Cinderella in America : A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales
, by McCarthy, William Bernard- ISBN: 9781578069590 | 1578069599
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/1/2007
The first-of-its-kind anthology of folk and fairy tales from the melting pot of the United States
Introduction : yarns older than Uncle Sam | p. 3 |
The early record | p. 25 |
Tales from a new republic | p. 27 |
Clever Crispin and the calf : a true story | p. 30 |
The fortune teller | p. 31 |
The three wishes | p. 33 |
Catskin | p. 34 |
Lady featherflight | p. 42 |
Jack and the animals seek their fortune | p. 48 |
The forgetful boy | p. 50 |
The three brothers and the hag | p. 53 |
The cat and the mouse | p. 57 |
Johnny-Cake | p. 59 |
The three little pigs | p. 62 |
The Iberian folktale in the United States | p. 67 |
Puerto Rico : the oldest depository of American tales | p. 71 |
The basil maiden | p. 72 |
Juan Bobo and the riddling princess | p. 75 |
Three tales of Pedro Urdemalas | p. 80 |
The flower of Olivar | p. 83 |
Flor Blanca | p. 85 |
The wolf | p. 87 |
Mousie Perez | p. 89 |
The children and the ogress | p. 90 |
Tales from the Hispanic southwest | p. 93 |
The bird of truth, or the three treasures | p. 94 |
Jujuyana, or the mist of no return | p. 98 |
Goldenstar | p. 106 |
Sister Fox and Brother Coyote | p. 108 |
Las Bodas de la Tia Cucaracha | p. 113 |
La Llorona, the wailing mother | p. 115 |
Isleno tales from St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana | p. 119 |
The cruel mother | p. 120 |
Love like salt | p. 122 |
The fairy with hair as fair as oatstraw | p. 124 |
John and his big club | p. 128 |
Two tales of Quevedo | p. 130 |
Cape Verde tales from New England | p. 133 |
The girl without hands, breasts, or eyes | p. 135 |
The seven robbers | p. 137 |
The Maria Condon | p. 141 |
Nho Lob' and the moon | p. 144 |
The girl who wanted to marry a man with a golden tooth | p. 146 |
French tradition in the Old Louisiana territory | p. 151 |
Louisiana Creole tales | p. 155 |
The talking eggs | p. 156 |
The little boy of the government | p. 158 |
Catafo | p. 159 |
Bouqui and Lapin | p. 162 |
Cajun tales | p. 166 |
Golden hair | p. 167 |
Snow bella | p. 173 |
Jean L'Ours | p. 181 |
The three oranges | p. 184 |
Genevieve | p. 185 |
Lapin and Bouqui's mule | p. 191 |
Two tales of Jean Sot | p. 192 |
Boudreaux and Thibodeaux | p. 194 |
Tales from the Missouri French | p. 198 |
John the Bear | p. 200 |
Prince Green Serpent and La Valeur | p. 208 |
The cootie and the flea | p. 213 |
Beau Soleil | p. 215 |
Francois seeks his fortune, or the three gold pieces | p. 220 |
The British tradition of the south | p. 225 |
From tidewater to Texas : the southern lowland tradition | p. 229 |
Katie and Johnnie | p. 231 |
The story of sally | p. 232 |
Corn for the Miller | p. 236 |
The silver toe | p. 238 |
Peter Simon Suckegg | p. 239 |
African American tales of the rural south and the urban north | p. 241 |
Peazy and beanzy | p. 243 |
The devil's daughter | p. 245 |
Beg Billy and the bull | p. 251 |
The forty-mile jumper | p. 254 |
Br'er Rabbit and the church | p. 256 |
Mr. Rabbit in partners | p. 260 |
Mr. Rabbit and the tar man | p. 264 |
Br'er Rabbit and the little girl | p. 269 |
The gunny wolf | p. 270 |
The singing geese | p. 271 |
Sleeping Beauty | p. 272 |
Tales from the coastal Gullah tradition | p. 275 |
The coon in the barrel | p. 277 |
The mermaid | p. 280 |
Barney McCabe | p. 281 |
The deserted children | p. 285 |
Rabbit pretends he sold his wife | p. 291 |
B'er Rabbit, B'er Partridge, and the cow | p. 292 |
The southern mountains I : from the Blue Ridge to the Ozarks | p. 294 |
Rawhead and bloodybones | p. 295 |
Three drops of blood | p. 299 |
Little horny and big horny | p. 310 |
Polly, Nancy, and Muncimeg | p. 313 |
The old man and the witch | p. 317 |
Old bear | p. 320 |
Old Kitty rollins | p. 323 |
Three versions of the juniper tree | p. 323 |
Mr. Fox | p. 326 |
The southern mountains II : the Hicks-Harmon Beech Mountain tradition | p. 328 |
Old Stiff Dick | p. 330 |
Little Dicky Wigbun | p. 333 |
Sop doll | p. 336 |
Three little pigs | p. 341 |
Jack and old fire dragon | p. 346 |
Fill, bowl, fill | p. 352 |
Other people, other tales | p. 357 |
German traditions in Pennsylvania | p. 361 |
The enchanted sisters | p. 362 |
The three brothers | p. 364 |
The best of three | p. 366 |
Stone soup | p. 367 |
Eileschpijjel | p. 368 |
Counting noses | p. 369 |
The Miller's daughter | p. 369 |
The Irish-American tale tradition | p. 376 |
Little red nightcap | p. 377 |
The fairy birth | p. 380 |
Jamie and the wee ones | p. 383 |
How death came to Ireland | p. 384 |
The mare's egg | p. 386 |
Tales from other communities, ethnic, regional, occupational, and familial | p. 387 |
The pea story | p. 390 |
Lazy Maria | p. 396 |
The black kitty | p. 399 |
The bewitched princess | p. 404 |
The powder snake | p. 406 |
Twas a dark and stormy night | p. 409 |
Knives and forks | p. 410 |
The amazing old men | p. 411 |
The clever daughter | p. 412 |
Sam Patra and his brothers | p. 414 |
Hodja Nasreddin | p. 418 |
The two dreams | p. 422 |
European tales in Native American traditions | p. 429 |
The grey fox and the wolves | p. 431 |
Coyote and fox, bear, wolf, and little pig | p. 434 |
The rooster and the fox | p. 440 |
Who is the strongest? | p. 440 |
The steer and the ill-treated stepson | p. 442 |
The toad prince | p. 449 |
Ka-Ma-Nu and the Mo-o | p. 455 |
The muskrat husband | p. 457 |
A case study | p. 463 |
Betty Carriveau Sherman and her father's tales | p. 465 |
Angel Gabriel | p. 469 |
Studying American folktales | p. 488 |
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