This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. .
Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, Joseph Jacobs, Charles Perrault, Andrew Lang, Oscar Wilde, Margaret Arndt, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Robert Nisbet Bain, James Baldwin, Aleksander Chodźko, Thomas Frederick Crane, Jeremiah Curtin, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Jean de Bosschère, Elsie Spicer Eells, Peter Henry Emerson, Mary H. Foster, Mabel H. Cummings, William Henry Frost, William Elliot Griffis, Grace James, Mite Kremnitz, Edmund Leamy, William Ralston & Klara Stroebe
