San Antonio College Library

A collection of folk literature from five countries, with illustrations by native artists.

The 20 tales and nine poems in this anthology give the reader a fascinating insight into the oral literature anti rich culture of Bengal, the region now comprising of West Bengal in India, and Bangladesh.

Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein take a fascinating excursion into the world of folk medicine, unearthing stories that range widely across time and place, from ancient Egypt to the rain forests of contemporary Latin America, investgating a multicultural roster of age-old remedies often dismissed by twentieth-century Western medicine as harmful or foolish but now shown to have real scientific validity-- an increasing number of physicians, pharmaceutical...

A collection of thirteen original tales involving such characters as a water sprite, a greedy chestnut king, and the princess who married the wildman of the forest.

When Water Monster caused the Great Flood, the thirty-two clans of the first people left the summer land of the Fourth World and migrated to the fifth World through an enormous hollow reed. In this marvelous collection, Franc Newcomb recounts some of the many such tales she heard during long winter evenings at Blue Mesa, tales that describe the journey of the Diné to the present world and the efforts of the People to establish themselves here....