Query: Collection of world "fairy" stories?

[womzilla]

Can you recommend a collection of traditional magic stories that includes stories from outside Western and Central Europe?

I'm looking for something like the equivalent of Andrew Lang's [Color] Fairy Books, but wider-ranging.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Hans Baumann Hero Legends of the World.

James Rirodan Fairy and Folk Tales From Around the World.

Edward Holmes Fairy Tales Around thw World.

Van Gool Treasury of the World's Fairy Tales.

And I also totally recommend the Time Life Enchanted World series -- they're coffee table books with lots of pictures, but they have retellings of stories from the whole planet, very well done, and with pictures in the style of the country.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

What age is the kid? Or is this for you? The Time Life ones are pricy, but you can often get them second hand and they are absolutely worth it. The Baumann is aged for a slightly older audience than Lang -- say eight rather than six.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

This is for me, but I thought a collection of "fairy stories" would be most likely to get the weird stories that are really part of cultural currency.

Since I haven't read much of the Lang, I hadn't quite realized how young it's pitched. I have all of those electronically; I should read through them some time.