Brazilian Folktales Book

	Introduction to Brazil and Brazilian storytelling
	The creation of the Amazon River	3
	Star fate of the bororo boys	5
	How the night came to be	7
	The wandering head : how the moon came to be	9
	The story of Mani	11
	The snake eater	13
	The story of the Vitoria Regia, the Amazon water lily	15
	The hawk husband	19
	The story of Guarana	23
	Turtle and Onca, the Jaguar	27
	How Agouti (Cotia) fooled Onca	29
	Jaguar and goat	31
	How turtle tricked Onca	35
	Crab with the flying eyes	37
	Curupira and the hunter	41
	A party in heaven	45
	The cockroach's wedding	47
	The bald chick	49
	Monkey and the corn cake	53
	The Louse-skin chair	59
	The three sisters and the children with golden stars on their brows	65
	Princess Toad	69
	The singing grasses	73
	The golden jars	75
	The old lady in the woods	79
	The princess with the seven pairs of shoes	81
	The fish mother	85
	Pedro Malasartes in the bag	91
	Pedro Malasartes and the doll murderer	93
	Pedro Malasartes herds pigs	95
	Pedro Malasartes sells rabbits	97
	The skull takes revenge	101
	The devil in a bottle	103
	The headless mule	107
	Creature of the night	109
	The old lady and the monkey	111
	The creature of fire	113
	The beetle man	115
	The girl and the Kibungo	119
	The Kibungo and the boy with the sack full of feathers	121
	How the blacksmith fooled death	127
	The good minister and death	131
	Aunt misery's pear tree	133
	Brazilian festivals	137
	Festival recipes	140