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The Passion and the Magic: Distinctions of Arabic Folktales Article by Fatme Sharafeddine Hassan on some characteristic elements of Arabic folktales. http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/000/070/079/al-jadid/aljadid-magic.html The Brother's Mean Wife A folktale from Qatar. http://www.qatar.net.qa/gulfsoft/folktale.htm Palestinian Folklore Songs, proverbs and two stories (Ataba & Zarief E-ttool, and The Hunter). http://www.barghouti.com/folklore/ Zohra and the Gazelles A Moroccan folktale retold by Mary Morton Cowan. http://www.cobblestonepub.com/pages/FAFACEZohra.html The Bald Boy Kelo?lan and the Most Beautiful Girl in the World Exploration by H. Paksoy of Kelo?lan, an archetype from Turkish folktales, illustrated with stories. http://www.ku.edu/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-8/The_Bald_Boy_Keloglan_and_the_Most_Beautiful_Girl_in_the_World.pdf Armenian Fairy Tales Three folktales taken from "100 Armenian Tales", by Susie Hoogasian-Villa. http://www.armenianheritage.com/lafairy.htm Timor A Chechen tale. http://www.fables.org/winter02/timor.html The Art of the Turkish Tale Eighty tales collected by Barbara K. Walker, with an introduction to Turkish oral narratives. http://www.mfa.gov.tr/grupc/cj/cja/Contents.htm Children's Folklore: Jirtdan One of the most popular and beloved fairy tales in Azerbaijan, with an introduction. http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/43_folder/43_articles/43_children.html Traditional Folk Tales for Children Turkish tales collected and edited by Ahmet Edip Uysal. http://www.mfa.gov.tr/grupc/cj/cja/ft.htm Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative Collection of Turkish folktales in English, as well as epic and other texts in several Turkic languages (PDF format). http://aton.ttu.edu/ Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales Collection of tales gathered and annotated by Ibrahim Muhawi (Darwish) and Sharif Kanaana; e-text from the University of California Press. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4s2005r4/ Turkish Games for Health and Recreation Scanned pages from the book by Barbara K. Walker and Warren S. Walker; e-text of ATON. http://aton.ttu.edu/turkish_games/index.htm Suite101.com: Arabian Folktales and Storytelling Sketch of Arabic story telling, particularly in Palestinian society, and three folktales from the book "Arab Folktales" by Inea Bushnaq. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/arab_culture_and_identity/26784 Mandaean Oral Traditions and Folkore Legends and myths of the Mandeans, a religious community in Iraq and Iran. http://www.geocities.com/mandaeanworld1/oral.html Arab Folk Tales Three folk tales from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Algeria. http://hem.passagen.se/moos4848/arabfolk.htm

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