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Russian Folktales / Afanasyev

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AT numbers assigned to stories can come from the author of the collection or from Ashlimann's
 A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.

Anything not assigned an AT number has NA, for "not available" or "not assigned." 

Title AT
Armless Maiden 706
Arrant Fool 1696
Baba Yaga 480
Baba Yaga 313H*
Baba Yaga and the Brave Youth 1121
Bad Wife 1164
Bad Wife 1365J*
Baldak Borisievich 946A*
Barter 1415
Bear 161A*
Bear and the cock 130A
Beasts in a Pit 20a
Bladder, the straw, and the shoe 295
Bukhtan Bukhtanovich 545B
Burenushka, the little red cow 511
Cheater-cheated 910B, 1525H
Clever Answers 921F*
Cock and the hand mill 328, 561
Crane and the heron 244A*
Cross is Pledged as Security 849*
Crystal Mountain 302
Dawn,evening, and midnight 301
Daydreamer 1430
Dead Body 1536
Death of a Miser 760A*
Devil who was potter 779, 820
Dividing the Goose 1533
Dog and the Woodpecker 248
Duck with golden eggs 567A
Elena the Wise 306
Enchanted Princess 401A
Father Nicholas and the Thief 848*
Feather of finist, the Bright Falcon 425
Fiddler in hell 471A*
Firebird and Princess Vasilisa 531
Foma Berennikov 1640
Foolish German 1321C
Foolish Wolf 122A
Foolish Wolf 122M*
Footless Champion and the Handless Champion 519
Fox and the Crane 60
Fox and the Lobster 275
Fox and the Woodcock 62*
Fox and The Woodpecker 56a
Fox as mourner 154
Fox Confessor 61A
Fox Confessor 61A
Fox Physician 804A
Frog Princess 402
Go I know not wither 465A, 569
Golden Slipper 510A
Goldfish 555
How a Husband Weened His Wife from Fairy Tales 1376A*
If you don't like it, don't listen 1920H
Ilya Muromets and the Dragon 300
Ivan the Cow's Son 303
Ivan the Peasant's Son and the Thumb-sized Man 300A
Ivan the Peasant's Son and the Thumb-sized Man 301b

 

Ivan the Simpleton 1640
Ivanko the Bear's Son 1006*, 1009, 1072, 1082, 1174
Ivanushko the Little Fool 1291C, 1349*, 1535
Just Reward 1610
Koshchey the Deathless 302, 516
Lazy Maiden 366
Lutoniunshka 1263, 1286, 1430A
Magic shirt 475
Magic swan geese 451
Maiden Tsar 400
Man who did not know fear 326
Marco the rich and Vasily the luckless 461
Maria Morevna 552
Mayoress 1378B*
Merchant's daughter and the maidservant 403
Milk of wild beasts 314A*, 519
Miraculous Pipe 780
Miser 1654
Nikita the Tanner 300
Nodey, the Priest's Grandson 650A
Old favors are soon forgotten 155
Peasant, the bear, and the fox 154, 1030
Pike with Long Teeth 1960B
Poor Wretch 779
Potter 921E*
Priest's Laborer 1562B*
Prince Danila Govorila 313E*
Prince Ivan and Byely Polyanin 301
Prince Ivan and Princess Martha 502
Prince Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf 550
Princess Who Wanted to Solve Riddles 851
Quarrelsome Demyan 1572D*
Ram who lost half his skin 130A
Ram. the cat, the twelve wolves 125
Riddles 921A
Right and wrong 613
Salt 1651A
Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise 313, 513A
Self-Playing Gusla 850
Seven Semyons 513A
Shemiaka the Judge 1534
Singing Tree and Taking Bird 707
Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka 450
Snotty Goat 425A
Snow White and fpx 154
Soldier's Riddle 1525D, 1544*
Sorceress 307
Speedy Messenger 665
Stubborn Wife 1365B
Taming the Shrew 901
The Bear, the Dog,and the Cat 101
The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox 61B
The Miser 1525
The Robbers 956B
Three Pennies 1651
Treasure-trove 831
Two Ivans, Soldiers Sons 303
Two kind of luck 735A
Two out of the sack 564
Vampire 363, 407B
White Duck 403
Wise Maiden and Seven Robbers 954
Wolf 163
Wondrous wonder, marvelous marvel 571B