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Buying the Wind / Dorson

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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
Apple Tree 1423
Art Church Tells a Lie 1920B
Best of Three 1452
Bouki and the Rabbit and the Well 175
Buried Alive 990
Cold Snap of '83 in Thebes 1896
Confession 1804
Counting Noses 1287
Curt Goes Deer Hunting 1889A
Devil Caught 1160
Eileschpijjel's Smoke Pipe 1157
Father and Mother Both "Fast" 1425B*
Fool 1699
Foolish John and the Errands 1291B
Frog and the Princess 440
Girl Who Died of Fright 1676B
Gold in the Chimley 480
Great Need 1384, 1540, 1541
Ignes Was a Burro 851
Irishman Bets with a Bartender 1551
Irishman Saves Himself First 1882
Irishman Shows Pat a Yankee Trick 1349D*
Jack the Giant Killer 1060, 1063B, 1088, 1121
Looking for a Man Boss 1366A*
Looking Glass 1336A
Mean Rich Man 1561
Mouse , Sausage and the Bird 85
New Mexican and the Californians 1567F
No Estiendo 1700
Old Couple's Three Wishes 750A
Old Foster 955
Old Gram Shaw 1700
Old Lady and Poor Eyesight 1456
Old Man Crying 726
Paying for Beer with Peanuts 1555A
Pedro de Ordimalas 330
Quare Jack 1525, 1525R, 1653
Roclore 1525, 1590, 1737
Roving Jew 777
Think Thrice before you Speak 1562
Three Lovers 1361
Too Busy to Lie 1920B
Tricky Yankee 1530
Two Farmers 1699
Two Witches 325
Untrue Wife's Song 1360C
Village Fool 1696
You Haven't Packed the Saddle 901

 

Pissing in the Snow / Randolph stories from the Ozarks

File AT
Ambrose Done All Right NA
Baby Lost Weight NA
Betsey and the Mole Skin NA
Better End 1379*
Billy Fraser Got Stuck NA
Bit by a Spider NA
Brag Heifer NA
Bud Claypool Couldn't Spell NA
Call to Preach NA
Cats Don't Take No Chances NA
Circus Come to Town NA
City Girl and the Cow NA
Clarence Had Hard Luck NA
Cold-Blooded Husband NA
Collins and the Doctor NA
Cora and the Bottle NA
Cut Their Knockers Off! 1359
Don't Call it F*cking NA
Double-Action Sailor NA
Duck-Hunter's Woman NA
Dutch Doctor NA
Fill, Bowl, Fill 570
Fireworks under the Bed NA
First Time for Trudie NA
Folks on Rumpus Ridge NA
Follow Your Leader NA
Girls from Joplin NA
Glory-Pole NA
Good Coon Dog NA
Good Dose of Clap NA
Guns under the Pillow NA
Half-Wit and the Eel NA
Have You Ever Been Diddled? NA
He Called the Wedding Off NA
He Changed Her Tire NA
He Couldn't Stand Nastiness NA
He Didn't Get No Pension NA
He Done It with a Bucket NA
He Done the Right Thing NA
He Had Three Sizes NA
He Lost His Memory NA
Hollyhock Story NA
How God Made the Eastons NA
How Many Peters? NA
It Didn't Cost Him Nothing 1563
It Was a Good Answer NA
It was a Tee-Hee NA
It Was Hell, All Right NA
Jack and His Family NA
Kids Didn't Catch It NA
Lady's Choice NA
Let's Play Whammy! NA
Let's Trade Twitchets NA
Lincoln Took a Drink NA
Little End of Nothing NA
Long Time Back NA
Loss of Jenkin-Horn NA
Man That Had a Baby 1739
Married by the Lord NA
Miller's Prick NA
New Hired Man 1545
New Hired Man 1563
No Use to Rattle the Blind 1419H
Old Age in Arkansas NA
Old Ral Hole NA
Old Tanner NA
Peck of Trouble NA
Pissing in the Snow NA
Preacher and the Lady NA
Prick Teaser 853
Pride of Durgonville NA
Pulling Out Hairs NA
Rabbit Got 'Em Told NA
Rich Man's Daughter 853
Romping Party NA
Rosie Got Even NA
Sailor's Language NA
Seminole Medicine 1920
Senator Banks NA
Senator Johnson's Great Speech NA
She Didn't Like Molasses NA
She Grabbed the Saddle-Horn NA
She Knowed What She Wanted NA
She Named the Town NA
Snake on the Bridge NA
Something on a Stump NA
Speckle-Ass Bull NA
Stuck in a Mud Hole NA
Tacking On Her Maidenhead NA
That Boy Needs Pants NA
They Couldn’t Learn Him Nothing NA
They Got Acquainted NA
Tom Burdick's Pecker NA
Travelers are All Fools NA
Twelve-Dollar Jack NA
Two Preachers 1781
TwoOld Men NA
Wahoo! Wahoo! NA
What Madeline Done NA
Why God Made Stickers NA
Wind Instead of Water NA
Wind on His Guts NA

Green Hills of Magic / Musick -------- tales from West Virginia

Title AT
Ax, the Spade, and the Walnut 577
Bad Boy Who Became a Knight 300
Beggar's Bread 837
Bell of Justice NA
Bet NA
Bewitched Princess 402*
Blind Wolf 834A
Boy Who Made a Trip to Hell 756. 756B
Boy Who Wouldn't Tell His Dream 725
Butcher and the Cutter NA
Christ and the Blacksmith 753
Corpse that Wouldn't Stay Buried NA
Curse of the Vampire NA
Devil, Death, and Simon Greene 330
Don Mike O'Dolan NA
Dough Prince 425
Ears Can Give You Away NA
El Caballo con Alas 813, 817*
El Rabo 201E*
Eleven Brothers and Eleven Sisters 303A, 513
Fatal Shortcut NA
Fate of Frank McKenna NA
Fish Story 1960B
Foolish Young Man NA
Footprints in the Snow NA
Fortuneteller 1641
Friendship of the Wee People NA
General Staats and the Devil 1130
Girl with a Beard NA
Girl with No Hands 706
Godmother 332
Golden Duck 506
Golden Duck 550
Gypsy and the Bear 1049, 1074, 1115
He Walked the Earth 766*
Invited Guest 470
Ivan NA
Javo's Curse NA
John and the Giants 1062, 1063A, 1088, 1115, 1640
King Matt and the Wise Old Farmer 922
King Neptune's Diamonds 1678
King's Son and the Poor Man's Daughter 1533
King's Unhappy Son 844
La Bruja NA
Lady Was a Werewolf NA
Legend of Twardowski 330, 330B, 756, 756B, 804B, 810
Leprechauns NA
Long Wait 910B
Look in Your Own Backyard 899
Lucky and the Giant NA

 

Man Who Sold His Shadow 329A*
Monks and the Donkey 1529
Mosquitoes NA
Old Man Devaule NA
Painted Priests 1730
Pat and the Priest NA
Patience NA
Patrick O'Dea and the English NA
Peggy O'Leary and the Leprecauns NA
Ring 560
Rooster 670
Schemer and the Flute 1539
Secret NA
Seven Bones 365
Seven Devils NA
Smart Mrs. McCool NA
Snow Boy 1362
Spendthrift Son 910D
Story of Hedgy 300, 519, 650A, 650C
Switch, the Tablecloth, and the Harmonica 563
The Dream NA
Three Brothers 530
Three Godfathers 834, 834A
Three Wishes 750A
Two Brothers 300, 303
Visit from the Dead NA
Wedding Gift 1653
Werewolf of Campobello NA
White Bird of Death NA
White Wolf NA

 

Afro-American Folktales / Abrahams

Title AT
Anansi Climbs the Wall NA
Anansi Plays Dead 66B
Animal Talk NA
Assaulting All the Senses NA
Barn is Burning 1562A
Being Greedy Chokes Anansi NA
Between the Fiddler and the Dancer NA
Big-Gut, Big-Head, Stringy-Leg NA
Black Jack and White Jack 303
Boarhog for a Husband NA
Brer Bear's Grapevine NA
Brer Rabbit's Riddle 49
Bringing Men and Women Together NA
Brother Rabbit Takes a Walk 110
Buh Nansi Scares Buh Lion NA
Buying Two Empty Hands NA
Chain of Won'ts 2030
Comic Conversation NA
Competition for Laziness NA
Crawling into the Elephant's Belly 68
Cunning Cockroach NA
Cutta Cord-La 123
Dancing the River 122
Devil's Doing NA
Doing and Undoings of the Dogoshes NA
Don't Shoot Me, Dyer, Don't Shoot Me NA
Endings NA
Escaping, Slowly NA
Fasting for the Hand of the Queen's Daughter NA
Feast on the Mountain and the Feast under the Water NA
Fight over Life NA
Flying Contest NA
Flying Fool NA
Foolish Mother NA
Get Back, Get Back NA
Getting Common Sense NA
Gifts of Dipper and Cowhide NA
Girl Made of Butter NA
Golden Breasts, Diamond Navel, Chain of Gold 850
Goobers Gone, Rabbit Gone NA
Handkering for a Long Tail NA
He Pays for the Provisions NA
Hide Anger until Tomorrow NA
Horned Animal's Party NA
Horses Stay Outside NA
Jack Beats the Devil NA
John Crows Lose Their Hair NA
John Outruns the Lord NA
John Outwits Mr. Berkeley 1535

 

Knee-High Man Tries to Get Sizable NA
Latest Song NA
Licence to Steal 122Z
Lion in the Well 20, 92
Little Bird Grows NA
Little Boy-Bear Nurses the Alligator Children 37
Little Eight John NA
Loggerhead NA
Making a Wagon from a Wheelbarrow NA
Making the Eyes Run NA
Making the Stone Smoke NA
Man Makes and Woman Takes NA
Meeting the King of the World NA
Mr. Bamancoo Gets Dropped NA
Mr. Possum Loves Peace NA
My Mother Killed Me, My Father Ate Me 720
Never Seen His Equal NA
No Chicken Tonight 122
No Justice on Earth 846
Old Bull and the Young One NA
Old Granny Grinny Granny NA
One-Legged Turkey NA
Own Never Sleeps at Night NA
Philanewyork NA
Pig's Long Nose and Greedy Mouth NA
Poor Man and the Snake NA
Poppa Stole the Deacon's Bull NA
Race between Toad and Donkey 275A*
Rooster Goes Away in a Huff NA
Signifying Monkey 59
Singing Bones 780
Sinking of the Titanic NA
Smoking Story NA
Spreading Fingers for Friendship NA
Stackolee NA
Strange Way to Sleep NA
Tadpole Loses His Tail NA
Telltale Pepper Bush 750B
Testing the Good Lord NA
The Trouble with Helping Out 155
They Both had Dead Horses NA
Things That Talked 1705
Three Killed Florrie, Florrie Killed Ten 851, 923
Tiger Becomes a Riding Horse 4, 72
Tricking All the Kings 73, 175
Trouble Coming Down the Road 73, 157
Trying to Get the Goldstone NA
Tug-of-War between Elephant and Whale NA
Turning into Nouna - Nothing NA
Weak in the Day and Strong at Night NA
What Makes Brer Wasp Have a Short Patience NA
Why Hens are Afraid of Owls NA
Why They Name the Stories for Anansi NA
Wind and the Water Fighting NA
Woman Who Was a Bird NA
Word the Devil Made Up NA
You Never Know What Trouble Is until It Finds You NA
You Talk Too Much, Anyhow NA