• Cover
• Once Told: An Anthology of World Folklore
• Publication Information
• Chapter 1: Conquests, Tests, and Quests
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon
• The Song of Hiawatha
• Rumpelstiltskin
• The Three Delicate Wives of King Virtue
• Juan and Clotilde
• The King's Treasure
• Lady Godiva
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• The Goose Girl
• The Story of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp
• Additional Readings: Conquests, Tests, and Quests
• Chapter 2: Tricks and Tricksters
• The Valiant Little Tailor
• Puss in Boots
• Peik
• Big Peter and Little Peter
• The Emperor’s New Clothes
• The Fox and the Crow
• How the Tortoise Provoked a Contest of Strength Between the Tapir and Whale
• Old Nick and the Girl
• Hymn to Hermes
• The Simpleton and the Sharper
• Additional Readings: Tricks and Tricksters
• Chapter 3: Heroes and Heroines
• Niagara
• Li Chi Slays the Serpent
• Molly Whuppie and the Double-Faced Giant
• The Three Golden Hairs: The Story of a Charcoal Burner’s Son Who Married a Princess
• Theseus and the Minotaur
• Orpheus
• Perseus the Hero
• Additional Readings: Heroes and Heroines
• Chapter 4: Taboo
• Blue Beard
• Little Snow-White
• The Fisher-Boy Urashima
• Rapunzel
• The Fairy Dwelling on Selana Moore
• The Twelve Brothers
• Our Lady's Child
• How the Devil Married Three Sisters
• Hymn to Demeter
• The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• Additional Readings: Taboo
• Chapter 5: Shapeshifters
• The Frog-Prince
• The Blacksmith’s Wife of Yarrowfoot
• The She-Wolf
• The Mermaid Wife
• The Princess Peony
• The Magician and his Pupil
• The Seven Iron Slippers
• How Uther Pendragon made war on the duke of Cornwall, and how by the mean of Merlin he lay by the duchess and gat Arthur
• The Woman Who Humored Her Lover at Her Husband’s Expense
• The Second Kalandar’s Tale
• Additional Readings: Shapeshifters
• Chapter 6: Magic and Curses
• The Snow, The Crow, and The Blood
• The Charcoal-maker who Became King
• The Black School
• The Flying Dutchman
• The Book of Magic
• Briar Rose
• The Shoemaker and the Elves
• The Crystal Ball
• Cinderilla; or The Little Glass Slipper
• The Tale of the Trader and Jinni
• Additional Readings: Magic and Curses
• Chapter 7: The Dead
• Orpheus and Eurydice
• The Story of the Messenger from Heaven
• A Story from the Time of the Romans
• A Ghost Story
• Dividing Souls
• Maku Mawu and Maku Fia or "I Will Die God's Death" and "I Will Die the King's Death"
• The White Butterfly
• The Old Woman Who Never Dies
• The Galloping Hessian
• Sila Tsarevich and Ivashka with the White Smock
• Fair Margaret and Sweet William
• The Suffolk Miracle
• Additional Readings: The Dead
• Chapter 8: Animals and Creatures of the Other World
• The Monster Mosquitoe
• Miss Britton’s Poker
• Bruce and the Spider
• The Griffin and the Minor Canon
• Beauty and the Beast
• The White Cat
• The Farmer and the Devil on Island of the Popefigs
• How the Fairies Worked Magic
• Three Leprechauns
• The Little Mermaid
• The Vampire Cat
• The Fourth Voyage of Sinbad
• Additional Readings: Animals and Creatures of the Other World
• Bibliography
• Conquests, Tests, and Quests
• Tricks and Tricksters
• Heroes and Heroines
• Taboo
• Shapeshifters
• Magic and Curses
• The Dead
• Animals and Creatures of the Other World

Magic and Curses

MacManus, Seamus. “The Snow, The Crow, and The Blood.” Donegal Fairy Stories. University of Notre Dame. Web. http://archives.nd.edu/episodes/visitors/macmanus/tales07.htm

“The Charcoal-maker Who Became King.” Filipino Popular Tales. Ed. Dean S. Fansler. New York: American Folklore Society, 1921. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8299/8299-h/8299-h.htm#t2

Árnason, Jón. “The Black School.”  Icelandic Legends. Tr. George E.J. Powell and Eiríkur Magnússon . London: Richard Bentley, 1864. D.L. Ashliman’s Folkltexts: A Library of Fokltales, Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Mythology. Web. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type3000.html

Barrington, George. “The Flying Dutchman.”  An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales. London, 1795. Ed. D.L. Ashliman. D.L. Ashliman’s Folkltexts: A Library of Fokltales, Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Mythology. Web. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0777ast.html#barrington

Naaké, John. “The Book of Magic.”  Slavonic Fairy Tales. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874. Archive.org. Web. https://archive.org/details/slavonicfairyta00naakgoog

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. “Briar Rose.” Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Trans. Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes. New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1905. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2591/2591-h/2591-h.htm#link2H_4_0008

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. “The Shoemaker and the Elves.” The Beacon Second Reader. Ed. James H. Fassett. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1905. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15659/15659-h/15659-h.htm#THE_SHOEMAKER_AND_THE_ELVES_I

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. “The Crystal Ball.” Household Tales.  Trans. Margaret Hunt. 1884. eBooks@Adelaide. Web. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/grimm/g86h/chapter197.html

Perrault, Charles. “Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper.” The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. London: George G. Harrap, 1922. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29021/29021-h/29021-h.htm#Cinderilla_or_The_Little_Glass_Slipper

“The Tale of the Trader and the Jinni.” The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Trans. Richard F. Burton. 1885. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3435/pg3435.html