tales

Presents a collection of eleven classic Scottish fairy tales and legends accompanied by color illustrations. Includes a glossary of Scottish terms.

A collection of folktales from the land of Yemen that offer insight into the region's history and culture.

Text and illustrations present fifteen Vietnamese tales.

Contains 670 alphabetically-arranged entries that provide information about topics in the field of fairy-tale studies, covering cultural/national/regional/linguistic groups; genres; critical terms, concepts, and approaches; motifs, themes, characters, tales, and tale types; contexts; cultural forms; television, film, animation, and video; and individual authors, editors, collectors, translators, filmmakers, artists/illustrators, composers, scholars, and titles.

Contains a variety of tales and fairy tales under the following headings: Under the wing of magic--Tests of love and loyalty--Strong arms, sturdy hearts.

Contains a collection of over sixty Korean folk and fairy tales of dragons, ghosts, ogres, tigers, and demonic foxes that tell stories about life, love, power, money, and justice.

Explores the savagery of human love and illuminates the paradoxes of India by using traditional forms of Indian storytelling.

Collects eight folktales from India about animals and morality, including an elephant and a dog who end up being friends, and a tortoise who doesn't know how to stay silent.