Swedish Folktales and Legends Book

	Animal tales	1
	Small birds can kill too!	3
	The rooster wins the race	3
	The fox, the bear, and the honeycomb	4
	How the bear got his stubby tail	5
	The fox and the rowanberries	7
	"They're sour," said the fox	8
	The fox and the crane invite each other to dinner	8
	Why the hare has a cleft lip	9
	If it were summer ...	9
	The wolf and the fox	10
	The wolf who wanted to become stronger	10
	The billy goat and the wolf	11
	Hold the wolf by the tail	12
	Trolls, giants, ghosts, and other beings	13
	To squeeze water from a stone	15
	The girl who wouldn't spin	17
	The boy who worked for the giant	19
	Little Hans	25
	Onen in the mountain	30
	The gullible troll	34
	The clever boy	35
	The Backahast (legend)	36
	The Skogsra at Lapptjarns Mountain (legend)	39
	To catch smoke (legend)	40
	The tale of the troll woman (legend)	42
	The tale of Speke (legend)	43
	The gypsy girl and her dead fiance (legend)	43
	Hobergsgubben (legend)	46
	The trolls and the bear (legend)	47
	The giant's toy (legend)	49
	True dummies and clever folk	53
	The tale of the crooked creature	55
	Wise Klara	56
	The stupid boy who didn't know about women	59
	Counting the stars in heaven	60
	Fools	61
	The princess of Catburg	62
	Pretend to eat, pretend to work	66
	Lazy Masse	67
	Big Tomma and Heikin Pieti	70
	For long springday	73
	The students and the eclipse of the moon	74
	The numbskull who thought he married a man	75
	Talje fools	76
	The thief's three masterpieces	80
	The girl and the calf's eyes (legend)	88
	The king, the headsman, and the twelve robbers (legend)	89
	Twelve men in the forest (legend)	92
	The wise daughter (legend)	93
	Bellman stories (legend)	93
	How to win the princess	97
	Twigmouthius, Cowbellowantus, Perchnosimus	99
	The princess who always had an answer	103
	The boat that sailed on both land and sea	105
	The liar	110
	Ash dummy chops down the oak and becomes the king's son-in-law	112
	The princess with the louse skin	116
	Sheepskin boy	118
	The princess who danced with a troll every night	123
	Stuck on a goose	127
	The king's hares	128
	Prince Greenbeard	132
	Tales of heroes and heroines	143
	The three swords	145
	The peasant girl in the floating rock	156
	Manasse and Cecilia	157
	The princess in the earthen cave	160
	The silver dress, the gold dress, and the diamond dress	168
	The boy in the birch-bark basket	173
	The castle east of the sun and west of the wind in the promised land	176
	Prince Vilius	185
	The three sons who each had a foal, a puppy, and a sword	195
	The twelve kidnapped princesses	197
	The tale of white bear	203
	Little Rose and Big Briar	208
	Metamorphoses	219
	The serpent prince	221
	The widow's son	228
	Gray cape	231
	The animal husbands	234
	Prince faithful	239
	The rats in the juniper bush	248
	Tales of men and women	253
	Like a cold war in warm weather	255
	The quick-learning girl	255
	The girl who gave a knight a kiss out of necessity	257
	The fussy fiance	260
	Par and Bengta	261
	Who's got the dumbest husband	263
	Geska	264
	The stingy farmer	266
	The man and woman who changed jobs	267
	The contrary old woman (legend)	270
	The tale of a suitor (legend)	270
	The hunter and the Skogsra (legend)	271
	The woman in the hole (legend)	273
	The man who married the Mara (legend)	274
	The hidden key (legend)	275
	Moral tales	277
	His just reward	279
	Master Par and Rag Jan's boy	280
	The girl in the robbers' den	291
	Funteliten and his mother	293
	The girl who stepped on the bread	298
	A tale of two beggars	298
	The filthy-rich student	299
	The bad stepmother	303
	The tale of the copper pot	304
	The two chests	305
	Godfather death	309
	The bear and the woman	312
	The boy, the old woman, and the neighbour (legend)	313
	The salt mill (legend)	314
	Old Nick and the widow (legend)	317
	The lazy boy and the industrious girl (legend)	318
	The parson's wife who had no shadow (legend)	319
	The despised rake (legend)	320
	The tale of the sculptor's beautiful wife (legend)	320
	The big turnip (legend)	322
	Parsons, the Good Lord, and the Evil One	325
	"Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more"	327
	The devil and the tailor	327
	Kitta Gray	328
	The pregnant parson	330
	Forging with sand	333
	The parson, the sexton, and the devil	333
	The sermon about nothing	336
	Sven fearless	336
	The tale of the parson and the sexton	339
	The farmer who sold his soul to the devil (legend)	341
	The night-blind parson (legend)	341
	The burning lake (legend)	346
	The bishop's visit (legend)	346
	One more schnapps (legend)	347
	The hare in the treetop (legend)	348
	Exchange heads with the Devil (legend)	348
	Tall tales, superstitions, and jingles	351
	The mountain in the forest	353
	The old lady's cat	354
	The snake cookers	354
	The goat who wouldn't go home	355
	"Eat the bread too!"	356
	The little old woman	357
	The three lying old women	358
	The biggest stable and the biggest pot	358
	The black cow, the pot, and the cheese	358
	Boots for the son in America	359
	That was the end of the tale	360