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Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin ~ things mean a lot
Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin 2007
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"Tagalog Folk-Tales," Fletcher Gardner, JAFL 20: 104-120;
Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner
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Folk-Tales_ (London, Elliott & Stock, 1908), and the Central
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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For a few earlier traces of fairy tales in mediæval literature, see an article by the writer, "Two Mediæval Folk-Tales," in the _Germania_, XVIII.
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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(Fables and Folk-Tales from an Eastern Forest, 9-12), "Who Killed the Otter's Babies?" is clearly related to our tales, at least in idea and method: --
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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Wohlfarth, J., and McMurry, Frank: _Little Folk-Tales_. 2 vols.
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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Mr. Larminie's "West Irish Folk-Tales" (1895) are model work of their kind as are Lady Gregory's several books, of which I speak in detail later.
Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914
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There is a most interesting version of this in Curtin's Irish Myths and Folk-Tales.
AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901
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When you take up _Russian Folk-Tales_ (KEGAN, PAUL), don't allow yourself to be subdued by the deplorably learned preface of the translator, Mr. LEONARD MAGNUS, LL. B., because it is not the proper attitude really.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 Various 1898
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[Footnote 1: Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales, p. 250.]
Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893
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