Apples of Immortality
Apples of Immortality: Folktales of Armenia by Leon Z. Surmelian
A collection, starting with fairy tales and going on to other folktales of fools and clever characters, and such like mundane tales.
You have to know your fairy tales to recognize many of the types. Even the Cinderella variant -- The Red Cow features not only a quite different helper, but a brother and sister pair, and many are less familiar types. In particular, the hero is uncommonly likely to end up with two brides, not typical of European tales at all (except sometimes in Irish).
A collection, starting with fairy tales and going on to other folktales of fools and clever characters, and such like mundane tales.
You have to know your fairy tales to recognize many of the types. Even the Cinderella variant -- The Red Cow features not only a quite different helper, but a brother and sister pair, and many are less familiar types. In particular, the hero is uncommonly likely to end up with two brides, not typical of European tales at all (except sometimes in Irish).