Folklore
- 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
