| Description |
xx, 380 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Tales -- North America.
|
| Added Author |
Peck, Catherine.
|
|
