Fearless girls, wise women, and beloved sisters : heroines in folktales from around the world / edited by Kathleen Ragan.
Retells more than a hundred folktales form Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East that feature active heroines of all types.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393320466
- ISBN: 0393320464
- Physical Description: xxvii, 450 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
- Copyright: ©1998
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Foreword by Jane Yolen.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-438) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Tales from Europe -- Stolen bairn and the sidh (Scotland) -- Three sisters and their husbands, three brothers (Ireland) -- Corpse watchers (Ireland) -- Crookened back (Ireland) -- Horned women (Ireland) -- Whuppity stoorie (Scotland) -- Molly Whuppie (England) -- Treasure of downhouse (England) -- Hand of glory (England) -- Tamlane (England) -- Night troll (Iceland) -- Grateful elfwoman (Iceland) -- "My Jon's soul" (Iceland) -- Ghost at Fjelkinge (Sweden) -- Little red cap (Germany) -- Wood maiden (Czechoslovakia) -- Child who was poor and good (Greece) -- Pigeon's bride (Yugoslavia) -- How the king chose a daughter-in-law (Romania) -- Marichka (Gypsy) -- Davit (Georgia) -- Anait (Caucasus) -- Fortune-teller (Russia) -- Tsaritsa harpist (Russia) -- Tales from North and South America -- Native Americans -- Vampire skeleton (Iroquois) -- Flying head (Iroquois) -- Where the girl saved her brother (Cheyenne) -- Chief Joseph's story of Wallowa Lake (Nez Percé) -- Origin of the potlatch (Quillayute) -- Princess and mountain dweller (People of the Northwest Coast) -- Princess and the magical hat (People of the Northwest Coast) -- Lytton girls who were stolen by giants (Salishan People) -- Legend of the Coppermine River (Inuit) -- Huntress (Inuit) -- Story of a female Shaman (Reindeer Chukchee) -- Magic eagle (Timotean People, Venezuela) -- New world newcomers -- "I'm Tipingee, she's Tipingee, we're Tipingee, too" (Haiti) -- 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) -- Close alliance: a tale of woe (Punjab, India) -- Barber's clever wife (Punjab, India) -- A wonderful story (India) -- Importance of lighting (Tamil Nadu, India) -- Child of death (Vietnam) -- Story of Princess Amaradevi (Cambodia) -- Tale of the Oki Islands (Japan) -- Monkey bridegroom (Japan) -- Mirror of Matsuyama: a story of old Japan (Japan) -- Tiger and the coal peddler's wife (Korea) -- Plucky maiden (Korea) -- 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) -- Festival of pouring water (Yunnan, China) -- A polite idiosyncrasy (Kwangtung, China) -- Young head of the family (Kwangtung, China) -- Altyn-Aryg (Altaian People, Siberia) -- 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) -- Old woman and the giant (Philippines) -- Magic coin (Philippines) -- 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) -- Black snake man and his wife, the dove (Munkan People, Australia) -- Mogwoi's baby (Arnhem Land, Australia) -- Biriwilg (told by women) (Arnhem Land, Australia) -- Tales from Sub-Saharan Africa -- 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) -- Spider, Kayi, and the bush fowl (Limba People, Sierra Leone) -- Story of two women (Limba People, Sierra Leone) -- Man killed for a spinach leaf (Limba People, Sierra Leone) -- Leopard woman (Liberia) -- 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) -- Feslihanci girl (Turkey) -- Story of the city of nothing-in-the-world (Persia) -- "Pink Pearl" prince (Iran) -- Who is blessed with the realm, riches, and honor? (Israel) -- Story of the king, Hamed bin Bathara, and of the fearless girl (Arab) -- Sultan's daughter (Sudan) -- Yousif Al-Saffani (Sudan) -- Miser who married (Iraq) -- Sign of the tassel (Iraq).
- Target Audience Note:
- 1060L Lexile
- Original Version Note:
- Paperback reprint. Originally published: [New York] : [W.W. Norton & Company], [1998].
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| 500 | . | ‡aForeword by Jane Yolen. | |
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