Introduction / Marina Warner (p.ix)
Strong minds and low cunning. The twelve wild ducks (p.3)
The dog's snout people (p.27)
The old woman against the stream (p.29)
Rolando and Brunhilde (p.34)
black arts and dirty tricks. Pretty maid Ibronka (p.49)
Enchanter and enchantress (p.61)
The telltale lilac bush (p.64)
The witches' piper (p.76)
Vasilissa the fair (p.78)
The midwife and the frog (p.87).
Cont.): Beautiful people. Fair, brown and trembling (p.95)
Diirawic and her incestuous brother (p.104)
The sleeping prince (p.123)
Mothers and daughters. Achol and her wild mother (p.135)
The little old woman with five cows (p.144)
Achol and her adoptive lioness-mother (p.152)
Married women. Story of a bird woman (p.159)
Father and mother both 'fast' (p.162)
Reason to beat your wife (p.163)
The seven leavenings (p.167)
The untrue wife's song (p.173)
The woman who married her son (p.174)
Duang and his wild wife (p.177)
The beans in the quart jar (p.186).
Cont.): Useful stories. A fable of a bird and her chicks (p.191)
Tale of an old woman (p.196)
The height of purple passion (p.198)
Salt, sauce and spice, onion leaves, pepper and drippings (p.199)
Two sisters and the boa (p.202)
Spreading the fingers (p.207)
Notes / Angela Carter and Shahrukh Husain (p.211)
About the editor and illustrator (p.233).
