Northeast, the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic -- Preface -- Northeast -- Introduction -- Origins -- Making of the world -- Glooscap -- Gluska'be steals summer for the people, escapes from the crows, and overcomes winter -- Black cat and the sable -- Grandmother O-ne-ha-tah, Mother Oo-kwa-e, and the Lost Boy -- How Money Cove got its name -- Mohawks on the war-path -- Ga'na'a's adventures among the Cherokee -- Thunderers -- Thursday off -- Little girl, Mama Glau, and humming-bird -- Heroes, heroines, tricksters, and fools -- Froth of water -- Rose -- Wolf of the Greenwood -- How Jack went to seek his fortune -- Gluska'be the deceiver -- Fight with the giant witch -- Disobedient boy who became a prince -- Three brothers and the hag -- Rusty Jack -- Three men of Galway -- Nobleman and his cook -- Little cakeen -- Outwitting the King -- Tim Murphy's escape -- You hear a lot of them things -- Birds take back their feathers ; the insult midstream ; playing dead -- Lazy Maria -- My son Ali -- Forgetful boy -- Secret room -- Dr. B., the witch doctor -- New Hampshire witches -- Jake Strauss -- Tijaiha the sorcerer -- American vampires -- Ghost legends of the Blue Mountains -- Supernatural legends of Chappaquiddick -- Granny Steel -- Vanishing hitch-hiker and the cabbie -- Unseen helpers --

Powers that be : secular tales -- Contempt for his torturers -- Nobelman and the minister -- Song of the coffee pot -- Railway chefs -- Suit the sparrow won -- Twist-mouth family -- Midwest -- Introduction -- Origins -- Flood -- Origin of vegetation -- Wisa` kä -- Wabasiy -- Legendary origin of the Kickapoos -- Origin of the Sauks and Foxes -- Muskrat's tail -- How the wildcat got its spots -- Why the deer has a short tail -- Heroes, heroines, tricksters, and fools -- Bear maiden -- Chief's daughters -- Aiini -- How the big turtle went on the warpath -- Boxer Davey Day -- Battle with the Comanches -- Cab driver con man -- Orphan and the turkeys -- Fox and Wolf -- Manabozho gets scared and takes a journey -- Turtle trying to get credit -- "It was so cold that ..." -- Noggin and the applejack -- Nebraska weather -- Dividing the chicken -- Powers that be : sacred tales -- Traveler -- Providence Hole -- Rescue by lightning -- Rolling skull -- Powers that be : secular tales -- A pioneer crossing the Midwest -- General John H. Morgan's raid through southern Indiana -- General John H. Morgan's raid through southern Indiana 2 : Ripley Country --

Mid-Atlantic -- Introduction -- Origins - Jack-O'-My-Lantern -- How the jays saved their souls -- Trouble (Rabbit loses his tail) -- Why frog lives in the water -- How the Moors came to be in Delaware -- Grandfather's escape to free haven -- Heroes, heroines, tricksters, and fools -- Jack and the bean-pole -- Magic flight -- Tablecloth, donkey, and club -- Above ground and below ground -- British are coming -- Does a cow have pigs? -- Playing dead twice in the road -- Playing Godfather -- Possum and Weasel have a falling out -- How Mr. Hare proved that Mr. Fox was his riding horse -- Dog and dog-head -- Getting rid of the overseer -- Rabbit, Fox, and the Tarbaby -- Take my place -- Rabbit escapes from the pea patch -- In the bee tree -- Brer rabbit dines on brer wolf -- In liquor -- Rabbit seeks meat -- Lion brooks no rival -- Watcher tricked -- Voice above -- Three ends -- Three more fools -- Chair on his head -- Moon cheese : two Irishmen at the well -- Where's Mr. McGinnis? -- Race -- Dividing the souls -- First out -- Single ball --

Powers that be : sacred tales -- Traveling preacher at the haunted house -- Dismembered ghost -- Black dog of the Blue Ridge -- Husband tells of treasure -- Thief at the haunted house -- Mr. Peacock and the deadly ghost -- Cures of a Maryland witch -- Curing a bewitched cow -- Binding a dog -- Out of her skin -- Out of their skins -- Snake-wife -- Doe with a ring -- Woman cat -- Brothers who married witches -- Trapping a hag -- Keeping off witches -- Mark Flaherty -- Vengeance on a witch rider -- Captive witch wife -- Witch's apprentice -- Death by conjuring -- Six witches -- Battling witches -- Mate to the Devil -- Soul or sole -- Powers that be : secular tales -- Judgment day -- Going to heaven -- Lord and Langton -- To torment already -- Rank -- Appendix : Original versions -- Northeast -- Little girl, Mama Glau, and humming-bird -- Birds take back their feathers ; the insult midstream ; playing dead -- Di Granni Shdil -- Der Tsh*ek Shtraus -- Suit the sparrow won -- Mid-Atlantic -- Jack'O'-M-Lantern -- How Mr. Hare proved that Mr. Fox was his riding horse -- Does a cow have pigs? -- Mr. Peacock and the deadly ghost -- Glossary -- Bibliography to Volume 1 -- General bibliography -- Cumulative index --

South, the Caribbean -- Introduction -- South -- Origins -- Kanati and Selu : the origin of corn and game -- Origin of corn -- Man who invented fire -- Origin of the Alabama Indians -- When Mr. Pine Tree and Mr. Oak Tree fall out -- Why the people tote brer rabbit foot in their pocket -- Origin of the bear : the bear songs -- How come brer bear sleep in the winter -- How come Mr. Buzzard to have a bald head -- Rattlesnake's vengeance -- How come pigs can see the wind -- Why Mr. Owl can't sing -- When brer rabbit saw brer dog's mouth so brer dog can whistle -- Ol' rabbit an' de dawg he stole -- Allen Chesser's initiation : the bear fight -- Heroes, heroines, tricksters, and fools -- Wine, the farm, the princess, and the tarbaby -- Tarbaby -- Rabbit and the Frenchman -- Mr. Deer's my riding horse -- Rabbit rides wolf -- On horseback -- Incriminating the other fellow -- Playing Godfather -- How brer rabbit practice medicine -- When brer wolf have his corn shucking -- Sack of peas and the mule -- Irishman and the pumpkin -- Sea tick and the Irishman -- Shooting grasshoppers -- Fox and the wolf -- When brer rabbit was presidin' elder -- Jack the giant killer --

How brer fox dream he eat brer 'possum -- Brer rabbit's cool air swing -- Lion and the unicorn -- When brer 'possum attend Miss Fox's house-party -- Tasks of rabbit -- When brer rabbit help brer terrapin -- Rabbit kills big man-eater -- Rabbit and big man-eater -- How the deer obtained his horns -- Rabbit fools alligator -- Rabbit gets a turkey for wildcat -- When brer frog give a big dining - Bouqui and Lapin : the smokehouse -- Jean Sot feeds cows needles -- Jean Sot kills the duck -- Jean Sot and the cowhide -- Lazy Jack and his calf skin -- Ti Jean cannot tell a lie -- Boudreaux and the cottonmouth -- Cajun cockfight -- 'Coon in the box -- Buck fight -- A sight of alligators -- Lies too far apart -- Arkansas shakes -- Voices in the frying pan -- Bent gun -- Marvelous potato -- King and old George Buchanan -- Jack and the beanstalk -- Old Bluebeard -- Hardy hardback -- How brer rabbit bring dust out of the rock -- Rabbit steals fire -- Whiteberry Whittington -- Old Foster --

Powers that be : sacred tales -- Why the spider never got in the ark -- Spanish moss -- Hellhound comes for a drunkard -- Sol Lockheart's call -- Where did Adam hide? -- Possessed of two spirits -- Miller's witch wife -- Phoebe Ward, witch -- A bewitched churning -- Raven mocker -- Witch and the boiler -- A bewitched gun -- Bell witch -- Avenging ghosts -- Rich ghost -- Return of the ghost wife -- Riders pursued by ghosts -- Mysterious deer -- Bride of the evil one -- Chosen suitor : the forbidden room -- Haunted house -- Race with a ghost -- Ghost of Alex -- Spirit defenders of Nïkwäsi' -- Powers that be : secular tales -- Jim Johns and the tiger -- When Mr. Terrapin went riding on the clouds -- Are you man? -- Grease girl -- All dressed up and no place to go -- Talking eggs -- Your horse stays outside --

Caribbean -- Origins -- Adam and Eve -- Brother rabbit an' brother tar-baby -- Nancy and the honey tree -- Brother elephant and brother whale -- Why rabbit has a short tail -- Playing mourner -- Cock's breakfast -- Origin of woman -- Heroes, heroines, tricksters, and fools -- Brave tailor -- Nancy fools his wife -- Annancy and the yam hills -- Seeking trouble -- Brother rabbit, brother booky, and brother cow -- Sperrit house -- Bale of cotton or bag of salt -- Mr. Hard Time -- John the Fool and John the Smart -- Anansi and the lady in the well -- Magic flight -- Three sons -- Powers that be : sacred tales -- Chosen suitor -- Big worm -- Night beauty -- Under the green old oak tree -- Old woman and her child -- Rescued from the lups garous by Loa Saint James -- A zange disguises as a snake -- A loup garou disguises as a beggar --

Powers that be : secular tales -- Solomon cycle -- De story of de man and six poached eggs -- Education for a carpenter's son -- Dayday Agastin -- R girl and the fish -- Appendix : Original versions -- South -- Ol' rabbit an' de dawg he stole -- Allen Chesser's initiation : the bear fight -- Mr. Deer's my riding horse -- Incriminating the other fellow -- Where did Adam hide? -- Chosen suitor : the forbidden room -- La graisse [the grease girl] -- Caribbean -- B'Helephant and B'V'wale (Brother elephant and brother whale) -- Origin of woman -- Seeking trouble -- De big worrum (the big worm) -- Girl and the fish -- Glossary -- Bibliography to Volume 2 -- General bibliography -- Cumulative index --

Southwest, the Plains and Plateau, the West -- Southwest -- Introduction -- Origins -- Origin of Acoma -- Origin of the Apaches -- Origin of the animals -- Origin of fire -- How sheep and horses and burros came to the Zuni -- Noqoìlpi, the gambler : a Navajo myth -- Antelope boy -- Heroes, heroines, tricksters, and fools -- Hero twins -- How the twins of war and chance fared with the unborn-made men of the underworld -- How the twins killed the giant elk -- How Tiyo punished Man-Eagle -- Elfego Baca -- Booger Red -- Turkey herd -- History of a buffalo hunter -- Victorio's raid -- Range life in Texas -- Adams diggings -- Them petrified buzzards -- meteor hell! Cicero done it -- Coyote and the woodpecker -- Some of coyote's adventures -- Tales of fox -- Powers that be : sacred tales -- Witch flights -- Witches discovered -- Curanderas and Brujas 1 -- Curanderas and Brujas 2 -- Ghost penitente --

Plains and Plateau -- Introduction -- Origins -- Origin of the universe -- Arikara creation -- Coyote's theft of fire -- Cannibal and his wives -- How the whites became rich -- Crossing the plains from Kentucky -- Heroes, heroines, tricksters, and fools -- Young men who killed the horned serpent and released the buffalo -- Stone boy -- Story of No-Tongue -- Further adventures of No-Tongue -- Long tail and Spotted Body rescue their nephews who become the twin monster killers -- Bill Foscett -- Matthew "Bones" Hooks, cowboy -- Coyote and the buffalo -- Eye-juggler -- Joke on Jake -- He-man from the West -- Powers that be : sacred tales -- Three nephites -- Legend of the Teton Sioux medicine pipe -- Woman with a bear lover -- Magical flight -- Ghost wife -- Two faces -- West -- Introduction -- Origins -- Silver Fox creates the world and humans -- Creation of man -- Making of the world -- Creation of the Indians --

A giant's rock-throwing -- How Milu became the king of ghosts -- Theft of fire -- How the Saboba people came to California -- Legend of the breadfruit tree -- Heroes, heroines, tricksters, and fools -- Bride from the underworld -- Adventures of Haininuy and Baumegwesu -- Kampuaa legends : legends of the Hog God -- Centipede -- Theft of pine nuts -- Prairie falcon's contest with meadowlark -- Coyote and the grizzly bears -- How the coyote married his daughter -- Coyote and wolf -- Coyote and the sun -- Hell, Bob and me planted 'em -- Powers that be : sacred tales -- Pele's long sleep -- Meeting with Wovoka -- Man who brought water to Atami -- Coyote and his sister robin -- Walking skeleton -- Glossary -- Bibliography to Volume 3 -- General bibliography -- Cumulative index --

Northwest -- Introduction -- Origins -- Giver creates the world -- Arrow young men : creation of the world -- Fable of the animals -- Origin of fire -- Theft of fire -- Coyote arranges the seasons of the year -- coyote frees the salmon -- Origin of the seasons and of the mountains -- Origin of death -- Xudele -- Origin of the Adlet and the whitemen -- Origin of the Narwhal -- Woman who married a dog -- Recovering the sun -- Brother and sister -- Sad woman -- First ship seen by the Clatsop -- How the Lee family came to Oregon -- Blue Bucket mine -- Heroes, heroines, tricksters, and fools -- Children of the dog -- Qauaxsaqssuaq -- Giant women -- Girls who married stars -- Hunting exploits of the God K'mukamtch -- Five grizzly bears -- Girl who married her brother -- Coyote and the old woman -- Death of the grizzly bears -- Coyote and raccoon -- Coyote's amourous adventures -- Coyote and pitch -- Coyote and beaver -- Great snowfall -- Fight between the coyote people and the bat people -- Coyote and the stump-man -- Killing of the Dutchman --

Thunder and his son-in-law -- When raven wanted to marry snowbird and fly with the geese -- Blue jay and his sister -- Robin and blue jay -- Beaver and the woodrat -- Story of skunk -- Big Fred -- Gold brick -- Powers that be : sacred tales -- Coyote creates taboos -- Doom of the Katt-a-quins -- Marmot woman -- Visit to the sky -- Legend of Sattik -- Amhuluk, the monster of the mountain pool -- Bewitched wives -- Qautipalung -- Man and woman who became sea-otters -- Brother and sister who became hair-seals -- Powers that be : secular tales -- Woman who was fond of intestines -- Maddest man in town -- Appendix -- Cyberspace -- Origins -- Kentucky Fried Chicken becomes KFC -- John Kerry's medals -- REd Bull -- Chronic dehydration -- Spielberg's crusade (parody?) -- Life without black people -- Why we love children-- Heroes, heroines, tricksters, and fools -- Mr. Jones's advice -- An act of kindness -- Navy Seal and the atheist -- T-bone steak -- Grandmother's revenge -- A patriot's answer to an Iraqi -- Teamster boycott --

Wal-Mart boycott -- Home depot boycott -- How many Aggie foremen does it take -- Priceless -- Jane Fonda nomination -- Bush refuses to sell home to blacks -- Attacker in the backseat -- Body part initiation -- Mall abduction ploys -- Poison perfume -- Restroom kidnapping -- Handshake assault -- Date rape drug -- Chloroformed roommate -- HIV needles -- Poison payphone -- Car jacking scheme -- World Trade Center survivor's son joins the terrorists -- Katrina worker report -- 809 scam-- 90# scam -- Slavemaster -- Anger management -- Gullibility virus -- Mother of all urban legends -- Organ theft parody -- Finally putting to rest e-mail myths -- George and Saddam -- Death of William Hung -- White substance delays Aggie football practice -- Tales from Northern Michigan -- Redneck vasectomy -- Toilet paper miracle -- Wanted for attempted murder -- Free Honda -- Rich adolescent's chain letter -- Powers that be : sacred tales -- Christians charged for reading Bible in prison -- Procter and Gamble and Liz Clairborne confess to Church of Satan on Sally "Touched by an Angel" cancellation -- Dalai Lama's instructions for life -- Life lessons -- Hotline to heaven -- Wailing wall --

Powers that be : secular tales -- Black vote cancelled -- Elevator intimidation -- president Bush's IQ -- Ticket rip-off -- Little alligator's problem -- Go to school -- Gasoline company boycott -- E-mail charge -- Neiman Marcus cookies -- Deadly ball pits -- Money talks -- Terrorist Halloween attacks on malls -- Poisoned Coca-Cola -- Boycott Dunkin' Donuts -- 7-Eleven terrorism -- Citibank boycott -- American women vs. the Taliban -- Guantanamo Bay detainees -- Alligators in the toilet -- Katrina blunders -- Debit card abuse by Katrina victims -- Glossary -- Bibliography to Volume 4 -- General bibliography -- Cumulative index.