The Guizer : a book of fools / [compiled by] Alan Garner.
A collection of stories about fools drawn from American Indian, African, Irish, Gypsy, Sumatran, Flemish, and British sources.
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New York :
Greenwillow Books,
[1976] c1975.
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Table of Contents:
- 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)