• 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

Heroes and Heroines

Skinner, Charles M. “Niagara.” Myths and Legends of Our Own Land. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1896. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6615/6615-h/6615-h.htm#link2H_4_0024

Pao, Kan. “Li Chi Slays the Serpent.” Oriental Dragon Poetry. Web. http://lair2000.net/Chinese_Poetry/Chinese_Poetry.html#table

“Molly Whuppie and the Double-Faced Giant.” English Fairy Tales. Ed. Flora Annie Steel. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1918. Project Gutenberg. Web.  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17034/17034-h/17034-h.htm#MOLLY_WHUPPIE_AND_THE_DOUBLE-FACED_GIANT

“The Three Golden Hairs: The Story of a Charcoal Burner’s Son Who Married a Princess.” Czechoslovak Fairy Tales. Ed. and Trans. Parker Fillmore. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1919. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32217/32217-h/32217-h.htm#Page_21

Ovid. “Theseus and the Minotaur.” Metamorphoses. Trans. Henry T. Riley. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893. Project Gutenberg. Web. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26073/26073-h/Met_VIII-XI.html#bookVIII_fableII

“Orpheus.” A Book of Myths. Ed. and Trans. Jean Lang. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1926. Project Gutenberg. Web.  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22693/22693-h/22693-h.htm#Page_31

“Perseus the Hero.” A Book of Myths. Ed. and Trans. Jean Lang. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1926. Project Gutenberg. Web.  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22693/22693-h/22693-h.htm#Page_105