Little Johnny Buttermilk must escape from the witch who keeps trying to steal his pails of milk, until finally he outwits her once and for all.

A teeny tiny woman finds a teeny tiny bone in a churchyard and puts it away in her cupboard before she goes to sleep, only to be awakened by a teeny tiny voice demanding the return of the bone.

Retells the classic tale about a traveller, a ghost, who tricks a town's witches, ghouls, and zombies into helping him make soup.

A retelling of a traditional Italian tale in which a kindly Genoese merchant, richly rewarded for solving an irritating problem for the king of the Spice Islands, causes a greedy rival to try and gain a fortune in the same way.

The laziest man in all of Ireland catches a leprechaun, who offers a potato seed instead of a pot of gold for his freedom.

Provides information about the Blackfoot tribe of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and features thirty traditional Blackfoot folk tales.

In this Southwestern version of the Gingerbread Man, a tortilla runs away from the woman who is about to cook him.

Did you know that many flowers and plants have secret meanings? This book contains over 1,000 flowers and plants listed alphabetically with their associated meanings. And it is cross-referenced so that the reader may look up over 2.000 meanings alphabetically and find the flowers (and plants) related to those meanings. I will help you select appropriate flowers for many occasions, such as birthdays, graduations, funerals and starting a new business....

A retelling of a folktale about how a pair of magical slippers always find their way back to the tiger whose mother made them for him.

Relates the consequences of a stonecutter's foolish longing for power.--Provided by Publisher.