Introduction / Carol L. Birch & Melissa A. Heckler -- Two traditions / Melissa A. Heckler -- The icebergs of folklore : misconception, misuse, abuse / Barre Toelken -- Jewish models : adapting folktales for telling aloud / Peninnah Schram -- The continuing cycle : native American storytelling past and present / Joseph Bruchac -- Who says? : the storyteller as narrator -- Playing with the wall / Bill Harley -- Between teller and listener : the reciprocity of storytelling / Rafe Martin -- Old stories/new listeners / Kay Stone -- Old stories/life stories : memory and dissolution in contemporary Bushman folklore / Mathias Guenther -- Innervision and innertext : oral and interpretive modes of storytelling performance / Joseph Sobol.