Folk Heroes and Heroines Around the World
Seal, Graham / Kennedy White, Kim
This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar.Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines-real and imagined-that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time an...