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9780393320466

FEARLESS GIRLS PA

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393320466

  • ISBN10:

    0393320464

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-05-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

This "jewel of an anthology" ("Booklist") features 100 great folktales and fairy tales from all over the world about strong, smart, brave heroines. "The result is a book of . . . shimmering, spine-tingling tales in which females of every shape, age, and size valiantly and selflessly save the day" ("Elle").

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xvii
Introduction xxi
Map
xxviii
Tales from Europe
The Stolen Bairn and the Sidh (Scotland)
3(8)
The Three Sisters and Their Husbands, Three Brothers (Ireland)
11(7)
The Corpse Watchers (Ireland)
18(3)
The Crookened Back (Ireland)
21(5)
The Horned Women (Ireland)
26(3)
Whuppity Stoorie (Scotland)
29(4)
Molly Whuppie (England)
33(3)
The Treasure of Downhouse (England)
36(2)
The Hand of Glory (England)
38(2)
Tamlane (England)
40(3)
The Night Troll (Iceland)
43(2)
The Grateful Elfwoman (Iceland)
45(1)
``My Jon's Soul'' (Iceland)
46(2)
The Ghost at Fjelkinge (Sweden)
48(2)
Little Red Cap (Germany)
50(4)
The Wood Maiden (Czechoslovakia)
54(6)
The Child Who Was Poor and Good (Greece)
60(3)
The Pigeon's Bride (Yugoslavia)
63(10)
How the King Chose a Daughter-in-Law (Romania)
73(2)
Marichka (Gypsy)
75(2)
Davit (Georgia)
77(4)
Anait (Caucasus)
81(11)
The Fortune-Teller (Russia)
92(4)
The Tsaritsa Harpist (Russia)
96(5)
Tales from North and South America
Native Americans
The Vampire Skeleton (Iroquois)
101(4)
The Flying Head (Iroquois)
105(2)
Where the Girl Saved Her Brother (Cheyenne)
107(3)
Chief Joseph's Story of Wallowa Lake (Nez Perce)
110(4)
The Origin of the Potlatch (Quillayute)
114(2)
The Princess and Mountain Dweller (People of the Northwest Coast)
116(10)
The Princess and the Magical Hat (People of the Northwest Coast)
126(11)
The Lytton Girls Who Were Stolen by Giants (Salisban People)
137(2)
The Legend of the Coppermine River (Inuit)
139(3)
The Huntress (Inuit)
142(5)
Story of a Female Shaman (Reindeer Chukchee)
147(2)
The Magic Eagle (Timotean People, Venezuela)
149(4)
New World Newcomrs
``I'm Tipingee, She's Tipingee, We're Tipingee, Too'' (Haiti)
153(3)
The Innkeeper's Wise Daughter (Jewish-American)
156(4)
Molly Cotton-Tail Steals Mr. Fox's Butter (African-American)
160(7)
Tales from Asia
A Rani's Revenge (Orissa, India)
167(3)
How Parvatibai Outwitted the Dacoits (Maharashtra, India)
170(3)
The Close Alliance: A Tale of Woe (Punjab, India)
173(4)
The Barber's Clever Wife (Punjab, India)
177(7)
A Wonderful Story (India)
184(5)
The Importance of Lighting (Tamil Nadu, India)
189(3)
The Child of Death (Vietnam)
192(3)
The Story of Princess Amaradevi (Cambodia)
195(4)
The Tale of the Oki Islands (Japan)
199(4)
The Monkey Bridegroom (Japan)
203(3)
The Mirror of Matsuyama: A Story of Old Japan (Japan)
206(11)
The Tiger and the Coal Peddler's Wife (Korea)
217(2)
The Plucky Maiden (Korea)
219(3)
The Phoenix and Her City (Hui People China)
222(6)
Sailimai's Four Precious Things (Hui People, China)
228(2)
A Woman's Love (Uighur People, China)
230(10)
Maiden Liu, the Songster (Yao People, China)
240(5)
The Festival of Pouring Water (Yunnan, China)
245(2)
A Polite Idiosyncrasy (Kwangtung, China)
247(1)
The Young Head of the Family (Kwangtung, China)
248(4)
Altyn-Aryg (Altaian People, Siberia)
252(2)
The Wife Who Stole a Heart (Kalmuck People, Siberia)
254(5)
Tales from the Pacific
Hiiaka Catching a Ghost (Hawaii)
259(4)
Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas (Hawaii)
263(4)
A Calabash of Poi (Hawaii)
267(3)
Rau-Whato (Maori People, New Zealand)
270(2)
How Pulap Acquired the Art of Navigation (Ulithi Atoll, Micronesia)
272(2)
Rola and the Two Sisters (Ulithi Atoll, Micronesia)
274(3)
The Old Woman and the Giant (Philippines)
277(2)
The Magic Coin (Philippines)
279(3)
The Creation of Lake Asbold (Asmat People, Irian Jaya, Indonesia)
282(2)
Senan and Aping (Kenyah People, Sarawak, Malaysia)
284(6)
Ubong and the Head-Hunters (Kenyab People, Sarawak, Malaysia)
290(4)
Kumaku and the Giant (Fiji)
294(2)
Revival and Revenge (Kewa People, Papua, New Guinea)
296(3)
Uzu, the White Dogai (Torres Straits, Australia)
299(2)
The Black Snake Man and His Wife, the Dove (Munkan People, Australia)
301(4)
The Mogwoi's Baby (Arnhem Land, Australia)
305(2)
Biriwilg (Told by Women) (Arnhem Land, Australia)
307(4)
Tales from Sub-Saharan Africa
The Woman, Her Husband, Their Children and the Dodo (Hausa People, Nigeria)
311(5)
Ku-Chin-Da-Gayya and Her Elder Sister and the Dodos (Hausa People, Nigeria)
316(4)
Moremi and the Egunguns (Yoruba People, Nigeria)
320(4)
The Spider, Kayi, and the Bush Fowl (Limba People, Sierra Leone)
324(1)
The Story of Two Women (Limba People, Sierra Leone)
325(6)
The Man Killed for a Spinach Leaf (Limba People, Sierra Leone)
331(7)
The Leopard Woman (Liberia)
338(2)
The Midwife of Dakar (Senegal)
340(2)
A Woman for a Hundred Cattle (Swahili)
342(6)
Wacu and the Eagle (Agikuyu People, Kenya)
348(4)
Elephant and Hare (Maasai People, Kenya)
352(2)
Nonikwe and the Great One, Marimba (Zulu)
354(5)
How the Milky Way Came to Be (South Africa)
359(1)
Nanabolele, Who Shines in the Night (Basotho People, Lesotho)
360(6)
Jackal and Hen (Basotho People, Lesotho)
366(5)
Tales from North Africa and the Middle East
Women's Wiles (Syria)
371(4)
The Feslihanci Girl (Turkey)
375(12)
The Story of the City of Nothing-in-the-World (Persia)
387(2)
The ``Pink Pearl'' Prince (Iran)
389(4)
Who Is Blessed with the Realm, Riches, and Honor? (Israel)
393(3)
The Story of the King, Hamed bin Bathara, and of the Fearless Girl (Arab)
396(5)
The Sultan's Daughter (Sudan)
401(4)
Yousif Al-Saffani (Sudan)
405(8)
The Miser Who Married (Iraq)
413(4)
The Sign of the Tassel (Iraq)
417(2)
Notes 419(16)
For Further Reading 435(2)
Bibliography of Secondary Literature 437(2)
Index 439

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