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Tales from ancient India. Jataka tales. The talkative turtle ; The wise master ; A flock of birds
Tales from The Panchatantra. The lion makers ; The blue jackal who showed his true colors ; The lion and the rabbit ; The blind men and the elephant
Tales from China. Taoist parables. Blinded by greed ; The stolen ax / based on a tale by Lieh Tzu ; The best fit / based on a tale by Han Fei ; The powerful fighting cock ; Whose dream is this? ; The useless tree / based on a tale by Chuang Tzu ; A farmer's horse ran off / based on a tale by Lui An
Zen stories from Japan. A monk with heavy thoughts ; The wild strawberry ; Empty-cup mind ; A dispute in sign language ; Giving the moon
Tales from ancient Greece. Aesop's fables. Antlers ; Everyone agrees to peace ; Mice in council
Tales of Mount Olympus. Baucis and Philemon ; Echo and Narcissus
Tales from the Middle East. Sufi stories of Mulla Nasrudin. The boatman ; The smuggler ; Feeding his clothes ; Looking for the key
Tales from the Jewish tradition. Feathers : Eastern European, Hasidic ; This too shall pass : Ancient Israel, a King Solomon legend ; The wooden sword : Afghanistan
Tales from the Christian tradition. The legend of St. Genesius ; Amazing grace : the story of John Newton (1725-1807) ; The prodigal son : a parable from the New Testament
Tales from Africa. Fire, water, truth, and falsehood : Northeast Africa, Ethiopia ; The red and blue coat : Central Africa, Congo ; Tongue meat : East-Central Africa, Swahili ; Why wisdom is everywhere : West Africa, Ashanti
Tales from Asia and Southeast Asia. The parts of the house argue : Philippines ; The tiger's whisker : Korea ; Little lizard's sorrow : Vietnam
Tales from Europe. The three wishes : England ; The wooden bowl : Germany ; The happy man's shirt : Italy ; The dancing lass of Anglesey : Scotland
Tales from the Americas. How war was ended : North American Arctic, Central Yup'ik Eskimo ; How the quetzal got its red breast : Central America, Maya ; Old dog and coyote : Mexico, Otomi ; Paca and beetle : South America, Brazil ; Gluscabi and the magic game bag : North American eastern woodlands, Abenaki
Proverbs from around the world.
Tales from The Panchatantra. The lion makers ; The blue jackal who showed his true colors ; The lion and the rabbit ; The blind men and the elephant
Tales from China. Taoist parables. Blinded by greed ; The stolen ax / based on a tale by Lieh Tzu ; The best fit / based on a tale by Han Fei ; The powerful fighting cock ; Whose dream is this? ; The useless tree / based on a tale by Chuang Tzu ; A farmer's horse ran off / based on a tale by Lui An
Zen stories from Japan. A monk with heavy thoughts ; The wild strawberry ; Empty-cup mind ; A dispute in sign language ; Giving the moon
Tales from ancient Greece. Aesop's fables. Antlers ; Everyone agrees to peace ; Mice in council
Tales of Mount Olympus. Baucis and Philemon ; Echo and Narcissus
Tales from the Middle East. Sufi stories of Mulla Nasrudin. The boatman ; The smuggler ; Feeding his clothes ; Looking for the key
Tales from the Jewish tradition. Feathers : Eastern European, Hasidic ; This too shall pass : Ancient Israel, a King Solomon legend ; The wooden sword : Afghanistan
Tales from the Christian tradition. The legend of St. Genesius ; Amazing grace : the story of John Newton (1725-1807) ; The prodigal son : a parable from the New Testament
Tales from Africa. Fire, water, truth, and falsehood : Northeast Africa, Ethiopia ; The red and blue coat : Central Africa, Congo ; Tongue meat : East-Central Africa, Swahili ; Why wisdom is everywhere : West Africa, Ashanti
Tales from Asia and Southeast Asia. The parts of the house argue : Philippines ; The tiger's whisker : Korea ; Little lizard's sorrow : Vietnam
Tales from Europe. The three wishes : England ; The wooden bowl : Germany ; The happy man's shirt : Italy ; The dancing lass of Anglesey : Scotland
Tales from the Americas. How war was ended : North American Arctic, Central Yup'ik Eskimo ; How the quetzal got its red breast : Central America, Maya ; Old dog and coyote : Mexico, Otomi ; Paca and beetle : South America, Brazil ; Gluscabi and the magic game bag : North American eastern woodlands, Abenaki
Proverbs from around the world.