Research Catalog

Title

World tales : the extraordinary coincidence of stories told in all times, in all places / collected by Idries Shah.

Publication

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

Shah, Idries, 1924-1996

Description

xi, 258 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

An illustrated collection of 65 folktales, each with an introduction outlining the appearance of the tale in various cultures.

Alternative Title

Extraordinary coincidence of stories told in all times, in all places

Subject

• Tales
• Folklore
• Folklore
• folklore (culture-related concept)
• Tales

Genre/Form

• Fictional Work
• novels.
• Novels
• Fiction
• Folklore.
• Fiction.
• Novels.
• Romans.

Contents

Tales of a parrot (India) -- Dick Whittington (England) -- Don't count your chickens (Spain) -- The hawk and the nightingale (Greece) -- Cecino the tiny (Tuscany) -- Her lover's heart (India) -- The new hand (United States) -- The mastermaid (Norway) -- The hermit (France) -- The maiden wiser than the tsar (Serbia) -- The travelling companion (Denmark) -- The riddles (Turkestan) -- The grateful animals and the ungrateful man (Tibet) -- The value of a treasure hoard (China) -- Patient Griselda (England) -- How evil produces evil (Italy) -- The ghoul and the youth of Ispahan (Persia) -- The pilgrim from paradise (India) -- The blind ones and the matter of the elephant (Afghanistan) -- Anpu and Bata (Egypt) -- God is stronger (Madagascar) -- The happiest man in the world (Uzbekistan) -- The gorgon's head (Greece) -- The Brahmin's wife and the mongoose (India) -- The magic bag (Morocco) -- Catherine's fate (Sicily) -- The desolate island (Palestine) -- Gazelle horn (Tibet) -- Tom Tit Tot (England) -- The silent couple (Arabia) -- Childe Rowland (Scotland) -- The tale of Mushkil Gusha (Middle East) -- The food of paradise (Central Asia) -- The lamb with the golden fleece (Europe) -- The man with the wen (Japan) -- The skilful brothers (Albania) -- The Algonquin Cinderella (North American Indian) -- The kindly ghost (Sudan) -- The ass in pantherskin (India) -- The water of life (Germany) -- The serpent (Albania) -- The wonderful lamp (Italy) -- Who was the most generous? (England) -- Cupid and Psyche (Italy) -- The royal detectives (Egypt) -- Conflict of the magicians (Wales) -- False witnesses (Germany) -- The cobbler who became an astrologer (Persia) -- The two travellers (China) -- The fisherman and his wife (Germany) -- Impossible judgement (Spain) -- Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary (Ireland) -- Riquet with the tuft (France) -- The lost camel (India) -- The beggar and the gazelle (Middle East) -- The apple on the boy's head (Iceland) -- The boots of Hunain (Arabia) -- The three caskets (England) -- The land where time stood still (Romania) -- The man turned into a mule (Spain) -- The fox and the hedgehog (Greece) -- The bird maiden (Arabia) -- The slowest may win the race (Thailand) -- The three imposters (Spain) -- Occasion (Sicily).

ISBN

• 015199434X
• 9780151994342

LCCN

79001734

OCLC

• ocm04858129
• 4858129
• SCSB-968

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library