Beginning

To start out I decided I would put up a picture of the book cover and type out the title page and contents of the book.  So here 'tis.

TIT FOR TAT

and other Latvian Folk Tales

Retold by Mae Durham

  

from the translation of Skaidrite Rubene-Koo

Notes by Alan Dundes

Illustrated by Harriet Pincus

Harcourt, Brace &World, Inc., New York

Contents

1.    The Bad-Tempered Wife

2.    Mother Luck

3.    One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes

4.    The Poor Brother's Bad Luck

5.    The Devil's Partnership

6.    The Silly Goose War

7.    The Three Cups of Water

8.    The Wolf and the Ram

9.    Tit for Tat

10.  The Princess on the Glass Mountain 

11.  The Giant Beanstalk

12.  The Devil and the Pit

13.  The King on Trial

14.  The Devil's Bride

15.  The Guest from Heaven

16.  Good Luck and Bad Luck

17.  The Angry Baron

18.  The Bird and the Man

19.  The Fox and the Cock

20.  The Insatiable Beggar

21.  Fiddler John and the Devil

22.  Good Advice

23.  Notes

*Note:  I have omitted the page numbers (as they are useless here) and given each story/section a number. 

As to copyright: all rights belong to Mae J. Durham.  However, the book is out of print.  I have looked into copyrights and who owns it.  I am in the process of contacting the publisher who now holds the work.  If I find I am in violation of copyright in any way, I will remove all stories from this blog.