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Volume 1
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
A-Z
Aarne, Antti
Abassi/Abasi and Atai (West African)
Abatwa (South African)
Aboriginal Mythology (Australian)
Abracadabra
Abzu/Apsu (Sumerian and
Babylonian)
Achilles (Greek)
Adapa (Babylonian)
Adon/Adonis (Phoenician)
Adroa and Adro (East African)
Adroanzi (East African)
^«!«'J (Roman)
Aesop and Aesop's Fables (Greek)
Aetheopis/Aithiopis (Greek)
African Bushmen Mythology
Ahti/Ahto (Finnish)
Aigamuxa (South African)
Aino (Finnish)
Aiomum Kondi (South American)
Ajok (North African)
Alalu/Alalus (Hittite)
Amadis of Gaul (Spanish or Portuguese)
Amazons (Greek)
Amled/Amleth (Danish)
Amphisbaena (Greek)
Amulets
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Amun/Amen/Amon/
Amun-Re (Egyptian)
An/Anu (Sumerian)
Anansasem (West African)
Animal Bride or Bridegroom
Animal Helper and Grateful Animal
Antar (Middle Eastern)
Antero Vipunen (Finnish)
Antichrist (Christian)
Antigone (Greek)
Anu (Hittite)
Anubis/Anpu (Egyptian)
Anzu (Sumerian and Babylonian)
Aphrodite (Greek)
Apollo (Greek)
Apple Trees
Arabic Storytelling
Arachne (Greek)
Arawn (Welsh)
Archetype
Argonautica (Greek)
Arianrhod (Welsh)
Armageddon (Judeo-Christian)
Asbjornsen, Peter Christen
Asgard (Norse)
Ash Trees (Western European)
Athena/Athene (Greek)
Atlas (Greek)
Atum (Egyptian)
Aucassin and Nicolette (Medieval
European)
Avalon (Celtic)
Aztec Mythology
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Baba Yaga (Russian)
Baby Cast Adrift
Baku (Japanese)
Balder (Norse)
Balinese Mythology
Ballads
Ballads, Homiletic
Bannik (Slavic)
Banshee (Irish)
Basile, Giambattista
Basilisk (European)
Basque Folklore and Mythology
Bastet/Bast (Egyptian)
Bats
Battle of Kadesh (Egyptian)
Bees
Bellerophon (Greek)
Bendigeidfran/Bran (Welsh)
Beowulf {Anglo-Saxon)
Berekhiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan
Bestiary
Black Dogs (English)
Black Magic (Western European)
Black School (Scandinavian and
Scottish)
Bluebeard (Western European)
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bogatyr/Bogatyri (Russian)
Boy Who Didn't Know Fear
Bremen Town Musicians (German)
Bridges
Broadside Ballads
Brothers Grimm
Brownies (British)
Brunhilde/Brynhild/Brunnehilde
(Norse)
Bucephalus (Greek)
Bull of Heaven (Sumerian and
Babylonian)
Bunyips (Australian Aboriginal)
Bylina/Bylini (Russian)
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Camp Stories
Campfire Storytelling
Canterbury Tales, The (English)
Cat-and-Mouse Tales
Catoblepas (Roman)
Cats
Centaurs (Greek)
Cerberus (Greek)
Champ/Champy (North American)
Chapbooks
Charlemagne and His Peers
Charon (Greek)
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chickens
Child, Francis James
Chiron (Greek)
Chupacabras (Latin American)
Cockatrice (European)
Collective Unconscious
Comets
Compassion
Con Man or Woman/Con Artist
Contendings ofHorus and Seth,
The (Egyptian)
Counting-Out Rhymes
Creation Stories of Mesopotamia
Culture Heroes
Cumulative Rhymes and Tales
Curses
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Dahut/Ahes (French)
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Danish Traditional Tales
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De hide et Osiride (Roman)
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Deals with the Devil
Ill
Death
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Decameron (Italian)
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Demeter and Persephone (Greek)
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Digenis Acritas (Greek)
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Dilmun (Sumerian and Babylonian)
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Djinn/Djinni/Jinn/Genie (Arabic)
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Dobrynya Nikitich (Russian)
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Dogs
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Domovoi/Domovois (Russian)
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Don't Count Your Chickens Before
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They Are Hatched
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Doomed Prince (Egyptian)
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Doppelganger
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Dragons
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Dragon-Slayer (European)
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Ears
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El Cid (Spanish)
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Elf Shot/Elf Arrow (British)
Elm Trees
Eloquent Peasant, Tale of the
(Egyptian)
Enki/Ea (Sumerian)
Enkidu (Sumerian)
Enlil (Sumerian)
Enmerkar (Sumerian)
Ennead of Heliopolis (Egyptian)
Epics
Epics, French
Epics, German
Epics, Greek
Epics, Roman
Epics, Spanish
Erra (Babylonian)
Estonian Storytelling
Etana (Babylonian)
Ethiopian Mythology
Ethiopian Storytelling
Evil Eye
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Fables
Fabliau/Fabliaux
Fairy Godmothers
Fairy Midwife and Demon Midwife
Faithful Companion
Faithless Wife
Familiar/Familiar Spirit
Fantasy
Fates
Faust, Dr.Johann
Fenrir (Norse)
Ferdo wsi/Firdawsi/Firdusi/Firdousi
Filipino Mythology
Fingernails
Fink, Mike
Firebird (Russian)
Fish and Fishing Folklore
Flood, The (Mesopotamia)
Flying Dutchman
Fools
Frame Stories
Freischutz (German)
Frey and Freya (Norse)
Frigga/Frigg (Norse)
Frogs and Toads
Fur-Bearing Trout (North American)
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Gambling
Gamelan (Indonesian)
Gargoyles
Garm (Norse)
Garuda (Indian)
Geb (Egyptian)
German Storytelling
Gesta Danorum (Danish)
Ghost Stories, College
Ghosts, Aviation
Ghosts: A Sampling of Stories
Ghosts and Hauntings
Ghosts in Theaters
Giants
Gilgamesh (Sumerian and Babylonian)
Goblins (Western European)
Golem (Jewish)
Grail/Holy Grail (Western European)
Grateful Dead
Gremlins (English)
Griots/Griottes/Jelis (West African)
Gudrun/Kudrun (German)
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Habaek and Haemosu (Korean)
Hags
Hand of Glory (European)
Hands
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Hannahanna/ Hannahannas
(Hittite)
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Hansel and Gretel (Western
European)
Harpies (Greek)
Hathor (Egyptian)
Havelockthe Dane (English)
Heart in the Egg
Hebat/Hepit/Hepatu (Hittite)
Hector (Greek)
Heimdall/Heimdallr (Norse)
Hel (Norse)
Heqat/Hekat/Heket (Egyptian)
Hera (Greek)
Hermes (Greek)
Hervarar Saga (Swedish)
Hi'iaka (Hawaiian)
Hocus-Pocus
Hodag (North American)
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Lontents
Homer (Greek)
Hook, The
Horror
Horseshoes
Horus (Egyptian)
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hyenas
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Iliad (Greek)
Iliou Persis (Greek)
Illuyankas (Hittite)
Ilmarinen (Finnish)
Ilmatar (Finnish)
Ilya Murometz/Ilya of Murom
(Russian)
Inanna/Ishtar (Sumerian and
Akkadian)
Inaras (Hittite)
Inca Mythology
Indian Storytelling
Insects
Internet Lore/Netlore
Iroquois Storytelling
Isis (Egyptian)
Ivan/Ivan Tsarevich (Russian)
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Jackalope (North American)
Japanese Storytelling
Jersey Devil (American)
Joe Magarac (American)
John Henry (American)
Johnny Appleseed (American)
Jongleurs (French)
Joukahainen (Finnish)
Journey to the West/Monkey (Chinese)
Jump Tales
Jung, Carl Gustav
Juniper Tree, The (German)
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Kalevala (Finnish)
Kamishibai (Japanese)
Kelly, Ned
Kenyan Storytelling
Khnum (Egyptian)
Khoikhoi/Hottentot Mythology
Kievan Cycle (Russian)
Kikimora (Slavic)
Kind and Unkind Girls
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King Arthur (British)
King of the Cats/King of the Cats is
Dead (Western European)
King Solomon (Biblical)
Kludde (Flemish)
Kullervo (Finnish)
Kumarbi/Kumaris (Hittite)
Kypria (Greek)
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La Fontaine, Jean de
Labyrinths
Lake Monsters
Lang, Andrew
Lange Wapper (Flemish)
Lares and Penates (Roman)
Lemminkainen (Finnish)
Leprechauns (Irish)
Leshy/Leshiye (Slavic)
Liderc (Hungarian)
Little Iliad (Greek)
Local Legends
Lorelei (German)
Louhi (Finnish)
Lugalbanda (Sumerian)
Lullabies
Lusiads, The (Portuguese)
Lutin (French)
Lyonesse (British)
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Maat (Egyptian)
MacDonald, George
Magi (Persian)
Magic Incantations and Spells
Magician and His Pupil/Magician's
Apprentice
Mahabharata (Indian)
Malory, Sir Thomas
Manticore (Persian)
Marie de France
Maui (Polynesian)
Melusine/Melusina (European)
Menehune (Hawaiian)
Mermaids
Meskhenet (Egyptian)
Metamorphoses (Greek and Roman)
Metaphors
Mice
Minnesang/Minnesingers (German)
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Minotaur (Greek)
Minstrels
Mistletoe
Moon's Reflection
Morgan le Fay
Mother Goddess/Earth Mother
(European)
Mother Goose (European)
Mothman (North American)
Motif Index
Motifs
Mystery Lights
Mystery Stories
Mythography
Mythology
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Nagas (Hindu)
Nanna-Suen/Sin (Sumerian)
Neith/Neit/Nit/Net (Egyptian)
Nephthys/Nebthet (Egyptian)
Nergal (Sumerian and Babylonian)
Nightmares
Ninhursanga (Sumerian)
Ninurta/Ningirsu (Sumerian and
Babylonian)
No-Bigger-than-a-Finger (Russian)
Nonsense Rhymes
Noodle Tales/Simpleton Tales
Norse Mythology
Nun (Egyptian)
Nursery Rhymes (European)
Nut (Egyptian)
Nymphs (Greek)
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Oberon (European)
Odin/Odhinn (Norse)
Odysseus (Greek)
Odyssey (Greek)
Oedipus (Greek)
Operas and Their Stories
Oral History
Orestes and Electra (Greek)
Osiris (Egyptian)
Ovid
Owl Lore
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Palestinian Storytelling
Panchatantra (Indian)
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Papyrus Westcar/Papyrus Berlin 3033
(Egyptian)
Pegasus (Greek)
Pele/Madam Pele (Hawaiian)
Penelope (Greek)
Peri/Pari (Persian)
Perrault, Charles
Phantom Bus (English)
Phantom Ships/Ghost Ships
Phoenix (Egyptian and Greek)
Pixies (English)
Popocatepetl and Izfaccihuatl (Aztec)
Popol Vuh (Mayan)
Priam, King (Greek)
Princess in the Tower
Prometheus (Greek)
Proverbs
Ptah (Egyptian)
Puppetry and Storytelling
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich
Puss in Boots (European)
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Quest for the Missing Husband
Quests
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Railroad Folklore (American)
Rakshasas (Hindu)
Ramakian (Thai)
Ravens and Crows
Re/Ra/Pre/Re-Harakhety (Egyptian)
Reincarnation
Reynard the Fox
Rhiannon (Welsh)
Ring Cycle, The
Rivers, Greek Mythological
Rocs/Rucs/Rukhs/Rukhkhs (Arabic)
Rolandslied (German)
Role-Playing Games
Romance
Romance ofAntar, The (Arabian)
Rusalka/Rusalki (Slavic)
Rustam (Persian)
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Sadko (Russian)
Saga of the Volsungs (Norse)
Sampo (Finnish)
Sandman
Satire
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Contents
Saxo Grammaticus
Scapegoats
Scheherazade (Arabic)
Science Fiction
Seanachai (Irish)
Seelie Court and Unseelie Court
(Scottish)
Seers (Greek)
Sekhmet (Egyptian)
Seth/Set/Sutekh (Egyptian)
Setne Khamwaset Cycle (Egyptian)
Shaggy Dog Stories
Shape-Shifters
Shipwrecked Sailor, The Story of the
(Egyptian)
Shu (Egyptian)
Simurgh (Persian)
Sinuhe, The Story of'(Egyptian)
Sirens (Greek)
Sius (Hittite)
Skald (Norse)
Skulls
Slavic Mythology
Sleepers, Enchanted
Sleepers, Heroic (Western European)
Sleipnir (Norse)
Snakes
Snegurochka/Snowmaiden (Russian)
Song ofIgor's Campaign (Russian)
Song ofRoland (French)
Sorcerer's Apprentice
Sphinx (Egyptian and Greek)
Squonk (American)
Standing Stones (Western European)
Straparola, Giovanni Francesco
String Figures
Sundiata (Mali)
Sunken Cities
Superman (North American)
Sword, Broken (Norse)
Sword in the Stone/Sword in the Tree
Swords
Symphonic/Tone Poems
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Tail Tales
Tale Types
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Talismans
Tall Tales
Talmudic Storytelling (Jewish)
Tasmisus (Hittite)
Tefnut (Egyptian)
Telegonia (Greek)
Telepinu/Telepinus (Hittite)
Teshub (Hittite)
Theseus (Greek)
Thompson, Stith
Thor (Norse)
Thoth/Djehuty (Egyptian)
Tiamat (Sumerian and
Babylonian)
Tibetan Storytelling
Tolkien, J.R.R
Tom Thumb (English)
Tomte/Tomten/Tomtar (Swedish)
Tongue Twisters
Tree Spirits
Tricksters
Tristan and Isolde (Celtic)
Trojan War (Greek)
Troubadours (French)
Truth and Falsehood, The Tale of
(Egyptian)
Twin Brothers
Two Brothers, Tale of the (Egyptian)
Typhon (Greek)
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Ugly Baby
Ullikummi (Hittite)
Unicorns
Upelluri/Ubelluris (Hittite)
Urban Legends
Utu/Shamash (Sumerian)
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Vainamoinen (Finnish)
Valhalla (Norse)
Valkyries (Norse)
Vampires
Vanishing Hitchhiker
Vegetable Sheep/Lamb (European)
Verse Stories
Vietnamese Storytelling
Vodianoi (Slavic)
Vol'ka (Slavic)
Volva (Norse)
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C o n tents
Wayang (Indonesian)
Wele (Kenyan)
Wenamun, Report o/~(Egyptian)
Werewolves
West African Mythology
White Horses of England
White Magic
Wicked Stepmothers
William Tell (Swiss)
Wise Man or Woman
Wise Men of Chelm (Polish)
Wise (or Foolish, or Mad) Men of
Gotham (English)
Wizards
Wonder Woman (American)
World Tree
Wurusemu (Hittite)
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Yeti (Tibetan)
Yggdrasil (Norse)
Ymir (Norse)
Yoruban Storytelling (West African)
Yoshitsune (Japanese)
Ys/Ker-Ys (Breton/French)
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Zeus (Greek)
Ziusudra (Sumerian)
Zmeys and Zmeyitsas (Bulgarian)
Zulu Mythology
Zwarte Madam (Flemish)
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Retellings
The Ramayana: A Great Mythic Epic
from India
Shah-nameh: Iran's Greatest Epic
Destiny: An American Civil War
Tale
Greatest Liar of Them All: An Apache
Folktale
Why Ananse Owns Every Story: An
Ashante Folktale from Ghana
Brewery of Eggshells: A Changeling
Folktale from Wales
Tarn Lin: A British Folktale
The Smart Man and the Fool: A Fjort
(Congolese) Folktale
The Cauld Lad ofHilton: An English
Folktale
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The Cuckoo: A "Fool" Folktale of
Gotham, England
Dick Whittington and His Cat: A
Medieval Folktale from England
Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!: A Cumulative
Folktale from England
The Gingerbread Boy: An English
Folktale
A Grain of Corn: A Cumulative
Folktale from England
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An English
Version of a World Folktale
Tom Thumb's Adventures: A Medieval
English Folktale
Virgil the Magician: A Medieval
English Folktale
The Laplander Wizard: An Estonian
Folktale of a Magician
The Brave Little Tailor: A German
Folktale
Rumpelstiltskin: A German Folktale
The Six Swans: A Shape-Shifting Folktale
from Germany
The Twelve Dancing Princesses: A German
Folktale
Cuchulain and the Green Man: An
Ancient Irish Folktale
A Leprechaun's Gold: An Irish Folktale
The Storyteller at Fault: An Irish
Folktale
The Crystal Casket: An Italian
Snow White Folktale
Appointment in Samarra: A Folktale
from the Talmud, the Jewish Book
of Religious Wisdom
The Golem ofPrague: A Jewish Folktale
King Solomon and the Demon: A Jewish
Folktale
No EscapefromFate: A Persian
Folktale
Koschei the Deathless: A Russian
Folktale
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree: A Scottish
Snow White Folktale
Geser: A Folktale of the Culture Hero
of Tibet
A Bagful of Tricks: A Uighur Folktale
from China
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The Story ofGelert: A Welsh Local
Folktale
Vainamoinen: A Finnish Hero
Tale
Guigemar: A Medieval French Hero
Tale
A Story ofGwydion: A Medieval Welsh
Mythic Tale
Raven Steals the Sun: An American
Myth from the Pacific Northwest
Orpheus and Eurydice: An Ancient
Greek Myth
Perseus: A Greek Myth of a
Culture Hero
Spider Woman: Creation Myth of
the Hopi People
A Creation: An Iroquois Myth
Contents
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Balder: A Norse Myth
Thor Catches the Midgard Serpent:
A Norse Myth
Maui Snares the Sun: A Polynesian
Myth
Inanna 's Descent to the Underworld:
An Ancient Sumerian Myth
Prince Wicked and the Grateful Animals:
A Parable from the Jataka
The Lady, or the Tiger?: An American
Riddle Tale
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Appendix: Storytelling
624
Resources
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627
630
Bibliography
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Index
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