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050 4 $aGR74$b.W67 1994
082 04 $a398.2
245 04 $aThe World's great folktales :$ba collection of 172 of the best stories from world folklore /$carranged & edited by James R. Foster.
260 $aNew York :$bGalahad Books,$c1994.
300 $a632 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aPreviously published in 2 volumes as The world's great folktales, ©1953 and Great folktales of wit & humor, ©1955.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aSerpent woman -- Melusina -- Forty he-goats -- Weaver who impersonated Vishnu -- Tannhauser and Venus -- Apple tree -- Legend of Margaret, Countess of Henneberg -- Beast with seven heads -- Hercules is born -- Egyptian brothers -- King who lost his body -- Giant whose life was hidden in an egg -- Young King of Easaidh Ruadh -- Chundun Rajah -- Pretty witch's lover -- Godfather death -- Singing bone -- Green children -- Fairy ointment -- Fairy's child -- On fairy time -- Childe Rowland -- Elfin millers -- Pipi Menou and the fling women -- Nix of the millpond -- Black Rock Mermaid -- Cat on the Dovrefell -- Evan Kermenou, Man of his word -- The book of Tobit -- Poltergeist -- Ghost with the black and blue mark -- Laying a Greek ghost -- Laying an English ghost -- Spectral war horse -- Banshee's wail -- Story of Telephron, the student -- Enchanted goatskisn -- Witch of Treva -- Witch cat -- Bewitched buttermilk -- Hagridden -- Virgilius, the necromancer -- Friar Bacon -- Legend of Saint George -- Piers Shonks, the dragon killer of Hertfordshire -- Saint Romuald -- Doctor faustus -- Wandering jew -- Flying Dutchman, or Vanderdecken's message home -- Beggar's curse.
505 0 $aTom Tit Tot -- Ra and Isis -- Golem -- Golem of Prague -- Simeli mountain -- Afraid of the evil eye -- Old Madge's spell -- Wax image -- Hand of glory at the old Spital Inn -- Insulted spring -- Blue light -- Friar and boy -- Serpent's stone -- Chaste mates -- Little Annie, the goose girl -- Contagion -- Laying the plague -- Poor frog, or transferring a disease -- Magdalen and the pins -- Hag and the Earl of Derby -- King's evil.
520 $aA comprehensive look at folklore throughout the world. Highlighting the universality of common themes and familiar motifs, it captures the rhythms and the sense of wonder of traditional storytelling at its best.
650 0 $aTales.
650 0 $aFolklore.
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700 1 $aFoster, James R.$q(James Ralph),$d1890-1974.
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