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Title Folktales told around the world / edited by Richard M. Dorson
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1975

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Description xxv, 622 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
1/2 in
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Choosing the World's Folktales - Richard M. Dorson -- Europe -- Ireland - Sean O'Sullivan -- Fionn in Search of His Youth -- The Cold May Night -- Scotland (Lowlands) - Hamish Henderson -- The King of England -- Johnnie in the Cradle -- Applie and Orangie -- The Aberdonians and the Chocolates -- The Lone Highlander -- The Minister to His Flock -- Scotland (Highlands) - John MacInnes -- The Blacksmith's Son -- Black Patrick's Bowshot -- England - Katharine M. Briggs and Ruth L. Tongue -- Annie Luker's Ghost -- The Grey Goose Feathers -- The Five-Pound Note -- France - Geneviève Massignon -- Cinderella -- The Scalded Wolf -- Spain - Aurelio M. Espinosa -- The Unbeliever and the Skull -- Santa Catalina -- The Mass of Saint Joseph -- Italy - Carla Bianco -- Bertoldino -- The Tale of Sister Cat -- The Dove and the Fox -- Switzerland - Robert Wildhaber -- Summoned into the Valley of Josaphat -- About the Black Spider -- Sennentunscheli on the Wyssenboden -- The Knife in the Hay -- Germany - Kurt Ranke -- The Swinehard Who Married a Princess -- The Ox as Mayor -- Norway - Reidar Christiansen -- The Drinking Horn Stolen from the Huldre Folk at (a) Vallerhaug, (b) Vellerhaug, (c) Hifjell -- The Altarpiece in Ringsaker Church -- Finland - Pirkko-Liisa Rausmaa -- The Hunter's Joke -- Poland - Julian Krzyzanowski -- Old Fakla and the Sleeping Knights -- The Holy Figure in the Szaflary -- The Ages of Man -- Song of the Thief -- Hungary - Linda De;gh -- The Magic Calk -- Lazybones -- Russia -- The Sorcerer and His Apprentice - Mark Azadovskij -- Peter the Great and the Stonemason - I. V. Karnaukhova -- Two Thieves -- Greece - Georgios A. Megas -- The Lake Spirits of Peristera and Xerovouni -- Middle East -- Turkey - Ilhan Basgöz -- Nasreddin Hodja and Tamerlane -- The Smart Brother and the Crazy Brother -- Dervish Baba -- Egypt - Hasan El-Shamy -- The Sure News Is Up Ahead -- The Falcon's Daughter -- Tunisia - Hasan El-Shamy -- The Sparrow and the King -- Iraq - Hasan El-Shamy -- The Cruel Mother-in-Law -- Israel - Dov Noy -- A Dispute in Sign Language -- A Tale of a Jew Who Bridled the Wind -- Asia -- India - Praphulladatta Goswami -- Teja and Teji -- The Mother Serpent -- The King of Cheats -- The Monk Who Dueled -- Mataru the Grandfather -- Tenali Rama and the King's Pets -- The Peasant Thanthanpal -- Babar Deva the Outlaw -- Afghanistan - Hafizullah Baghban -- The Romance of Mongol Girl and Arab Boy -- The Decapitation of Sufi Islam -- The Two Thieves With the Same Wife -- Khastakhumar and Bibinagar -- The Seventy-Year-Old Corpse -- Japan -- The Mountain Where Old People Were Abandoned - Keigo Seki -- The Man Who Bought a Dream - Robert J. Adams -- Philippines -- The Adulteress Rat - E. Arsenio Manuel -- The Gungutan and the Big-Bellied Man -- Agkon, the Greedy Son -- The Seven Young Sky Women - Hazel Wrigglesworth -- China - Wolfram Eberhard -- The Bridge of Ch'üan-Chou -- Chu the Rogue -- Burma - Suzan Lapai -- Liar Mvkang and the Rich Villagers -- Liar Mvkang Sells Ashes -- Liar Mvkang and the Water Snake -- The Orphan and His Grandmother -- Korea - Yim Suk-Jay -- Why People's Noses Run When They Catch Cold -- The Red Pond -- The Kindhearted Crab and the Cunning Mouse -- The Grave of the Golden Ruler -- The One-Sided Boy -- Oceania -- Micronesia -- The Ghosts of the Two Mountains - Robert Mitchell -- Adventures and Death of Rat -- The Maiden Who Married a Crane -- The Exiled Siste
Summary Looks at nutrients in food. Examines what they are and why we need them. Focuses on vitamins A, B1, B3, B6, B12 folate, vitamins C & D, iron, calcium, phosphorus, iodine and sodium
Analysis Tales & legends Anthologies
Notes Bibliography: p.615-619. _ Includes index
Writers, Stephen Skok, Ben Harding
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Performer Presenter, Andrea Waycott
Subject Tales.
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Author Dorson, Richard M. (Richard Mercer), 1916-1981.
Video Education Australasia.
LC no. 74033515
ISBN 0226158721