Introduction -- About the tale notes -- Participation tales -- Monkeys in the rain Take a little walk, Bear Going on a bear hunt In a dark, dark house Two frogs in a cream jar Phya Khankhaak, the Toad Prince Thailand / Animal tales -- Coyote steals a bag Cricket and jaguar fight One night's sleep Salish -- Christmas of the animals Christmas of the animals, version two Christmas of the animals, version three Human's age Origin stories -- How Georgians received their homeland Nikoloz Baratashivili -- Wine is born in Georgia The douglas fir cone The blacksmith on the moon Hanuman fathers mushrooms

Tiny tales -- Swimming to Kotzebue Toothache? Unity is strength St. Peter and the Lord The slovenly wife How to quarrel Riddle tales -- The little red house The serving giant How many geese? The stolen boat Romances -- The origin of Ñandutí lace The flute player of the rice fields Princess Pinang Masak Strange and stranger -- The reader and his strange visitors The girl who crunched bones The marvelous canning factory The rabbit flood The magic canoe The creature of the night

Trickery -- Fiddler's gold That's the way the world goes The dog market at Buda What Herschel's father did The mouse sutra Lessons to be learned -- Little Fox's village The Queen and the peasant wife The household snake Toad-frog The papercut woman Singing together

Participation tales -- Animal tales -- Origin stories -- Tiny tales -- Riddle tales -- Romances -- Strange and stranger -- Trickery -- Lessons to be learned.