A treasury of North American folktales

HOW THE WORLD WAS MADE: Boy of the red sky

What makes Brer Wasp have a short patience

Opossum steals fire

Light

Ojeeg, the summer maker

Powerful changed

Star husband

Dog-rib legend of the Ithenhiela

Man, the burro, and the dog

Possum, turtle, and the wolves

Getting common sense

Ouiot and frog

TALL TALES, BRAGS, AND OTHER LIES: How to tell a story

Ab Yancey's squirrel-hunt

Tall hunting tale

Dog who could walk on water

Old Gawge and the ninety and nine

Uncle Swain

Trained trout

Trip to the moon

Snake-bit hoe handle

Uncle Billy Hallock's yarn

I wish I could tell a lie

Remarks made at the hatchet club

Frontier brags

California

LEGENDARY HEROES AND HEROINES: Annie Oakley makes her name

Davy Crockett

Colonel swallows a thunderbolt

David Crockett meets a bear

Mike Fink meets David Crockett

Ballad of Casey Jones

Johnny Appleseed

Cherry tree legend

Belle Starr

Judge Roy Bean's necktie justice

Wild Bill Hickock's duel wiath Dave Tutt

Stackalee

LARGER THAN LIFE: Birth of Paul Bunyan

Babe the blue ox

Pipeline days

Paul's popcorn

Paul Bunyan takes care of mosquitoes

Cal Bunyan's Ireland, Jerusalem, Australia

Southern Indiana railroad

Birth of John Henry

Ballad of John Henry

Annie Christmas

Saga of Pecos Bill

LIFE LESSONS: Looking for trouble

Bird that was ashamed of its feet

Boy and his donkey

Brer Possum's dilemma

Red rag under the churn

Two wagoners

Annancy and the yam hills

Words of wisdom

Golden rain

Why men have to work

Bundle of troubles

Robe

TRICKS AND TRICKSTERS: Brother rabbit breaks up a party

Tio Conejo and the hurricane

Coyote tricks the white man

Big John the conqueror

Jack and the giants' new ground

Boy that was foolish-wise

Arkansas traveler

Yankee peddler

How Pedro Urdemalas got into and out of Heaven

Bobtail and the Devil

THE FOOL: Three sillies

Two tales of foolish John

Fido est mort (Fido is dead)

Devil and the Lord dividing souls

Pat and the Devil

Riddle test

Jean Sotte and the riddle

Jean Sot and bull's milk

Mule egg

$50,000 racehorse

Jim Baker's bluejay yarn

Killer mosquitoes

Yankee peddler and the Innkeeper

LOVE STORIES: Girl that married a flop-eared hound-dog

Algonquin Cinderella

La Cenicienta Huasteca

Fabiano and Reyes

Bunch of laurel blooms for a present

Toadfrog

Old black-oak knows best

Hard of hearing

Farmer Smith and Ma'am Jones

Strawberries

Lovers' retreat

Poke-o'-moonshine

Tale of love

OF GHOSTS, WITCHES, AND THE DEVIL: Haunted house

Marie Jolie

Sammy and his fiddle

Tom Dunn's dance on Rag Rock

Whickety-whack, into my sack

Grouse girl

Aunt Tucky

Yellow ribbbon

Ghost of Jean Lafitte

Weeping woman

Llarona teaches a hippie a lesson

Pretty girl in the road

Spectre bride.