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Cover 1 Title Page 4 ISBN 0313337845 5 Contents 6 Preface 12 BIBLIOGRAPHY 14 Acknowledgments 16 Introduction to Volume 1 18 AFRICA 20 Northern Africa 20 EGYPT 22 GIFTS FOR MY SON MOHAMMED 22 A GIFT FOR THE SULTAN 23 THE TRICKSTER AND THE SULTAN 25 ABU-NOWAS 28 MOROCCO 31 THE REASON FOR ABSTAINING FROM WINE AND PORK 31 THE WEIGHT BEFORE THE DOOR 33 TALE OF A LANTERN 35 THE JINNS 43 Eastern Africa 46 LUHYA 48 ORIGIN OF THE JA-LUO 48 AWA-WANGA ANIMAL FABLES 49 MADAGASCAR 52 THE CROCODILE AND THE DOG 52 THE WILD CAT AND THE RAT 53 THE HEDGEHOG AND THE RAT 54 THE WAY IN WHICH ANDRIANORO OBTAINED A WIFE FROM HEAVEN 55 SOMALIA 61 GERHAJIS AND ARAB 61 THE GIRL WITHOUT LEGS 62 LAME HABIYO 64 HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE 66 SWAHILI 68 THE CARPENTER AND THE AMULET 68 THE STORY OF THE FLESH OF THE THIGH 71 THE CHILDREN AND THE CANNIBAL 74 BABOON DISGUISES HIMSELF AND BECOMES A FARMER 75 THE TREACHEROUS JACKAL 76 Western and Central Africa 78 AKUAPEM 80 HOW ANANSE TALES GOT THEIR NAME 80 ANANSE BUYS THE TOWN 81 BULU 83 THE TWO HUNCHBACKS 83 WHAT HAPPENS TO WIVES WHEN THEY THINK MORE HIGHLY OF ANYTHING ELSE THAN OF THEIR HUSBANDS 85 NEVER TELL THE THINGS OF TABOO YOU HAPPEN TO SEE 86 THE TORTOISE AND T
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- Author
- Thomas A. Green
- Publisher
- Greenwood Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780313081040
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Folklore, Anthropology, Literary Fiction
Other editions & translations
- The Greenwood Library of World Folktales: Stories from the Great Collections: The Greenwood Library of World Folktales: Stories from the Great Collections, Volu (2008)
- The Greenwood Library of World Folktales : Stories From the Great Collections [4 Volumes] (2008)
- The Greenwood Library of World Folktales: Stories from the Great Collections Four Volumes (2009)
- The Greenwood Library of World Folktales: Stories from the Great Collections: The Greenwood Library of World Folktales: Stories from the Great Collections, Volu (2008)
- The Greenwood Library of World Folktales: Stories from the Great Collections: The Greenwood Library of World Folktales: Stories from the Great Collections, Volu (2008)
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