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| Each Part ends with Links to Other Stories. | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cinderella and Her Cousins: A Tale and Its Variants | |
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| The Golden Carp | |
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| Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper | |
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| Aschenputtel | |
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| Cap o' Rushes | |
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| Billy Beg and the Bull | |
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| Mary Cinderella | |
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| Conkiajgharuna | |
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| Vasilisa the Beautiful | |
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| The Indian Cinderella | |
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| Benizara and Kakezara | |
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| Creating and Shaping the World: The Mythic Vision | |
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| How Light and Life Came Into the World | |
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| Heaven and Earth | |
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| The Creation and the First Sin | |
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| Sedna | |
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| How Summer Came to Canada | |
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| Demeter and Persephone | |
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| The Myth of Osiris and Isis | |
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| How Fire Was Stolen from Rabbit | |
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| How Nanabozho Brought Fire to His People | |
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| Maui the Half-God | |
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| Fire and An Ordinary Woman | |
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| How Death Came to the World | |
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| Larger Than Life: Tales of Heroes | |
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| Sundiata's Childhood | |
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| Perseus Rescues Andromeda | |
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| How Krishna Killed the Wicked King Kans | |
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| Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind | |
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| Meleager and Atalanta | |
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| The Wanderings of Ulysses | |
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| The Crooked Tote Road | |
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| Robin Hood Turns Butcher | |
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| The Last Journey of Gilgamesh | |
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| The Death of Beowulf | |
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| Joan the Maid | |
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| Ned Kelly--Iron Man | |
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| John Henry | |
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| Unlikely Heroes: Triumphs of the Underdog | |
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| Molly Whuppie | |
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| Jack and the Beanstalk | |
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| David and Goliath | |
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| The Last of the Dragons | |
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| The Practical Princess | |
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| The Search for the Magic Lake | |
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| The Fly | |
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| How the Tortoise Got His Shell | |
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| The Adventures of Little Peachling | |
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| Thumbelina | |
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| The Valiant Chattee-Maker | |
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| Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp | |
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| Purposeful Journeys: Errands and Quests | |
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| Of Sir Gareth of Orkney | |
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| Odin Goes to Mimir's Well | |
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| The Wonderful Brocade | |
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| Simon and the Golden Sword | |
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| Little Badger and the Fire Spirit | |
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| Scarface: Origin of the Medicine Lodge | |
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| Cupid and Psyche | |
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| East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon | |
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| Little Red Riding-hood | |
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| Little Red-Cap | |
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| The Three Billy-Goats Gruff | |
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| The Half-Chick | |
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| Loves Won and Lost: Tales of Courtship and Marriage | |
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| The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods | |
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| Little Briar-Rose | |
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| Beauty and the Beast | |
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| The Story of Five Heads | |
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| Rumpelstiltskin | |
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| The Maid with Hair of Gold | |
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| Juan Bobo and the Princess Who Answered Riddles | |
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| The Innkeeper's Wise Daughter | |
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| The Frog Maiden | |
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| Rosalie | |
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| The Crane Wife | |
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| The Goodman of Wastness and His Selkie Wife | |
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| Urashima Taro | |
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| The Moon | |
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| It's All Relative: The Trials and Triumphs of Family Life | |
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| The Blind Boy and the Loon | |
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| Snow White | |
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| The Magic Orange Tree | |
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| The Six Swans | |
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| Hansel and Grethel | |
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| Chet Huat Chet Hai (Seven Pot, Seven Jar) | |
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| The Smith and the Fairies | |
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| The Three Sons and Their Objects of Power | |
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| Jacques the Woodcutter | |
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| The Woman Who Flummoxed the Fairies | |
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| The Barber's Clever Wife | |
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| Living by Wit: Trickster Tales | |
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| Anansi Earns the Sky-God's Stories | |
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| Tricksy Rabbit | |
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| The Two Fishermen | |
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| The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story | |
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| A Legend of Knockmany | |
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| The Tiger, The Brahman, and the Jackal | |
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| Jack the Giant Killer | |
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| Wisahketchahk and the Ducks | |
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| The Mouse-Deer and the Tiger | |
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| The Rabbit and the Coyote | |
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| The Story of Ca Matsin and Ca Boo-ug | |
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| The Mouse and the Fox | |
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| How El Bizarron Fooled the Devil | |
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| The Apples of Idun | |
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| Wise and Foolish: Tales of Cleverness and Stupidity | |
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| The Tale of the Three Wishes | |
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| The Fisherman and his Wife | |
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| Pedro Urdimale, the Little Fox, and the Mare's Egg | |
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| How the Coyote Danced with the Blackbirds | |
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| The Tiger, the Persimmon, and the Rabbit's Tail | |
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| Si Djeha Cheats the Robbers | |
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| The Hodja and the Thousand Pieces of Gold | |
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| The Gift of the Holy Man | |
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| The Two Husbands | |
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| The Emperor's New Clothes | |
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| The President Wants No More of Anansi | |
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| The Golden Altar of the Church of St. Joseph | |
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| Nature Humanized: Animal Tales | |
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| The Fox and the Crow | |
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| The Fox and the Goat | |
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| The Fox and the Grapes | |
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| The Hare and the Tortoise | |
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| The Dog and the Shadow | |
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| The Ants and the Grasshopper | |
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| The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass | |
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| The Lion and the Mouse | |
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| The Lion and the Shepherd | |
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| The Crocodile and the Monkey's Heart | |
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| Henny Penny | |
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| The Ugly Duckling | |
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| The Story of the Three Little Pigs | |
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| The Story of the Three Bears | |
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| The Elephant and the Giraffe | |
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| The Story of a Dam | |
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| The Deer and the Jaguar Share a House | |
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| Gayardaree the Platypus | |
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| The Elephant's Child | |
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| The Revenge of the Three Deer-Boys | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Selected Critical Studies | |
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| Selected Online Resources | |
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| Selected Folktale Collections | |
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| Selected Illustrated Editions of Single Tales | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Topical Index | |
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| Title Index | |