Two goats on the bridge (Russia) -- The neighbor's shifty son (China) -- A dervish hosts the mullah (Sufi) -- Reaching for the moon (Tibet) -- Strength (Limba tale from West Africa) -- Not our problem (Burma and Thailand) -- A man with no brain (Algeria) -- The weapon (Kathlamet tale from the Pacific Northwest) -- The ass's shadow (Aesop) -- The snipe and the mussel (China) -- Fighting leads to losses (India) -- How the short-ears conquered the long-ears (Polynesia) -- The war between the sandpipers and the whales (Marshall Islands) -- The black hound (India) -- Two goats on a bridge (Eastern Europe) -- How friendship began among birds (Burma) -- The lion's whisker (Somali tale, Ethiopia) -- Temper (Zen tale) -- The advice of Hatim al-Asamm (Sufi) -- Music to soothe the savage beast (Japan) -- Slops (Wales) -- Nansen cuts the cat in two (Zen tale) -- A lesson for kings (Jataka tale, India) -- Heaven and hell (China) -- A blind man catches a bird (Ndebele tale from Zimbabwe) -- Old Joe and the carpenter (United States) -- Two foxes (Appalachia) -- Lifting the sky (Skagit tale, Pacific Northwest) -- Halving the cookie (American) -- The argument sticks (Iroquois) -- Looking your enemy in the eye (American) -- Buddha prevents a war (India) -- The battle, a coyote story (Native American) -- The rose prince (Romania) -- A legend of Avalokitesvara (India) -- Holding up the sky (China).
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