Indian Statistical Institute Library, Kolkata catalog

Normal view MARC view ISBD view

398.2/2

The Guizer : a book of fools / [compiled by] Alan Garner. - New York : Greenwillow Books, [1976] c1975.
213, [8] p., : ill. ; 24 cm. Content notes : The beginning / told by Sam Blowsnake (Winnebago, Nebraska) -- Chulyen = Crow (Tanaina, Alaska) -- The smart man and the fool (Fjort, Zaire) -- Spider-stories (Akan-Ashanti, Ghana) -- The Astick cuckoo -- Happy Boz'll (Gypsy) -- The cow that ate the piper (Ireland) -- The lad of the skin coverings (Ireland) -- Finn's journey to Lochlan (Ireland) -- The smith's rock in the Isle of Skye (British). Tondi (Batak, Sumatra) -- Leza the besetting one (Ba-ila, Northern Rhodesia) -- Turncoat -- The Astick pool -- Bobby Rag (English Gypsy) -- The big stone -- Sir Halewyn -- The Astick barn -- The clerk of Barthomley -- Robin Good-fellow (English). Under the earth I go (Scottish) -- Maui-of-a-Thousand-Tricks (Pacific Islands) -- Maui and death (Pacific Islands) -- The young man, the lion, and the yellow-flowered zwart-storm tree (Bushmen) -- The red king and the witch (Rumanian Gypsy) -- Foka (Carpathian) -- I'll have the whetstone -- Hare (Winnebago Sioux). 068886001X 9780688860011 * Tales. Tricksters - Juvenile literature. Fools and jesters - Fiction. Folklore. * Garner, Alan, * Title