CONTENTS // Isis and Osiris 7 // EGYPTIAN // Pyramus and Thisbe 13 * // BABYLONIAN // The Judgement of Paris 19 // GREEK // The Seven Pomegranate Seeds 32 // GREEK {Demeter and Persephone) // The Spinning Contest 40 // GREEK {Arachne and Athena) // The Story of the Pan-Rpes 48 // GREEK // Glaucus and Scylla 53 // GREEK {Circe) // The Achilles Heel 61 // GREEK // The Mares of Diomedes 7 2 // GREEK {Hercules) // Pandora’s Box GREEK // 80 // The Grorgon’s Head GREEK (Perseus) 88 // Orpheus in the Underworld GREEK 98 // The Riddle of the Sphinx GREEK (Oedipus) 108 // Procrustes and his Magic Bed GREEK 112 // The Eye of the Cyclops GREEK (Odysseus) 115 // Narcissus GREEK 122« // The Minotaur GREEK (Theseus) 127 // The Hounds of Actaeon GREEK 140 // Romulus and Remus ROMAN 148 // The Dragon and Saint George ENGLISH 153 // The Grendel ANGLO-SAXON (Beowulf) 159 // The Ugly Wife CELTIC (King Arthur) 165 // Nidud the Cruel NORSE (Volund the Blacksmith) 174 // The Death of Nomagest NORSE 181 // The Stolen Hammer of Thor NORSE 187 // The Wishes of Sa vitri INDIAN 195 // The Great Bell of Peking CHINESE 201 // The Monkey Who Would be King CHINESE 207 // The First Eclipse JAPANESE 211 // The Fabulous Spotted Egg CHEYENNE INDIAN 217 // Geriguiaguiatugo BORORO INDIAN 221 // The Ten Fingers of Sedna ESKIMO 227 // Given to the Sun INCA 232 // Catching the Sun POLYNESIAN 236 // Death and the Boy WEST AFRICAN 241 // Index 248