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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Map | |
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| The Stolen Bairn and the Sidh | |
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| The Three Sisters and Their Husbands, Three Brothers | |
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| The Corpse Watchers | |
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| The Crookened Back | |
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| The Horned Women | |
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| Whuppity Stoorie | |
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| Molly Whuppie | |
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| The Treasure of Downhouse | |
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| The Hand of Glory | |
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| Tamlane | |
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| The Night Troll | |
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| The Grateful Elfwoman | |
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| "My Jon's Soul" | |
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| The Ghost at Fjelkinge | |
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| Little Red Cap | |
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| The Wood Maiden | |
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| The Child Who Was Poor and Good | |
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| The Pigeon's Bride | |
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| How the King Chose a Daughter-in-Law | |
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| Marichka | |
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| Davit | |
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| Anait | |
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| The Fortune-Teller | |
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| The Tsaritsa Harpist | |
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| The Vampire Skeleton | |
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| The Flying Head | |
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| Where the Girl Saved Her Brother | |
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| Chief Joseph's Story of Wallowa Lake | |
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| The Origin of the Potlatch | |
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| The Princess and Mountain Dweller | |
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| The Princess and the Magical Hat | |
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| The Lytton Girls Who Were Stolen by Giants | |
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| The Legend of the Coppermine River | |
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| The Huntress | |
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| Story of a Female Shaman | |
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| The Magic Eagle | |
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| "I'm Tipingee, She's Tipingee, We're Tipingee, Too" | |
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| The Innkeeper's Wise Daughter | |
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| Molly Cotton-Tail Steals Mr. Fox's Butter | |
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| A Rani's Revenge | |
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| How Parvatibai Qutwitted the Dacoits | |
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| The Close Alliance: A Tale of Woe | |
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| The Barber's Clever Wife | |
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| A Wonderful Story | |
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| The Importance of Lighting | |
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| The Child of Death | |
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| The Story of Princess Amaradevi | |
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| The Tale of the Oki Islands | |
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| The Monkey Bridegroom | |
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| The Mirror of Matsuyama: A Story of Old Japan | |
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| The Tiger and the Coal Peddler's Wife | |
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| The Plucky Maiden | |
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| The Phoenix and Her City | |
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| Sailimai's Four Precious Things | |
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| A Woman's Love | |
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| Maiden Liu, the Songster | |
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| The Festival of Pouring Water | |
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| A Polite Idiosyncrasy | |
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| The Young Head of the Family | |
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| Altyn-Aryg | |
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| The Wife Who Stole a Heart | |
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| Hiiaka Catching a Ghost | |
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| Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas | |
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| A Calabash of Poi | |
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| Rau-Whato | |
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| How Pulap Acquired the Art of Navigation | |
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| Rola and the Two Sisters | |
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| The Old Woman and the Giant | |
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| The Magic Coin | |
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| The Creation of Lake Asbold | |
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| Senan and Aping | |
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| Ubong and the Head-Hunters | |
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| Kumaku and the Giant | |
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| Revival and Revenge | |
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| Uzu, the White Dogai | |
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| The Black Snake Man and His Wife, the Dove | |
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| The Mogwoi's Baby | |
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| Biriwilg (Told by Women) | |
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| The Woman, Her Husband, Their Children and the Dodo | |
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| Ku-Chin-Da-Gayya and Her Elder Sister and the Dodos | |
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| Moremi and the Egunguns | |
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| The Spider, Kayi, and the Bush Fowl | |
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| The Story of Two Women | |
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| The Man Killed for a Spinach Leaf | |
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| The Leopard Woman | |
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| The Midwife of Dakar | |
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| A Woman for a Hundred Cattle | |
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| Wacu and the Eagle | |
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| Elephant and Hare | |
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| Nonikwe and the Great One, Marimba | |
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| How the Milky Way Came to Be | |
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| Nanabolele, Who Shines in the Night | |
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| Jackal and Hen | |
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| Women's Wiles | |
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| The Feslihanci Girl | |
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| The Story of the City of Nothing-in-the-World | |
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| The "Pink Pearl" Prince | |
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| Who Is Blessed with the Realm, Riches, and Honor? | |
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| The Story of the King, Hamed bin Bathara, and of the Fearless Girl | |
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| The Sultan's Daughter | |
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| Yousif Al-Saffani | |
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| The Miser Who Married | |
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| The Sign of the Tassel | |
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| Notes | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Bibliography of Secondary Literature | |
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| Index | |