World Tales

Idries Shah

• Publisher: ISF Publishing
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781784791254
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Philosophy

How can it be that the same story is found in Scotland and also in Pre-Columbian America? What can account for the durability and persistence of tales? Was the tale of Aladdin and his wondrous lamp really taken from Wales (where it has been found) to the ancient East and, if so, when and by whom?These questions and more are answered in Idries Shah's remarkable volume World Tales, which is subtitled "e;The extraordinary coincidence of stories told in all times, in all places."e; In his introduction, Shah remarks, "e;Working for thirty-five years among the written and oral sources of our world heritage in tales, one feels a truly living element in them which is startlingly evident when one isolates the 'basic' stories; the ones which tend to have traveled farthest, to have featured in the largest number of classical collections, to have inspired great writers of the past and present."e;

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Contents
• Tales of a Parrot – India
• Dick Whittington and his Cat – England
• Don’t Count Your Chickens – Spain
• The Hawk and the Nightingale – Greece
• Cecino the Tiny – Tuscany
• Her Lover’s Heart – India
• The New Hand – United States
• The Mastermaid – Norway
• The Hermit – France
• The Maiden Wiser than the Tsar – Serbia
• The Traveling Companion – Denmark
• The Riddles – Turkestan
• The Grateful Animals and the Ungrateful Man – Tibet
• The Value of a Treasure Hoard – China
• Patient Griselda – England
• How Evil Produces Evil – Italy
• The Ghoul and the Youth of Ispahan – Persia
• The Pilgrim from Paradise – India
• The Blind Ones and the Matter of the Elephant – Afghanistan
• Anpu and Bata – Egypt
• God is Stronger – Madagascar
• The Happiest Man in the World – Uzbekistan
• The Gorgon’s Head – Greece
• The Brahmin’s Wife and the Mongoose – India
• The Magic Bag – Morocco
• Catherine’s Fate – Sicily
• The Desolate Island – Palestine
• Gazelle Horn – Tibet
• Tom Tit Tot – England
• The Silent Couple – Arabia
• Childe Rowland – Scotland
• The Tale of Mushkil Gusha – Middle East
• The Food of Paradise – Central Asia
• The Lamb with the Golden Fleece – Europe
• The Man with the Wen – Japan
• The Skillful Brothers – Albania
• The Algonquin Cinderella – North American Indian
• The Kindly Ghost – Sudan
• The Ass in Pantherskin – India
• The Water of Life – Germany
• The Serpent – Albania
• The Wonderful Lamp – Italy
• Who Was the Most Generous? – England
• Cupid and Psyche – Italy
• The Royal Detectives – Egypt
• Conflict of the Magicians – Wales
• False Witnesses – Germany
• The Cobbler Who Became an Astrologer – Persia
• The Two Travelers – China
• The Fisherman and his Wife – Germany
• Impossible Judgment – Spain
• Hudden and Dudden and Donald O’Neary – Ireland
• Riquet with the Tuft – France
• The Lost Camel – India
• The Beggar and the Gazelle – Middle East
• The Apple on the Boy’s Head – Iceland
• The Boots of Hunain – Arabia
• The Three Caskets – England
• The Land Where Time Stood Still – Romania
• The Man Turned into a Mule – Spain
• The Fox and the Hedgehog – Greece
• The Bird Maiden – Arabia
• The Slowest May Win the Race – Thailand
• The Three Imposters – Spain
• Occasion – Sicily
• A Request