• 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

Tricks and Tricksters

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. “The Valiant Little Tailor.” 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_0019

Perrault, Charles. “Puss in Boots.” 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#puss

Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen. “Peik.” Tales from the Fjeld: A Second Series of Popular Tales. Trans. G.W. Dasent. London: Chapman & Hall, 1874. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36385/36385-h/36385-h.htm#THE_SHOPBOY_AND_HIS_CHEESE_AND_PEIK

Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen and Jørgen Engebretsen “Big Peter and Little Peter” Popular Tales from the Norse.  Ed. George Webbe Dasent. 1904. Scared-Texts. Web. http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ptn/ptn57.htm

Andersen, Hans Christian. “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Andersen’s Fairy Tales. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1597/1597-h/1597-h.htm#link2H_4_0001

Aesop. “The Fox and the Crow.” Aesop’s Fables. Trans. V.S. Vernon Jones. London: Chapman & Hall, 1912. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11339/11339-h/11339-h.htm#THE_FOX_AND_THE_CROW

“How the Tortoise Provoked a Contest of Strength Between the Tapir and Whale.” Amazonian Tortoise Myths. Ed. Ch. Fred Hartt.  Rio De Janeiro: William Scully, 1875. Wikisource. Web. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Amazonian_Tortoise_Myths

Djurklou, Nils Gabriel friherre. “Old Nick and the Girl.” Fairy Tales from the Swedish of Baron G. Djurklou. Trans. Hans Lien Brækstad. London: William Heinemann, 1901. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/djurklou-swedish/djurklou-swedish-00-h-dir/djurklou-swedish-00-h.html#OLD_NICK_AND_THE_GIRL

Homer. “Hymn to Hermes.” 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_0037

“The Simpleton and the Sharper.” The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. Trans. Richard F. Burton. 1885. eBooks@Adelaide. Web. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/b97b/complete.html#section505