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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Animal Tales | |
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| Small Birds Can Kill Too! | |
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| The Rooster Wins the Race | |
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| The Fox, the Bear, and the Honeycomb | |
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| How the Bear Got His Stubby Tail | |
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| The Fox and the Rowanberries | |
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| "They're Sour," Said the Fox | |
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| The Fox and the Crane Invite Each Other to Dinner | |
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| Why the Hare Has a Cleft Lip | |
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| If It Were Summer ... | |
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| The Wolf and the Fox | |
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| The Wolf Who Wanted to Become Stronger | |
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| The Billy Goat and the Wolf | |
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| Hold the Wolf by the Tail | |
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| Trolls, Giants, Ghosts, and Other Beings | |
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| To Squeeze Water from a Stone | |
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| The Girl Who Wouldn't Spin | |
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| The Boy Who Worked for the Giant | |
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| Little Hans | |
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| Onen in the Mountain | |
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| The Gullible Troll | |
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| The Clever Boy | |
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| The Backahast (legend) | |
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| The Skogsra at Lapptjarns Mountain (legend) | |
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| To Catch Smoke (legend) | |
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| The Tale of the Troll Woman (legend) | |
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| The Tale of Speke (legend) | |
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| The Gypsy Girl and Her Dead Fiance (legend) | |
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| Hobergsgubben (legend) | |
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| The Trolls and the Bear (legend) | |
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| The Giant's Toy (legend) | |
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| True Dummies and Clever Folk | |
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| The Tale of the Crooked Creature | |
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| Wise Klara | |
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| The Stupid Boy Who Didn't Know About Women | |
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| Counting the Stars in Heaven | |
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| Fools | |
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| The Princess of Catburg | |
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| Pretend to Eat, Pretend to Work | |
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| Lazy Masse | |
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| Big Tomma and Heikin Pieti | |
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| For Long Springday | |
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| The Students and the Eclipse of the Moon | |
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| The Numbskull Who Thought He Married a Man | |
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| Talje Fools | |
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| The Thief's Three Masterpieces | |
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| The Girl and the Calf's Eyes (legend) | |
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| The King, the Headsman, and the Twelve Robbers (legend) | |
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| Twelve Men in the Forest (legend) | |
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| The Wise Daughter (legend) | |
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| Bellman Stories (legend) | |
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| How to Win the Princess | |
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| Twigmouthius, Cowbellowantus, Perchnosimus | |
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| The Princess Who Always Had an Answer | |
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| The Boat That Sailed on Both Land and Sea | |
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| The Liar | |
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| Ash Dummy Chops Down the Oak and Becomes the King's Son-in-Law | |
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| The Princess with the Louse Skin | |
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| Sheepskin Boy | |
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| The Princess Who Danced with a Troll Every Night | |
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| Stuck on a Goose | |
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| The King's Hares | |
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| Prince Greenbeard | |
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| Tales of Heroes and Heroines | |
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| The Three Swords | |
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| The Peasant Girl in the Floating Rock | |
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| Manasse and Cecilia | |
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| The Princess in the Earthen Cave | |
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| The Silver Dress, the Gold Dress, and the Diamond Dress | |
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| The Boy in the Birch-Bark Basket | |
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| The Castle East of the Sun and West of the Wind in the Promised Land | |
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| Prince Vilius | |
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| The Three Sons Who Each Had a Foal, a Puppy, and a Sword | |
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| The Twelve Kidnapped Princesses | |
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| The Tale of White Bear | |
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| Little Rose and Big Briar | |
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| Metamorphoses | |
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| The Serpent Prince | |
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| The Widow's Son | |
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| Gray Cape | |
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| The Animal Husbands | |
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| Prince Faithful | |
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| The Rats in the Juniper Bush | |
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| Tales of Men and Women | |
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| Like a Cold Wind in Warm Weather | |
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| The Quick-Learning Girl | |
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| The Girl Who Gave a Knight a Kiss Out of Necessity | |
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| The Fussy Fiance | |
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| Par and Bengta | |
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| Who's Got the Dumbest Husband | |
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| Geska | |
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| The Stingy Farmer | |
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| The Man and Woman Who Changed Jobs | |
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| The Contrary Old Woman (legend) | |
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| The Tale of a Suitor (legend) | |
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| The Hunter and the Skogsra (legend) | |
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| The Woman in the Hole (legend) | |
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| The Man Who Married the Mara (legend) | |
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| The Hidden Key (legend) | |
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| Moral Tales | |
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| His Just Reward | |
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| Master Par and Rag Jan's Boy | |
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| The Girl in the Robbers' Den | |
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| Funteliten and His Mother | |
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| The Girl Who Stepped on the Bread | |
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| A Tale of Two Beggars | |
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| The Filthy-Rich Student | |
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| The Bad Stepmother | |
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| The Tale of the Copper Pot | |
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| The Two Chests | |
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| Godfather Death | |
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| The Bear and the Woman | |
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| The Boy, the Old Woman, and the Neighbor (legend) | |
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| The Salt Mill (legend) | |
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| Old Nick and the Widow (legend) | |
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| The Lazy Boy and the Industrious Girl (legend) | |
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| The Parson's Wife Who Had No Shadow (legend) | |
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| The Despised Rake (legend) | |
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| The Tale of the Sculptor's Beautiful Wife (legend) | |
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| The Big Turnip (legend) | |
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| Parsons, the Good Lord, and the Evil One | |
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| "Yet a Little While, and the World Seeth Me No More" | |
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| The Devil and the Tailor | |
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| Kitta Gray | |
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| The Pregnant Parson | |
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| Forging with Sand | |
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| The Parson, the Sexton, and the Devil | |
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| The Sermon About Nothing | |
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| Sven Fearless | |
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| The Tale of the Parson and the Sexton | |
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| The Farmer Who Sold His Soul to the Devil (legend) | |
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| The Night-Blind Parson (legend) | |
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| The Burning Lake (legend) | |
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| The Bishop's Visit (legend) | |
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| One More Schnapps (legend) | |
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| The Hare in the Treetop (legend) | |
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| Exchange Heads with the Devil (legend) | |
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| Tall Tales, Superstitions, and Jingles | |
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| The Mountain in the Forest | |
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| The Old Lady's Cat | |
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| The Snake Cookers | |
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| The Goat Who Wouldn't Go Home | |
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| "Eat the Bread Too!" | |
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| The Little Old Woman | |
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| The Three Lying Old Women | |
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| The Biggest Stable and the Biggest Pot | |
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| The Black Cow, the Pot, and the Cheese | |
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| Boots for the Son in America | |
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| That Was the End of the Tale | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Illustrators | |
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| Permissions Acknowledgments | |