Tales of the Amber Sea: Fairy Tales of the Peoples of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

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A collection of Baltic folklore from Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.

Estonian tales include: The Mosquito and the Horse / How a Raven Wooed a Tomtit / The Two Horses / The Kind Woodcutter / The King of the Mushrooms / The Magic Mirror / Smudgeface / The Wise Counsellor / The Fleetfooted Princess / The Grateful Prince / The Clever Princess / How a Man Stepped Into His Wife's Shoes / How an Old Man Waited for Death.

Lithuanian tales include: How a Woodpecker Chopped a Spruce-Tree / Rooster Sing-True-Cock-a-doodle-doo / The Hedgehog and His Bride / The Washerwoman and the Count / The Swan Queen / The Fool Who Became King / The Twelve Brothers, Twelve Black Ravens / The Fool Who Pastured a Hundred Rabbits / Spruce, Queen of the Grass Snakes / The Greatest Loafer of Them All / A Lord's Promise / Strakalas and Makalas / The Six Toothless Men and a Squinteyed One.

Latvian tales include: The Brave Rooster / How the Birds and Animals Dug a Bed for the Daugava / The Frog That Came from Riga and the Frog That Came from Liepaja / The Kindhearted Lad and His Four Friends / The Palace of the Cats / The Bear Who Married a Peasant's Daughter / The Three Knots / How Laima Made Three Wishes Come True / Bulbulis the Bird / Strongfist / The Three Magic Things / The Lord Who Became a Blacksmith / The Baron and the Shepard.