Fearless girls, wise women, and beloved sisters : heroines in folktales from around the world
The stolen bairn and the sìdh The three sisters and their husbands, three brothers The corpse watchers The crookened back The horned women Whuppity stoorie Molly Whuppie The treasure of Downhouse The hand of glory Tamlane The night troll The grateful elfwoman "My Jon's soul" The ghost at Fjelkinge Little Red Cap The wood maiden The child who was poor and good The pigeon's bride How the king chose a daughter-in-law Marichka Davit Anait The fortune-teller The tsaritsa harpist
The vampire skeleton The flying head Where the girl saved her brother Chief Joseph's story of Wallowa Lake The origin of the potlatch The princess and mountain dweller The princess and the magical hat The Lytton girls who were stolen by giants The legend of the Coppermine River The huntress Story of a female shaman The magic eagle "I'm Tipingee, she's Tipingee, we're Tipingee, too'' The innkeeper's wise daughter Molly Cotton-Tail steals Mr. Fox's butter
A rani's revenge How Parvatibai outwitted the Dacoits The close alliance : a tale of woe The barber's clever wife A wonderful story The importance of lighting The child of death The story of Princess Amaradevi The tale of the Oki Islands The monkey bridegroom The mirror of Matsuyama : a story of old Japan The tiger and the coal peddler's wife The plucky maiden The phoenix and her city Sailimai's four precious things A woman's love Maiden Liu, the songster The festival of pouring water A polite idiosyncrasy The young head of the family Altyn-Aryg The wife who stole a heart
Hiiaka catching a ghost Hiiaka and the seacoast kupuas A calabash of poi Rau-whato How Pulap acquired the art of navigation Rola and the two sisters The old woman and the giant The magic coin The creation of Lake Asbold Senan and Aping Ubong and the head-hunters Kumaku and the giant Revival and revenge Uzu, the white dogai The black snake man and his wife, the dove The mogwoi's baby Biriwilg
The woman, her husband, their children and the dodo (Hausa people, Nigeria) -- Ku-Chin-Da-Gayya and her elder sister and the dodos Moremi and the Egunguns The spider, Kayi, and the bush fowl The story of two women The man killed for a spinach leaf The leopard woman The midwife of Dakar A woman for a hundred cattle Wacu and the eagle Elephant and Hare Nonikwe and the great one, Marimba How the Milky Way came to be Nanabolele, who shines in the night Jackal and Hen
Women's wiles The Feslihanci girl The story of the city of nothing-in-the-world The "pink pearl'' prince Who is blessed with the realm, riches, and honor? The story of the king, Hamed bin Bathara, and of the fearless girl The sultan's daughter Yousif al-Saffani The miser who married The sign of the tassel
