Fearless girls, wise women, and beloved sisters : heroines in folktales from around the world

Fearless girls, wise women, and beloved sisters Heroines in folktales from around the world

Book - 1998

Collects 100 tales from around the world, including Africa, Western Europe, Native American cultures, Asia, and the Middle East, that feature a heroine.

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Subjects
Women heroes > Folklore.
Women > Folklore.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton c1998.
Language
English
Other Authors
Kathleen Ragan (-)
Edition
1st ed
Physical Description
xxvii, 450 p. : maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-438) and index.
ISBN
9781439500835
9780393045987
  • Tales from Europe. The stolen bairn and the sìdh (Scotland)
  • The three sisters and their husbands, three brothers (Ireland)
  • The corpse watchers (Ireland)
  • The crookened back (Ireland)
  • The horned women (Ireland)
  • Whuppity stoorie (Scotland)
  • Molly Whuppie (England)
  • The treasure of Downhouse (England)
  • The hand of glory (England)
  • Tamlane (England)
  • The night troll (Iceland)
  • The grateful elfwoman (Iceland)
  • "My Jon's soul" (Iceland)
  • The ghost at Fjelkinge (Sweden)
  • Little Red Cap (Germany)
  • The wood maiden (Czechoslovakia)
  • The child who was poor and good (Greece)
  • The pigeon's bride (Yugoslavia)
  • How the king chose a daughter-in-law (Romania)
  • Marichka (Gypsy)
  • Davit (Georgia)
  • Anait (Caucasus)
  • The fortune-teller (Russia)
  • The tsaritsa harpist (Russia).
  • Tales from North and South America. Native Americans. The vampire skeleton (Iroquois) ; The flying head (Iroquois) ; Where the girl saved her brother (Cheyenne) ; Chief Joseph's story of Wallowa Lake (Nez Perce) ; The origin of the potlatch (Quillayute) ; The princess and mountain dweller (people of the Northwest Coast) ; The princess and the magical hat (people of the Northwest Coast) ; The Lytton girls who were stolen by giants (Salishan people) ; The legend of the Coppermine River (Inuit) ; The huntress (Inuit) ; Story of a female shaman (Reindeer Chukchee) : The magic eagle (Timotean people, Venezuela)
  • New World newcomers. "I'm Tipingee, she's Tipingee, we're Tipingee, too'' (Haiti) ; The innkeeper's wise daughter (Jewish-American) ; Molly Cotton-Tail steals Mr. Fox's butter (African-American).
  • Tales from Asia. A rani's revenge (Orissa, India)
  • How Parvatibai outwitted the Dacoits (Maharashtra, India)
  • The close alliance : a tale of woe (Punjab, India)
  • The barber's clever wife (Punjab, India)
  • A wonderful story (India)
  • The importance of lighting (Tamil Nadu, India)
  • The child of death (Vietnam)
  • The story of Princess Amaradevi (Cambodia)
  • The tale of the Oki Islands (Japan)
  • The monkey bridegroom (Japan)
  • The mirror of Matsuyama : a story of old Japan (Japan)
  • The tiger and the coal peddler's wife (Korea)
  • The plucky maiden (Korea)
  • The phoenix and her city (Hui people China)
  • Sailimai's four precious things (Hui people, China)
  • A woman's love (Uighur people, China)
  • Maiden Liu, the songster (Yao people, China)
  • The festival of pouring water (Yunnan, China)
  • A polite idiosyncrasy (Kwangtung, China)
  • The young head of the family (Kwangtung, China)
  • Altyn-Aryg (Altaian people, Siberia)
  • The wife who stole a heart (Kalmuck people, Siberia).
  • Tales from the Pacific. Hiiaka catching a ghost (Hawaii)
  • Hiiaka and the seacoast kupuas (Hawaii)
  • A calabash of poi (Hawaii)
  • Rau-whato (Maori people, New Zealand)
  • How Pulap acquired the art of navigation (Ulithi Atoll, Micronesia)
  • Rola and the two sisters (Ulithi Atoll, Micronesia)
  • The old woman and the giant (Philippines)
  • The magic coin (Philippines)
  • The creation of Lake Asbold (Asmat people, Irian Jaya, Indonesia)
  • Senan and Aping (Kenyah people, Sarawak, Malaysia)
  • Ubong and the head-hunters (Kenyah people, Sarawak, Malaysia)
  • Kumaku and the giant (Fiji)
  • Revival and revenge (Kewa people, Papua, New Guinea)
  • Uzu, the white dogai (Torres Straits, Australia)
  • The black snake man and his wife, the dove (Munkan people, Australia)
  • The mogwoi's baby (Arnhem Land, Australia)
  • Biriwilg (told by women) (Arnhem Land, Australia).
  • Tales from Sub-Saharan Africa. The woman, her husband, their children and the dodo (Hausa people, Nigeria)
  • Ku-Chin-Da-Gayya and her elder sister and the dodos (Hausa people, Nigeria)
  • Moremi and the Egunguns (Yoruba people, Nigeria)
  • The spider, Kayi, and the bush fowl (Limba people, Sierra Leone)
  • The story of two women (Limba people, Sierra Leone)
  • The man killed for a spinach leaf (Limba people, Sierra Leone)
  • The leopard woman (Liberia)
  • The midwife of Dakar (Senegal)
  • A woman for a hundred cattle (Swahili)
  • Wacu and the eagle (Agikuyu people, Kenya)
  • Elephant and Hare (Maasai people, Kenya)
  • Nonikwe and the great one, Marimba (Zulu)
  • How the Milky Way came to be (South Africa)
  • Nanabolele, who shines in the night (Basotho people, Lesotho)
  • Jackal and Hen (Basotho people, Lesotho).
  • Tales from North Africa and the Middle East. Women's wiles (Syria)
  • The Feslihanci girl (Turkey)
  • The story of the city of nothing-in-the-world (Persia)
  • The "pink pearl'' prince (Iran)
  • Who is blessed with the realm, riches, and honor? (Israel)
  • The story of the king, Hamed bin Bathara, and of the fearless girl (Arab)
  • The sultan's daughter (Sudan)
  • Yousif al-Saffani (Sudan)
  • The miser who married (Iraq)
  • The sign of the tassel (Iraq).

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