Drower’s Folk-Tales of Iraq / / Jorunn Buckley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Buckley, Jorunn,
• MitwirkendeR: Wilson, A. T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (541 p.)

A collection of folktales from Iraq, dating from the 1930s, found in the archives of the famous English Lady E. S. Drower (1879–1972), who was novelist, folklorist, specialist on the Mandaeans, and writer of travel accounts. New tales edited by Jorunn Buckley form a second volume of Drower’s Folktales. The stories—carrying recognizable Near Eastern folk-tale features—feature monsters and heroes, maidens and fairies and they give a vivid picture of a now extinct oral folktale tradition. This Gorgias Press edition includes previously unpublished tales in addition to those of the 1931 edition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Preface -- Contents -- List Of Plates -- Note On Transliteration -- I. The Crazy Woman -- II. The Goat and the Old Woman -- III. Three Little Mice -- IV. The Sparrow and his Wife -- V. Dungara Khsheybān -- VI. The Crystal Ship -- VII. The Old Couple and their Goat -- VIII. Shamshūm al Jabbār -- IX. Husain an Nim-Nim -- X. The Blackbeetle who Wished to get Married -- XI. The Thorn-seller -- XII. The Blind Sultan -- XIII. Jarāda -- XIV. The Stork and the Jackal -- XV. 'It is not the Lion's Fur Coat!' -- XVI. Two stories of Abu Nowās -- XVII. A story of the Khalīfa Hārūn ar Rashīd -- XVIII. Another story of the Khalīfa -- XIX. The Tricks of Jānn -- XX. It was Enough to bewilder the Lion -- XXI. Two Nursery Rhymes -- XXII. The Bitter Orange -- XXIII. Tale told by a Shammar Tribesman -- XXIV. Shammar Stories. I -- XXV. Shammar Stories. II -- XXVI. Shammar Stories. III -- XXVII. Hājir -- XXVIII. The Woman of the Well -- XXIX. Hasan the Thief -- XXX. Moses and the Two Men -- XXXI. Al Gumeyra (Little Moon) -- XXXII. The Three Dervishes and the Wonderful Lamp -- XXXIII. The King and the Three Maidens, or the Doll of Patience -- XXXIV. The Merchant's Daughter -- XXXV. Wudayya (Little White Shell) -- XXXVI. The Poor Girl and Her Cow -- XXXVII. The Prince and the Daughter of the Thorn-seller -- XXXVIII. Uhdeydān, Uch'eybān, and Unkheylān -- XXXIX. Melek Muhammad and the Ogre -- XL. Er Rūm -- XLI. The Cotton-carder and Kasilūn -- XLII. Bunayya -- XLIII. The Cat -- XLIV. The Fish that Laughed -- XLV. The Honest Man -- XLVI. The Generous Man and the Niggardly Man -- XLVII. The Boy and the Deyus -- XLVIII. The Shepherd and his Brother -- Notes -- Part II -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Story Of The Khalifa And The Three Maidens -- 2. The Valiant Shepherd, Or The Chinese Egg -- 3. The Adventures Of Sultan Mahmud's Youngest Son -- 4. Harun Al-Rashid And The Poor Man's Daughter -- 5. The Arabi Boy -- 6. The Loves Of Ahmad Sultan And Tar Aswar -- 7. The Sardines -- 8. The Coppersmith And The Jinni -- 9. The Story Of The Avaricious Man -- 10. The Story Of The Fisherman And The Sultan -- 11. The Story Of The Jackal Who Turned Hajji (Pilgrim To Mecca) -- 12. Juj And Majuj (Gog And Magog) -- 13. The Story Of Hasan Al-Basri -- 14. The Girl And The Rat -- 15. How The All-Powerful Yielded A Hundredfold -- 16. The Appearance Of The White Cat -- 17. Allah Maku (There Is No God) -- 18. The Faithful Slave -- 19. The Lion And The Jackal -- 20. How Heskel Was Possessed By A Jewish Demon -- 21. Lokman -- 22. The Black Cat -- 23. The Story Of Budur -- Bibliography