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Great folktales of wit and humor /

One Hundred lively tales from world folklore. For contents, see Author Catalog.

Основен автор: Foster, James R. 1890-
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York, Harper, [1955].
Издание: [1st edition].
Предмети:
Tales.
Wit and humor.
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Съдържание:
  • Woman. Adam and Eve again
  • Eve is made
  • The Creator and Eve
  • Why some women are imperfect
  • Wrong head
  • The woman and the parrot
  • The shrew
  • The dumb wife
  • The lay of Aristotle
  • The fiddler and the sultan.
  • Man and wife. The nose
  • The Korean matron
  • De ways of de wimmens
  • The termagant
  • The fatal tree
  • Seeing double
  • The test
  • What the mare said
  • The wily wife
  • The partridges.
  • Wit and cleverness. Bilzy Young
  • That's a lie
  • Hadji's clever wife
  • Why the fish laughed
  • The peasant's wise daughter
  • Three questions
  • The miller of Abingdon
  • Big Peter and Little Peter.
  • Fools and numskulls. Jock and his mother
  • Ambrose the fool
  • Crazy John
  • It's lonely to be wise
  • The bald man and the hair restorer
  • The Irishman and the bull
  • The four simple Brahmans
  • The wise men of Gotham
  • Diagnosis
  • The dancing donkey
  • The ass turned monk
  • The corpse that talked.
  • The rugged and eccentric. Episodes in the life of Long Meg
  • Saint Peter's mother
  • Against the current
  • David Crockett, a fighting fowl
  • The skinflint
  • Ishen Golightly's heavy debt
  • Man shy
  • Yankee duelist.
  • Parsons. The parish priest of Corent
  • The sinfu' fiddle
  • Partridges into fish
  • Padre Fontanarosa
  • Padre Filippo
  • The curé of Bulson.
  • Saints. Entrance examination
  • The peasant in heaven
  • Saint Peter and the buccaneers
  • Fiddlers in paradise
  • The tailor in heaven
  • Woman with a stick
  • Brother Lustig
  • Gargantua and Saint Peter
  • Saint Balentruy
  • The last snake in Ireland.
  • The devil and some elves. The rival fiddlers
  • The feathered woman
  • A devil's sailing
  • Friar Rush
  • The ragweed field
  • The young piper.
  • Imposters and thieves. False angel
  • The river scamander
  • The king who became a parrot
  • The old woman and the she-dog
  • The Brahman and the goat
  • Howleglass the quack
  • Howleglass and the blind men
  • The maltman of Colebrook
  • Cerchez la femme.
  • Trials, celebrated and otherwise. The jackass of Vanvres, a cause célèbre
  • The wisdom of Hadgi-Achmet
  • The sagacious governor
  • A devil with the horn
  • Action for damages
  • The drover and the drab.
  • Hap and mishap. The three hunchbacks
  • The cobbler astrologer
  • The monk of Leicester
  • The old pair of slippers
  • The miller and the tailor.
  • Animals. The fox and the wolf
  • Bruin and Reynard
  • Reynard and the cock
  • Reynart as counselor
  • - The witless wolf
  • Pedigree
  • Do not force your talent
  • Why the hare has a cleft lip
  • The rabbit, the elephant, and the whale
  • Ananzi and the baboon.

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