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Tales

Prose fiction that can be either rooted in oral tradition or created by an author

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    The ocean of story : being C.H.Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Kātha sarit sāgara (or Ocean of streams of story). Now ed. with intro., fresh explanatory notes and terminal essay / by N.M. Penzer.

    Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, active 11th century. | Date: 1924-1928
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    The book of spells, hexes, and curses : true tales from around the world / Stuart Gordon.

    Gordon, Stuart, 1947-2009. | Date: 1995
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    Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat.

    Kincaid, C. A. (Charles Augustus), 1870-1954. | Date: 1925
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    From a vanished German colony : a collection of folklore, folk tales and proverbs from South-West-Africa / with an introduction by Odette St. Lys.

    | Date: [1916?]
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    West Irish folk-tales and romances / collected and translated by William Larminie.

    Larminie, William, -1900. | Date: 1898

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