• 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

Taboo

Perrault, Charles. “Blue Beard.” 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#Blue_Beard

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. “Little Snow-White.” Favorite Fairy Tales. Ed. Logan Marshall. Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1917. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20748/20748-h/20748-h.htm#snow

“The Fisher-Boy Urashima.” Tr. B.H. Chamberlain. London: Griffith Farran & Co., 1886. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30024/30024-h/30024-h.htm

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. “Rapunzel.” 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_0017

“The Fairy Dwelling on Selena Moor.” Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall. Ed. William Bottrell. London, Beare and Son, 1873. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41761/41761.txt

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. “The Twelve Brothers.”  Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm. Trans. Lucy Crane. New York: Macmillan and Company, 1886. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19068/19068-h/19068-h.htm

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. “Our Lady’s Child.”  Household Stories by Brothers Grimm. Trans. Margaret Hunt. 1884. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5314/pg5314.html

“How the Devil Married Three Sisters.” Popular Italian Tales. Ed. Thomas Frederick Crane. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1884. Project Gutenberg.  Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23634/23634-h/23634-h.htm#Page_78

Homer. “Hymn to Demeter.” Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. Ed. and Trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/348/348-h/348-h.htm#link2H_4_0035

 “The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales. Eds. Kate Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909.Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20916/20916-h/20916-h.htm#THE_STORY_OF_ALI_BABA_AND_THE_FORTY_THIEVES