea | |
| Magical Powers and Magical Objects | |
| He Heard Animals Talking | |
| Nor'west Wind and Jack | |
| The King's Well | |
| Lucky Accidents | |
| Old Stiff Dick | |
| Jack and the King's Girl | |
| The Old Man and the Coon | |
| The Three Shining Stones | |
| She Always Answered No | |
| The Three Questions | |
| Under Gravel Do I Travel | |
| The Bride of the Evil One | |
| A Bark Peeler's Life | |
| Tricks and Tricksters | |
| Aunt Kate's Goomer-Dust | |
| ôAll of these Are Mineö | |
| The Tar Baby | |
| Bouqui and Lapin: The Farm | |
| The Hare and the Porcupine | |
| The One-Eyed Giant | |
| The Three Littles Pigs | |
| Pat O'Grady | |
| Roclore and the King | |
| The Tricky Yankee | |
| How Brer Rabbit Brought Dust Out of the Rock | |
| John, His Boss-Man, and the Catfish | |
| When Brer Frog Gave a Big Dinner | |
| Mr. Deer's My Riding Horse | |
| Abe and Dinah | |
| Husbands and Wives | |
| The Stubborn Wife | |
| Singing Her Warning | |
| Rover in College (Rover au College) | |
| Priests, Preachers, and Other Professions | |
| The Stolen Hog | |
| What Did Paul Say? | |
| Too Strong a Penance | |
| The Man Who Stole Lumber | |
| A Death Bed Scene | |
| Bunkin | |
| The Smart Indian Lawyer | |
| Closest to the Fire | |
| Fools and Mishaps | |
| Mule Eggs | |
| The Hot Dogs (Les hot Dogs) | |
| Big Fraid and Little Fraid | |
| She's Got One Spoiled Tit | |
| In Run My Hand Up Missis' Dress | |
| The Irishman and the Moon | |
| The Girl Who Died of Fright | |
| Talking Turtle | |
| ôTrickö Tales and Parodies | |
| The Lonely Old Man | |
| Johnny-Cake | |
| Fido Is Dead (Fido est mort) | |
| Between a Mountain Lion and a Grizzly | |
| Three Wishes | |
| The Toadfrog | |
| Lies and Other Tall Tales | |
| Carried by Buzzards | |
| Paul Bunyan's Cooking Arrangements | |
| Paul Bunyan's Big Cow | |
| The Peach Tree Deer | |
| Thawing Words | |
| Leading Blind Hogs | |
| The Two Big Hunters | |
| The Stretching Harness | |
| Liars' Contest: Speed | |
| The Snake, the Frog and the Liquor | |
| A Fish Story | |
| A Night in the Jungle | |
| ôJeez, the Mosquitoes Was Thick.ö | |
| Turnip and Kettle | |
| ôYou Take Off Ten Poundsö | |
| Some Other Humorous Tales | |
| The Yank Reunion | |
| What Madeline Done | |
| The Coon-Monkey | |
| Saying Grace | |
| The Longest Tale | |
| Religious Tales | |
| The Family That Had Lost the Little Girl (La famille qu'avait Perdu la Petite fille) | |
| The Horse with Wings | |
| The Story of Arigo | |
| Legends From A Number Of Traditions | |
| Ghosts and Wraiths | |
| The Haunted House | |
| Ghost of a Mistreated Slave | |
| The White Lady of the Van Rensselaer Mansion | |
| A Haunted Mine | |
| The Ghost Miner | |
| The Negro in the Concrete | |
| The Gate That Would Not Stay Shut | |
| Conflict Over a Boundary Line | |
| Ghost Haunts Her Re-Married Husband | |
| The Dead Lover's Light | |
| A Handshake | |
| Ghost Appears in a Photo | |
| A Miser's Ghost | |
| Wyoming's Headless Horseman | |
| A Ghost Dog | |
| Reforming a Thief | |
| Guarding His Own Body | |
| The Ghost Priest | |
| The Good Ghost at Wheeler | |
| The Blue Light | |
| A Ghostly Baby Snatcher | |
| Two Manifestations of La Llorona | |
| La Llorona | |
| The Vanishing Hitchhiker | |
| The Vanishing Bride | |
| The Vanishing Nun | |
| The Traveling Spirit | |
| Ghost Cannot Pass Flowing Water | |
| Draga's return | |
| Calling Maryo Worth | |
| Man Sees Own Ghost | |
| Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing | |
| The Six Witches | |
| Witches and a Blessing | |
| Casting Spells Over Animals | |
| A Bewitched Gun | |
| The Brothers Who Married Witches | |
| Broom-Charm | |
| Out of Her Skin | |
| The Butter Witch | |
| A Wizard Protests Being Overcharged | |
| Death of a Witch Cat | |
| Uncovering a Witch | |
| Bewitched Cattle | |
| Rival Hoodoo ôDoctorsö | |
| Punishing a Wealthy Planter | |
| Bewitching a Dog | |
| Curing Rheumatism | |
| Blowing the Fire Out of a Burned Arm | |
| Omens and Other Strange Events | |
| The Death-Watch Tick | |
| A Death's Head | |
| A Dream of Surf and Waves | |
| A Voice Calling | |
| The Dancing Light | |
| The Robed Horseman | |
| Person Born with Caul Has Second Sight | |
| Prenatal Fear Causes Birthmark | |
| The Fairy Birth | |
| The Playing Player Piano | |
| The Blood Stained Bricks | |
| A Lost Stagecoach | |
| Phantom Steamboat on Devil's Lake | |
| Going to the Dance Hall | |
| Finding a Lost Watch | |
| Saved by Lightning | |
| The Face on the Windowpane | |
| The Face on the Tombstone | |
| The Chain on the Tombstone | |
| The Bride and the Egg Yolk | |
| The Holyoke Dam | |
| The Strange Death of a Slave Master | |
| Cursed Clock | |
| A Loup Garou's Debt | |
| An Oyster-Culling Loup Garou | |
| The Devil | |
| The Devil Appears as a Black Dog | |
| The Devil Plays Cards | |
| The Devil and the card Players | |
| The Devil in Eisenhower's Saloon | |
| Raising the Devil | |
| The Devil at the Discotheque | |
| A Devil Child | |
| Sold Body and Soul | |
| Divine Retribution and Other Miracles | |
| Sunday Mountain | |
| Card-Playing on Sunday | |
| Retribution | |
| Flowers from the Virgin Mary | |
| Sweet Hour of Prayer | |
| Great Merit | |
| The Solider | |
| Storyo of the Holy Child | |
| Statue of St. Joseph Returns | |
| Saint Joseph's Day | |
| The Staircase at Loretto | |
| How the Wandering Jew Appeared to an Early Settler in Nevada | |
| Three Mysterious Laborers Aid One of Joseph Smithy's Protectors | |
| Appearance of the Nephite | |
| Bread for a Missionary | |
| Missionaries Escape a Mob | |
| Native Americans | |
| The Legend of Lover's Leap | |
| The Legend of Turkey Hill | |
| The Annihilation of the Pascagoula | |
| The Women Who Married Indians | |
| Wakulla Pocahontas | |
| Daniel Boone's Tricks on Indians | |
| One of the Last of the Mohawks | |
| Flok Heroes, Local Characters, and Wild People | |
| Johnny Appleseed | |
| Molly Mulhollun, the Cabin Builder | |
| John Henry | |
| Ben Lilly, Strongman of Morehouse Parish | |
| Billy Hazard | |
| Ziba King | |
| Grorge Magoon Escapes the Wardens | |
| The Wild Girl of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands | |
| Panthers, Snakes, and Other Beasts | |
| The Panther | |
| Dick the Slave Boy and Wolves | |
| The Poisoned Tree | |
| Milk Snakes | |
| The coach-Whip Snake | |
| A Lake Serpent | |
| The Beast of Busco | |
| Hidden Treasure and Lost Mines | |
| Bluebeard's Treasure | |
| Buried Treasure of Jean Lafitte | |
| Phantom Pigs Guard a Treasure | |
| Frightened Away from Captain Kidd's Treasure | |
| Larsen's Vein | |
| The Treasure of Cacapan | |
| The Metate Rocks of Loma Linda | |
| The Lost Red Blanket Mine | |
| The Lost Haystack Mine | |
| Slavery and the Civil War | |
| The Escape of John Bennett | |
| The Tombstone | |
| James Bowser, Emancipation Hero | |
| A Confederate Spy | |
| The Buss | |
| Blood on the Floor | |
| Morgan's Raiders | |
| Yankee Ghosts in New Orleans | |
| A Confederate Solider | |
| What Caddy Did When She Heard That Lee Had Surrendered | |
| Outlaws, Crime, and Criminals | |
| Jesse James Spent the Night Near Terre Haute | |
| Butch Cassidy's Escape | |
| Eugene Bunch, the Robin Hood of Southeast Louisiana | |
| How Railroad Bill Chased Himself to His Girl's House | |
| Lewis the Robber Helps a Poor Widow | |
| Winn Parish Night Riders | |
| Robbery and Murder of a Traveler | |
| Al Capone's Hideout Near Edwardsport | |
| Dillinger's Long Penis in the Smithsonian | |
| Belle Gunness | |
| Drinks on the House | |
| Frankie Silver | |
| Horrors | |
| The Cannibal Couple | |
| The Faithful Dog | |
| Death from Fright | |
| The Yankee Soldiers and the Baby | |
| The Chirrionera | |
| Place Names and Other Origins | |
| How Mother Leather Coat Mountain Was Named | |
| How the Rock Got Its Name | |
| The Legend of the Dogwood Tree | |
| The Jack o' Lantern | |
| Prairie Lights (La Luz del Llano) | |
| Origin of Packenham's Rum (The Corpse In the Cask) | |
| Occupational Legends | |
| Death in the Mines | |
| Buying More Wind | |
| The Last Train Robbery | |
| A. Philip Randolph's Blank Check | |
| The Resident's Stamp | |
| Sleeping on the Night Shift | |
| ôUrbanö Legends | |
| The Hook | |
| The Cadaver Arm | |
| Snakes in the Fun House Tunnel | |
| The Roommate's Death | |
| The Bouffant Hair-Do | |
| The Fried Rat | |
| The Choking Doberman | |
| The Boy Friend's Death | |
| The Killer in the Back Seat | |
| The Crazy Baglady Who Ate Her Hair | |
| The Runaway Grandmother | |
| The Concrete-Filled Cadillac | |
| John F. Kennedy Is Still Alive in Dallas | |
| Story Credits | |
| Index of Tale Types and Motifs | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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