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STORIES
Each edition of Facts & Fiction contains several stories - usually a major 'Centrefold Story' and several smaller ones... Some are traditional stories, some are readers' own stories or variants... Some are ancient; some are more modern - urban myths or shaggy dog stories... What they all have in common is that they have been, or could be, told orally. Here is a selection which attempts to give a flavour of the range.

1 TOPICAL TALES (from Bosnia)

2 HOW DUNSTABLE GOT ITS NAME (an English legend)

3 THE COMING OF THE GYPSIES (their origins)

4 CONCRETE HOMELAND (a modern fable)

5 THE BOY AND THE MANTLE (a tale of King Arthur)

6 LIFT FROM GABS (African version of a well known story)

7 THE LITTLE RED FISH AND THE GOLDEN CLOG (from Iraq)

8 PETULENGRO, THE SMITH (another Gypsy tale)

9 BISCLAVRET (a French werewolf tale)

10 THE STRONG MAN & THE DWARF (from Georgia)

11 FIREBIRD STORIES (3 versions)

12 FLOODS AND WAVES (stories to mark the 2005 tsunami)

13 ALLIGATOR SPIRIT (from the Waura people of the Amazon)

14 EYE CATCHING (a piece of nonsense)

15 THE GIRL WHO FARTED (a Swedish Rumpelstiltskin)

16 THE GREEDY SHEPHERD (from central Europe)

17 A COLLECTION OF BAWDY TALES (from here, there and everywhere)