Introduction -- AFRICA: The creation of the world -- The tale of the ghosts and the flutes -- The story of the bat and sun -- Anansi and the box of stories -- EUROPE: The Selkies -- The fisherman and his wife -- Athena, Arachne, and the dueling looms -- ASIA: Ganesh -- Pangu and Nuwa -- Nyai Loro Kidul, queen of the sea -- OCEANIA: The legend of Māui -- Uluru -- The rainbow serpent -- THE AMERICAS: Coyote steals fire for the people -- The white buffalo calf woman -- The legend of Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl -- The hero twins visit the Underworld -- The Mapinguary -- El Alicanto -- THE ARCTIC: Sedna, the mother of the sea -- Neikija and the Northern Lights.