101 Middle Eastern tales and their impact on Western oral tradition

1. The Fox Rids Itself of Fleas (ATU 63)

2. Belling the Cat (ATU 110)

3. The Bird Promises to Give Its Captor Three Pieces of Advice (ATU 150)

4. The Faithful Animal Rashly Killed (ATU 178A)

5. The Cat and the Candle (ATU 217)

6. The Princess and Her Secret Affair (ATU 306)

7. The Unfaithful Wife Transforms Her Husband into a Dog (ATU 449)

8. The Two Hunchbacks (ATU 503)

9. The Unpromising Rascal Makes His Fortune with the Help of a Magic Object (ATU 561)

10. The Mechanical Flying Gadget (ATU 575)

11. The Husband Buried Alive Together with His Deceased Wife (ATU 612)

12. The Contending Lovers Are Challenged to Acquire the Rarest Thing in the World (ATU 653A)

13. The Sensitive Brothers and Their Clever Deductions (ATU 655)

14. Years of Experience in a Moment: The Man is Transformed into a Woman (and Back Again) (ATU 681)

15. The Chaste Woman Coveted by Her Brother-in-Law (ATU 712)

16. The Three Old Men (ATU 726)

17. The Foolish Couple Waste the Three Wishes They Have Been Granted (ATU 750A)

18. The Subaltern Does Not Want to Sell the House to the Ruler (ATU 759E)

19. The Treasure Finders Murder One Another (ATU 763)

20. Greed Makes the Cheater Admit His Misdemeanor (ATU 785)

21. God Willing! (ATU 830C)

22. The Greedy Man Is Blinded and Falls into Misery (ATU 836F*)

23. Drinking Leads to Committing Serious Crimes (ATU 839)

24. The Princess Whose Suitors Will Be Executed if They Fail to Solve Her Riddles (AT 851A)

25. The Entrapped Would-Be Seducers Have to Work to Earn Their Food (ATU 882A*)

26. The Prince Learns a Profession (ATU 888A*)

27. A Pound of Flesh as Security for a Loan (ATU 890)

28. The Lowly Man Shrewdly Responds to the King's Unanswerable Questions (ATU 922)

29. The Treacherous Treasure Hunter (ATU 936*)

30. The Robbers Hiding Their Treasures in a Magic Cavern (ATU 954)

31. Whose Was the Noblest Action? (ATU 976)

32. The Villager in the Town of Rogues (ATU 978)

33. The Dishes of the Same Flavor (ATU 983)

34. The Fool Guards the Door by Taking It Along (ATU 1009)

35. The Fools Try to Keep the Bird from Escaping (ATU 1213)

36. Trying to Please Everyone (ATU 1215)

37. The Fool Doubles the Load by Counterbalancing the Wheat with Stones (AT 1242B)

38. Making a Hole in the Ground to Deposit the Soil from the Previous Digging (ATU 1255)

39. Warming Oneself on a Distant Fire (ATU 1262)

40. The Fool Forgets to Count the Donkey He Is Sitting on(ATUi288A)

41. The Scholar and the Ferryman (El-Shamy 1293C*)

42. Freeing the Part of the Body Stuck in the Jar by Cutting It OfT (ATU 1294)

43. The Fox Fears It Might Be Taken for a Camel (El-Shamy 1319N*)

44. Accidental Cannibalism (ATU 1339G)

45. The Thieves Find Nothing to Steal in the Poor Man's House (ATU 1341C)

46. The House without Food or Drink (ATU 1346)

47. The Liar Sows Discord between a Married Couple (ATU 1353)

48. The Frightened Person Withdraws the Vow to Die Instead of a Close Relative (ATU 1354)

49. The Weighed Cat (ATU 1373)

50. Test of Self-Composure: Small Animal Escapes When Lid of Vessel Is Lifted (ATU 1416)

51. The Tricky Lover Regains the Gift He Gave for Intercourse (ATU1420G)

52. The Enchanted Tree (ATU 1423)

53. The Men Realize That They Will Never Manage to Control Women's Sexuality (ATU 1426)

54. Ignorance Concerning the Use of Flour (ATU 1446)

55. The Burglar's Lame Excuse: The Sound Will Be Heard Tomorrow Morning (Jason 1525*T)

56. The Swindler Leaves an Uninformed Person as Security for His Purchase (ATU 1526)

57. The Thief Claims to Have Been Transformed into a Donkey (ATU 1529)

58. The Subaltern Is Made Lord for a Day (ATU 1531)

59. The Clever Man Privileges Himself When Carving the Roast Chicken (ATU 1533)

60. Quoting the Scripture to Gain an Advantage at the Meal (ATU1533A)

61. Hanging by Proxy (ATU 1534A*)

62. The Accused Wins the Lawsuit by Feigning to Be Dumb (ATU1534D*)

63. The Exigent Dreamer (ATU 1543A)

64. Promising to Sell the Large Farm Animal for a Trifle Amount (ATU 1553)

65. The Rogue Trades Water for Wine (ATU 1555B)

66. Welcome to the Clothes (ATU 1558)

67. "Think Thrice before You Speak!" (ATU 1562)

68. The Sham Threat (ATU 1563*)

69. The Trickster Relieves His Itching with a Trick (ATU 1565)

70. The Prankster's Ambiguous Dream (ATU 1572M*)

71. The Thievish Tailor's Terrifying Dream of the Patchwork Banner (ATU 1574)

72. The Drink Served in the Pisspot (ATU 1578A*)

73. The Adviser Is Duped with His Own Advice (ATU 1585)

74. The Inanimate Object Allegedly Gives Birth and Dies (ATU1592B)

75. The Courtiers Force the Bearer of a Present to Share His Anticipated Award (ATU 1610)

76. The Greedy Banker Is Deceived into Delivering the Disputed Deposit (ATU 1617)

77. The Pauper Regains His Buried Money (ATU 1617*)

78. The Imaginary Tissue (ATU 1620)

79. The Lowly Man Posing as Soothsayer (ATU 1641)

80. The Miracle Cure (ATU 1641B)

81. Who Stole? The Thieves! (ATU 1641B*)

82. The Dream of Finding One's Fortune Somewhere Else (ATU 1645)

83. The Dreamer Marks the Treasure with His Excrements (ATU1645B)

84. The Clever Man Privileges Himself When Distributing Food Items among Several Persons (ATU 1663)

85. Anticipatory Beating (ATU 1674*)

86. The Animal Will Not Know How to Make Proper Use of the Meat (ATU 1689B)

87. The Clever Woman Has the Entrapped Would-Be Lovers Publicly Humiliated (ATU 1730)

88. The Clever Culprit Pretends That His Sword Has Been Transformed to Wood (ATU 1736A)

89. The Preacher Cleverly Avoids Delivering a Sermon (ATU 1826)

90. The Numskull Thinks That a Name Ages (ATU 1832N*)

91. How the Preacher's Sermon Makes a Member of His Parish Cry (ATU 1834)

92. The Simpleton Is Not Able to Perform a Seemingly Easy Mental Task (ATU 1835D*)

93. The Illiterate Fool's Reckoning of Time Is Ruined (ATU 1848A)

94. The Rider Goes Where His Bolting Mount Takes Him (ATU 1849*)

95. The Greater Bribe Wins (ATU 1861A)

96. Diagnosis by Observation (ATU 1862C)

97. The Liar Reduces the Size of His Lie (ATU 1920D)

98. The Trickster Forces His Challenger to Admit That He Is Telling a Lie (ATU 1920F)

99. A Nonsense Introduction to the Fairy-Tale World (ATU 1965)

100. Mouse-Maid Marries Mouse (ATU 2031C)

101. The Climax of Horrors (ATU 2040).