Includes bibliographical references.

Little Red Riding Hood --The Story of Grandmother -- Little Red Riding Hood -- Little Red Cap -- The False Grandmother -- Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf --The Three Little Pigs -- The Tale of the Tiger Woman -- Tselane and the Marimo -- Introduction: Beauty and the Beast -- Beauty and the Beast -- The Pig King -- The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich -- The Tiger's Bride -- Urashima the Fisherman -- The Enchanted Frog -- The Swan Maiden -- Chonguita -- The Dog Bride -- Introduction: Snow White -- The Young Slave -- Snow White -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- Snow, Glass, Apples -- Introduction: Sleeping Beauty -- The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood -- Briar Rose -- Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane -- The Sleeping Beauty -- Introduction: Cinderella -- Rhodopis -- Yeh-hsien -- Cinderella -- Donkeyskin -- The Three Gowns -- Catskin -- The Story of the Black Cow -- Lin Lan [Cinderella] -- The Princess in the Suit of Leather -- Introduction: Bluebeard -- Bluebeard -- Pitcher's Bird -- The Robber Bridegroom -- Mr. Fox -- Mr. Bluebeard -- The Forbidden Room -- Mast-Truan -- Bluebeard's Egg -- Bluebeard -- Introduction: Tricksters -- Hansel and Grelel -- Fulano de Tal and His Children -- The Juniper Tree -- The Rose-Tree -- The Singing Bones -- Little Thumbling --Vasilisa the Fair -- Momotaro, or the Peach Boy -- Jack and the Beanstalk -- Introduction: Hans Christian Andersen -- The Little Mermaid -- The Little Match Girl -- The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf --The Red Shoes --The Emperor's New Clothes -- The Nightingale -- Introduction: Oscar Wilde -- The Selfish Giant -- The Happy Prince -- The Nightingale and the Rose -- Criticism --The Fairy Tale Moves on Its Own in Time -- From Better Castles in the Sky at the Country Fair and Circus, in Fairy Tales and Colportage --From The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov -- Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose -- Abstract Style -- [Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother] -- From To Spin a Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Talc -- From The Old Wives' Tale -- Breaking the Disney Spell -- From Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales -- From Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales -- From Slipping the Trap of Appetite -- From Female Tricksters as Double Agents -- From The Fairy-Tale Web -- From Magical Illusion: Fairy-Talc Film -- From The Types of International Folktales -- From Folklore and Literature -- From Morphology of the Folktale